The Ball’s in Your Court

If you want to know how to circumvent the system, ask the Big Techs. Recently, we did a detailed story on how semiconductor companies are developing a new series of chips to meet the demand of the Chinese market. The performance of these chips is just short of the stipulated limits fixed by the US government to prevent China from accessing high-end technology. Something similar is unfolding in the AI segment.

Data-hungry Google and OpenAI are crawling the web using GoogleBot and GPTBot, respectively, to build their chatbots. They hungrily consumed everyone’s data until governments took a strong stand to strengthen copyright laws limiting them.

However, the new policies have not been able to stop them completely as they are finding new ways to do it without breaking the law. They interpreted the copyright law in a way that makes all the information on the internet available to them for training generative AI — unless the publisher explicitly forbids them from doing so.