"In a consultation announced on Tuesday, the UK government will offer an exemption to copyright laws, letting tech companies use material ranging from music and books to media and photos to train their AI models unless the rights holder objects under a so-called “rights reservation” system."
https://www.ft.com/content/2ced1e1f-7d14-44d7-b188-464ddd69890d
#UK #AI #Copyright
Klarna CEO says the company stopped hiring a year ago because AI 'can already do all of the jobs'
https://www.businessinsider.com/klarna-ceo-sebastian-siemiatkowski-ai-jobs-2024-12
#Klarna #AI
YouTube streamlines the process of opting in to third-party AI training
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/youtube-will-let-creators-opt-out-into-third-party-ai-training/
#YouTube #AI #Copyright
Tintin au pays du domaine public
https://everybodyslibraries.com/2024/12/16/tintin-au-pays-du-domaine-public/
#Tintin #Comics #Copyright #PublicDomain
"Employers have been scrambling to keep up as workers adopt generative AI at a much faster pace than corporate policies are written. An August survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis found nearly a quarter of the US workforce was already using the technology weekly, rising closer to 50 per cent in the software and financial industries. Most of these users were turning to tools such as ChatGPT to help with writing and research, often as an alternative to Google, as well as using it as a translation tool or coding assistant."
https://www.techmeme.com/241216/p4#a241216p4
#AI #Work
A Look At Fair Use and Why Generative AI Qualifies
https://www.freezenet.ca/a-look-at-fair-use-and-why-generative-ai-qualifies/
#AI #Copyright #FairUse
When Law and Legal Tech Start Writing Each Other’s Code
https://www.lexblog.com/2024/12/15/when-law-and-legal-tech-start-writing-each-others-code/
#Law #AI #Blockchain
Madonna divides fans with AI-generated photos of her and Pope Francis
https://www.byteseu.com/560820/
#Madonna #AI #Music #Religion
Watching Streams and Video is Not Copyright Infringement
https://www.freezenet.ca/no-techcrunch-watching-streams-and-video-is-not-copyright-infringement/
#AI #Copyright
AI is booming on the App Store, and developers are taking advantage of it
Many high-ranking AI apps feel like an attempted cash grab, and it’s not easy to spot the trash from the treasure.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/9/24314972/apple-app-store-ai-apps-art-design-photography
#AI #Apple
The AI revolution is running out of data. What can researchers do?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03990-2
#AI #Data
Identifying Political Bias in AI
https://cacm.acm.org/news/identifying-political-bias-in-ai/
#AI #Politics
The industry is not happy.
https://www.billboard.com/pro/300-musicians-fighting-effort-protect-copyright-why/
First criminal crypto tax evader in US sentenced to two years in prison
https://www.theblock.co/post/330752/first-crypto-criminal-tax-evasion
#Crypto #Taxes
Character.AI has retrained its chatbots to stop chatting up teens
Among other newly announced changes, a specially trained under-18 model will steer minors away from romance and “sensitive” output.
#AI #CharacterAI #MentalHealth
It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem
#Sora #AI #Videogames #Copyright
Kids As Young As Six Think Girls Are Worse Than Boys At Computer Science
#ComputerScience #Sexism