Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says everything on the internet can be used for free to train AI models

Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft’s new AI division, recently said in an interview with CNBC’s Andrew Ross that anything you publish on the internet becomes ‘freeware’ and that it can be copied and used to train AI models.

When asked if “AI companies have effectively stolen the world’s IP”, the Google Deepmind co-founder said, “With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 90s has been that it is fair use. Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been freeware, if you like. That’s been the understanding.”