Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton are challenging one of AI development’s accepted core beliefs – that the more pre-training data the better the performance. As reported by HPCwire, a new paper discuses the concept of “catastrophic overtraining,” whereby […]
A group of professors specializing in copyright law has filed an amicus brief in support of authors suing Meta for allegedly training models without permission. The brief, filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, calls Meta’s fair […]
US performing rights organizations Ascap and BMI have filed their responses to the US Copyright Office’s recent notice of inquiry concerning the PROs sector. Both emphasize the fundamental importance these organizations play for songwriters, composers and music publishers; both suggest that the […]
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and copyright, with a characteristically terse post declaring, “delete all IP law.” X’s current owner, Elon Musk, quickly replied, “I agree.” […]
AI-generated media fundamentally alters how digital content is produced, distributed and consumed. AI models can now generate hyper-realistic images, videos and voices, raising urgent concerns about ownership, authenticity and ethical use. The ability to create synthetic content with minimal effort […]
ChatGPT’s new image-generation tool led to a record number of users in April, forcing OpenAI’s boss to beg people to “chill out a bit”. With ChatGPT-4o, users can transform photos or memes into distinctive styles – making them look like they came straight out of The Simpsons, Rick And […]
Late last month, Hollo, a conversational AI company, and Realbotix, which makes customizable humanoid robots, unveiled a version of the late actress. This synthetic twin is designed to mimic Suzanne Somers’ voice, personality and facial expressions. It’s loaded with a database of her […]
Embedding a social media post allows websites to share content without hosting the content themselves – but is such a tool a violation of copyright? A photographer wants the US Supreme Court to consider that question. In a petition for review filed on March 28, photographer Elliot McGucken is […]
The new bill is similar to last year’s, in that it effectively creates a right of publicity at the US federal level for the first time. The bill aims to reduce potential litigation by giving platforms featuring user-generated content (UGC) immunity if they quickly remove unauthorized deepfakes […]
Multiple years and twists later, the major labels’ copyright infringement lawsuit against the Internet Archive looks to be trending towards a resolution. That’s according to the litigants themselves, which just recently requested a 30-day stay in the case. The presiding judge […]
