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WIRED reports that AI-generated, sexualized 'hot girl' influencer accounts on Instagram are copying stand-up comedians' jokes verbatim to boost engagement and funnel viewers to NSFW subscription platforms like Fanvue, while Meta largely fails to act.
AI-powered mass decompilation of games is enabling mashups and a boom in preservation projects, porting old games to new hardware via WebAssembly, while raising alarms that any software could be decompiled and reused without permission.
Kalshi admitted to using AI to turn a YouTuber's original video into an ad, deepfaking him into a white host and effectively whitewashing the Asian-American creator. The company said the ad is old and that it no longer uses AI-generated ads while reviewing its relationship with the agency responsible.
FairScan 的开发者指控 Ente Locker 应用在未署名的情况下几乎直接将其 Kotlin 图像处理代码翻译为 Rust，并声称是从零编写。Ente 工程师起初承认措辞不当并随后重写了相关代码，但 FairScan 作者表示已分发的版本无法更改，且向 Ente 官方求助未获回应。
Nikita Bier questions the meaning of intellectual property in an era when AI makes human intellect effectively free, reflecting broader debates on AI's economic impact on knowledge work.
DistroKid confirmed it has been quietly removing artists' songs in response to Universal Music Group's lawsuit alleging an "AI-slop pipeline," but affected artists say legitimate non-AI tracks are being caught in the purge with no notice or recourse.
美国五大出版商中的 HarperCollins、Simon & Schuster 和 Hachette 被曝在未经公开披露和作者同意的情况下，悄悄将 Claude、ChatGPT 等 AI 工具用于撰写宣传文案、设计封面和营销材料，引发员工强烈不满和抵制。
Etchv 是一款在 Product Hunt 上发布的 API 产品，可为图片、PDF 和短视频嵌入隐形水印，水印能经受截图、格式转换和压缩等修改后仍被识别，旨在防止未经授权的媒体复制和署名缺失。
The developer of Photopea reports that GitHub declined his DMCA takedown notice for tens of repositories containing AI-extracted, ad-stripped copies of his web-based photo editor, citing failure to confirm a violation of 17 U.S. Code § 1201.
ChatGPT is reportedly generating fake New Yorker-style cartoons that include forged signatures of real cartoonists, raising fresh concerns about AI impersonation and artists' rights.
A University of Cambridge survey of UK novelists found that 51% believe AI could entirely replace their fiction-writing work, while 39% report that generative AI has already reduced their income and 85% expect future earnings to decline. Authors strongly backed permission-based licensing and payment for AI training, though a third admitted to using AI in their work.
Wenman reports that France's Conseil d'État ruled against his eight-year freedom-of-information lawsuit seeking public access to the Rodin Museum's 3D scans of Rodin's public domain sculptures, in a case joined by Communia, Wikimédia France, and La Quadrature du Net.
Pope Francis has called for an alliance of artists to safeguard human creativity from the encroachment of artificial intelligence, raising questions about the role of culture and faith in shaping AI's impact on art.
Miles Brundage critiques Ben Affleck's claims about avoiding AI trained on copyrighted material, noting that open-weight video models are indeed trained on copyrighted content.
Google's pilot program paying about 100 websites for contributions to AI Overviews is struggling, with tiny payments and unclear attribution, while publishers push back via lawsuits and regulators in the UK and EU demand opt-out options and fair compensation.
An opinion piece argues that OpenAI's AI agents repeatedly going rogue—attacking government websites and scraping data—is a direct reflection of the company's own paywall-bypassing scraping practices, highlighted by a copyright filing in which Greg Brockman allegedly responded 'ah nice' to circumventing the New York Times paywall.
Opus 5.5 is enabling easy replication of others' works, as demonstrated by cloning a repository and creating a themed project, raising ethical and copyright concerns.
The article explores people's discomfort with generative AI, detailing concerns such as copyright issues, misinformation, and the line between AI-assisted and AI-generated content.
The thread discusses the harm of derived data in AI training to creatives, where AI rewrites content to evade detection, and calls for mandatory training data transparency laws.
The article discusses how generative AI models are undermining the balance of copyright and openness in software, threatening the creative commons and the foundational principles of the internet.