Billboard: BMG Sues Anthropic, Entering AI Copyright Battlefield: ‘Egregious Law-Breaking’. “The various publishing arms of BMG filed a lawsuit on Tuesday (March 17) against the behemoth company, which is behind the popular AI chatbot Claude. BMG alleges the model was trained on lyrics from unlicensed songs, including Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers like Ariana Grande’s ‘7 Rings’ and […]

BBC: Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry from major artists . “The UK government has backtracked on its position on copyright and AI, stating it must take time to ‘get this right’. Its original position – allowing AI companies to use copyrighted works to train their models with an opt-out option – received major backlash from the likes of Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa.”

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/116243807011110029

Re: Pokémon Go training data.

Well there were very strong hints in the terms of service even early on, and a large part of why I stopped playing the game after the first month or two… Wish I still had the links that convinced me.

I hate that basically everything I started to “wear a tin foil hat” about over the past 10 years has since been proven to be abused by corporations... “You are the product” etc etc.

#PokemonGo #TrainingData #TrainingAI #privacy

Ars Technica: Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games. “While beating an AI at a board game may seem relatively trivial, it can help us identify failure modes of the AI, or ways in which we can improve their training to avoid having them develop these blind spots in the first place—things that may become critical as people rely on AI input for a growing range of problems. A recent […]

MakeUseOf: I stopped my data from being used to train AI (you might want to too). “Copyright laws are tipped in favor of AI companies because, so far, the onus is on users to ‘opt out’ of their personal data, chats, and creative work being used to train AI models. Opting out won’t remove work from a dataset that’s already been used to train AI models, but it could prevent it in the future. […]

TechCrunch: The dictionary sues OpenAI. “Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging in its complaint that the AI giant has committed ‘massive copyright infringement.'”

Engadget: Metadata company Gracenote is the latest to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement . “Axios reports that Gracenote is suing OpenAI for the unauthorized and unpaid use of both its metadata and its framework for connecting that information.”

Poynter: A new global push would make AI companies pay for news. “Policymakers in Europe, Indonesia, Latin America and at the World Intellectual Property Organization are exploring versions of these laws, which would require AI companies to pay publishers for the content they use. These so-called statutory licensing regimes are worth a closer look.”

PetaPixel: He Tried to Stop Adobe From Training its AI on His Photo Library – He Lost. “Gerald Carter tells PetaPixel that Adobe fed every single image from Diversity Photos into its Firefly AI image model. After he protested, Adobe offered him a paltry fee for the AI training, which Carter rejected. Adobe then relied on its legal resources to successfully thwart Carter’s legal challenge […]

TechSpot: Smart TV apps are quietly scraping web data for AI training. “Companies specializing in scraping or otherwise harvesting publicly available content to train AI models are becoming increasingly common. In particular, some firms are targeting smart TV applications and similar platforms, attempting to leverage users’ internet connectivity in exchange for low-cost incentives such as […]