Content that has been posted on the open web should be treated as “freeware”, according to Microsoft’s AI chief. That being the case, he appears to have just ripped up the licensing agreement for software such as Microsoft Windows and Office.. Asked if the training of AI models on internet content was tantamount to intellectual property theft, Suleyman made the argument that anything posted on the web was fair game.
As for the notion that you could “copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it,” that is at odds with the, which expressly states you must not “publish, copy , rent, lease, or lend the software,” nor “work around any technical restrictions or limitations in the software.” Nor does publishing it online automatically invalidate copyright law. “Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device,” the FAQ further states.