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Parties in Andersen v. Stability AI fight over whether Dr. Ben Y. Zhao, co-creator of Nightshade tool for prompt-specific poisoning attacks v. AI models, should get access to confidential source code of AI companies
Interesting controversy brewing in the Andersen v. Stability AI lawsuit over one of the plaintiffs’ expert, Dr. Ben Y. Zhao, the Neubauer Professor of Computer Science of the University of Chicago. Zhao is serving as an expert in this case, Bartz v. Anthropic, and Authors Guild v. OpenAI and Alter v. OpenAI. The controversy stems Read more
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Magistrate Judge van Keulen grants Anthropic’s request to seal names of 2 datasets used to train Claude
Anthropic scored a big discovery victory last week. Magistrate Judge van Keulen granted Anthropic’s request to seal the names of 2 datasets it used to train its AI model, Claude. AI companies are guarding the names of the datasets they used to train like their crown jewels, especially after the copyright lawsuits started. Excerpt from Read more
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Magistrate Judge van Keulen strikes part of Anthropic’s Olivia Chen’s declaration that had AI-generated citation; it “undermines the overall credibility of Ms. Chen’s written declaration.”
In Concord Music v. Anthropic, Magistrate Judge van Keulen ruled on the parties’ dispute over several discovery items. The most controversial relates to the dispute over the amount of prompts and outputs that Anthropic must provide to respond to “Publishers’ requests for prompts and outputs from Claude products that relate to song lyrics, for which Read more
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I tested out Google’s Veo video generator. Mind blowing.
I just tested Google’s new video generator called Veo. Mind blowing. Here’s my prompt: “Show a cute goldendoodle wearing wraparound sunglasses skateboarding down a hill on a street in San Francisco, with a streetcar in the background.” Here’s the first video (in 720 p, though option for 1020 p): Then I did a second variation Read more
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70% of graduate students in AI research in US are international students
From today’s Wall Street Journal editorial on the Trump Administration’s battle against Harvard University, an astonishing statistic: “The National Foundation for American Policy finds that “immigrants have founded or cofounded nearly two-thirds (65% or 28 of 43) of the top AI companies in the United States, and 70% of full-time graduate students in fields related Read more