UK Passes Data Bill Without Controversial AI Copyright Clause: ‘Evolution, Not Revolution’

This followed a months-long debate about whether the bill should be amended to force tech companies with AI models to disclose information about their training data.

A bill that allows artificial intelligence models to be trained on copyrighted material without the rights holders’ knowledge has been passed in the UK. This followed a months-long debate about whether it should be amended to force tech companies to disclose information about their training data.

Bill was ping-ponging between the House of Lords and House of Commons for weeks

The Data (Use and Access) Bill contains a host of new rules around data sharing, but the most contentious relate to AI. In January, Baroness Beeban Kidron, a House of Lords member, filmmaker, and AI ethics expert, proposed an amendment that would require operators of AI models “to disclose information regarding text and data used in the pre-training, training, and fine-tuning of general-purpose AI ...