[ad_1] Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant to the case. Earlier this fall, OpenAI agreed to provide two virtual machines so that counsel for The Times and Daily … Read more
[ad_1] One of India’s largest news agencies, Asian News International, has sued OpenAI in a case that could set a precedent for how AI companies use copyrighted news content in the world’s most populous nation. Asian News International filed a suit in the Delhi High Court on Monday, alleging the AI company illegally used its … Read more
Andy Spencer of the Retro Computer Museum in the UK browses some shelves — Image: Damien McFerran / Time Extension A short time ago, the excellent and hard-working people at The Video Game History Foundation ran a report which showed that almost 90% of video games released before 2010 were no longer obtainable legally. The … Read more
[ad_1] In an interesting variation of the usual “stop stealing our stuff” lawsuit already deployed dozens of times against AI companies, today brings a more nuanced form of alleged theft. Alcon Entertainment, a production company behind “Blade Runner 2049,” is suing Tesla, Elon Musk, and Warner Bros. Digital for what they claim is a willful … Read more
[ad_1] Penguin Random House, the trade publisher, is adding language to the copyright pages of its books to prohibit the use of those books to train AI. The Bookseller reports that new books and reprints of older titles from the publisher will now include the statement, “No part of this book may be used or … Read more