Makers of artificial-intelligence tools such as ChatGPT would be required to disclose copyright material used in building their systems.
This is contained in a new draft of European Union legislation slated to be the West’s first comprehensive set of rules governing the rollout of AI.
Such an obligation would give publishers and content creators a new weapon to seek a share of profits when their works are used as source material for AI-generated content by tools like ChatGPT.
The issue has been one of the thorniest commercial questions to emerge amid a frenzy of AI-powered tools being launched or tested by the likes of Microsoft and Google owner Alphabet.
