The intersection of blockchain technology and AI training data disputes continue to generate significant market attention. The following offers practical perspective for companies seeking to protect and monetize their intellectual property in AI-related transactions, licensing, and investment. Copyright disputes have been prominent in the Courts concerning whether a company’s data has been used to train institutional and foundational AI models.
Application of Blockchain for IP Protection
Blockchain has been applied to tracking AI training data given that blockchain is an immutable ledger that can help establish what data was used to train a model and when. In these instances, blockchain’s value is as an IP audit and compliance layer embedded within commercial AI deals. Intellectual property diligence in AI transactions centers on the key inquiry of what data went into the model, and does the model have rights to that data for use in training. Blockchain-based logs provide
