9month7day, Microsoft Oath, If paying users useCopilotAnd face any copyright lawsuits, Microsoft will come to their defense.

Microsoft is offering experimental products——Generative text, Code and other artificial intelligence tools——Users worry that the output of these products could expose them to lawsuits, So the software giant offered to take the risk, Give nervous buyers more confidence in registering and deploying the technology.

Brad, the president of this large corporation．Smith (Brad Smith) And lead counsel Hussain．Noba (Hossein Nowbar) declare: "To address user concerns, Microsoft now makes a new oneCopilotCopyright commitment. The user asked if they could use Microsoft'sCopilotServices and the output they generate without worrying about copyright issues, Let's give a straightforward answer right now, If copyright issues arise, We will assume responsibility for the potential legal risks involved. "

Microsoft promise, Only in the user "We use the built-in guard rails and content filters in our products" And in the case of Microsoft's paid tools, Microsoft will defend users and pay damages or settlements from lawsuits. Those who only use Bing or AI programming assistants "GitHub Copilot" Users of the free version will not be protected.

CopilotCopyright commitment covered "Microsoft 365 Copilot" (This kindOfficeOffice software isWord, Excel, PowerPoint, Bing Chat Enterprise deploys generative AI tools) And the paid version "GitHub Copilot" .

Smith and Noba explain: "We useCopilotCommercial users were charged a fee, If they create legal problems in their use, We see it as our problem, not the user's problem. "

Automatically produce text based on input description, CODE, The proliferation of AI tools for content such as images and audio has sparked debates about copyright and ownership.

Organizations building such software use data collected from the Internet and other sources to train generative robots. From the writer, Engineer, author, Books by scientists and artists, artwork, article, periodical, Code projects and songs are included in massive data sets, Enables the resulting model to convincingly mimic human style.

Some creators and practitioners in other industries worry, This uses the information gathered to train high value, The practice of publicly available models would violate copyright law, For some kind of unauthorized use. In addition, Others are worried or think, The output of the model is also copyrighted to some extent, Because these outputs are sometimes very similar to individual works, Because personal work is included in the training materials.

Some professionals suedOpenAI, Google, MidjourneyandStability AIEt al, Accused them of stealing their work without consent, And profit from their intellectual property. however, The tech companies claim, Their use of copyrighted content falls under the category of fair use, Fair use protects the transformational use of content for reuse.

This legal gray area clearly makes some people nervous about using Microsoft's generative AI tools, They feared they might be sued for copyright infringement.

Although it's not entirely clear that AI-generated content violates copyright laws, But the US Copyright Office has at least clarified that AI-generated content is not protected by copyright. Such as, The authorities rejected one useMidjourneyCreated name "Space Opera house (Théâtre D'opéra Spatial) " Digital image registration application.

Last year, The picture won first prize in an art competition, Making headlines and sparking controversy. Its creator Jason．Allen (Jason Allen) According to, When he made this picture, The prompt for input was carried out "At least624time" improvement, To get the desired output effect, And then he usedAdobe PhotoshopandGigapixel AIThe software retouched and rescaled the image.

The U. S. Copyright Office asked Allen to resubmit his application, But it cannot include useMidjourneyThe part of, But he refused. Because the law only recognizes works created by humans, The copyright office denied his application to register the image. (Be compiled fromwww. theregister. com)

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