New Delhi, Jan. 8 -- The government's resolution to require artificial intelligence (AI) firms to pay royalties for the data used to train their models has met fierce resistance from the technology sector. The department for promotion of industry and internal trade's (DPIIT's) proposal plans to set up a framework to compensate creators whose work helps AI tick. Big Tech firms said the DPIIT's plan, announced on 8 December, for standard AI royalties won't work because it is difficult to separate commercial AI use from the very early stages, where it might have been a non-profit or research project. Industry body Nasscom, which represented technology companies within DPIIT's working panel on the AI copyright royalty proposal, published a 'dis...