IBM Joins Microsoft, Adobe in Protecting AI Customers From Suits

IBM Corp. announced Thursday that customers of its business-focused artificial intelligence model watsonx will be indemnified against copyright and other intellectual property infringement claims, following similar moves from Microsoft Corp. and Adobe Inc.

The company also published information about the training methodology for its Granite model series, saying that its pretraining dataset selectively blocks “websites known to disseminate pirated information,” including the controversial Books3 dataset which authors claim contains hundreds of thousands of pirated books.

The initiative underscores the AI industry’s growing recognition of the potential legal risks that come with obtaining large volumes of training data—much of which ...