Microsoft AI Chief Has No Problem Using Your Data To Train Their AI Models: Here’s What He Said

Microsoft's AI chief has made this interesting statement recently.

All our data on the internet is freely available and most times we don’t even know when it is being misused. However, with the advent of AI, the need for our data to be judiciously utilised has stoked a big debate about who or how the data on the internet is viewed. Well, Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman feels that all of our data on the internet is free and companies have all the right to use this data to train their AI models.

Suleyman was quoted saying this in an interview with CNBC recently. He even pointed out that copying data from the internet is not a new practice and many companies have been doing it for free.

His views come at a time when companies like OpenAI have faced multiple copyright infringement lawsuits, alleged to have scraped premium content from media houses without paying them a dime. He has been part of Google’s DeepMind setup for years, so comments like these raise further concerns about how his co-founded company has run its AI systems over the years.

Free Data Not Acceptable

People like you and me will have little to argue with Suleyman’s statement about free data but companies still have no right to scrap the same data, train their AI systems and eventually charge us for using these AI tools.

For instance, you have a company like Perplexity AI that has been allegedly scraping the data from news publishers verbatim and not even trying to hide the instance of their practices. OpenAI has equally been culpable of trying to use anything and everything available on the internet to make ChatGPT and other AI models smarter and then deny any wrongdoings.

What Suleyman has done by making the free data on the internet claim is that he is trying to validate the reasons for companies like OpenAI or even Microsoft scraping our data and using that to train their AI systems and sadly none of us have the power to stop them from doing it. Having said that, instances like these further solidify the need to have stringent AI regulations that are governed in a way that our data is not compromised just to keep these sentients evolving.