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Status of U.S. Copyright Lawsuits v. AI (Dec. 29, 2023)
Read more: Status of U.S. Copyright Lawsuits v. AI (Dec. 29, 2023)We added the New York Times v. Microsoft, OpenAI case to our status report for all pending copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Every other case did not have material changes. Status of U.S. Copyright Lawsuits v. AI Cos. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc.…
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How did the New York Times figure out the glitch in GPT-4 for Exhibit J in its lawsuit v. OpenAI?
Read more: How did the New York Times figure out the glitch in GPT-4 for Exhibit J in its lawsuit v. OpenAI?The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI sent shockwaves across the business and media sector. Although a threat of a lawsuit had been revealed months ago, the Complaint filed by the NYT was cogent and chock-full of examples of alleged infringement. If OpenAI was trying to negotiate a licensing deal with the…
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Exhibit J to New York Times Complaint provides “One Hundred Examples of GPT-4 Memorizing Content from the New York Times”
Read more: Exhibit J to New York Times Complaint provides “One Hundred Examples of GPT-4 Memorizing Content from the New York Times”Exhibit J to The New York Times’s Complaint against Microsoft and OpenAI allegedly provides “One Hundred Examples of GPT-4 Memorizing Content from The New York Times.” In 127 pages. Wow! UPDATE: This is an impressive collection of alleged infringement. We discuss the apparent process by which the New York Times generated these examples, in our…
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New York Times sues Microsoft, OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement (download Complaint & Exhibit J)
Read more: New York Times sues Microsoft, OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement (download Complaint & Exhibit J)The New York Times filed a copyright lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against Microsoft and OpenAI alleging copyright infringement (direct and secondary infringement based on vicarious and contributory infringement), misappropriation, and trademark dilution. The Complaint seeks the following relief: 1. Awarding The Times statutory damages, compensatory damages, restitution, disgorgement, and any other…
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OpenAI reportedly valued at $100B, 2d most for startup behind SpaceX
Read more: OpenAI reportedly valued at $100B, 2d most for startup behind SpaceXFresh off its internal coup and reinstatement of CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI is reportedly in discussion for its next found of funding. The company is reportedly valued at $100B, which is second to only SpaceX in current U.S. startup valuations. OpenAI was formed on December 11, 2015 as a nonprofit. In 2019, it set up…
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Google’s VideoPoet: LLM for Zero-Shot Video Generation
Read more: Google’s VideoPoet: LLM for Zero-Shot Video GenerationGoogle AI researchers just published a fascinating paper on their VideoPoet project, a large language model that has so-called “zero-shot” capabilities. The paper is titled VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation, and has over 30 co-authors. Zero-shot learning refers to when the LLM is trained on some text classifications but then is…
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Stanford Internet Observatory finds 3,200 images of suspected child sexual abuse material in LAION-5B dataset used to train AI generators
Read more: Stanford Internet Observatory finds 3,200 images of suspected child sexual abuse material in LAION-5B dataset used to train AI generatorsOn Dec. 21, 2023, the Stanford Internet Observatory published its study in which it found more than 3,200 images of suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the LAION-5B dataset, which contains 5.85 billion image-text pairs scraped from the Internet. LAION (Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network), a nonprofit, said: “In an abundance of caution, we have…
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OpenAI is hiring for new Superalignment team
Read more: OpenAI is hiring for new Superalignment teamYou can apply for OpenAI’s new research engineer ($245,000—$450,000 USD), research scientist $245,000—$450,000 USD, and research manager positions for its new Superalignment team. According to OpenAI, the new team is need to maintain control over AI: “We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. To solve this problem within four years,…
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Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AI
Read more: Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AIAs 2023 comes to a close, we checked in to see where all the 14 copyright lawsuits against AI companies stand. Below is a summary: Status of U.S. Copyright Lawsuits v. AI Cos. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. D. Del. Bibas Trial on…
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OpenAI strikes news deal with Axel Springer for summaries of news from Politico, Business Insider, Bild, Welt
Read more: OpenAI strikes news deal with Axel Springer for summaries of news from Politico, Business Insider, Bild, WeltAxel Springer and OpenAI announced a partnership deal that will offer news summaries from Axel Springer media (Politico, Business Insider, Bild, and Welt) on ChatGPT, which will include links and attribution to the original sources. The Axel Springer content will include its paid content. We are excited to have shaped this global partnership between Axel…