A group of organisations representing musicians, authors, visual artists, filmmakers and other creatives have written to the EC’s executive vice-president Henna Virkkunen and commissioner Glenn Micallef to reiterate their key lobbying points on AI. The letter outlines some of the gaps they see in current legislation – for example the ability for rightsholders to reserve their rights when it comes to AI training – and calls for further steps beyond this year’s EU AI Act.
Source: Creative bodies press EC on regulation of AI and copyright
Giving artificial intelligence models consent to use content for training is a “perfect use case” for blockchain technology, according to Avery Ching, co-founder and chief technology officer of Aptos. He highlighted the potential for blockchain to provide clear consent mechanisms for determining whether specific content can be used for AI training.
Amazon is reaching out to news publishers about opportunities to license their content for the next generation of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, slated to debut next year, Axios has learned. The company plans to debut a new, smarter version of Alexa, using generative AI to power customized responses to real-time user queries about the news.
AI has the power to pump out words in record speed. And already, that’s substantially inflating the book publishing market. Lovers of LLMs are pushing into the traditional publishing system, building their own book-publishing entities. They’re jump-starting their own publishing imprints, and self-publishing books (often slop) on digital marketplaces.