Stock image library site Shutterstock is joining the growing list of image providers turning to artificial intelligence to stem the tide of unauthorized AI-generated images. On Thursday, Shutterstock announced the integration of a new generative AI tool called Creative AI into its library of over 700 million images, allowing users to create customized AI-generated works that are appropriately licensed.
Source: Shutterstock Integrates AI Into Its Library of 700 Million Images – Decrypt
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) platforms have been a subject of significant debate in copyright circles over the past year. A petition by Jonathan Weiss seeks a Section 1201 exemption to allow circumvention of access controls on generative AI platforms to enable security research into inherent biases programmed into AI platforms
The EU is within “touching distance” of passing the world’s first laws on artificial intelligence, giving Brussels the power to shut down services that cause harm to society, says the AI tsar who has spent the last four years developing the legislation. Tudorache hinted at a compromise in the making on all the remaining contentious areas.
Source: EU ‘in touching distance’ of world’s first laws regulating artificial intelligence
European lawmakers are yet to agree on several issues related to new artificial intelligence rules ahead of a crucial meeting on Tuesday, leaving any deal off the table until December, according to four people familiar with the matter. Spain, which holds the EU presidency until December, has been pushing for a deal and has proposed compromises in a bid to speed up the process.
Source: EU lawmakers face struggle to reach agreement on AI rules -sources
Since the launch last year of ChatGPT, an easy-to-use AI chatbot that can deliver an essay upon request within seconds, there have been growing worries about the impact of generative AI on a range of sectors. Among book industry players, there is “a deep sense of insecurity,” said Juergen Boos, director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s biggest, where the topic was in focus last week.
A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission.
Source: This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI
AI music startup Boomy said Monday that it has integrated Beatdapp’s tech into its own distribution network to “verify the authenticity of every stream across all digital streaming platforms.” As part of this partnership, Boomy and Beatdapp say that the latter company conducted an analysis of Boomy’s entire distributed catalog “to certify the Boomy platform and appropriately allocate entitlements owed to rights holders and content creators”.
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has advanced to the point where AI systems can be used to create new musical works and songs. As AI becomes more ubiquitous in the process of making music, artists and listeners both will have to address a looming question: do humans or machines make better music?
Source: Human vs. AI-Generated Music: Indistinguishable, or Uncanny Valley? – Decrypt
As the world’s largest book fair began in Frankfurt, an online statement published on Wednesday called for co-legislators to “seize the opportunity” of the EU’s AI act – which classifies AI systems according to the risk they pose to users and applies regulation accordingly – to “ensure the transparency” of generative AI and “make it safer for European citizens”.
OpenAI, a pioneer in the field of generative AI, is stepping up to the challenge of detecting deepfake imagery amid a rising prevalence of misleading content spreading on social media. At the recent Wall Street Journal’s conference the company’s chief technology officer, Mira Murati, unveiled a new deepfake detector. Murati said OpenAI’s new tool boasts “99% reliability” in determining if a picture was produced using AI.
Source: From ‘Low Rate of Accuracy’ to 99% Success: Can OpenAI’s New Tool Detect Deepfakes? – Decrypt