Do Large Language Models Violate Copyright Laws? The Jury is Still Out

It's complicated. The legal community finds itself wading through unchartered territory on this one.

There’s but one central question in this ongoing contentious debate and legal cases: Are generative artificial (gen-AI) tool companies violating copyright laws while training large language models (LLMs) on publicly available data?

LLM-powered AI chatbots such as Google Bard, ChatGPT, and others are being continuously fed with information harvested from …