Britain’s biggest publishing houses have written to dozens of technology companies, warning them that they must pay if they want to use content from books, journals and papers to build their artificial intelligence (AI) models.
The Publishers Association said it was of “deep concern” to its members, who include Penguin Random House, HarperCollins and Oxford University Press, that it believes“vast amounts of copyright-protected works” are being fed by tech businesses into their generative AI programs without authorisation.
Among the 50 recipients of the letter, which was sent last week, were Google DeepMind, Meta, the owner of Facebook, and OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Those three companies have been approached for comment.
The letter said: “Our members do not, outside of any agreed licensing arrangements to
