OpenAI's Sora 2 generates copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips featuring SpongeBob, Pokémon, Mario, Rick and Morty, and Star Wars
From Dildo Ads to Furry CEOs Alex Mahadevan / Poynter : My journey into the artificial world of Sora 2 X: Paul Yacoubian / @paulyacoubian : Just found out if you try to delete your Sora app account yo...
Users express surprise, delight, and disgust with viral Sora clips, as some warn of IP theft and that Cameos could lead to new kinds of misinformation and scams
and terrifying. X: Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : Someone gave my psychotic stalker an invite to Sora and he's already making AI videos of me. Thankful that Sora has the option to block and delete un...
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM
gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog : OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good OpenAI on GitHub : ...
A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library for training LLMs was not
but it's still in trouble for stealing books Blake Brittain / Reuters : Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit Jason Koebler / 404 Media : Judge Rules Training AI on...
Getty Images CEO Craig Peters says Getty is spending “millions and millions” on its Stability AI lawsuit in the UK and the US, accusing it of copying 12M images
Peters told CNBC in an interview that both Stability AI — the U.K.-based startup best known for its text … Bluesky: @neilturkewitz Bluesky: Neil Turkewitz / @neilturkewitz : “Part of the reason Getty ...
OpenAI backtracks and says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and DE and CA AGs
so it's making a change Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance : OpenAI Scraps For-Profit Plans New York Times : The Stakes for OpenAI's Plan B The Irish Times : OpenAI ditches plan to convert to for-profit bus...
A profile of Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, as the service fights existential battles over copyright, including from music labels like UMG
the crunchy side, before it got all tech bro. It's utopian, it's idealistic.” 🔗 https://www.wired.com/... Mastodon: Pete Ashton / @pete@social.coop : I am occasionally asked why I download and save ...
The Internet Archive loses its appeal of a US district court ruling that favored publishers in a copyright dispute over the nonprofit's ebook lending program
I could follow the logic of the concept of the Digital Library itself, but the “National Emergency Library” was clearly a step too far. There was no way “let's unilaterally lend out unlimited digital...
Some popular sites like Condé Nast's titles and Reuters.com modified robots.txt to block Anthropic's bots, but Anthropic has just made new bots with other names
We really are going to need a shared blocklist that doesn't rely on putting your website behind Cloudflare. — https://www.404media.co/... Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social : Many website...
Stanford researchers: LAION-5B, a dataset of 5B+ images used by Stability AI and others, contains 1,008+ instances of CSAM, possibly helping AI to generate CSAM
most prominently, Stable Diffusion 1.5—to see to what degree CSAM itself might be present in the training data. https://purl.stanford.edu/... Alex Stamos / @alex.stamos : Lots of people have worried a...