While OpenAI continues to introduce new AI models and provide updates to existing AI models, it does not yet provide dedicated tools for creators to exclude their work from AI training datasets.
Last May, OpenAI announced that it was developing a first-of-its-kind tool called Media Manager that would allow creators and content owners to “tell[OpenAI]what they own.” announced.
However, a TechCrunch report says ChatGPT makers are not meeting their self-imposed deadline to roll out an opt-out mechanism by 2025. “I don’t think it (media manager) was a priority. To be honest, I don’t remember anyone working on it,” an anonymous former OpenAI employee was quoted as saying by the news outlet.
Media Manager is a development that leverages “cutting-edge machine learning research” to “help identify copyrighted text, images, audio, and video across multiple sources and reflect creators’ preferences.” The blog post states that it was announced as a tool in OpenAI launches in May 2024.
“We are working with creators, content owners, and regulators to develop Media Manager. Our goal is to have this tool in place by 2025, making it the standard across the AI industry. I hope so,” he added.
The Microsoft-backed AI startup has been sued by actors such as Sarah Silverman, artists, authors such as George R.R. Martin, computer scientists, and media outlets such as the New York Times and ANI.
Almost all of the copyright infringement lawsuits accuse OpenAI of illegally training AI models based on its own works. Meanwhile, the company, valued at $157 billion, has multiple content licensing deals with major news publishers such as the Associated Press, Reuters and Condé Nast, to name a few.
Currently, creators can prevent their work from being used to train OpenAI models through a submission form. As per OpenAI, content flagged through forms will be removed from future training datasets. The company also said its web-crawling bot respects a decades-old web standard called robot.txt, which is meant to prevent indiscriminate data scraping.
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