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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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OpenAI’s Sora text to video: a wild imagination is no limit
Read more: OpenAI’s Sora text to video: a wild imagination is no limitOne striking aspect of text to image and now text to video generators is that anything that can imagined can be created in an image or video. Even a wild imagination is not limited in what can be depicted or created. So, when critics say that AI generators are not “creative” or may lead to…
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OpenAI previews Sora, text to video generator
Read more: OpenAI previews Sora, text to video generatorOpenAI previewed its text-to-video generator named Sora, to rave reviews. People found the videos both impressive and “dispiriting.” The latter, apparently because of the fears that AI may make what a lot of content creators and even filmmakers do obsolete. The speed at which AI generators are advancing is dizzying! Even YouTube creator and tech…
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls AI “transformative new technology” in response to New York Times lawsuit
Read more: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls AI “transformative new technology” in response to New York Times lawsuitFascinating answer by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about the New York Times copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI. Nadella describes AI as a “new transformative technology,” and defers to the courts’ resolution of the cases and whether the training is fair use.
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New York Times article finds more “memorized” AI works by Midjourney, ChatGPT, Bing
Read more: New York Times article finds more “memorized” AI works by Midjourney, ChatGPT, BingIn yet another stunning article, this one titled “We Asked AI to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image,” the New York Times provided more examples of “memorized” visual works, which resulted from prompts, including some nonspecific ones, on Midjourney (5 examples), ChatGPT (2 examples), and Microsoft Bing (2 examples). The AI generated works…
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OpenAI opens GPT store allowing people to share their custom GPTs
Read more: OpenAI opens GPT store allowing people to share their custom GPTsOpenAI announced the launch of its GPT store. It’s like an app store, only for custom GPTs that harness OpenAI’s AI. From its blog post, the steps to create a custom GPT are pretty easy: Building your own GPT is simple and doesn’t require any coding skills.If you’d like to share a GPT in the…
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New York Times reports on OpenAI’s blog post refuting New York Times copyright claims v. OpenAI. How’s that for getting meta?
Read more: New York Times reports on OpenAI’s blog post refuting New York Times copyright claims v. OpenAI. How’s that for getting meta?In a New York Times article titled “OpenAI Says New York Times Lawsuit Against It Is ‘Without Merit,’” the New York Times reported about OpenAI’s stunning blog post that attempted to refute the claims in the New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against OpenAI. We summarized the details of OpenAI’s response to the NYT lawsuit. The…
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OpenAI defends itself: training is fair use & regurgitation is “rare bug” that New York Times may have exploited
Read more: OpenAI defends itself: training is fair use & regurgitation is “rare bug” that New York Times may have exploitedIn a blog post, OpenAI forcefully defended itself from the lawsuit the New York Times filed against it and Microsoft on Dec. 27, 2023. This is a stunning response to a lawsuit. Parties, especially corporate defendants, usually are tight-lipped about litigation and save their responses for the litigation in court. The most stunning part of…
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OpenAI sued again in copyright case. Complaint PDF in Basbanes v. Microsoft
Read more: OpenAI sued again in copyright case. Complaint PDF in Basbanes v. MicrosoftA week after the New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI, two journalists and nonfiction writers Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Ngagoyeanes, who wrote under the name Nicholas Gage for both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, have filed a somewhat similar copyright lawsuit against the same companies, although this time asking for…