Decisions · Act · China
Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services
Cyberspace Administration of China, with six other authorities · 2023-08-15 · Legislation · Current
Can AI be trained on protected works?
No position
Providers must train on lawfully sourced data and must not infringe others' IP
Holding
Article 7 requires generative AI providers to carry out pre-training and optimisation training in accordance with the law, to use data and foundation models from lawful sources, and, where intellectual property is involved, not to infringe IP rights others lawfully enjoy.
A compliance duty for providers in China, but it does not say when training itself infringes; that is left to copyright law and the courts.
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