- 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.
Main topic: The use of copyrighted books to train large language models in generative AI.
Key points:
1. Writers Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey, and Christopher Golden have filed a lawsuit alleging that Meta violated copyright laws by using their books to train LLaMA, a large language model.
2. Approximately 170,000 books, including works by Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan, are part of the dataset used to train LLaMA and other generative-AI programs.
3. The use of pirated books in AI training raises concerns about the impact on authors and the control of intellectual property in the digital age.
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 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.
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.
Several fiction writers are suing Open AI, alleging that the company's ChatGPT chatbot is illegally utilizing their copyrighted work to generate copycat texts.
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.
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.
