UK House of Lords backs amendment to AI bill thanks to peer vote that forces companies to reveal copyrighted material used in training AI models

In a sentence that reads like something out of a very derivative sci-fi novella, peers in the House of Lords have pushed back against the United Kingdom government's bill around training AIs. Yes, this is exactly the kind of future I imagined living in. Not the cool one with flying electric vehicles.

As the Guardian reports, the UK is looking to make it legal to train AI on copy-write protected materials, as long as the owners don't specifically object. This opt-out approach was rightly...