House of Lords Copyright Amendments Derail Data Access Bill Crucial to UK AI Innovation, Says Center for Data Innovation
Following today’s House of Lords vote to introduce amendments to the Data Use and Access Bill imposing new copyright restrictions on AI training, Ayesha Bhatti, head of digital policy for the UK and EU at the Center for Data Innovation, issued the following statement:
The House of Lords today voted to reintroduce amendments to the Data Use and Access Bill that would require developers of AI models to disclose all individual works used in pre-training, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, or any other data input processes. The amendments limit access to data, thwarting the very purpose of the Bill, and present a significant risk to its passage. If accepted as it currently stands, the Bill would have far-reaching consequences for the UK’s AI ecosystem, introducing technically difficult and costly legal requirements and stifling innovation at a critical moment for the sector.
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