- OpenAI has hired Tom Rubin, a former Microsoft intellectual property lawyer, to oversee products, policy, and partnerships.
- Rubin's role will involve negotiating deals with news publishers to license their material for training large-language models like ChatGPT.
- Rubin had been an adviser to OpenAI since 2020 and was previously a law lecturer at Stanford University.
- OpenAI has been approaching publishers to negotiate agreements for the use of their archives.
- This hiring suggests OpenAI's focus on addressing intellectual property concerns and establishing partnerships with publishers.
Main topic: The New York Times may sue OpenAI for scraping its articles and images to train AI models.
Key points:
1. The New York Times is considering a lawsuit to protect its intellectual property rights.
2. OpenAI could face devastating consequences, including the destruction of ChatGPT's dataset.
3. Fines of up to $150,000 per infringing piece of content could be imposed on OpenAI.
Main topic: Copyright concerns and potential lawsuits surrounding generative AI tools.
Key points:
1. The New York Times may sue OpenAI for allegedly using its copyrighted content without permission or compensation.
2. Getty Images previously sued Stability AI for using its photos without a license to train its AI system.
3. OpenAI has begun acknowledging copyright issues and signed an agreement with the Associated Press to license its news archive.
### Summary
OpenAI has acquired Global Illumination, a company known for creating an online role-playing game. The team will join OpenAI, but its specific role is not yet clear. Microsoft's Bing AI has not been able to gain market share from Google. Bing's search market share has remained at 3% and it has about 1% of Google's monthly visitors. Hackers at DEF CON attempted to manipulate chatbots, including those from OpenAI and Google, to generate fake and biased content.
### Facts
- OpenAI has acquired Global Illumination, a company known for an online role-playing game.
- The financial details of the deal have not been disclosed.
- The entire Global Illumination team, consisting of eight people, will join OpenAI.
- Bing's search market share has remained at 3% and it has about 1% of Google's monthly visitors.
- Thousands of hackers at DEF CON attempted to manipulate chatbots to generate fake and biased content.
The New York Times is reportedly considering suing OpenAI over concerns that the company's ChatGPT language model is using its copyrighted content without permission, potentially setting up a high-profile legal battle over copyright protection in the age of generative AI.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Enterprise, a business-focused version of its AI-powered chatbot app that offers enhanced privacy, data analysis capabilities, and customization options, aiming to provide an AI assistant for work that protects company data and is tailored to each organization's needs.
Leading news organizations, including CNN, The New York Times, and Reuters, have blocked OpenAI's web crawler, GPTBot, from scanning their content, as they fear the potential impact of the company's artificial intelligence technology on the already struggling news industry. Other media giants, such as Disney, Bloomberg, and The Washington Post, have also taken this defensive measure to safeguard their intellectual property rights and prevent AI models, like ChatGPT, from using their content to train their bots.
OpenAI is seeking the dismissal of claims made by authors and comedians in two separate lawsuits, which allege copyright infringement regarding the use of their books to train ChatGPT, while OpenAI argues that its usage falls under fair use and transformative interpretation of the original works.
UK publishers have called on the prime minister to protect authors' intellectual property rights in relation to artificial intelligence systems, as OpenAI argues that authors suing them for using their work to train AI systems have misconceived the scope of US copyright law.
OpenAI has proposed several ways for teachers to use its conversational AI agent, ChatGPT, in classrooms, including assisting language learners, formulating test questions, and teaching critical thinking skills, despite concerns about potential misuse such as plagiarism.
The Guardian has blocked OpenAI from using its content for AI products like ChatGPT due to concerns about unlicensed usage, leading to lawsuits from writers and calls for intellectual property safeguards.
Meta is being sued by authors who claim that their copyrighted works were used without consent to train the company's Llama AI language tool.
Authors, including Michael Chabon, are filing class action lawsuits against Meta and OpenAI, alleging copyright infringement for using their books to train artificial intelligence systems without permission, seeking the destruction of AI systems trained on their works.
OpenAI, a leading startup in artificial intelligence (AI), has established an early lead in the industry with its app ChatGPT and its latest AI model, GPT-4, surpassing competitors and earning revenues at an annualized rate of $1 billion, but it must navigate challenges and adapt to remain at the forefront of the AI market.
Several fiction writers are suing Open AI, alleging that the company's ChatGPT chatbot is illegally utilizing their copyrighted work to generate copycat texts.
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin and 16 other writers are suing OpenAI over its language model ChatGPT, accusing it of copyright infringement for using text from pirate e-book repositories without authorization.
Amazon has introduced new guidelines requiring publishers to disclose the use of AI in content submitted to its Kindle Direct Publishing platform, in an effort to curb unauthorized AI-generated books and copyright infringement. Publishers are now required to inform Amazon about AI-generated content, but AI-assisted content does not need to be disclosed. High-profile authors have recently joined a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, the creator of the AI chatbot, for alleged copyright violations.
OpenAI has announced new features for its chatbot, ChatGPT, including the ability to engage in voice conversations and respond to prompts featuring images, as the company competes with other tech giants in the AI arms race.
Media mogul Barry Diller criticizes generative artificial intelligence and calls for a redefinition of fair use to protect published material from being captured in AI knowledge-bases, following lawsuits against OpenAI for copyright infringement by prominent authors, and amidst a tentative labor agreement between Hollywood writers and studios.
Authors are having their books pirated and used by artificial intelligence systems without their consent, with lawsuits being filed against companies like Meta who have fed a massive book database into their AI system without permission, putting authors out of business and making the AI companies money.
OpenAI is reportedly in discussions with Jony Ive and SoftBank to secure $1 billion in funding to develop an AI device that aims to be the "iPhone of artificial intelligence," drawing inspiration from the transformative impact of smartphones, according to the Financial Times.
The use of copyrighted materials to train AI models poses a significant legal challenge, with companies like OpenAI and Meta facing lawsuits for allegedly training their models on copyrighted books, and legal experts warning that copyright challenges could pose an existential threat to existing AI models if not handled properly. The outcome of ongoing legal battles will determine whether AI companies will be held liable for copyright infringement and potentially face the destruction of their models and massive damages.
Authors are expressing anger and incredulity over the use of their books to train AI models, leading to the filing of a class-action copyright lawsuit by the Authors Guild and individual authors against OpenAI and Meta, claiming unauthorized and pirated copies were used.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and a group of religious authors have filed a lawsuit against tech companies, including Meta, Microsoft, and Bloomberg, alleging that they trained their AI tools on pirated books without permission, seeking damages and an injunction.
Prominent authors, including former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Christian author Lysa TerKeurst, have filed a lawsuit accusing Meta, Microsoft, and Bloomberg of using their work without permission to train artificial intelligence systems, specifically the controversial "Books3" dataset.
Tech companies like Meta, Google, and Microsoft are facing lawsuits from authors who accuse them of using their copyrighted books to train AI systems without permission or compensation, prompting a call for writers to band together and demand fair compensation for their work.
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and other authors have filed a lawsuit against Meta, Microsoft, and other companies, alleging that their books were pirated and used without permission to train AI models, in the latest case of authors accusing tech companies of copyright infringement in relation to AI training data.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and four other religious authors are suing tech companies including Meta, Microsoft, Bloomberg, and EleutherAI Institute for allegedly using their books without permission to train artificial intelligence models.
