In a new research paper, Apple doubles down on its claim of not training its Apple Intelligence models on anything scraped illegally from the web.
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It’s a fair bet that Artificial Intelligence systems have been scraping every part of the web they can access, whether or not they should. In 2023, both OpenAI and Microsoft were sued by the New York Times for copyright infringement, and that was far from the only suit.
Whereas also in 2023, Apple was reported to have attempted to buy the rights to train its large language models (LLMs) on work from publishers including Conde Nast, and NBC News. Apple was said to have offered publishers millions of dollars, although it was not clear at the time which had agreed or disagreed.
