Press Release: A computer scientist and a legal scholar shed light on the black box of processing steps in AI training – for the first time on this scale.

The presentation of the interdisciplinary study “Copyright & Training of Generative AI – Technological and Legal Foundations” took place today in the European Parliament.

In spring, the Copyright Initiative commissioned Prof. Dr. Tim W. Dornis (University of Hannover) in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Sebastian Stober (University of Magdeburg) with a tandem expert opinion on the technological and legal aspects of training generative AI models. Their interdisciplinary research provides urgently needed new insights into the technically necessary intermediate steps in the training of generative artificial intelligence. For the first time on this scale, a computer scientist and a legal scholar are jointly creating evidence regarding the processing steps in AI training. During the event, many open questions about protected materials were answered in a well-founded, reliable manner and in line with the current state of the art.

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