More Authors, Including Michael Chabon, Sue AI Developers Over Copyright

September 13, 2023By rightstech

Yet another group of authors has filed class action copyright infringement lawsuits against artificial intelligence pioneers Open AI and Meta, claiming the companies’ AI services used unauthorized copies of their books to train their AI models, including copies that were allegedly scraped from notorious pirate sites.

Source: More Authors, Including Michael Chabon, Sue AI Developers Over Copyright

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The TikTok Follies

By Paul Sweeting

Congress has passed, and President Biden has now signed, a bill requiring ByteDance to sell TikTok to an American buyer or American-controlled company within 270 days (possibly extendable to a year), or face having the app banned from the U.S. Things are not likely to work out quite as neatly as that forced choice would have it. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew issued a defiant statement in response to the bill’s passage proclaiming “we aren’t going anywhere,” and vowing to challenge the law in court. “We are confident, and we will keep fighting for your rights in the courts,” he said. “The facts and the Constitution are on our side, and we expect to prevail again.”... Read More >>

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