The Publishers Association has called on Oak National Academy to suspend its AI-powered lesson assistant, Aila, following an acknowledgment that publishers' content was used in the tool's development without permission.
In response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, Oak National Academy acknowledged that educational resources supplied by several publishers to develop its lesson corpus during the COVID-19 pandemic had been used in the development of Aila without authorization. The Publishers Association said this use was likely to constitute copyright infringement.
The Publishers Association has written to Oak requesting further information about the use of the publishers' materials. It has also called for Aila's operation to be suspended until Oak provides independent technical evidence demonstrating that the tool can function without using, reproducing, processing, or transmitting pandemic-era resources supplied by the association's members, or content derived from those materials.
The issue has also been reported by Schools Week, which has covered the allegations concerning the use of copyrighted educational resources in developing the AI-powered tool.
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