By Choonsik Yoo ( June 17, 2025, 04:06 GMT | Insight) -- South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism still believes binding requirements need to be introduced for developers of large language models to disclose their training data, but it has not yet decided whether to push for legal revisions to that effect, a senior official told MLex in an interview. Director General for Copyright Jung Hyang-mi also noted that the government is now less likely to pursue a Copyright Act revision as early as previously anticipated, largely due to shifts in the global debate on adapting copyright systems for the AI era.South Korea’s culture ministry still believes binding requirements need to be introduced for developers of large language models. or LLMs, to disclose their training data, but it has not yet decided whether to push for legal revisions to that effect, a senior ministry official told MLex....
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