AI copyright row deepens: Stability VP quits in protest over 'fair use' excuse

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The VP of audio at Stability AI has decided his position at the content-generating startup is untenable, given his belief in protecting artists' copyrights and his now-former employer's stance that training machine-learning models on copyrighted material is legally OK.

"I've resigned from my role leading the Audio team at Stability AI, because I don't agree with the company's opinion that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is 'fair use'," former veep Ed Newton-Rex wrote on social media… Read the full article here.