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Earlier this Spring, the Kindle app for iOS introduced a new feature called “ Get Book .” When viewing the book’s description ...
Romeo and Juliet,’ ‘The Great Gatsby’ and other classics still dominate school reading lists.
The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines" garnered more than 600 signatures within a few hours.
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The first two judgements in court cases over the use of books to train artificial intelligence (AI) have been made in the US this week with wins for tech giants Meta and Anthropic – but the ...
Microsoft faces a lawsuit from authors, including Kai Bird and Jia Tolentino, alleging unauthorized use of their books to train its Megatron AI model. The authors claim Microsoft utilized pirated ...
Kai Bird, Jia Tolentino, Daniel Okrent and several others alleged that Microsoft used pirated digital versions of their books to teach its AI to respond to human prompts.
A federal judge sided with Meta in a lawsuit that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on copyrighted works.
Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence assistant Claude was “exceedingly transformative and was a fair use,” a federal judge ruled.
Microsoft has been hit with a lawsuit by a group of authors who claim the company used their books without permission to train its Megatron artificial intelligence model.
By Blake Brittain (Reuters) -Microsoft has been hit with a lawsuit by a group of authors who claim the company used their books without permission to train its Megatron artificial intelligence model.
The ruling in a case involving Amazon-backed Anthropic lends credibility to the notion that AI video generators that could one day compete with studios are doing something transformative.