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Copyright Office denies copyright to AI stylized work based on photograph by Anki Sahni
Read more: Copyright Office denies copyright to AI stylized work based on photograph by Anki SahniOn Dec. 11, 2024, the U.S. Copyright Office published its decision denying the copyright ability, for lack of human authorship, a work titled Suryast that Anki Sahni stylized using the RAGHAV Artificial Intelligence Painting App. The rejection of copyright follows the Office’s rejections of copyright to AI prompt-engineered visual works by Jason Allen and Kristina…
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Kevin Roose explains Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) in AI
Read more: Kevin Roose explains Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) in AIThe New York Times writer Kevin Roose explains, in today’s paper, the pro-AI movement known as Effective Accelerationism, or “e/acc” for short. Effective Accelerationism believes “that artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies should be allowed to move as fast as possible, with no guardrails or gatekeepers standing in the way of innovation.” Proponents of e/acc…
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Council of the EU summary of AI Act agreement
Read more: Council of the EU summary of AI Act agreementBelow is the press release from the Council of the EU describing the provisional agreement reached on the AI Act (Dec. 9, 2023): Artificial intelligence act: Council and Parliament strike a deal on the first rules for AI in the world Following 3-day ‘marathon’ talks, the Council presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators have reached…
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Justice Joanna Smith rules Getty UK copyright lawsuit v Stability AI can proceed
Read more: Justice Joanna Smith rules Getty UK copyright lawsuit v Stability AI can proceedOn Dec. 1, 2023, Justice Joanna Smith ruled that Getty Images’ UK copyright lawsuit against Stability AI, the company that created the AI image generator Stable Diffusion, can proceed. For the claim involving alleged infringement based on the training and development of Stability’s AI model, the court considered an interesting question whether any of the…
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Google receives flak for staged video of multimodal Gemini demo
Read more: Google receives flak for staged video of multimodal Gemini demoA day after airing a 6-minute video of its new multimodal AI program called Gemini, Google received flak after reportedly admitting to Bloomberg that the video was staged or a simulation, and not an actual demonstration of the Gemini program in real time. Google also confirmed that “the demo wasn’t conducted in real time, but…
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EU reach deal on AI Act
Read more: EU reach deal on AI ActThe EU Parliament struck a deal on the AI Act, a comprehensive set of regulations on the use of AI in the EU. The press release is below: Artificial Intelligence Act: deal on comprehensive rules for trustworthy AI MEPs reached a political deal with the Council on a bill to ensure AI in Europe is…
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What if Shakespeare wrote an ode to Taylor Swift? ChatGPT did.
Read more: What if Shakespeare wrote an ode to Taylor Swift? ChatGPT did.Time Magazine selected Taylor Swift of the 2023 Person of the Year. Fittingly. Her Eras tour cemented her status as a global cultural icon of which she has no peers. Universities around the country, including Harvard and Stanford, are offering courses on various aspects of Swift’s impact. Some professors have even likened her to a…
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OpenAI is hiring copyright counsel & other lawyers
Read more: OpenAI is hiring copyright counsel & other lawyersOpenAI is hiring a copyright counsel, annual salary $250,000, with equity and benefits. The job opening doesn’t specify years of experience, but requires “deep expertise in copyright law as relates to internet and AI technologies.” OpenAI is also hiring four more senior counsel positions. The complete list is below, with links to the job postings…
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IBM & Meta form AI Alliance with broad group of companies, universities
Read more: IBM & Meta form AI Alliance with broad group of companies, universitiesIBM and Meta announced the formation of the AI Alliance, “a group of leading organizations across industry, startup, academia, research and government coming together to support open innovation and open science in AI.” Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Grok are (noticeably) not a part of this group. The purpose of the AI Alliance is: “The…
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AlphaGo’s defeat of Lee Sedol post-mortem: Will AI kill human motivation?
Read more: 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…