# Can AI bot be trained on community data

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-ai-bot-be-trained-on-community-data/294249>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 5, 2024, 9:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-ai-bot-be-trained-on-community-data/294249 "2024-02-05T09:49:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![anon36555649](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@anon36555649](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon36555649)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-ai-bot-be-trained-on-community-data/294249/2 "2024-02-05T18:09:33Z")

</div>

For that you would first need the permission of all community members for their writing to be used for that, or else you would be taking a liability risk as some companies such as Microsoft are being sued for doing exactly that without permission.

> **[The lawsuit that could rewrite the rules of AI copyright](https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/8/23446821/microsoft-openai-github-copilot-class-action-lawsuit-ai-copyright-violation-training-data)**
>
> Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI are being sued for allegedly violating copyright law by reproducing open-source code using AI. But the suit could have a huge impact on the wider world of artificial intelligence.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-ai-bot-be-trained-on-community-data/294249)._