Chat GPT Is Eating the World

Month: February 2025

The order governing discovery and ESI is set in Concord Music v. Anthropic

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Judge Breyer sends Mosaic case to magistrate judge for discovery

Judge Breyer referred the In re Mosaic LLM Litigation to a magistrate judge for discovery.
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Sarah Andersen artist plaintiffs want 60 depositions. Defendants want the standard 12 for their employees.

The parties in the Andersen v. Stability AI have asked Magistrate Judge Cisneros to resolve their dispute over the number of depositions allowed per side. The plaintiffs seek 60 depositions against the defendants. The defendants say the default of 12 depositions should suffice at this stage.
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Cohere sued by Condé Nast, Atlantic, Forbes, Guardian, McClatchy, others. 39th copyright suit in U.S. v. AI companies.

Condé Nast, McClatchy, and other publishers sued Cohere, an AI company, for alleged copyright infringement in its training of its model and the outputs of its model. The complaint also alleges trademark infringement based on “hallucinated” outputs. The plaintiffs are: Advance Local Media LLC, Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. d/b/a Conde Nast, Forbes Media LLC, Guardian…
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Cancel culture strikes Christie’s auction of AI art

A group of 5,000 plus artists organized an open letter demanding that Christie’s cancel its auction involving AI artworks from the artists Refik Anadol, Holly Herron & Matt Dryhurst, Robbie Barrot and Ronan Barrot, Harold Cohen, Pindar Van Arman, Claire Silver, and others. (Update: we found the webpage listing all 34 lots.) Without identifying any…
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Copyright Office registers artwork collage consisting of AI-generated elements

The U.S. Copyright Office has allowed a registration for a visual collage consisting of elements that were AI-generated. The author remains anonymous, but the work is titled “A Collection of Objects Which Do Not Exist.“ The Copyright Office registered the work as “2-D artwork, images generated by artificial intelligence” on the basis of “collage, selection…
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Meta updates Judge Chhabria on missed 18,000 documents. Has Meta quelled the fire?

Likely working round the clock, Meta’s outside attorneys have quickly reviewed and produced most of the responsive documents to the plaintiffs Kadrey book authors from the tranche of 18,000 missed documents that its e-discovery vendor Lighthouse “sequestered” from review. In its prior letter, Meta explained that most of the 18,000 documents were non-responsive or duplicates…
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Scarlett Johansson condemns deepfake video of her, other Jewish celebrities condemning Ye website swastika T-shirt

Scarlett Johansson is condemning the use of an AI deepfake video, which depicts her and other Jewish celebrities literally wearing a T shirt giving the middle finger to Kanye (now Ye), who recently called himself a Nazi after being reinstated by Elon Musk on X. Ye reportedly was selling T-shirts with swastikas on them on…
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Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch’s praises DeepSeek’s open source approach

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US Copyright Office issues Report on Economic Implications of AI for Copyright Policy

Somewhat surprisingly, the Copyright Office just issued another report (on the heels of its authorship and AI report). This one is edited by Brent Lutes, the Chief Economist of the Copyright. The Report analyzes The Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Copyright Policy. Here’s ChatGPT’s summary of the Report: Below is a bullet point summary…
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