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Sam Altman predicts superintelligence in “few thousand days.” Goldman Sachs Jim Covello predicts AI is an economic bust. Can both be true, a Catch-22 for businesses?
Read more: Sam Altman predicts superintelligence in “few thousand days.” Goldman Sachs Jim Covello predicts AI is an economic bust. Can both be true, a Catch-22 for businesses?Listen to the podcast version co-created with NotebookLM AI technology is rapidly developing. Not a day goes by without some new AI program, functionality, or development. Against that backdrop, it’s not too surprising that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman audaciously just predicted, in a personal post titled The Intelligence Age, that we are on the path…
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Joseph Saveri law firm wants to depose Mark Zuckerberg in Kadrey v. Meta
Read more: Joseph Saveri law firm wants to depose Mark Zuckerberg in Kadrey v. MetaUPDATE: Magistrate Judge Hixson just ruled that the Joseph Saveri Law Firm can depose Mark Zuckerberg for 7 hours. Click here for the court’s order. In a filing that occurred on the same day Judge Chhabria chastised the Joseph Saveri Law Firm for its handling of the case, the Saveri Law Firm is embroiled in…
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Gov. Newsom signs into law 8 AI deepfake bills. But are they all constitutional?
Read more: Gov. Newsom signs into law 8 AI deepfake bills. But are they all constitutional?Governor Gavin Newsom was busy last week. He signed not one, not two, not three … but eight deepfake bills into law in California. Tech Crunch has an excellent summary of the new laws. Plus, there are 30 more AI bills for him to sign or veto, including the highly controversial safety bill SB 1047.…
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Judge Chhabria chastises Joseph Saveri law firm; will not certify a class of plaintiffs represented by Saveri firm in lawsuits by Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey, Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Read more: Judge Chhabria chastises Joseph Saveri law firm; will not certify a class of plaintiffs represented by Saveri firm in lawsuits by Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey, Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi CoatesToday, Judge Chhabria held a status conference in the consolidated book author cases Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Silverman v. Meta Platforms, and Huckabee v. Meta Platforms. In the cases, the plaintiffs are represented by the Joseph Saveri Law Firm, as catalogued in our list of cases. With fact discovery set to close on September 30,…
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Lionsgate movie studio agrees to license movies for Runway AI training
Read more: Lionsgate movie studio agrees to license movies for Runway AI trainingIt is no secret that generative AI can be used in the process of producing movies. Fears of unregulated uses of AI in movie making led to the Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes, which ended with three-year collective bargaining agreements that limit and regulate the use of AI in writing and performers in movies. Yet,…
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Judge Chhabria asks whether “only real legal question to be presented at summary judgment is whether [Meta’s training AI model with copyrighted works] constituted ‘fair use’ within the meaning of copyright law”
Read more: Judge Chhabria asks whether “only real legal question to be presented at summary judgment is whether [Meta’s training AI model with copyrighted works] constituted ‘fair use’ within the meaning of copyright law”In the Kadrey v. Meta Platforms lawsuit, an important status conference will occur on Friday, Sept. 20, at 10:00 AM PT by videoconference only. Judge Chhabria just issued an interesting order, skeptical of the plaintiffs’ motion to extend the case schedule. Based on previous filings, the Court has been under the impression that there’s no…
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Gov. Newsom signs into law 5 deepfake bills: 3 on elections and 2 on digital replicas of performers
Read more: Gov. Newsom signs into law 5 deepfake bills: 3 on elections and 2 on digital replicas of performersGovernor Gavin Newsom was busy yesterday, signing not one, not two, not three … but five deepfake bills into law in California. We’ve extracted the relevant descriptions provided by Newsom’s press releases below. 2 Laws related to unauthorized uses of digital replicas for voice and likeness of a person AB 1836 (Use of likeness: digital replica)…
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Rep. Darrell Issa proposes Preventing Abuse of Digital Replicas Act (PADRA), as amendment to trademark law
Read more: Rep. Darrell Issa proposes Preventing Abuse of Digital Replicas Act (PADRA), as amendment to trademark lawRep. Darrell Issa just published a discussion draft of a bill that would amend the Lanham Act to include digital replicas within the scope of trademarks and to create a rebuttable presumption that the uanuthorized use of someone’s digital replica is likely to cause confusion. Although the details will need to be ironed out, I…
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Status of all 30 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Sept. 15, 2024): Discovery rules
Read more: Status of all 30 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Sept. 15, 2024): Discovery rulesHere’s the latest on all 30 copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Over the past two weeks, there wasn’t any major development, perhaps due to the end of summer and the slow grind of discovery. New developments since last week’s report are indicated with an asterisk*. Visit our Master List of all 30 copyright cases with attorneys and…