In the article “Backup admins must consider GenAI legal issues – eventually,” partner Mauricio Uribe shared insights on the state of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and data backup systems.
The piece analyzes the challenges of incorporating GenAI into enterprise systems, including potential legal concerns. While recent lawsuits regarding GenAI and large-language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI have made headlines, Uribe maintained that these suits have focused on the contents of the data rather than any potential legal issues directly involving data backup processes. Similarly, though some data backup systems have incorporated GenAI – for instance, in the form of support chatbots – Uribe said, “I’m not sure how integrated or tightly coupled these benefits are to backup and recovery. You see a lot of interfaces for the users. But [GenAI] hasn’t yet modified the act of backup and storage.”
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