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Do I need consent to use web data for AI training?
Sometimes, and it depends on what the data is and where you are. Personal data pulls in privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA) that can require a legal basis or consent; copyrighted content pulls in licensing and TDM rules. "It was online" isn't consent. Consent is also strongest when it's established at collection, not reconstructed afterward. That's the principle behind Sony AI's FHIBE, the first fairness benchmark built from consensually-collected images (Xiang et al., Nature, 2025). Check the rights and the data type per source before training. Not legal advice.
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