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Biden prompts AI tech cos. to 8 voluntary safety measures for AI
The White House announced the commitment from the leading AI tech companies to abide by 8 measures designed to promote safety, security, and trust in their development of AI. The companies are: Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The following are the 8 voluntary measures. There is no mention of the controversies surrounding… Read more
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Artist Sarah Anderson faces setback in lawsuit v. Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt. Judge Orrick inclined to dismiss most of claims, but allow amended complaint
Big news yesterday in the artist Sara Anderson’s proposed class action against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt. At the hearing for defendants’ motion to dismiss some of the claims brought by Anderson, Judge Orrick indicated that he agrees with the defendants’ motion and is inclined to dismiss most of the claims without prejudice, meaning the… Read more
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Apple GPT aka Ajax in development; internal use for now
According to Bloomberg, Apple is working heavily on developing its own GPT large language model, named Ajax. Bloomberg reports: “John Giannandrea, the company’s head of machine learning and AI, and Craig Federighi, Apple’s top software engineering executive, are leading the efforts. But they haven’t presented a unified front within Apple, said the people. Giannandrea has signaled… Read more
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Authors Guild Letter seeks compensation from AI companies for using authors’ writings in AI
The Authors Guild published an open letter demanding from AI companies fair compensation for the unlicensed use of their members’ writings to train AI and generate output. Read more
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Robbed by Robots? The backlash over AI’s ingestion of people’s content without consent
As three new proposed class action lawsuits were filed this week against Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI, adding to the list of 11 lawsuits against AI, the media reports of the backlash against the training of AI with databases consisting of billions of data, including people’s online content scraped from the Internet, ranging from their artistic… Read more
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Top AI News of the week: July 9-15, ’23
It’s been quite an eventful week for AI, especially OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT. The company was sued in yet another class action lawsuit for possible copyright infringement and privacy violations, and was subject to a wide-reaching Civil Investigative Demand from the FTC. To top it all off, some media articles questioned whether GPT-4 got “dumber”… Read more
