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ARTICLE · 30 MAY 2025

U.S. And EU Regulators On Diverging Paths Over AI Training Data

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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most potentially transformative technological innovations of our time, and a race is on among governments and tech companies around the world...

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David R. Owen
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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most potentially transformative technological innovations of our time, and a race is on among governments and tech companies around the world to harness and control this fast developing and disruptive technology.

While most users of ChatGPT likely never consider the amount of training data (the dataset that is used to teach a model how to perform a task) that was assimilated in order to generate useful content in response to their prompts, it is an immense volume of material.

The training data used by GPT-4, OpenAI's latest model, reportedly includes an incredible 1 petabyte of data, the equivalent of 1 million gigabytes, or roughly 22 times the Library of Congress's entire book collection.

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