Tag: law

In a first, judge rules training AI on copyrighted works is fair use

Anthropic has 7 million pirated books to be handled at trial.
Anthropic keeps a library of pirated books, too, and that does infringe on copyrights. (Picture: >littleyiye<, CC BY 2.0)
Anthropic’s argument that the training was «transformative» and little different from training school kids in writing held up in court yesterday.

This is the same argument used by the AI labs in a flurry of lawsuits by authors, newspapers and stock photographers, and could have wide repercussions across both the publishing and AI industries.

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OpenAI’s hardware device is a year out, won’t be a wearable

Jony Ive and Sam Altman in a now removed video from OpenAI.
OpenAI reveals just enough about its hardware project to keep people guessing. (Picture: OpenAI)
More news has emerged about the ChatGPT owner’s «breathrough hardware device» through court filings in their recent trademark case.

It is clear now that the device won’t be an in-ear device or some kind of glasses.

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OpenAI takes down Ive partnership Io page due to court order

A trademark lawsuit has taken the OpenAI Io page offline.
The Ive/Altman partnership shook the internet and generated plenty of hype in May. Now the page is taken down. (Picture: OpenAI)
The page and announcement of the Jony Ive partnership to build AI devices has had a hard a meeting with a trademark lawsuit.

The name of the company purchased by OpenAI for 6.5 billion dollars in late may, has, for all its hype at the time, been taken down by a court order.

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Reddit sues Anthropic for unauthorized data harvesting

Reddit inc. is suing Anthropic for illegally scraping its data.
Reddit has clear terms in its user agreement against AI scraping, and has made lucrative deals for it’s data.
The company, home to a valuable archive of 20 years of human exchanges, says Anthropic illegally copied from its archives at least 100 000 times.

The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday at the San Francisco superior court, claims Reddit reached out to Anthropic several times to discuss licensing issues with the scraping but found they «refused to engage.»

Not a white knight
The suit calls Anthropic a «late-blooming artificial intelligence company that bills itself as the white knight of the AI industry,» adding that «it is anything but.»

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Final day of Google’s antitrust trial hinges on AI

The final day of Google antitrust remedies trial turned to AI.
Google could lose Chrome and golden default deals in its antitrust trial. (Picture: Pietro & Silvia, CC BY 2.0)
The question for the courts last day of closing arguments was this: Are AI competitors also operating in the search market?

Both sides argued they weren’t, as it could interfere with long standing DOJ arguments that Google is a search monopoly, and for Google looking to avoid scrutiny of its recent behavior.

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Court rejects free speech rights for AI chatbots — for now

Can an AI be sued for the wrongful death of a young teen to suicide? Or do they have free speech rights? A trial will now decide.
A young teen was allegedly encouraged into suicide. Now the question is whether an AI chatbot can be held accountable. (Picture: Character.ai)
In a Florida court case that could one day define First Amendment rights for AI, a judge has declined to consider the defendant’s arguments for dismissal — setting the stage for a trial showdown over whether AI chatbots are faulty products or entities entitled to rights previously reserved for humans.

The case revolves around a teen whom Character.ai allegedly encouraged into suicide over a long interaction, and whether the developers should be held accountable for his tragic death, in a wrongful death lawsuit.

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«Intimate» AI deepfakes are now illegal in the USA

Donald Trump signed the new deepfake law yesterday afternoon.
After years of political wrangling, sexual deepfakes are finally unlawful in the USA. (Picture: DreamStudio (CC BY 2.0))
It sure took a while and some harrowing experiences, but the deepfake “industry” just took a body blow last evening.

The penalties for making nonconsensual sexual deepfakes now include up to three years in prison, and websites will have 48 hours to remove reported content — and copies of it.

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UN meets on rules for autonomous AI weapons

The AI-powered XQ58-Valkyrie flies alongside us fighter jets.
Autonomous systems pose a challenge to the rules of war, and the UN is trying to reach an agreement. (Picture. Department of Defence)
As more and more AI robots and drones are deployed to the battlefields of the world, the talks are taking on a new urgency.

The UN Secretary General has set a deadline for 2026 to reach an agreement on so-called «killer robots,» while great powers resist.

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Judge in Meta’s copyright case questions fair use defense

A judge finds scant evidence for fair use by Meta
A judge finds scant evidence for fair use by Meta. (Picture: Jeroen van Luin, CC BY 2.0)
In a hearing for summary judgment in the case where a group of authors sued Meta for copyright infringement, the judge seemed to side with the authors, but also said they needed to make a clearer case of actual harm, writes Ars Technica.

The case revolves around whether AI companies like Meta can use copyrighted works in the training of their models, which they claim is fair use, while the authors seek damages and compensation for the fact that they copied all of their work without authorization.

The case could upend the entire AI market, and Meta fears it would make them less competitive should they lose.

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