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First copyright trial for AI company set for June 9 in UK High Court. Getty Images v. Stability AI.
The irony of ironies is that, despite the 41 copyright lawsuits against AI companies filed in the United States, the UK High Court will hold the first trial involving AI generators in Getty Images v. Stability AI. The trial starts today, June 9, before Justice Joanna Smith, and is slated for 3 weeks. From the Read more
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Scholarship: How courts should treat AI models’ memorization of some content from training datasets
AI researchers are studying the phenomenon that AI models unintentionally memorize some of the content from the training datasets. Unintentional Memorization of Some Training Content A recent paper “How much do language models memorize” by researchers from Meta, Google DeepMind, Cornell, and NVIDIA (John X. Morris, Chawin Sitawarin, Chuan Guo, Narine Kokhlikyan, G. Edward Suh, Read more
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Sarah Andersen v. Stability AI parties dispute over Dr. Ben Zhao’s serving as expert, despite making tools to poison data for AI image models
Below are the competing letters the parties in the Sarah Andersen v. Stability AI lawsuit filed. The controversy is that the Dr. Ben Zhao of University of Chicago is one of the researchers behind Nightshade, Glaze, and other adversarial tools used to “poison” the data for image generators so that they fail at creating images Read more
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Hearing whether to disqualify Dr. Ben Zhao as plaintiffs’ expert in Andersen v. Stability postponed until June 10
No hearing today. Order: Notice is hereby given that the Discovery Hearing previously set for June 6, 2025 is CONTINUED to June 10, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. (PT) via Zoom Webinar before Magistrate Judge Lisa J. Cisneros. From Judge Cisneros’s website: Public Hearings Please click the link below to join webinars (public hearings). If you Read more
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Scholarship: How should courts weigh AI companies’ use of shadow libraries of “pirated” books?
One of the most controversial aspects in the copyright lawsuits against AI companies is how courts should weigh the companies’ use of controversial “shadow libraries” consisting of unauthorized or “pirated” copies of books others have compiled and made available online. These shadow libraries have provoked condemnation from book authors and a fair amount of media Read more
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Sam Altman raises privacy concerns over Judge’s order that all ChatGPT user chat logs must be preserved. Calls for “AI privilege” to protect people’s chats.
After filing an objection with Judge Stein, OpenAI took to the court of public opinion to seek the reversal of Magistrate Judge Wang’s broad order requiring OpenAI to preserve all ChatGPT logs of people’s chats. Altman tweeted about OpenAI’s blog post, which invokes privacy as a core basis for their objection to Judge Wang’s Order. Read more