Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said at a meeting of the government’s Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters on the 9th.
June 17, 2023 1:00 (Japan time)
The Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association spoke at the Liberal Democratic Party’s Digital Content Strategy Subcommittee about the challenges posed by generative artificial intelligence.
Citing a case in which fake images shared online briefly caused turmoil in the U.S. stock market, the association stressed that misuse of generative AI could lead to the spread of misinformation.
“Continued confusion in the space of speech will cause social unrest. From the perspective of protecting democracy, this issue cannot be ignored,” the association said.
Concerns were also raised about the potential misuse of “sensitive personal information” such as medical records and criminal records in datasets used to train AI models.
The association said privacy laws would be watered down unless AI developers considered issues such as ethics.
The association criticizes the lack of discussion of copyright infringement ahead of a 2018 revision of the copyright law that allows AI models to use copyrighted material without permission from the rights holder. bottom.
The government is debating to determine what kinds of generative AI applications constitute copyright infringement.
The Digital Content Strategy Subcommittee is part of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Intellectual Property Strategy Committee chaired by former Justice Minister Takashi Yamashita.
Subcommittee Secretary General Taro Yamada said: [association’s] Comments will be taken into account when formulating policies, which are expected to be finalized this year. ”
