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Artificial Intelligence: Intellectual Property

Asked by Manuela PerteghellaLiberal DemocratDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled Answered 7 March 2025UIN 34078

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that visual artists can identify (a) when and (b) from where their work has been ingested by operators of web crawlers and general-purpose artificial intelligence models.

Answered by Feryal Clark

The Government’s consultation on Copyright and AI has just closed. This included a proposal to require AI model developers to be more transparent about how they obtain their training material, whether from web crawlers or other forms of training for AI models.

The proposals would enable right holders to reserve their rights, so they can prevent the use of their content to train AI models in the UK.

Our priority now is to review the evidence from the consultation which will inform the Government response.

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