The new EULA includes this:
You must ensure that your activities with the Licensed Technology do not:
result in using the Licensed Technology as a training input or prompt-based input into any Generative AI Program. “Generative AI Program” means artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, or similar technologies designed to automate the generation of or aid in the creation of new content, including but not limited to audio, visual, or text-based content.
THIS NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM THE EULA…
This is absolutely outrageous. We are in an AI world now… and we are no longer allowed to use the Engine to prompt AI?
see: Unreal Engine EULA
I genuinely don’t understand. What does it prevent exactly? I thought this was the Fab seller EULA and was about to celebrate!
It seems this prevents using any end product you create using the Engine to be used for training AIs, which is a good thing, in my own personal opinion.
The wording of this terminology prevents “Licensed Technology” from being used to Prompt AI.
Basically, that means you can’t use the unreal engine to prompt or talk to AI, or train AI, or make content with AI.
There is NOTHING good about this at all.
You can’t use the engine to prompt AI to make “speech”, as that would be prompting AI.
You can’t use the engine prompt AI to make a story, as that would be prompting AI.
Basically, they locked devs from using the engine to create content using AI
I really don’t think this is what this means.
I think it simply means you can’t use the Engine (or the end-product, I didn’t re-read the EULA) to train AI. You can use Unreal Engine to prompt and talk and make content with AI, there are multiple products available right now which allow you to do that. Training AI using the engine is a completely different thing.
It specifically included the words “PROMPT-based input” and “including but not limited to audio,visual and text based content”
It’s not just “Training”, it is literally including making content.
There’s not an exception listed.
Such words must be included for legal purposes.
Simply don’t train AI on the source code of the Engine, which is the “Licensed Technology” owned by Epic Games.
Licensed Tech includes the actual Engine, not just source code.
If they were JUST talking about source code (or just training), they would not have “including but not limited to audio,visual and text based content”