I don't talk about it much on the blog, but my other hobby (beyond writing about litigation and the District of Delaware for funsies, photography, and having an absurd-by-today's-standards number of children) is writing and speaking about AI and the law. I've been speaking about AI issues on panels at conferences since 2018. Most recently, I moderated a Sedona Conference panel about Copyright and AI.
In the context of copyright and AI, the question of whether training an AI model on copyrighted content is fair use is basically life-or-death for a lot of current AI models. Big generative models like ChatGPT are (typically) trained on giant masses of data collected from books, …
