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OpenAI continues to litigate in court of public opinion, refuting Elon Musk lawsuit
Read more: OpenAI continues to litigate in court of public opinion, refuting Elon Musk lawsuitOpenAI has continued to litigate in the court of public opinion. It first did so in responding to the New York Times copyright lawsuit in a blog post asserting that the NYT exploited a “rare bug” to regurgitate NYT articles potentially in violation of OpenAI’s terms of use. Later, in its motion to dismiss, OpenAI…
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OpenAI adds to PR team
Read more: OpenAI adds to PR teamAs first reported by Axios, OpenAI has added 3 new people to its PR department: (1) Liz Bourgeois, (2) Lindsay McCallum, and (3) Steve Sharpe. Smart move.
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OpenAI: Elon Musk’s “suit may stem from Elon’s regrets about not being involved with the company today”
Read more: OpenAI: Elon Musk’s “suit may stem from Elon’s regrets about not being involved with the company today”As first reported by CNBC, OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon sent an internal memo to employees defending the company and suggesting that Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI “may stem from Elon’s regrets about not being involved with the company today.” Musk was one of the first funders and a co-founder of OpenAI back in…
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Judge Martínez-Olguín rejects Plaintiffs’ motion in California case to enjoin OpenAI from defending different lawsuit in New York
Read more: Judge Martínez-Olguín rejects Plaintiffs’ motion in California case to enjoin OpenAI from defending different lawsuit in New YorkThe Joseph Saveri Law Firm, representing the book author plaintiffs in In re ChatGPT Litigation in the Northern District of California, filed a curious motion to enjoin OpenAI from defending itself in the different case, Authors Guild v. OpenAI, filed in the Southern District of New York. The Joseph Saveri Law Firm appeared to be…
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OpenAI sued yet again in another privacy lawsuit. Complaint in A.S. v. OpenAI
Read more: OpenAI sued yet again in another privacy lawsuit. Complaint in A.S. v. OpenAIOpenAI was hit with another lawsuit, bringing the total to 4 lawsuits in the past 2 days alone! This one, brought by anonymous A.S., relates to alleged privacy-related violations under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, California statutory unfair competition, and an assortment of tort law claims. This is the third…
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Elon Musk v. Sam Altman, OpenAI Complaint (PDF). OpenAI sued 4 times in 2 days.
Read more: Elon Musk v. Sam Altman, OpenAI Complaint (PDF). OpenAI sued 4 times in 2 days.On February 29, 2024, two new lawsuits were filed against OpenAI, bringing the total of new lawsuits against OpenAI to 4 lawsuits in just two days, including the two new copyright suits. The most high profile lawsuit is the one brought by Elon Musk against Sam Altman and OpenAI. Musk was one of the initial…
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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…