@The_AI_Skeptic – Long Post: Why Generative AI is Currently Doomed We’re so used to technology getting better. Every year there’s a new iPhone with a faster processor. It’s the way of the world… or so it seems. Sometimes, bigger doesn’t mean better. Take, for example, LLMs like ChatGPT. If you keep scaling them up, they… Continue Reading
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Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law
CRS Legal Sidebar – Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law, September 29, 2023. “Innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) are raising new questions about how copyright law principles such as authorship, infringement, and fair use will apply to content created or used by AI. So-called “generative AI” computer programs—such as Open AI’s DALL-E and ChatGPT programs,… Continue Reading
How to use Bing Image Creator
ZDNet: “It’s free, there’s no waitlist, and you don’t even need to use Edge to access it. Here’s everything else you need to know to get started using Microsoft’s AI art generator. As the use of different artificial intelligence (AI) tools has exploded in recent months, we’ve seen the development of generative AI sprouting in the… Continue Reading
Is Your AI Model Going Off the Rails?
WSJ – “As generative AI creates new risks for businesses, insurance companies sense an opportunity to cover the ways AI could go wrong…Taking a page from cybersecurity insurance, which saw an uptick in the wake of major breaches several years ago, insurance providers have started taking steps into the AI space by offering financial protection… Continue Reading
Artists Are Losing the War Against AI
The Atlantic [read free] – OpenAI has introduced a tool for artists to keep their images from training future AI programs. It may not make a difference. OpenAI is claiming to offer artists a way to prevent, or “opt out” of, their work being included among the millions of photos, paintings, and other images that… Continue Reading
You Just Found Out Your Book Was Used to Train AI. Now What?
The Author’s Guild: “This week, many authors discovered that their books were used without permission to train AI systems. Here’s what you need to know if your books are in the Books3 dataset, as well as actions you can take now to speak out in defense of your rights.If you’re an author, you may have… Continue Reading
Copyright Liability for Generative AI Pivots on Fair Use Doctrine
Bloomberg Law – Gibson Dunn’s Howard Hogan, Connor Sullivan, and Jeffrey Myers analyze the evolution of copyright and legal questions surrounding generative AI, and how courts are responding. On Aug. 24, 2023 the Copyright Office issued a request for comment on ways that generative AI technology that is “capable of producing outputs such as text,… Continue Reading
These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech
The Atlantic – Use our new search tool to see which authors have been used to train the machines. This summer, I acquired a data set of more than 191,000 books that were used without permission to train generative-AI systems by Meta, Bloomberg, and others. I wrote in The Atlantic about how the data set,… Continue Reading
UK Proposed principles to guide competitive AI markets and protect consumers
Gov.UK – September 18, 2023: “The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today published a report following its initial review of foundation models (FMs) and has proposed principles which aim to ensure consumer protection and healthy competition are at the heart of responsible development and use of FMs. FMs are artificial intelligence (AI) systems with… Continue Reading
People Are Streaming Pirated Movies on TikTok, One Short Clip at a Time
WSJ via MSN: “Accounts on the platform are posting episodes of TV shows and full-length films in bite-sized clip hat users can watch in a long continuous string. If you search for “Barbie,” odds are, you’ll be inundated with fan videos and chatter, and won’t see any of the clips. But TikTok’s algorithms might promote… Continue Reading
Appeals Court Upholds Public.Resource.Org’s Right to Post Public Laws and Regulations Online
EFF: “Technical standards like fire and electrical codes developed by private organizations but incorporated into public law can be freely disseminated without any liability for copyright infringement, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Tuesday’s ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upholds the idea that… Continue Reading
The Pirate Preservationists
Reason – When keeping cultural archives safe means stepping outside the law “…Countless companies specialize in finding forgotten music, often released by regional or local labels that went out of business long ago, and repackaging it for modern listeners. Countless crate-diggers do essentially the same thing, but they post their finds on blogs, on YouTube… Continue Reading
