ai Top Musicians Demand Halt to AI Training on Copyrighted Songs A coalition of over 200 prominent artists, including Billie Eilish and Jon Bon Jovi, signs an open letter demanding an end to unauthorized AI training on their music. The group warns that unregulated AI-generated tracks severely threaten artists' livelihoods and dilute royalty pools.
ai Over 200 Music Stars Demand Protections Against AI Exploitation in New Open Letter The Artist Rights Alliance gathers top musicians like Billie Eilish and Nicki Minaj to warn that irresponsible AI usage threatens to devalue music and replace human artists. The open letter calls for immediate protections against unauthorized training models and voice cloning.
google Google and Reddit Strike $60 Million AI Data Licensing Agreement Google and Reddit finalize a $60 million annual deal allowing Google to train its Vertex AI on Reddit's vast data. The agreement provides Google with defensive legal insulation while boosting Reddit's financial prospects ahead of its IPO.
openai OpenAI Dismisses New York Times Copyright Lawsuit as Baseless OpenAI publicly defends its AI training practices against a recent copyright lawsuit from The New York Times, arguing that using publicly available web data constitutes fair use.
openai OpenAI Disputes New York Times Copyright Lawsuit Over ChatGPT Training OpenAI pushes back against a recent copyright infringement lawsuit from The New York Times, arguing that its AI training practices qualify as fair use. The company claims negotiations were progressing before the surprise legal action.
openai ChatGPT Reaches 100 Million Users Amidst Leadership Chaos and Lawsuits OpenAI's ChatGPT experiences massive growth and major product updates in 2023, while simultaneously facing executive turmoil and legal challenges.
eu ai act European Union Reaches Landmark Agreement on First Comprehensive AI Act European Parliament negotiators and the Council presidency agree on the final version of the EU AI Act, establishing the world's first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence.
openai OpenAI Strikes News Licensing Deal With Axel Springer for ChatGPT OpenAI signs a multi-year agreement with Axel Springer to license news content from outlets like Politico and Business Insider for AI model training and in-chatbot summaries.
openai OpenAI Strikes News Licensing Deal With Axel Springer for ChatGPT OpenAI partners with Axel Springer to license content from Politico and Business Insider for AI model training and in-chatbot summaries. The multi-year agreement provides financial compensation to the publisher while including attribution and links to full articles.
openai OpenAI Partners With Axel Springer to Bring Summarized News to ChatGPT OpenAI and Axel Springer form a landmark agreement that allows ChatGPT to summarize and cite news from outlets like Politico and Business Insider, while also using the publisher's content for AI training.
ai Copyright Lawsuits Mount as EU AI Act Negotiations Face Delays A new wave of federal copyright lawsuits targets major AI developers over the use of copyrighted books and song lyrics in training data. Meanwhile, disagreements among EU lawmakers threaten to push final negotiations for the AI Act into 2024.
nightshade New Nightshade Tool Allows Artists to Sabotage AI Training Data A new open-source tool called Nightshade lets artists secretly alter their artwork to poison generative AI models that scrape their images without permission. These invisible pixel changes cause trained AI systems to produce chaotic and incorrect outputs, such as turning dogs into cats.
wga Hollywood Writers End Historic Strike With Groundbreaking AI Protections The Writers Guild of America concludes its nearly five-month strike after securing a new contract that strictly limits the use of artificial intelligence in writers' rooms. Meanwhile, the actors' union continues its separate labor action amid similar concerns over AI exploitation.
ai Publishers Prepare Major Copyright Suits as Tech Giants Pledge AI Watermarking Major media publishers like The New York Times are banding together to file massive copyright lawsuits against AI companies over data scraping. Meanwhile, leading tech firms are agreeing to voluntary White House commitments to watermark AI-generated content.
sarah silverman Comedian Sarah Silverman Sues OpenAI and Meta Over Copyrighted Book Training Data Sarah Silverman and two authors file class-action lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta, claiming the tech giants illegally use their copyrighted books to train AI language models. The complaints argue that the AI tools generate accurate summaries of the plaintiffs' works, proving unauthorized use.