March 27 - ChatGPT's new AI image generator has been online for just one day, and social media is already flooded with Studio Ghibli-style AI-generated terpsichorean images. Studio Ghibli is a beloved Japanese animation studio that has produced hit movies like Totoro and A Thousand and One. In the past 24 hours, numerous Ghibli-style AI-created images have appeared on the web, including images of Elon Musk, Lord of the Rings, and Donald Trump.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has even switched his new avatar to...

March 17, 2011 - The recent introduction of Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash model has sparked controversy on social media. Users found that the model was able to remove watermarks from images, including those from well-known stock libraries such as Getty Images. Last week, Google expanded access to the Gemini 2.0 Flash model image generation feature. The feature allows models to natively generate and edit image content, and its capabilities are very powerful. However, the feature seems to lack the necessary restrictions.Gemini 2.0 ...

3 月 14 日消息，科技媒体 MacRumors 昨日（3 月 13 日）发布博文，报道称 OpenAI 公司已向美国政府提交一份 AI 发展建议书，呼吁放宽监管，让 AI 公司自由使用受版权保护的材料，训练 AI 模型。 OpenAI 在建议书中认为，当前美国各州实施过多的法律限制，阻碍了 AI 公司的创新能力，并削弱了美国企业家可用的训练数据质量。 OpenAI 提出“版权战略”，主张能自由…

February 26, according to foreign media The Verge reported that the major British newspapers today's cover used an identical protest image: a full-page blue page with the slogan "MAKE IT FAIR (Note: meaning 'fair treatment', but the typography cleverly incorporates the word AI)". (note: meaning 'fair treatment' but with the word AI cleverly incorporated into the typography)." The creative and media industries have reportedly joined forces to launch the Make It Fair initiative, a campaign against government proposals that would allow AI companies to use copyrighted work without authorization...

February 16 - The latest court documents filed in the multiple AI copyright lawsuits facing Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook's parent company) provide further evidence for rumors that the company had suspended negotiations with publishers over licensing AI training data. The documents relate to Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, one of many cases pitting AI companies against authors and other intellectual property holders. In most of these cases, the defendant (the AI company) claims to be within the copyright...

German music rights agency GEMA and India's ANI news agency filed lawsuits in their respective local courts on the 13th and 18th of this month, accusing OpenAI of using their content to train artificial intelligence models without permission. GEMA says it is the world's first class action organization to file a lawsuit against a provider of generative AI systems. The organization represents the copyrights of more than two million music rights holders worldwide, and is one of the largest associations of writers of musical works in the world. GEMA alleges that OpenAI's chat...

Anthropic, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, was recently sued by a group of authors for using a large number of pirated books without authorization when training its popular chatbot Claude. The case is the first time that authors have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, although similar lawsuits have been filed against competitor OpenAI over the past year. Anthropic is a small company founded by former OpenAI leaders who bill themselves as a more responsible and safety-focused developer of generative AI models.

The Center for Investigative Journalism (CIR) in the United States has accused OpenAI and Microsoft of using copyrighted material to train their AI models. A complaint filed in federal court in New York claims that OpenAI has exploited CIR’s content without permission or payment. CIR’s CEO Monika Bauerlein highlighted the existential threat posed by AI tools that replace direct engagement with original content from Mother Jones and Reveal. According to Bauerle…

Recently, a heated debate about copyright has been set off in the field of artificial intelligence music. After being sued by the three major record companies Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music, AI music startup Udio issued a statement today, insisting that its model does not copy copyrighted works or artists' voices. In a statement released on the social media platform X, Udio emphasized that the goal of its model training is to cultivate an understanding of musical concepts. The company believes that these musical concepts are fundamental components of musical expression and do not belong to any individual or entity. Udio said that its system is explicitly designed to create music that reflects new musical concepts...

Tech giant Microsoft and its generative AI partner OpenAI are facing more lawsuits over the use of their chatbots ChatGPT and Copilot. According to The Verge, three US news websites - Raw Story, The Intercept and AlterNet - have filed lawsuits against the two companies, accusing their chatbots of plagiarizing news website articles for training. These news websites all said that OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT (Microsoft's Copilot)...