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Consultation on lawful basis for web scraping to train generative AI models opens

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Published on: 15 January 2024

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LNB News 15/01/2024

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Issue Date: 15 January 2024

Published Date: 15 January 2024

Jurisdiction(s): England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has launched a consultation series on generative artificial intelligence (AI) and is inviting stakeholders to help inform the ICO’s position on questions relating to the purpose limitation principle in the context of the development and deployment of generative AI and the expectations around complying with the accuracy principle and data subject rights etc. The first chapter of the consultation series covers the lawful basis for training generative AI models on web-scraped data and is open to responses until 1 March 2024.

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