OpenAI and others will likely face more copyright lawsuits as systems like DALL-E produce copyright-infringing materials without attribution or informing users
A full of spectrum of infringement — At around the same time as news of the New York Times lawsuit vs OpenAI broke … Threads: @carnage4life and @thebrianpenny Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop , @ar...
Ryan Breslow sues Mark Phillips, a convicted fraudster he hired to build his social impact DAO, for allegedly stealing ~$10.5M of the project's seed funding
Forbes : Tweets: @jelenaaa____ , @moo9000 , @sub8u , @carnage4life , @evacide , @yoda , @hkanji , and @sarahnemerson Tweets: Jelena / @jelenaaa____ : Brutal, but in many ways not surprising that this...
Ryan Breslow sues Mark Phillips, a convicted fraudster he hired to build his social impact DAO, accusing him of stealing ~$10.5M of the project's seed funding
Billionaire tech founder Ryan Breslow is locked in a legal battle over the alleged theft of millions of dollars belonging to a nascent crypto project, Movement DAO. Tweets: @carnage4life , @sub8u , @e...
How Toast, founded in Boston with a $500K investment from Endeca's Steve Papa after VCs shunned it, became a $30B business, in part by avoiding the Bay Area
- Toast's first backer, Steve Papa, invested in the company because no venture capital firm would write the initial check. Tweets: @jordannovet , @strngwys , @luoshengpeng , @arbuge , @jamespchuck , @...
Users of Doximity, which has long described itself as a LinkedIn for doctors, find their news feed inundated with anti-vaccine comments from fellow physicians
Ari Levy / CNBC : Tweets: @thehowie , @levynews , @yoda , @yoda , @mrbrownsir , and @mattrosoff Tweets: @thehowie : Let's make one thing clear: most of us use or have used @doximity for scheduling....
eBay confirms that ex-CEO Devin Wenig is the person who allegedly ordered six eBay employees to initiate a cyberstalking campaign; Wenig is not being charged
Surveillance. Harassment. A live cockroach delivery. US attorneys have charged six former eBay workers in association with an outrageous cyberstalking campaign. Tweets: @karlbode , @wired , @lachla...
A look at video chat service Around, launching today, which uses auto-zoom and noise canceling to keep faces and voices in focus, letting users multitask
Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Tweets: @joshconstine , @kantrowitz , @yoda , and @thekenyeung Tweets: Josh Constine / @joshconstine : This is one of the smartest startups I've seen recently. Video chat...
Anonymous Twitter account @VCBrags hits a nerve mocking VC's propensity for self-promotion by quote-retweeting boastful tweets
Investors either are loving or blocking @VCBrags, which retweets investors' best brags. — A parody Twitter account is getting under the skin … Tweets: @andrew__reed , @dhaliwas , @vcbrags , @vcbrags...
In a book excerpt, Susan Fowler discusses the nightmare she went through after her Uber essay: being followed, people digging through her past, anxiety, more
Susan Fowler is the author of Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber. Tweets: @goldiechan , @yoda , @gregmepstein , @moiragweigel , @kimzetter , @sarah_edo , @johnru...
Facebook updates its hate speech policy to ban statements denying the existence of marginalized groups and an additional eight specific dehumanizing comparisons
Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo : Tweets: @sirsteven , @joshconstine , @swodinsky , @joshconstine , @caseynewton , @gizmodo , @joshconstine , @liz_shepherd , @yoda , @caseynewton , @yoda , and @caseynewt...