Chat GPT Is Eating the World

AlphaGo’s defeat of Lee Sedol post-mortem: Will AI kill human motivation?

AlphaGo v. Lee Sedol During March 9 through March 15, 2016, Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI program defeated the 18-time world champion Lee Sedol at the ancient board game Go in Seoul, South Korea. The event was a cause cé·lè·bre in Asia, drawing, in a live broadcast, reportedly over 100 million viewers. AlphaGo won 4 of…
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China court: AI generated image is copyrightable; originality satisfied thru person’s prompts

This week, the Beijing Internet Court made a key ruling in a copyright lawsuit involving the copyright in an AI generated image of a woman that was made by Li, a creator who used Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generator. According to South China Morning Post, the Beijing Internet Court found that Li satisfied originality in…
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Artist Sarah Anderson files first amended complaint in copyright suit v. AI cos.

Judge Orrick dismissed a number of the claims in Sarah Anderson’s proposed class action suit against Stability AI and other AI companies on Oct. 30, 2024. In sum, Judge Orrick ruled: This week, Anderson filed her First Amended Complaint to address the court’s reasons for dismissal, such as the need to identify specific works allegedly…
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Elon Musk: By time copyright lawsuits are decided, we’ll have a digital god. [Video]

Elon Musk was interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin yesterday. One interesting exchange was over the copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Here’s what Musk said: Elon Musk: I don’t know except to say that, by the time these lawsuits are decided, we’ll have a digital god. We’ll have a digital god at that point. These lawsuits…
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