![]() ![]() ![]() The new policy comes after Microsoft’s announcement in September that it’ll pay legal damages on behalf of customers using some - but not all - of its AI products if they’re sued for copyright infringement. Late this afternoon, a Microsoft spokesperson told TechCrunch via email that the policy applies to all products in paid preview and Microsoft’s - but not a customer’s - training data. It’s also unclear if the protections extend to Azure OpenAI Service products in preview, like GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, and whether Microsoft is offering indemnity against claims made over the training data used by customers to fine-tune OpenAI models. TechCrunch asked Microsoft to elaborate on these measures, but the company declined to provide specifics ahead of the announcement this morning. ![]() To be eligible for the new protections, subscribers are on the hook for implementing “technical measures” and complying with certain documentation to mitigate the risk of generating infringing content using OpenAI’s models. Microsoft’s expanded policy won’t apply by default to every Azure OpenAI Service customer. But what might possibly land generative AI users in trouble is regurgitation, or when a generative model spits out a mirror copy of a training example. The legality of vendors training on data without permission is another matter that’s being hashed out in the courts. While some of this training data is in the public domain, some isn’t - or comes under a license that requires citation or specific forms of compensation. Generative AI models such as ChatGPT and DALL-E 3 are trained on millions to billions of e-books, art pieces, emails, songs, audio clips, voice recordings and more, most of which come from public websites. Today during Ignite, Microsoft said that customers licensing Azure OpenAI Service, the company’s fully managed service that adds governance layers on top of OpenAI models, can expect to be defended - and compensated - by Microsoft for any “adverse judgements” if they’re sued for copyright infringement while using Azure OpenAI Service or the outputs it generates. Microsoft is expanding its policy to protect commercial customers from copyright infringement lawsuits arising from the use of generative AI - but with a caveat (or several). ![]()
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