Generative artificial intelligence, boom in lawsuits.

During last March, the giant Microsoft released its own Artificial Intelligence service, Copilot. Like most generative models, it is subject to training on content created by other users and easily found on the Internet - meaning that, presumably, many Copilot results could be composed of other people's works and, therefore, violate any Copyright that protects them.

During the first days of September, Microsoft officially announced that the company will pay all costs of any Copyright infringement lawsuits caused by the use of Copilot. The company's intentions are clear, rather than slow down (or stop) the development of their model by depriving it of protected material, they prefer to bear the legal costs.

Nevertheless, the company specified that it has implemented within Copilot a number of specific filters and technologies aimed at decreasing the chances of the service returning results that infringe Copyright.