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Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority(IMDA) is in the throes of building a Southeast Asia-focused large language model. But the city-state’s literary circles worry that their copyrighted work might be used to train this model without consent, the Straits Times reported.

The IMDA has been working with local literary nonprofit firm Sing Lit Station to gather input in a survey, but writers say the research has a short timeframe and lacks clarity around compensation.