Danish alliance's copyright notice could change the way AI is designed

Lawsuits prompt calls for transparency and compensation in the world of generative AI

A small alliance of obscure Danish writers and publishers may have triggered seismic changes in the world of artificial intelligence (AI) research, and perhaps in copyright laws. The last 12 months have seen breakthroughs in the creation of large language models (LLM) and generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) that can do amazing things going well beyond what even the creators imagined. A bunch of such programs has been released by organisations like OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft and others. In a second wave, smaller organisations also started using similar AI training methods.

But all those programs were created by an opaque process that