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Google, Microsoft, Anthropic form the AI Frontier Model Forum
Read more: Google, Microsoft, Anthropic form the AI Frontier Model ForumAfter the White House announced voluntary commitments by 8 AI companies to safety measures, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic announced the formation of the “Frontier Model Forum, an industry body focused on ensuring safe and responsible development of frontier AI models.”
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Biden prompts AI tech cos. to 8 voluntary safety measures for AI
Read more: Biden prompts AI tech cos. to 8 voluntary safety measures for AIThe White House announced the commitment from the leading AI tech companies to abide by 8 measures designed to promote safety, security, and trust in their development of AI. The companies are: Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The following are the 8 voluntary measures. There is no mention of the controversies surrounding…
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Artist Sarah Anderson faces setback in lawsuit v. Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt. Judge Orrick inclined to dismiss most of claims, but allow amended complaint
Read more: Artist Sarah Anderson faces setback in lawsuit v. Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt. Judge Orrick inclined to dismiss most of claims, but allow amended complaintBig news yesterday in the artist Sara Anderson’s proposed class action against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt. At the hearing for defendants’ motion to dismiss some of the claims brought by Anderson, Judge Orrick indicated that he agrees with the defendants’ motion and is inclined to dismiss most of the claims without prejudice, meaning the…
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Apple GPT aka Ajax in development; internal use for now
Read more: Apple GPT aka Ajax in development; internal use for nowAccording to Bloomberg, Apple is working heavily on developing its own GPT large language model, named Ajax. Bloomberg reports: “John Giannandrea, the company’s head of machine learning and AI, and Craig Federighi, Apple’s top software engineering executive, are leading the efforts. But they haven’t presented a unified front within Apple, said the people. Giannandrea has signaled…
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Authors Guild Letter seeks compensation from AI companies for using authors’ writings in AI
Read more: Authors Guild Letter seeks compensation from AI companies for using authors’ writings in AIThe Authors Guild published an open letter demanding from AI companies fair compensation for the unlicensed use of their members’ writings to train AI and generate output.
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Robbed by Robots? The backlash over AI’s ingestion of people’s content without consent
Read more: Robbed by Robots? The backlash over AI’s ingestion of people’s content without consentAs three new proposed class action lawsuits were filed this week against Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI, adding to the list of 11 lawsuits against AI, the media reports of the backlash against the training of AI with databases consisting of billions of data, including people’s online content scraped from the Internet, ranging from their artistic…
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Top AI News of the week: July 9-15, ’23
Read more: Top AI News of the week: July 9-15, ’23It’s been quite an eventful week for AI, especially OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT. The company was sued in yet another class action lawsuit for possible copyright infringement and privacy violations, and was subject to a wide-reaching Civil Investigative Demand from the FTC. To top it all off, some media articles questioned whether GPT-4 got “dumber”…
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WSJ editorial questions Lina Khan, FTC authority re OpenAI
Read more: WSJ editorial questions Lina Khan, FTC authority re OpenAIA day after the FTC’s investigation of OpenAI became public, the WSJ Editorial titled “Lina Khan’s Artificial Intelligence” questions her authority to investigate OpenAI. Khan is the Chair of the FTC. The WSJ Editorial focuses especially on the FTC’s authority to investigate potential defamation propagated on ChatGPT: “Does this standard also apply to what the New…
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Elon Musk launches new xAI company
Read more: Elon Musk launches new xAI companyElon Musk, who was one of the original founders of OpenAI until he left, has announced the launch of a new company called xAI. According to the website, “The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. You can meet the team and ask us questions during a Twitter Spaces chat on Friday,…
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FTC investigates OpenAI amidst privacy & defamation concerns
Read more: FTC investigates OpenAI amidst privacy & defamation concernsThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) to OpenAI. The CID spans 20 pages, listing 49 questions OpenAI must answer, plus 17 different items OpenAI is asked to turn over relevant documents. The FTC’s inquiry covers two main areas: (1) privacy and the handling of personal data/information, and (2) the…