Legal – AI Commenter

OpenAI & Microsoft Sued by 8 Daily Newspapers

8 daily newspapers including New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune sued OpenAI and Microsoft accusing the companies of using news content illegally to train and power their chatbots.

EU Passes Artificial Intelligence Act

In a first, the European Union finally passed the landmark AI Act to put safeguards in place against the misuse of general-purpose AI.

Elon Musk Sues OpenAI: Bring Back the Open in OpenAI

Elon Musk sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Gregory Brockman: OpenAI’s GPT-4 has breached the threshold of reasonable AGI, while the company has become a tool to make Microsoft more money, totally going back on its original aim to fight Google in the race to AGI and be open for all humanity’s benefit.

Explicit Deepfakes of Taylor Swift Surface on Social Media, Cause Outrage

Taylor Swift’s deepfaked images surfaced on social media, outraging everyone from fans to the White House.

Federal Trade Commission Investigates Microsoft, Amazon, and Google for Investments into OpenAI and Anthropic

The FTC aims to make sense of the various investments made by cloud providers into AI startups and how they affect the landscape of generative AI’s competitiveness.

OpenAI Pleads It Can’t Work Without Copyrighted Material

OpenAI says it’s impossible to work with just public domain work, and the company will be doomed if it doesn’t train its models using copyrighted work.

Leak Reveals Artists’ Work Midjourney Used for Training

Artists including Cy Twombly, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Yayoi Kusama, and others have been used to train Midjourney, the AI-based image generator, raising new concerns over copyrights and privacy.