Mustafa Suleyman of Microsoft's AI division says that anyone can use content available on the internet for free. According to him, since the 1990s, the social contract surrounding web content has been that it is fair use.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman was last week asked if AI companies have “effectively stolen the world’s IP”. He replied that there has been a ‘social contract’ that content published online is ‘fair use’ and ‘freeware’,

“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,” Suleyman said. “Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been freeware, if you like. That’s been the understanding.”

In an era of data-hungry AIs, everyone should probably revisit what they think is OK to post online, since an AI will probably use it to train itself.

The CEO of Microsoft AI considers that the public information available on the web is like “freeware.” Much of this data has been used to train AI models. However, not everyone agrees with this statement.

Microsoft AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, has stated that all internet content is free for AI model training, sparking a backlash. In a CNBC interview, Suleyman minimized worries about AI firms using intellectual property,