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WIRED: The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started

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WIRED: The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started. “The biggest fight of the generative AI revolution is headed to the courtroom—and no, it’s not about the latest boardroom drama at OpenAI. Book authors, artists, and coders are challenging the practice of teaching AI models to replicate their skills using their own work as a training manual. The debate centers on the billions of works underpinning the impressive wordsmithery of tools like ChatGPT, the coding prowess of Github’s Copilot, and artistic flair of image generators like that of startup Midjourney.”

404 Media: Civitai and OctoML Introduce Radical New Measures to Stop Abuse After 404 Media Investigation

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404 Media: Civitai and OctoML Introduce Radical New Measures to Stop Abuse After 404 Media Investigation. “Civitai, a text-to-image AI model sharing platform, is seeking a new cloud computing provider and instructing its millions of users to complain to its current provider, OctoML, after OctoML decided to end its business relationship with Civitai entirely, after a 404 Media investigation.”

Ohio State University: ChatGPT often won’t defend its answers – even when it is right

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Ohio State University: ChatGPT often won’t defend its answers – even when it is right. “A team at The Ohio State University challenged large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to a variety of debate-like conversations in which a user pushed back when the chatbot presented a correct answer. Through experimenting with a broad range of reasoning puzzles including math, common sense and logic, the study found that when presented with a challenge, the model was often unable to defend its correct beliefs, and instead blindly believed invalid arguments made by the user.”

NiemanLab: The press adopts a new level of transparency around images

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NiemanLab: The press adopts a new level of transparency around images. “The press has often been light on contextual information and details about the images they use. Typically, publications only provide the reader with a tiny gray caption, perhaps with a name and maybe some context related to its use or production method or where it was found, such as ‘illustration,’ ‘archival photo,’ ‘photo,’ or ‘social media.’ … A newfound level of transparency around images could be vital in educating the press and the public about images and their credibility.”

404 Media: a16z Funded AI Platform Generated Images That “Could Be Categorized as Child Pornography,” Leaked Documents Show

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404 Media: a16z Funded AI Platform Generated Images That “Could Be Categorized as Child Pornography,” Leaked Documents Show . “OctoML, a Seattle-based startup that helps companies optimize and deploy their machine learning models, debated internally whether it was ethical and legally risky for it to generate images for Civitai, an AI model sharing and image generating platform backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, after it discovered Civitai generated content that OctoML co-founder Thierry Moreau said ‘could be categorized as child pornography,’ according to internal OctoML Slack messages and documents viewed by 404 Media.”

VentureBeat: Runway ML is partnering with Getty Images on new AI video models for Hollywood and advertising

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VentureBeat: Runway ML is partnering with Getty Images on new AI video models for Hollywood and advertising. “Runway ML, the New York City video AI startup backed by Google and Nvidia, continues to entrench itself in the marketplace of the future. Today, the company announced it is partnering with Getty Images, one of the largest repositories of paid stock imagery and editorial imagery in the world, to develop a new generative AI video model: Runway <> Getty Images Model (RGM).”

Deepfake row: Govt advisory for social media companies in two days (New Indian Express)

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The New Indian Express: Deepfake row: Govt advisory for social media companies in two days. “The government will issue advisories to social media intermediaries such as Meta and X (formerly known as Twitter) in the next two days to ensure compliance on addressing deepfake issues, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Tuesday.”

Variety: AI-Generated Jimmy Stewart Narrates Bedtime Story for Calm App (EXCLUSIVE)

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Variety: AI-Generated Jimmy Stewart Narrates Bedtime Story for Calm App (EXCLUSIVE). “An AI-generated voice of Jimmy Stewart, the legendary Hollywood actor who died in 1997, reads a new bedtime story on the Calm sleep and meditation app. The voice of Stewart, who starred in films including ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ ‘Vertigo’ and ‘Rear Window,’ was recreated for the Calm story using AI voice-cloning technology. The project has the consent of Stewart’s family and his estate (managed by CMG Worldwide).”

University of Surrey: New AI tool lets users generate hi-res images on their own computer

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University of Surrey: New AI tool lets users generate hi-res images on their own computer. “Up until now, to create a high-quality AI image, users had to subscribe to a service like Midjourney or DALLE-3, or buy their own very powerful computers. DemoFusion lets users generate a basic image using a freely-available, open source AI model like Stable Diffusion, then enhance it, adding more detail and features, at much higher resolution. The necessary computing power is available on any mid-range gaming PC or a Mac M1.”

A Composer’s Helper: Using AI to Create New Harmonies (Stanford University)

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Stanford University: A Composer’s Helper: Using AI to Create New Harmonies. “The music transformer, built using the generative pretrained Transformer architecture (GPT) that powers language models like ChatGPT, facilitates a co-creation process where composers iteratively collaborate with the tool, choosing what to write themselves and what to delegate to AI. This approach allows composers to keep fragments of the generated music that they like while discarding the rest. The Anticipatory Music Transformer focuses on symbolic music rather than musical audio.”

South China Morning Post: TikTok owner ByteDance joins generative AI frenzy with service for chatbot development, memo says

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South China Morning Post: TikTok owner ByteDance joins generative AI frenzy with service for chatbot development, memo says. “ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, is working on an open platform that will allow users to create their own chatbots, as the company races to catch up in generative artificial intelligence (AI) amid fierce competition that kicked off with last year’s launch of ChatGPT. The ‘bot development platform’ will be launched as a public beta by the end of the month, according to an internal memo seen by the Post.”

Gizmodo: Generating AI Images Uses as Much Energy as Charging Your Phone, Study Finds

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Gizmodo: Generating AI Images Uses as Much Energy as Charging Your Phone, Study Finds. “Creating images with generative AI could use as much energy as charging your smartphone according to a new study Friday that measures the environmental impact of generative AI models for the first time. Popular models like ChatGPT’s Dall-E and Midjourney may produce more carbon than driving 4 miles.”

Reuters: Artists take new shot at Stability, Midjourney in updated copyright lawsuit

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Reuters: Artists take new shot at Stability, Midjourney in updated copyright lawsuit . “A group of visual artists has filed an amended copyright lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney and other companies for allegedly misusing their work to train generative artificial intelligence systems. U.S. District Judge William Orrick dismissed parts of the lawsuit last month but gave the original plaintiffs permission to pursue their claims again in a new complaint.”

University of Washington: AI image generator Stable Diffusion perpetuates racial and gendered stereotypes, study finds

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University of Washington: AI image generator Stable Diffusion perpetuates racial and gendered stereotypes, study finds. “What does a person look like? If you use the popular artificial intelligence image generator Stable Diffusion to conjure answers, too frequently you’ll see images of light-skinned men. Stable Diffusion’s perpetuation of this harmful stereotype is among the findings of a new University of Washington study. Researchers also found that, when prompted to create images of “a person from Oceania,” for instance, Stable Diffusion failed to equitably represent Indigenous peoples. Finally, the generator tended to sexualize images of women from certain Latin American countries (Colombia, Venezuela, Peru) as well as those from Mexico, India and Egypt.”

Platformer: Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn

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Platformer: Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn. “Three days after Amazon announced its AI chatbot Q, some employees are sounding alarms about accuracy and privacy issues. Q is ‘experiencing severe hallucinations and leaking confidential data,’ including the location of AWS data centers, internal discount programs, and unreleased features, according to leaked documents obtained by Platformer. “