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The New York Times updated its copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging that Microsoft built a supercomputer specifically designed to train AI on copyrighted works, including NYT articles, without permission.
Introduces a practical framework for Dataset Usage Inference (DUI) that estimates the fraction of a dataset used to train a generative model without requiring shadow models or held-out data, using synthetic non-members and mixture proportion estimation.
A court ruled that a blogger's use of a copyrighted photo in a 2009 blog post was fair use, dismissing the photographer's copyright claim. The case highlights the application of fair use to older online content.
The Atlantic has created a searchable database of millions of music tracks used to train AI models, allowing the public to search through four datasets including those from Google and Stability AI.
The article exposes a plagiarized version of John Koenig's 'The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows' that copies the entire book text and replaces original illustrations with AI-generated images, also using GPT-4 to let users create new 'sorrows'. The incident raises concerns about AI-facilitated plagiarism and copyright infringement.
An article analyzing the legal battle over copyright for AI-generated art, centered on Jason Allen's case against the Copyright Office and the broader implications for human authorship in the age of generative AI.
The article criticizes H.R. 6028, arguing it would make the U.S. Copyright Office more political and less balanced by removing Library of Congress oversight and making the Register a presidential appointee.
This article draws a parallel between the decades-long ghostwriting of V.C. Andrews novels and the emerging debate over AI-generated creative works, questioning whether audiences can meaningfully distinguish between human and AI continuation of a deceased artist's legacy.
The Batch AI News roundup covers Qwen3.7-Max challenging Google for third place, an application of AI to save whales, and research showing that fine-tuning can break copyright alignment.
CNN sues Perplexity AI for using over 17,000 articles, videos, and images without permission to power AI-generated answers, raising fundamental questions about content ownership and economic value in the AI era.
This comprehensive analysis examines multi-agent AI systems in coding, marketing, and creation, arguing that despite vendor hype about autonomy and efficiency, these systems remain heavily dependent on human input, face patentability and copyright limitations, and have led to cost overruns at major tech companies like Microsoft and Uber, questioning their sustainable value.
Amazon is developing an AI-animated series based on the 'Good Advice Cupcake' character, originally created by Loryn Brantz. Brantz publicly criticizes BuzzFeed and Amazon for licensing her character without her consent and using generative AI tools, calling it an assault on artists.
The author argues that generative AI is harmful, citing the use of stolen training data, its role in spreading misinformation, and its embodiment of exploitative capitalism, while distinguishing it from traditional machine learning.
CNN has sued AI search startup Perplexity for allegedly copying thousands of articles, videos, and images without permission to power its AI search engine, joining a wave of legal actions by publishers against AI companies over copyright infringement.
The European Court of Justice upheld Italy's requirement that Meta negotiate compensation with publishers, while US rulings favor broad fair use for AI training, highlighting a growing divergence in AI legislation between Europe and the US.
Universal Music Group and TikTok renewed their licensing agreement with a commitment to remove unauthorized AI-generated music and improve artist attribution, marking a shift after previous tensions.
Over 340 local news outlets have implemented measures to limit the Internet Archive's access to their content, likely due to copyright or scraping concerns.
The author argues that AI models engage in unauthorized plagiarism by training on copyrighted content without consent, and that AI-generated copycats are outranking original creators in search results.
The article details how Bambu Lab's attempt to suppress open-source code for remote control of its printers sparked a backlash from the open-source community, with figures like Louis Rossmann and GamersNexus offering legal support and forking the code.
A New York federal judge granted a $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive and ordered a global domain takedown, after major publishers sued over copyright infringement and the site's use as a training data hub for AI companies.