Microsoft has reached an agreement with HarperCollins Publishers to use selected nonfiction books for training artificial intelligence models, as reported by Hannah Miller and Dina Bass for Bloomberg News. The deal allows Microsoft limited access to HarperCollins’ backlist titles, with authors having the option to opt out. The technology company plans to use the content …
A new investigation by Alex Reisner for The Atlantic reveals that major tech companies have used dialogue from over 53,000 movies and 85,000 TV episodes to train their AI systems. The data, sourced from OpenSubtitles.org, includes content from acclaimed series like “The Simpsons,” “The Wire,” and “Breaking Bad,” as well as Oscar-nominated films from 1950 …
Workers at AI companies are asking Congress for whistleblower protections, arguing that rapid advancements in AI technology pose threats they can’t legally expose under current laws, according to an article by Bloomberg Law. Experts like Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig say regulation is needed because AI companies won’t adequately address the risks themselves. Congress may …
The Southern District of New York has dismissed a copyright lawsuit brought by online news outlets Raw Story Media and AlterNet Media against artificial intelligence company OpenAI. The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI violated copyrights by using scraped news content in its training data without preserving copyright management information (CMI) as required under Section 1202(b) of …
AI search engine Perplexity has written a blog post in response to a lawsuit filed by media company News Corp, which accuses the startup of copyright infringement. According to Perplexity’s Maxwell Zeff, media companies wish this technology didn’t exist and that they could live in a world where facts are owned by corporations. Perplexity claims …
For the first time, US President Biden wants to introduce detailed guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in government agencies. As David E. Sanger reports in the New York Times, a national security memorandum will set “guardrails” for the use of AI tools – for example, in decisions about nuclear weapons or asylum applications. …
AI startup TollBit has raised $24 million in Series A funding. The round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, will help the company expand internationally and hire new employees, reports Sara Fischer for Axios. TollBit operates a marketplace that brings publishers and AI companies together and helps simplify their data exchange, both legally and commercially. The …
More than 10,500 creative professionals, including Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, actress Julianne Moore and ABBA member Björn Ulvaeus, have issued a joint statement warning against the unlicensed use of their work by AI companies. As Dan Milmo reports in The Guardian, the signatories describe the unauthorized use of creative work to train AI models as a …
A former OpenAI researcher accuses his previous employer of violating copyright laws in developing ChatGPT. Suchir Balaji, who left the company in August 2023, helped collect and organize internet data for the chatbot, as he reveales in interviews with the New York Times. The 25-year-old scientist is convinced that OpenAI’s use of copyrighted data was …
Dow Jones & Co. and the New York Post are suing the AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, according to Variety. The lawsuit, filed on Oct. 21 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges Perplexity illegally copies copyrighted works to divert readers and revenue from publishers. Perplexity’s platform allows …