AI start-ups building on third-party platforms need two things: a SaaS agreement that covers reselling a hosted service with clear liability terms, and an IP audit to secure trademarks, confirm data ownership, and verify copyright status of training datasets. Skip either one and you risk lawsuits over copyright infringement and disputes with your platform provider.
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All right, so what are the 2 biggest issues that are facing all these projects that are trying to commercialize artificial intelligence and machine learning? So we see it, and it's an explosion of businesses that are being created on top of these AI databases. OpenAI, who offers ChatGPT-3, has an API that you can tap into to use their OpenAI software as a service for your own software as a service. So what are the 2 biggest issues that these new companies that are leveraging AI are facing? The first is, what are the software as a service terms? A software as a service agreement is not a license agreement. You are offering the same type of service as OpenAI is offering. You don't actually get to download the software. You actually get to tap into their software, which they control, which is hosted on their servers. When you tap into OpenAI's database, you are essentially connecting to their service, and then you're offering a service to your customers. So the first thing that you need to do if you are an AI project is make sure you've got a solid software as a service agreement. The second thing you need to do is you need to make sure that you've got all of your IP in line— your trademarks, And to the extent that you are in fact using someone else's database, and maybe it's not OpenAI, you need to know where their copyrighted material came from. What did they build their engine upon? Because we're starting to see a lot of lawsuits against these projects that are offering these giant AI databases and datasets because the datasets that they tapped into to offer their service may have been copyright protected. So IP audit, IP protection, software as a service agreement— those are the key things you need right out of the gate.
