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AI Literacy Framework

An attempt to create a framework for how we, at HIU, might approach teaching AI to our students so that they might be prepared for the workplace upon graduation.

Ethics: Training Material

Copyright law allows for fair use of copywritten material for review, research, etc. What the AI is doing is not a violation of copyright, but training so that it can produce, not the exact same material, but its own writing. Imagine it as a child reading hundreds (tens of thousands) of books, that material trains the child in how to write well and may effect the "voice" or style of the child. The same thing happens with the AI.

Four guiding principles for fair use, according to Copyright Code:

  1. Purpose of the use of the material.
  2. Nature of the material in question.
  3. The amount of material used.
  4. The effect on the market for the material.

This is similar to Turnitin and how it trains on thousands of copywritten documents each day. It is not plagiarism, nor violation of copyright, but fair use because it is using that material in a derivative manner; it is not reproducing the material for the sake of profit.

Generative AIs produce derivative works; they do not reproduce works that they were trained on. Yes, certain people were able to "break" a couple of earlier AIs to get to training material, but that is beyond what most people are capable of.