Microsoft has stated in legal filings that its Copilot chatbot rarely reproduces substantial portions of copyrighted material, such as news articles and books. The company presented data showing that fewer than 1% of over 8 million chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content, and even fewer had significant overlap with works from The New York Times, Center for Investigative Reporting, or book authors. Microsoft argues this limited reproduction supports its fair use defense in ongoing copyright lawsuits filed by publishers and authors who claim the AI models compete with their original works. AI
IMPACT This legal defense may set precedents for fair use in AI training data, impacting how AI models can utilize copyrighted content.
RANK_REASON Legal filings by a company about its product's behavior in response to lawsuits.
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