Washington Post – William D. Cohan is a best-selling author and a founding partner of Puck News: “The other day someone sent me the searchable database published by The Atlantic that have been used to train the generative AI systems being developed by Meta, Bloomberg and others. It turns out that four of my seven… Continue Reading
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These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech
The Atlantic – Editor’s note: This searchable database is part of The Atlantic’s series on Books3. You can read about the origins of the database here, and an analysis of what’s in it here. “This summer, I acquired a data set of more than 191,000 books that were used without permission to train generative-AI systems… Continue Reading
Your Personal Information Is Probably Being Used to Train Generative AI Models
Scientific American: “Artists and writers are up in arms about generative artificial intelligence systems—understandably so. These machine learning models are only capable of pumping out images and text because they’ve been trained on mountains of real people’s creative work, much of it copyrighted. Major AI developers including OpenAI, Meta and Stability AI now face multiple… Continue Reading
Who blocks OpenAI, Google AI and Common Crawl?
palewire – Ben Welsh: “In total, 546 of 1,149 news publishers surveyed by the homepages.news archive have instructed OpenAI, Google AI or the non-profit Common Crawl to stop scanning their sites, which amounts to 47.5% of the sample. The three organizations systematically crawl web sites to gather the information that fuels generative chatbots like OpenAI’s… Continue Reading
AI Skeptic – Why Generative AI is Currently Doomed
@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
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
