Also Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary are suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) says political favours won’t fast track the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger and AI device maker Rabbit is keen to make an coding-focused low-end PC.
There was so much that happened this week! Australia is developing its next National Cultural Policy, strategies to get Australians reading recreationally were suggested, Anthropic shared results from its massive open ended survey and more.
Also: A Financial Review opinion piece says Michelle Rowlands needs to find a solution to the copyright and AI problem or risk losing AI investment, Amazon Web Services outages tied to AI have been blamed on humans, Accenture is tying promotions to AI usage and Wikipedia has blacklisted archive.today because it executed a DDoS attack against a blogger.
#WTFnow #CopyrightAndAI #Wikipedia @wikipedia
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A rogue AI agent has turned vindictive against a moderator who rejected its code suggestions, and news reporting of that included AI hallucinations. Also two reports show improvements in diversityh in the arts and Creative Commons is looking at what openness means in context.
Creators Urge Stronger AI Rules as UK Drops Transparency Amendment; Anthropic’s Claude Raises Alarm: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway
Regulation and legislation might have struggled historically to keep pace with technology. AI is no different, but in the past few months, it has been a consistent narrative…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/transparency-amendment/
#AIActenforcement #AnthropicClaudemodel #copyrightandAI #ethicalAIconcerns #transparencyamendment
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4️⃣ Australia’s literary peak bodies lash out over Meta’s use of LibGen to train its AI.
#CopyrightAndAI #LibGen
5️⃣ You have likely seen the Hayao Miyazaki-style images on your feeds, but what, if anything, can Studio Ghibli do?
#CopyrightAndAI #OpenAI #HayaoMiyazaki #StudioGhibli
WTF else happened?:
A US court reaffirmed human authorship before AI content attracts copyright protection, the Resale Royalty Scheme will extend to nine more countries at month’s end, CommonsDB is a new register that aims to make reuse of Public Domain and open content licensed content easier and Bluesky made it easier to track CTRs (click-through rates).
#CopyrightAndAI #ResaleRoyalty #CommonsDB #PublicDomain #OpenContent #Bluesky #Marketing #Analytics @openfuture
3️⃣ The Atlantic has a search tool to see if you were included in Meta’s AI training data.
#CopyrightAndAI #BooksAndPublishing #LibGen
4️⃣ Mariah Carey’s wish came true – ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ isn’t a copyright infringement. Miley Cyrus’ ‘Flowers’ was not so lucky, the case continues.
#Music #Copyright #CopyrightCases
5️⃣ Australian universities are being heavily criticised for poor management, censoring and harassment, worker exploitation and more.
#Universities
2️⃣ ‘Kadrey v Meta’ court documents reveal Meta dropped attempts to get licences from book publishers to train their AI systems because getting permissions is hard.
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Copyright #CopyrightAndAI
3️⃣ Meta wants to link five continents to a huge subsea internet cable.
#Meta #InternetInfrastructure
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