A new bill wants to reveal what’s really inside AI training data

Illustration: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos: Getty Images A new bill would compel tech companies to disclose any copyrighted materials that are used to train their AI models.
The Generative AI Copyright Disclosure bill from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) would require anyone making a training dataset for AI to submit reports on its contents to the Copyrights Register. The reports should include a detailed summary of the copyrighted material in the dataset and the URL for the dataset if it’s