Claims “web content theft is normal”, Microsoft’s chief AI officer controversial

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s chief AI officer, has sparked a wave of controversy when he argues that copying content on the web is “fair use”. This view of his has faced many mixed opinions from lawyers and experts in the industry.

In a recent interview with CNBC, Microsoft’s chief AI officer, Mustafa Suleyman, gave a controversial view on content copyright on the internet. He argued that any information that is publicly available on the web is considered “free software” and that people have the right to copy it. reproduce or use as desired.

Mr. Suleyman said: “I think that with the content that has been available on the web, according to social conventions since the 1990s, their use is considered bad P Theory. Anyone can copy, reproduce, or use them. It’s ‘free software’ and everyone understands that.”

However, this view of Mr. Suleyman has been met with opposition from lawyers and copyright experts. U.S. law clearly states that any work from the moment it is created is automatically copyrighted without posting sign. Posting content on the internet does not mean waiving intellectual property rights to that work.

The concept of “fair use” is also not a “social convention” as Mr. Suleyman said, but a legal basis considered by the court t based on many factors such as the purpose of use, the nature of the work, the number of copies and the impact on the copyright owner.

Suleyman’s remarks come as Microsoft and its partner OpenAI are embroiled in multiple lawsuits related to unauthorized use copyrighted content to train AI models. Many people think that Mr. Suleyman is trying to justify the act of “stealing” the content of AI companies.

While acknowledging that robots.txt – the document that regulates crawlers allowed to access websites – is a “gray area” that needs to be clarified by the court, but Mr. Suleyman himself thinks that this is a “social convention” that has existed for a long time.

It is worth mentioning that OpenAI, Microsoft’s partner, is also accused of ignoring robots.txt and collecting data from websites that do not allow it. This for see the contradiction in the views and actions of AI companies in respecting content copyright on the internet.

“What is the purpose of a human being if not a knowledge-producing machine?” – Mr. Suleyman asked.