Frank Hersey

2 weeks ago | mlex.com | Frank Hersey

By Frank Hersey ( June 10, 2025, 17:09 GMT | Insight) -- Stability AI today sought to knock down Getty Images’ case on day two of a UK copyright trial, depicting it as based on extensive and largely unsuccessful efforts to prompt its generative AI model to reproduce copyrighted images and output that incorporates Getty’s image library watermarks.

3 weeks ago | mlex.com | Frank Hersey

By Frank Hersey ( June 5, 2025, 10:15 GMT | Insight) -- The UK’s data reform bill faces increasing risk of collapse after lawmakers last night again pushed forward an amendment to include in it protections for rights holders over their works being scraped for AI training.

3 weeks ago | mlex.com | Frank Hersey

By Frank Hersey ( June 3, 2025, 17:48 GMT | Insight) -- An escalating UK parliamentary row over copyright protections in AI model training has seen the government press lawmakers in the unelected House of Lords to stop trying to use a data reform bill to insert such protections.

3 weeks ago | mlex.com | Frank Hersey

By Frank Hersey ( June 3, 2025, 12:01 GMT | Insight) -- Technology companies and the creative industries are caught in yet another confrontation between UK lawmakers and the government over copyright protections for works used in AI model training. The House of Lords last night defeated the government for a fourth time over proposed changes to a data bill, this time calling on ministers to commit to entirely new legislation on the matter.

3 weeks ago | mlex.com | Frank Hersey

By Frank Hersey ( June 2, 2025, 13:46 GMT | Insight) -- UK companies, particularly in the financial sector, say regulation of AI would make a significant difference to their decisions to adopt the technology and are delaying integrating it as they believe new legislation is on its way, according to a qualitative study for the UK government. Companies generally said that they would adopt more advanced technologies such as those to meet environmental targets if regulation were clearer.