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The Ultraman problem: China court rules AI company liable for infringing images of superhero
Read more: The Ultraman problem: China court rules AI company liable for infringing images of superheroAs reported by the Global Times, the Guangzhou Internet Court has ruled that an AI company that provided a text-to-image generator to paid subscribers was liable for copyright infringement based on the generation of the comic character Ultraman or similar figures. The AI generated images violated the reproduction and adaptation rights of the author. The…
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Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AI (Feb. 29 , 2024)
Read more: Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AI (Feb. 29 , 2024)Here’s the latest status report of the copyright lawsuits against AI companies as of Feb. 29, 2024. Highlights of this week: Also, please visit our Master List of all cases, which we just reorganized by juridisctions. Status of U.S. Copyright Lawsuits v. AI Cos. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH…
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Google CEO Pichai sends memo on mishap w/ Gemini images: “completely unacceptable”
Read more: Google CEO Pichai sends memo on mishap w/ Gemini images: “completely unacceptable”Alphabet (aka Google) rebranded its AI model from Bard to Gemini. But the buzz over Google’s AI fizzled after people soon generated images on Gemini that were historically inaccurate and seemed to be rendering people’s images in an effort to display different races and genders (more from CNN). Although such an approach might have been…
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Biden issues EO to protect sensitive personal data. Does it do enough to protect Internet users?
Read more: Biden issues EO to protect sensitive personal data. Does it do enough to protect Internet users?The Biden White House issued an Executive Order to Protect Americans’ Sensitive Personal Data (fact sheet). Among the orders is: The Department of Justice to issue regulations that establish clear protections for Americans’ sensitive personal data from access and exploitation by countries of concern. These protections will extend to genomic data, biometric data, personal health data,…
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OpenAI sued again, now by The Intercept, Raw Story, AlterNet. (Complaints)
Read more: OpenAI sued again, now by The Intercept, Raw Story, AlterNet. (Complaints)The copyright lawsuits keep coming. This time, the Internet news sites Raw Story, AlterNet, and The Intercept have sued OpenAI in two lawsuits in the Southern District of New York. (First reported by The Daily Beast.) Very surprisingly, the two complaints allege only claims for removal of copyright management information under Section 1202 of the…
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OpenAI moves to dismiss New York Times suit, alleging it “paid someone to hack” ChatGPT & exploit a bug, violating OpenAI’s terms of use. Wow.
Read more: OpenAI moves to dismiss New York Times suit, alleging it “paid someone to hack” ChatGPT & exploit a bug, violating OpenAI’s terms of use. Wow.In its just filed motion to dismiss the lawsuit, OpenAI unleashed on the New York Times. I can’t remember reading a brief as hard-hitting from the opening paragraphs as this one. “The allegations in the Times’s Complaint do not meet its famously rigorous journalisticstandards. The truth, which will come out in the course of this…
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Is Microsoft eating AI? New alliance with Mistral AI, French co.
Read more: Is Microsoft eating AI? New alliance with Mistral AI, French co.Microsoft announced a partnership with the French startup Mistral AI for 15 million Euro. Wow! That’s more than Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI. Mistral competes with OpenAI. In a statement to Reuters, the European Commission immediately said the partnership will be reviewed and may be subject to the EU’s merger rules. Mistral touts its…
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Should OpenAI’s video creator Sora stir panic among YouTube creators?
Read more: Should OpenAI’s video creator Sora stir panic among YouTube creators?When famed YouTube creator and tech reviewer Marques Brownlee expressed “concern” about how OpenAI’s preview of its text to video generator Sora (which is not even publicly available), I took notice. Then, when filmmaker Tyler Perry said he shelved his planned $800 million studio expansion after watching the short videos generated by Sora, I felt…
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Must reads: Timothy Lee, Grimmelmann, Sag on AI lawsuits; Samuelson on remedies, destruction of AI models
Read more: Must reads: Timothy Lee, Grimmelmann, Sag on AI lawsuits; Samuelson on remedies, destruction of AI modelsFor those of you following the 16 copyright lawsuits against AI companies, including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta, plus several AI text-to-image generators, three very insightful articles were recently published by some of the leading copyright experts in the field. Timothy B. Lee and James Grimmelmann wrote an article in ars technica, provocatively titled: Why…
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Elon Musk in talks with Midjourney: Is partnership imminent? More AI-generated images expected on X
Read more: Elon Musk in talks with Midjourney: Is partnership imminent? More AI-generated images expected on XFascinating news: Elon Musk said he’s in talks with Midjourney, the AI text-to-image generator. In a Space on X, Musk said: “We are in some interesting discussions with Midjourney and something may come of that, but either way, one way or another, we will enable AI art generation on the X platform.” Very interesting development.