2025-06-05
This will probably get settled; Reddit just suing to increase the pressure? The AI companies, including Anthropic, don't want to set a new precedent that they must respect Terms of Service... Prior claims (e.g. Genius v Google) were deemed to be preempted by © law and dismissed.
Wall Street Journal
Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging it accessed Reddit 100K+ times after saying it had stopped; Reddit has reached user data licensing deals with OpenAI and Google
For a while it looked like Reddit was going to build a big business selling access to user data to LLM companies but besides Google they didn't get many takers it seems. — So her...
2024-01-22
Keep in mind that #Nightshade and its sibling #Glaze are technological measures as defined by the DMCA that control access to a work (to ensure proper licensing), and circumventing them would be a violation of 17 U.S. Code §1201. https://www.law.cornell.edu/ ... [image]
VentureBeat
Nightshade, a free tool that lets artists “poison” AI models being trained on their artwork without permission, is now available to download for Mac and PC
2024-01-21
Keep in mind that #Nightshade and its sibling #Glaze are technological measures as defined by the DMCA that control access to a work (to ensure proper licensing), and circumventing them would be a violation of 17 U.S. Code §1201. https://www.law.cornell.edu/ ... [image]
VentureBeat
Nightshade, a free tool letting artists “poison” AI models that attempt to train on their artwork without permission, is now available to download on Mac and PC
It's here: months after it was first announced, Nightshade, a new, free software tool allowing artists to “poison” …
2023-12-05
This removes the option of Stability settling the lawsuit with a partnership + licensing deal. That option was always on the table... But the fact one CEO failed to grab the opportunity, and another stole it from under their nose is not a good sign for Stability's future.
VentureBeat
NYC-based generative AI video startup Runway partners with Getty Images on an AI video model, shipping in the coming months for use in Hollywood and advertising
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat :
2023-09-12
USCA acknowledged his visual edits met the bar for Copyright registration, but he wanted Copyright registration for the whole work including what Midjourney did. At the same time, he stubbornly refused to specify exactly what he edited — thus nothing could be granted to him. [image]
Reuters
The US Copyright Office denies protection for an AI-made image that won an art competition, despite Adobe Photoshop alterations and 624+ text prompt revisions
thus nothing could be granted to him. [image] @glynntarrant : It's good to see Jason is still struggling with trying to copyright this AI generated image. Also, since he was and st...
2023-08-03
Interesting part about the AudioCraft and MusicCraft datasets is that they are specifically sourced and licensed — rather than “don't tell anyone” web-scale scraped. See Model cards for links: https://audiocraft.metademolab.com/ [image]
The Verge
Meta releases AudioCraft, an open-source AI tool that lets users create music and sounds via text prompts, consisting of MusicGen, AudioGen, and EnCodec models
rather than “don't tell anyone” web-scale scraped. See Model cards for links: https://audiocraft.metademolab.com/ [image] @metaai : AudioCraft consists of three models: MusicGen, A...
2023-05-25
This ridiculous argument would never fly in the EU under the Copyright directive. You have to respect the Terms Of Service for opt-out, and continue to respect the conditions imposed throughout product lifecycle. https://arstechnica.com/...
Reuters
Filing: the Biden administration says SCOTUS should let stand a 2022 appeals court ruling favoring Google in its alleged copying of Genius' lyric transcriptions
Blake Brittain / Reuters :
2023-05-05
Lending credibility to the hypothesis that OpenAI is not a business nor a non-profit, as it does neither. It's a project secretly funded by evil billionaires to destroy society as we know it—whatever the cost. They hired Altman to play puppet CEO role. (Oh wait! Wrong meeting.) https://twitter.com/...
The Information
Sources: OpenAI's losses roughly doubled to ~$540M in 2022, and Sam Altman privately suggested the company may try to raise as much as $100B in the coming years
OpenAI's losses roughly doubled to around $540 million last year as it developed ChatGPT and hired key employees from Google …
2023-03-16
Interesting take by @technollama that OpenAI's secrecy around GPT-4 is a legal defense. Since it's a multimedia model, it could well be! Also, if it's true they're keeping things secret for legal reasons, it's a sign they know they're non-compliant and have no good defense ;-) https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Experts criticize OpenAI for not disclosing GPT-4's training data or methods used; OpenAI co-founder says its past approach to openly sharing research was wrong
The system's capabilities are still being assessed, but as researchers and experts pore over its accompanying materials …
2023-02-16
Microsoft won't take Bing Chat down. The saw how ChatGPT succeeded and Galactica did not. It's a good move, business-wise! They're branding it as a continual learning experience, and ignoring any of the problems: https://blogs.bing.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Stratechery
Chatting with Bing Chat, codenamed Sydney and sometimes Riley, feels like crossing the Rubicon because the AI is attempting to communicate emotions, not facts
Look, this is going to sound crazy. But know this: I would not be talking about Bing Chat for the fourth day in a row if I didn't really, really, think it was worth it.
2023-02-08
Suddenly the rest of the web realizes what artists learned the hard way last year ;-) https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Microsoft unveils an updated Bing search engine and Edge browser powered by a next-gen custom OpenAI LLM, calling the duo an “AI-powered co-pilot for the web”
Microsoft has announced a new version of its search engine Bing, powered by an upgraded version of the same AI technology that underpins chatbot ChatGPT.
2023-01-17
Can we just take a bit of time to fully dismantle this argument? It's a straw-man. Emad tries to justify violating the consent of artists and creators worldwide by virtue signalling. It's concealing the fact that making open/ custom/ personal AI is possible without violation. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Getty Images plans to sue Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI in the UK over alleged copyright violation; unlike OpenAI, SD's training dataset is open source
Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation.
Can we just take a bit of time to fully dismantle this argument? It's a straw-man. Emad tries to justify violating the consent of artists and creators worldwide by virtue signalling. It's concealing the fact that making open/ custom/ personal AI is possible without violation. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
A trio of artists sue Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt over AI art copyright; a firm suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI over Copilot filed the lawsuit
Getty Images “won” against big tech giant Google (forcing a settlement) on the topic of copyright-infringement in Search, so AFAIC the debate about whether there's validity to the claims against #StableDiffusion is over. How to move the debate to getting a constructive outcome? https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Getty Images plans to sue Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI in the UK over alleged copyright violation; unlike OpenAI, SD's training dataset is open source
Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation.
2023-01-16
Can we just take a bit of time to fully dismantle this argument? It's a straw-man. Emad tries to justify violating the consent of artists and creators worldwide by virtue signalling. It's concealing the fact that making open/ custom/ personal AI is possible without violation. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
A trio of artists sue Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt over AI art copyright; a firm suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI over Copilot filed the lawsuit
A trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney …
2020-07-19
It is surprising that you can get GPT-3 to generate well-formed HTML just by describing what you want... The generated output is admittedly simple, but it did so from “translating” the natural language prompt: https://twitter.com/...
Operators & Delian's Ramblings
Despite its limitations, GPT-3, OpenAI's text-generating AI, excels at producing follow-on thoughts to input text, and could thus succeed as a “writing buddy”
OpenAI, an AI research foundation started by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and a few other leaders in ML …