UK ministers urged to protect creatives whose work is used by AI firms

House of Lords committee says copyright laws fall short as tech companies lift content without permission

Ministers must defend content creators whose work is being taken without permission by tech firms to build artificial intelligence products such as chatbots that generate “vast financial rewards”, a House of Lords committee has said.

The legal framework in the UK is failing to enforce the basic principles of copyright amid a rise in AI development, said the Lords’ communications and digital committee.

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