US urges G-20 countries to allow AI training on creators’ work

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina - The US urged G-20 countries on Sept 2 to develop rules governing how AI companies use copyrighted material to train their systems, as major American technology firms face mounting lawsuits over the practice.Companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta have been sued in the US by authors, publishers, media organisations and other creators who allege the firms misused their work to develop AI products.Tech firms train their AI models to generate images and text by feeding them vast amounts of data, often including books, music and art. They have argued that using that work to build their AI tools is legal.US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the G-20 officials at a tech-focused meeting in North Carolina that they should allow AI companies to train