Overview

• Ed Newton-Rex, former executive at Stability AI, has launched a nonprofit called 'Fairly Trained' to certify AI companies that train their models only on data whose creators have consented.
• The move comes amid a growing debate over the use of copyrighted work to train AI systems, with several lawsuits filed against major AI companies like OpenAI and Meta.
• Fairly Trained does not ask companies seeking certification to share their datasets for auditing, but instead requires written submissions detailing their data sources and due diligence processes.
• Nine models had been certified by Fairly Trained at its launch, many of them made by AI companies in the music-generation space.
• Fairly Trained charges fees for its certification service on a sliding scale based on the companies' annual revenue.