Britain\u2019s national broadcaster the BBC is drawing up plans to build and train its own artificial intelligence model using its text archives, the corporation said on Thursday.
\nA BBC executive told a parliamentary committee earlier this month the organisation was looking at generative AI as a tool to support its production process and assessing a possible unilateral or partnership arrangement on training a model.
\nAsked about a Financial Times report on Thursday that the BBC was planning to build its own AI models, a spokesperson confirmed the BBC was looking at developing a Large Language Model using text-based content.
\nThe output of any such model would only be available to the BBC, the spokesperson said.
\nThe Financial Times also reported, citing sources, that the broadcaster was holding talks with technology firms over selling access to its archives, which could then be used to train AI models.
\nIn response to that, the BBC said: \u201cThe BBC has no agreement with any organisation to use its archive to train their large language models that power generative AI tools for commercial use.
\n\u201cWe are looking at a wide range of issues such as potential bias within such models and how the BBC either in partnership or unilaterally can address these.\u201d
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The BBC is planning to develop its own artificial intelligence model using its text archives. This initiative was confirmed by a BBC spokesperson following a report by the Financial Times. The model, which will be a Large Language Model based on text content, is intended for internal use by the BBC only. Additionally, the BBC is exploring the possibility of either working alone or in partnership to train this model, with a focus on addressing potential biases within such models. Despite reports of discussions with technology firms about accessing its archives for AI training, the BBC stated it has no agreements for commercial use of its archive to train AI models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[842,639,2951,195,2796,2952,2447,1004,1358,1026,1682,2953,1731,494,18],"class_list":["post-5047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bbc","tag-britain","tag-issues","tag-media","tag-partnership","tag-power","tag-support","tag-talks","tag-technology","tag-text-archives","tag-training","tag-uk","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n