Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft called for users to be held responsible for the way they interact with generative AI tools, according to their comments to the US Copyright Office made accessible to the public last week.
The USCO is considering new rules on AI and the tech industry's use of owned content to train the large language models underlying generative AI tools.
Holding developers responsible for the copyrighted training data making their AI tools tick is akin to holding photocopiers and audio or video recorders responsible for infringement, Google argued.
It said a generative AI tool is, like a camera, a "general purpose tool."
"In evaluating claims of infringement relating to outputs, the analysis starts with the user," OpenAI wrote.
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