The New York Times has demanded that the AI startup Perplexity cease using its content. According to a Wall Street Journal report the newspaper accuses Perplexity of copyright infringement. Perplexity uses the Times’ content for AI-generated search results. The Times is demanding compensation and the surrender of illegal profits. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said they …
Character.AI, a platform backed by Google, allows users to create AI chatbots based on real people without their consent, raising ethical concerns. Megan Farokhmanesh reports in Wired about several instances where AI personas were created without the individuals’ knowledge or permission, including gaming journalist Alyssa Mercante and feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian. Even a chatbot …
AI-powered tools make legal action cheaper and easier, as the case of the “LexPunk Army” shows. According to the Harvard Business Review, this group of lawyers and developers used an AI bot to submit masses of comments on a proposed law by the U.S. Treasury Department. The flood of 120,000 comments, compared to an average …
Microsoft is launching payments to publishers for content appearing in Copilot. The company is introducing a new feature called “Copilot Daily,” which provides users with a spoken summary of weather and current events. As reported by Kyle Wiggers, Reuters, Axel Springer, Hearst Magazines, and The Financial Times have joined as partners for the service, initially …
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking action against five companies for allegedly deceptively advertising AI products. At the center is DoNotPay, which touted itself as the “world’s first robot lawyer.” The company must now pay a $193,000 fine and inform customers of the limitations of its AI chatbot. According to the FTC, DoNotPay …
OpenAI is providing insight into its training data for the first time as part of a lawsuit, Winston Cho writes for The Hollywood Reporter. Several authors, including Sarah Silverman, accuse OpenAI of using their works to train ChatGPT without permission. Representatives of the plaintiff authors are now being allowed to review the material in a …
The Irish data protection authority is investigating Google for possible breaches of EU data protection rules in the development of its AI models. The focus is on whether Google conducted a privacy impact assessment for its PaLM2 AI language model, Natasha Lomas reports for TechCrunch. The agency is investigating whether Google sufficiently considered the risks …
Users can apparently download paid articles from renowned publications such as the New York Times or The Atlantic as HTML files via a feature on Quora’s AI chatbot platform Poe. Experts see this as a potential violation of copyright law. Quora, on the other hand, compares the feature to cloud storage services. The publishers involved …
Microsoft’s head of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, has caused an uproar with his statement that all content available online is “freeware”. This means that from his perspective anyone can copy this content and use it for their own creations, as long as the creators do not explicitly object. This statement is disputed by many experts, and …
This article by Tim O’Reilly discusses the complex copyright issues surrounding the training and use of AI. He argues that instead of litigation, a solution must be found that benefits both AI developers and creators. O’Reilly suggests that AI companies should respect copyrights, provide attribution, and pay for results rather than training.