break the rules not the laws
Today’s links Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights: Rights come from power. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019,…
Secure All Authors suing OpenAI for copyright infringement are going to get unprecedented access to its training data — but only in a performatively locked down room. As The Hollywood Reporter…
Stop Sign Wired reports that a slew of major websites, including influential news publishers and top social media platforms, are blocking Apple’s web crawler from scraping their pages for AI…
Data Crash AI companies typically build their AI models on lots of publicly available content, from YouTube videos to newspaper articles. But many of these content hosts have now started…
Asking For Help Low-paid AI workers in Africa who perform AI and social media content moderation work for major Silicon Valley companies like Meta and OpenAI have published an open…
Scraping By Stack Overflow, the go-to forum for programmers and software developers, announced a partnership with OpenAI to sell the site’s data — including its users’ forum posts — to…
Training Day The war over the use of copyrighted material in AI has opened up a new front, Billboard reports, after Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA.) introduced a bill this week…
Mass Shortage As AI companies keep building bigger and better models, they’re running down a shared problem: sometime soon, the internet won’t be big enough to provide all the data…
Sacre Bleu Google is facing a $270 million fine, The New York Times reports, after French officials found the tech giant guilty of vacuuming up articles from media companies in…
Wondering what data OpenAI used to train its buzzy new text-to-video AI? The company’s CTO is similarly unsure. Mira Murati, OpenAI’s longtime chief technology officer, sat down with The Wall…