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☆ Trump lawyers are set to argue in court this week that the hit '80s song 'Electric Avenue' wasn't properly copyrighted
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-02 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Trump's lawyers are expected to argue that, for decades, Grant somehow neglected to copyright the sound recording, or "master," for "Electric Avenue." Trump's lawyers acknowledge that Grant copyrighted the sheet music 40 years ago. Trump's side may argue that even Grant has tacitly acknowledged that the sound-recording copyright for "Electric Avenue" was never properly nailed down. Two weeks ago, on August 15, Grant applied to the US Copyright Office "for a sound-recording copyright registration of Electric Avenue," a court filing says. AdvertisementAnd Grant has been deposed by Trump's lawyers, who asked the artist to "explain" the song.

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☆ The copyright lawsuits against OpenAI are piling up as the tech company seeks data to train its AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Leading tech companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft are all scrambling to find new sources of data. Part of the problem is that publishers are increasingly accusing these companies of hoovering up copyrighted data. One solution is synthetic data, which is artificially generated rather than collected from the real world, and can easily be generated by machine learning algorithms. OpenAI has considered synthetic data as an option to train its models, but CEO Sam Altman has raised concerns about producing quality data. "As long as you can get over the synthetic data event horizon, where the model is smart enough to make good synthetic data, everything will be fine," Altman said at a tech conference in May 2023.

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☆ Meta's AI chatbot says it was trained on millions of YouTube videos. Meta didn't deny it but said the bot could be inaccurate.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe Meta AI chatbot is more willing to share what data it was trained on than Meta is. It expanded Meta AI in April as a chat and image generator function across all its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta AI told Business Insider that it was trained on large datasets of transcriptions from YouTube videos. Meta AI initially said its training data included a third-party dataset of 3.7 million transcribed YouTube videos. In responding to further queries about its YouTube training data, Meta AI said its training data included another, larger dataset of transcriptions from 6 million YouTube videos also compiled by a third party.

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☆ Meta is considering new paid deals with media publishers for AI training data
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Meta may need such access to make its generative AI tools, like Meta AI, more effective for users and more competitive in the increasingly crowded market of generative AI search tools and chatbots, the people said. User posts and comments on Facebook or Instagram are not necessarily the type of high-quality training data that generative AI chatbots and search tools need to generate quality outputs. Previously, Zuckerberg said he did not expect the generative AI boom. The US Copyright Office is considering new rules to cover generative AI. Major rival tech companies now fiercely competing in generative AI have already entered into deals with news publishers and media outlets for more access to content to be used as model training data.

Persons: Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Dotdash Meredith, Axel Springer, OpenAI, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Meta, Facebook, Business, News, Google, US, News Corp, Financial, Associated Press, BI, Politico, Microsoft, The New York Times, Times Locations: Europe, khays@businessinsider.com

☆ Trump Voter Proved MyPillow's Mike Lindell Wrong. He Wants $5 Million.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Brent Crane | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

He called it the Prove Mike Wrong challenge. He entered the Prove Mike Wrong challenge with low confidence he would win the exorbitant pot, estimating he had a 0.5% chance of disproving Lindell's "evidence." He had indeed Proven Mike Wrong, and now Mike must pay. In March, during a rally in Wisconsin, Trump praised him as "the great, legendary Mike Lindell." Jared Bartman for BIUnder deposition in the arbitration proceedings over his refusal to pay Zeidman, Lindell was a tornado of evasion and contradiction.

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☆ The US Copyright Office is set to reveal later this year proposed changes to copyright law over the AI boom
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The way technology companies scrape and use copyrighted material to train generative AI tools could be in for a significant change. It has also been weighing for months possible changes to US Copyright laws and rules, which make no specific mention of generative AI or related use cases. President Joe Biden's administration has become more outspoken on generative AI. Although generative AI has been around for years, the explosive popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT tool launched in late 2022 led to a greater public understanding of how generative AI models are developed through mass scraping every bit of data on the web. Warring interests and goals have opened up a growing fight between content creators and tech companies building generative AI.

Persons: Joe Biden's, Ben Buchanan, it's, Andreessen Horowitz, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, US, Meta, The New York Times Locations: khays@insider.com

☆ Billions in AI patents get new guidelines as regulators regroup
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But how will patent protections apply to inventions made with the help of AI tools, particularly generative AI? In connection with training an AI system, what level of planning will be required? “A natural person who only presents a problem to an AI system may not be a proper inventor” of something, the USPTO said. In that case, the USPTO had rejected the patent applications of an inventor who had given his AI system sole credit for the inventions. The inventorship guidelines will help everyone understand the boundaries of patent protections as AI is increasingly used in the inventive process.

Persons: ”, Jamie Nafziger, Dorsey, Whitney, Thaler, Vidal, Ryan McCarthy, Hall, It’s, Estill, John Bergmayer Organizations: CNN, Office, Biden, White, USPTO

☆ The White House weighs in on the AI copyright debate for the first time
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

In the three months since the executive order was issued, the White House has made progress on a number of the directives. Something else that has developed since the executive order came out is the debate around copyright and AI. Some that I'm really excited about are AI for science and generative AI, but also more generally AI systems in biology and healthcare. AdvertisementAnd then second, in the executive order, we stand up the AI Safety Institute at the Department of Commerce. Do you or the White House have thoughts on where AI training falls in copyright law?

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☆ Meta used copyright to protect its AI model, but argues against the law for everyone else
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Meta tried to use copyright law to get a version of its Llama AI model removed from GitHub. AdvertisementMeta argues strongly that copyright law shouldn't apply when online content is being used for free to build AI models. The takedown notice was submitted through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, a law that extended the reach of copyright law for the internet age. A failed attemptMeta's attempt to get the early Llama model removed from the developer platform failed in the end. (Meta and Google have so far not weighed in on whether AI model outputs should be protected or not).

Persons: Meta, —, Franklin Graves, Graves, GitHub Organizations: US, Service, Facebook, Big Tech, Microsoft, US Copyright Office, Copyright, Meta, US Copyright, Apple, Google Locations: GitHub

☆ A Stability executive quit after saying that generative AI 'exploits creators.' It could spell trouble for AI companies.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

He opposed Stability's argument that it should be able to train AI using copyrighted works for free. Generative AI models like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion are trained using enormous amounts of information scraped from the internet, including art, song lyrics, and books. "To be clear, I'm a supporter of generative AI. The fact that criticisms like Franceschelli's are now being echoed by the people actually building generative AI models suggests that Newton-Rex's resignation could be a defining moment for AI. "I'm sure I'm not the only person inside these generative AI companies who doesn't think the claim of 'fair use' is fair to creators.

Persons: Ed Newton, Rex, —, Newton, I've, Andreessen Horowitz, Giorgio Franceschelli, Franceschelli, it's, Rex's, I'm Organizations: Service, Stability, Meta, Google, Business

Copyright Office. Copyright Office, which registered more than 480,000 copyrights last year covering millions of individual works but is increasingly being asked to register works that are AI-generated. So far, copyright claims for fully machine-generated content have been soundly rejected because copyright laws are designed to protect works of human authorship. More than 9,700 comments were sent to the Copyright Office, part of the Library of Congress, before an initial comment period closed in late October. So far, courts have largely sided with tech companies in interpreting how copyright laws should treat AI systems.

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☆ Andreessen Horowitz is in the midst of a reshuffle to sharpen its focus on AI, sources say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Ben Bergman | Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Andreessen Horowitz is reshuffling parts of its investment organization to sharpen its focus on artificial intelligence, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The changes will center the venture capital firm on two main themes: AI applications and AI infrastructure, the people said. The AI applications group is being headed by general partner Alex Rampell, according to the sources. General partner Martin Casado, who focuses on enterprise deals, will oversee another group investing in AI infrastructure, the people said. Do you have information about A16z or another venture firm?

Persons: Andreessen Horowitz, Alex Rampell, Rampell, Martin Casado, Margit Wennmachers, Casado, Jeff Jordan, Databricks, A16z, Pretzels, Vinod Khosla, Khosla, Ben Bergman, Melia Russell, mrussell@insider.com Organizations: US, A16z, VMware Locations: Silicon Valley, Airbnb, bbergman@insider.com

☆ The New York Times got its content removed from one of the biggest AI training datasets. Here's how it did it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Alistair Barr | Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The New York Times discovered a big AI training dataset contained links to its copyrighted content. The media company also found its content in other AI training datasets, such as WebText. The New York Times discovered that Common Crawl, one of the largest AI training datasets, contained millions of URLs linking to its paywalled articles and other copyrighted content. The New York Times has found its paywalled articles and other copyrighted content in other popular AI training datasets. It's unclear if The New York Times has managed to get its content removed from WebText and other AI training datasets.

Persons: —, OpenAI's, Google's Infiniset, Charlie Stadtlander, Masterclass, Kelly, GAI Organizations: New York Times, Service, The New York Times, Foundation, US, Amazon, Yorker, The Times Locations: Originality.ai

☆ Ranking the biggest winners, and losers, in the current economy
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . In today's big story, we're ranking how different generations are doing in the current economy. After watching their parents and predecessors (millennials) struggle with finances, Gen Z is taking matters into their own hands. A May survey found more than half of Gen Z respondents had already started investing.

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☆ Andreessen Horowitz is not at all 'techno-optimistic' about this particular AI scenario
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The famed VC firm is fighting alongside Big Tech against potential copyright rules on AI. a16z sees any requirement to pay for copyrighted AI training data as detrimental to its investments. Using copyrighted data for free is the basis of "enormous investment" in AI, the VC firm said. National security"Those expectations have been a critical factor in the enormous investment of private capital into US-based AI companies," a16z said. Instead of spending time on making new laws that would explicitly address AI, the VC firm said the USCO should "embrace it wholeheartedly."

Persons: a16z, —, Andreessen Horowitz, A16z, Marc Andreessen Organizations: Big Tech, Service, US Locations: United States, LLMs

☆ Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft want users held responsible when generative AI tools show copyrighted material
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft called for users to be held responsible for the way they interact with generative AI tools, according to their comments to the US Copyright Office made accessible to the public last week. The USCO is considering new rules on AI and the tech industry's use of owned content to train the large language models underlying generative AI tools. Holding developers responsible for the copyrighted training data making their AI tools tick is akin to holding photocopiers and audio or video recorders responsible for infringement, Google argued. It said a generative AI tool is, like a camera, a "general purpose tool." "In evaluating claims of infringement relating to outputs, the analysis starts with the user," OpenAI wrote.

Persons: Google's Bard, it's, OpenAI Organizations: Google, Microsoft, US Copyright, Big Tech, Columbia Law Locations: OpenAI

☆ OpenAI wants to make its customers less jittery about being hit by copyright lawsuits by offering to pay their legal costs
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI plans to offer assistance to customers that are facing copyright lawsuits. The move is likely aimed at reducing consumer anxiety around unresolved copyright claims. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe move is likely aimed at reducing consumer anxiety sparked by unresolved copyright claims against generative AI systems. The US Copyright Office has been scrambling to deal with the new challenge posed by AI-generated content for some time. Google, which owns ChatGPT rival Bard, told the US Copyright Office: "Any resulting liability should attach to the user."

Persons: Sam Altman, —, Altman, OpenAI, George R.R, Martin, Kali Hays, Bard Organizations: Service, ChatGPT Enterprise, US, Google, Microsoft, US Copyright

☆ Firms like Meta and A16z admit having to pay billions for training data would ruin their generative-AI plans as they fight new copyright rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

"Generative AI models need not only a massive quantity of content, but also a large diversity of content," Meta wrote in its comment. But those kinds of deals would provide AI developers with the rights to only a minuscule fraction of the data they need to train their models. And it would be impossible for AI developers to license the rights to other critical categories of works." None of the companies denied using copyrighted material without authorization from rights holders. Instead, they generally argued that putting copyrighted material on the internet makes it "publicly available" and therefore fair game for use.

Persons: Andreessen Horowitz, Google's Bard, OpenAI's, Meta, OpenAI, Bard, A16z, Vince Gilligan, doesn't, Kali Hays Organizations: US, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, News Corp, Getty Locations: khays@insider.com

☆ OpenAI offers a way for creators to opt out of AI training data. It's so onerous that one artist called it 'enraging.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Artists and image owners can now ask OpenAI to remove their images from DALL-E training data. OpenAI recently unveiled a new form that image owners and creators can use to request that owned or copyrighted images be removed from DALL-E training data. AI models need high quality, and human generated training data to perform well. "Enraging"Toby Bartlett, an artist with a namesake consulting firm, wrote on Threads that OpenAI's DALL-E opt-out process is "enraging." Or, as OpenAI put it, its model will have "learned from their training data" and be able to "retain the concepts that they learned."

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☆ A how-to repair company wants to fix one of summer's biggest problems: McDonald's broken ice cream machines
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

McDonald's ice cream machines are so prone to breakdowns that they've spawned thousands of memes. Now, iFixit, a how-to repair company, wants a copyright exemption to repair them. McDonald's ice cream machines have a history of breaking down. This isn't the first time an outside group has tried to fix McDonald's ice cream machines. Startup Kytch introduced a device in 2019 to help franchise owners troubleshoot their ice cream machines so they could repair them.

Persons: iFixit, —, Taylor, We've, we've, Elizabeth Chamberlain, Chamberlain, McDonald's Organizations: Service, Copyright Locations: Wall, Silicon, McDonald's

☆ The US Copyright Office just took a big step toward new rules for generative AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The US Copyright Office is taking a big step toward new rules for generative AI. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe US Copyright Office is inching closer to creating new rules and regulations around generative AI and how the technology uses the work of authors and other creators. In the government rule-making process, a public comment period typically happens before a final rule is proposed and adopted. The major tech companies behind these generative AI tools use the crawled data to train their models without paying the creators who produced the original content. More online businesses are slowly becoming aware of the degree to which the web is being scraped for the benefit of generative AI.

Persons: OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Bard, Andreessen Horowitz, Bard Organizations: Morning, US, Google, Microsoft, Meta, New York Times, CNN, Office, Hollywood

☆ Hollywood's AI ambitions won't be stopped by a new copyright ruling
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Nathan Mcalone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But a recent copyright ruling likely won't have an impact on the studios' AI ambitions. The judge ruled AI couldn't be the sole author of an artistic work, but that's not what studios want. He was pushing the boundaries by seeing whether the court would grant copyright to an AI as the sole author of an artistic work. But that's not how Hollywood studios are using AI and it's not what they're planning. But frankly, the tech just isn't good enough yet for AI to be the sole author of a work.

Persons: couldn't, shouldn't, Stephen Thaler, Beryl Howell, Howell, Thaler, — Organizations: Hollywood, US, Thaler, Machine

☆ AI-generated art can't by copyrighted, federal judge rules, with potential consequences for Hollywood studios
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Plaintiff Stephen Thaler sued the US Copyright Office to try and have his AI system listed as the creator of an artwork. But a federal judge ruled against him, because "human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright." A federal judge ruled that a piece of art generated by AI can't be copyrighted, a decision that could have consequences for Hollywood studios. In Friday's ruling, US District Judge Beryl Howell upheld the Copyright Office's decision to reject Thaler's copyright application. But if studios can't gain copyright protections over any work produced by AI, that could temper such ambitions.

Persons: Stephen Thaler, Thaler, Beryl Howell, Howell, David Slater Organizations: US, Office, Hollywood, The Hollywood Locations: Hollywood

☆ The music industry is freaking out about AI — but this artist is embracing the 'new tools'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Jyoti Mann | Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The legality of commercializing AI-generated music is a gray area, experts say. AI music is divisiveAI-generated music is booming — but many people aren't happy about it. He said that although it's important to address concerns about deep fake songs made in the likeness of other artists, AI tools also offer the potential for increased accessibility. Commercializing AI-generated content is complicatedThere's been mounting anxiety over the legality of AI-generated content across creative industries. Weston said that for AI-generated music to be protected, a creator must do something significant with the output.

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