Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman claims anything on the web is fair game for copying, ignoring basic copyright principles.
Tag: Copyright
Whose Data is That? AI Doesn’t Care
AI companies need data. The usual datasets don’t suffice anymore. There’s a real need for human-generated content that can speak better to the users of AI tools. But people trying to fight this backed by human-oriented copyright laws are naturally losing.
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.
NY Times Sues OpenAI for Copyright Infringement
The Times joins the fight against OpenAI’s LLMs using publishers’ work without permission and publicly featurng it to its users with a fresh lawsuit.
Japan Will Not Enforce Copyright for Training Generative AI
Japanese companies can use any material for commercial use to train generative AI models.
AI Art can’t be Copyrighted: U.S. Copyright Office Rules Against AI-Generated Comic Book
In a landmark decision, the U.S. Copyright Office rejects Kris Kashtanova’s Midjourney-created comic book that creates a precedent, for now, about the licensing aspect of AI-generated art.