Microsoft AI CEO: Web content is ‘freeware’

Microsoft’s AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman believes most web content is “freeware’ that can be used for training AI models. The only exception: websites that explicitly opt out.

Freeware is any form of copyrighted software that can be freely downloaded, installed and used by end users.

The quote. Here’s what Suleyman told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin at the Aspen Ideas Festival:

• “…With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content...