Journalists, authors and artists are in uproar about artificial intelligence (AI) harvesting copyrighted content. Switzerland has turned to legislators to find the right balance between fostering technological innovation and protecting intellectual property. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Parliament is debating a measure that would limit AI companies from scraping media content without first getting permission from copyright holders. Large language models (LLMs), which form the foundational layer of AI, are trained on vast amounts of online data. Some AI firms have been accused of using pirated material, information locked behind paywalls or other copyright protected content. + The global race to apply copyright protection in the face of AI threat Many creative professionals have called this theft, especially since LLMs can be used to write new text, create images, or generate music. And publishers have noticed that AI search summaries are syphoning ...
