Broadcast news production company ITN has become the first UK news organization to announce a deal seeking to safeguard its archive from the threat of AI. The deal with tech company Open Origins will see every one of ITN‘s more than a million video clips of news footage validated and secured using blockchain technology.
Source: ITN signs deal to protect video archive from AI and license content
The recent surge in popularity of AI tools such as ChatGPT is forcing the science community to reckon with its place in scientific literature. Prestigious journals such as Science and Nature have attempted to restrict or prohibit AI use in submissions, but are finding it difficult to enforce because of how challenging it is becoming to detect machine-generated language.
Source: Detecting machine-written content in scientific articles
On Wednesday, Axios broke the news that OpenAI had signed deals with The Atlantic and Vox Media that will allow the ChatGPT maker to license their editorial content to further train its language models. But some of the publications’ writers—and the unions that represent them—were surprised by the announcements and aren’t happy about it. Already, two unions have released statements expressing “alarm” and “concern.”
Source: Journalists “deeply troubled” by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic
OpenAI announced pacts with two more media companies — Vox Media and The Atlantic — to license their content for the ChatGPT artificial-intelligence chatbot. Under the deals, the companies also will work with OpenAI on a range of product-development initiatives.
Source: OpenAI Inks Licensing Deals to Bring Vox Media, The Atlantic Content to ChatGPT
An exemption under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act should be expanded to include generative artificial intelligence research focused specifically on embedded biases in AI systems and models, a top Senate Democrat argued in a new letter to the Library of Congress.
Source: Senate Democrat pushes for expansion to copyright act to include generative AI research
News Corp.’s deal with OpenAI supports the contention by the New York Times that publishers should be paid when their work is used for AI, Times lawyers say. “The Times is pleased to see that OpenAI increasingly acknowledges this industry-wide problem and is paying publishers for their work,” a Times spokesperson told Legaltech News.
Source: Publishers Daily: News Corp. Deal With OpenAI Proves ‘NY Times’ Suit Is Right, Lawyers Say
The European Union has taken the wraps off the structure of the new AI Office, the ecosystem-building and oversight body that’s being established under the bloc’s AI Act. The risk-based regulatory framework for artificial intelligence is expected to enter into force before the end of July — following the regulation’s final approval by EU lawmakers last week. The AI Office will take effect on June 16.
Source: With the EU AI Act incoming this summer, the bloc lays out its plan for AI governance | TechCrunch
UK local and national news publishers have asked for protection from the next government from generative AI companies taking their content without payment. As the UK goes to the polls on 4 July, the News Media Association (which represents most UK local and national news publishers) has set out its own “election manifesto” of policy priorities.
Source: Media manifestos 2024: Publishers urge action to control generative AI
OpenAI’s Sam Altman did himself no favors when he tweeted out “her” to mark the official unveiling of ChatGPT-4o, the company’s new talking chatbot. The tweet (or whatever we’re supposed to call them these days) appeared to be a reference to the 2013 Oscar-winning film, Her, for which Scarlett Johansson provided the sultry voice of Samantha, an AI assistant, and which Altman has publicly identified as his favorite movie.
It also appeared to confirm that the voice of Sky, one of the five voices available in the chatbot, and one which bears a striking resemblance to that of Johansson’s character in the film, was specifically and intentionally designed to mimic the actress, whether by cloning her voice from recordings or by hiring another actress to imitate her.
The seemingly endless possibilities of generative AI are not on an unavoidable collision course with copyright law; the collision happened way back and sooner or later, someone will have to pick up the bill. In the meantime, popular LLMs seem to be developing a stubborn, pro-copyright streak, partly due to all the industry propaganda they’ve been consuming. But don’t fight back, it’s time to team up.
Source: AI Models Reveal Pro-Copyright Bias By Shutting Down Piracy Research * TorrentFreak