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Status of all 24 copyright lawsuits v. AI companies (May 31, 2024): NYT is willing to give up use of Exhibit J at trial. What?
Read more: Status of all 24 copyright lawsuits v. AI companies (May 31, 2024): NYT is willing to give up use of Exhibit J at trial. What?A few notable developments in the copyright litigation against AI companies. Hard to believe a discovery dispute can be the most significant development this week. But it is. The new developments from last week’s report are indicated with an asterisk (*). Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence…
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Helen Toner, ex-Board member of OpenAI, alleges Sam Altman “didn’t inform the board that he owned the OpenAI startup fund, even though he constantly was claiming to be an independent board member with no financial interest in the company”
Read more: Helen Toner, ex-Board member of OpenAI, alleges Sam Altman “didn’t inform the board that he owned the OpenAI startup fund, even though he constantly was claiming to be an independent board member with no financial interest in the company”In an explosive interview with Bilawal Sidhu on “The TED AI Show,” ex-Board Member of OpenAI Helen Toner made some serious allegations against Sam Altman, the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. (More from Business Insider.) Toner claims that Altman was “withholding information” from the Board and was “misrepresenting things that were happening in the company.”…
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OpenAI creates Safety and Security Committee
Read more: OpenAI creates Safety and Security CommitteeAfter a tumultuous week with departures of Ilya Sutskever and other key members of its superalignment team responsible for ensuring the development of AI in a safe manner, OpenAI announced a new committee for Safety and Security. Members are: Aleksander Madry (Head of Preparedness), the Cadence Design Systems Professor of Computing in the MIT EECS Department and a member…
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Does Warner Brothers have a potential copyright claim v. OpenAI for Sky AI assistant that sounds like Samantha character in Her movie?
Read more: Does Warner Brothers have a potential copyright claim v. OpenAI for Sky AI assistant that sounds like Samantha character in Her movie?By now, plenty of legal commentary has been offered about the potential right of publicity claim Scarlett Johansson may have against OpenAI for publishing an AI assistant named “Sky” whose voice sounds like Johansson’s. Some have suggested there might be a copyright claim if OpenAI used parts of the movie to train its AI voice…
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Google fumbles again, this time with error-filled AI Overviews
Read more: Google fumbles again, this time with error-filled AI OverviewsWell, all the goodwill from the impressive Google I/O debut of its AI programs a couple weeks ago seems to have been squandered in a disastrous rollout of AI Overviews at the top of the page of Google search. The idea behind AI Overviews is to enhance a Google search with additional information compiled by…
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Status of all 24 copyright lawsuits v. AI companies (May 23, 2024)
Read more: Status of all 24 copyright lawsuits v. AI companies (May 23, 2024)This week was quieter on the litigation front. Most of the attention this week was over Scarlett Johanssen’s pointed objection to OpenAI’s use of an AI voice for GPT-4o that sounded like her, after she twice declined Sam Altman’s request to do voice work for ChatGPT. The Wall St. Journal even has a front page…
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OpenAI strikes 5-year licensing deal for use of content by WSJ, NY Post, Barron’s, The Sun, The Times of London
Read more: OpenAI strikes 5-year licensing deal for use of content by WSJ, NY Post, Barron’s, The Sun, The Times of LondonIn a deal described as “landmark,” OpenAI struck a 5-year licensing deal with News Corp. (which owns the Wall St. Journal, the New York Post, Barron’s, The Sun, and The Times of London) to use their content, “including archives, to answer queries and trains its technology,” according to the Wall Street Journal. News Corp. CEO…
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Scarlett Johansson issues statement about rejecting Sam Altman’s request for voice work
Read more: Scarlett Johansson issues statement about rejecting Sam Altman’s request for voice workAs reported by NPR’s Bobby Allyn, the Hollywood Reporter, and others on social media, Scarlett Johansson issued a statement regarding her rejection of Sam Altman’s office for voice work for ChatGPT 4. Scarlett Johansson refused Sam Altman’s offer to do a voice for ChatGPT. So apparently OpenAI found a similar voice from a different actor.…
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Microsoft impresses with new AI computers, Surface Pro & Surface, with Recall memory
Read more: Microsoft impresses with new AI computers, Surface Pro & Surface, with Recall memoryMicrosoft is on a roll. It just had a splashy reveal of its new Surface Pro and Surface computers armed with AI called CoPilot. Integrating NPUs right in the computers, Microsoft is able to run AI on the edge, so to speak, meaning the computer itself. According to Microsoft, “Copilot+ PCs are the fastest, most intelligent…
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OpenAI “pauses” the Scarlett Johansson-like “Her” voice in ChatGPT voice
Read more: OpenAI “pauses” the Scarlett Johansson-like “Her” voice in ChatGPT voiceAfter a tumultuous weekend following the departure of key safety executives and engineers, OpenAI faced another controversy: it reportedly paused the voice that sounded like Scarlett-Johansson’s AI voice in the movie Her, a reference that even Sam Altman tweeted about upon the release of GPT-4o. (Her is Altman’s favorite movie.) For comparison, here’s what the…