The stand-off arose amid concerns being raised by leading figures in the creative industries AI models would be trained on copyrighted material without consent.
The report said the source of training data for generative AI models includes scripts from more that 130,000 films and TV shows, as well as pirated books.
A cyber security professional said that generally phishing is classed as a ’social engineering attack,' because it attacks a person rather than a system.
A problem at the central provider of fibre cabling to all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) means homes and businesses across the country are without internet.