Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)

One of the downsides of AI is the training of it, which is abusive to workers. The other aspect of that training is the breaching of the rights of artists of various sorts. There was a story in the paper the other day about Conor Kostick, who is a member of the Irish Writers Union, who said that 52 of his works, including 24 books, have been scraped or copied from the Internet and used by Meta as an AI model without his permission. Basically, these big language learning models, LLMs, are being trained on material that is effectively stolen, where there are breaches of copyright. Does the Minister of State believe those models should be able to train and use works of art and writing without the permission of those who wrote them and outside of the framework of any normal copyright? I could not go and copy this guy's books.