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Everything on the open web is freely available and “anyone can copy it, create new things with it and reproduce”. A phrase like this from the 90s “free web” utopia might even make a young visionary startup entrepreneur or anarcho-socialist smile now. What is now shocking to the expert community and the copyright industry is that the speaker is Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI.
It should be noted that OpenAi and other companies creating AI models already do this implicitly: they treat web content as a no-man’s land for training their algorithms.
But now the behavior is explicitly stated in an overt ideology. Even more striking is that it was not done by a startup like OpenAi, but by a company that has represented the legal face of innovation over the past two decades, for example working with the music industry to combat piracy and always working to be at the forefront of local regulations (for example, when it comes to data processing in the cloud).
Suleiman went on to say that even if publishers explicitly don’t want the data, using it might be legal. “There’s a separate category where a site, publisher, or news organization explicitly says, ‘Don’t scrape or crawl for any reason other than indexing so that other people can find this content.’ That’s a gray area, and I’m sure that’s going to be worked out in the courts.” As a BusinessInsiders investigation showed a few days ago, it’s symbolic that OpenAI is ignoring the wishes of publishers (with an opt-out option) after granting them the will.
One might think that Suleyman is an ambitious dreamer and his comments in an interview with CNBC in the United States do not represent the company, even though he is officially the head of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence division. Before joining Microsoft, Suleyman was the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI. Previously, he was one of the founders of DeepMind, one of the leading companies in the field of artificial intelligence, and was the vice president of artificial intelligence at Google. He published a visionary and optimistic book on artificial intelligence (The Coming Wave. Artificial Intelligence and Power in the 21st Century, Garzanti 2024).
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