Hello from @CES Unveiled, where many of the companies at #CES are here giving journalists an early preview ahead of #CES2024 happening here in Las Vegas all week.
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NYT Lawsuit Against OpenAI Microsoft Over Copyright Training Data
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After reading the @nytimes lawsuit against @OpenAI and @Microsoft
, I find my sympathies more with OpenAI and Microsoft than with the NYT. The suit:
(1) Claims, among other things, that OpenAI and Microsoft used millions of copyrighted NYT articles to train their models
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DMCA Safe Harbor Implications for AI-Generated Content Sales
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They are hosting the files as well. The text interface is like a search engine so there's precedent there. Furthermore, Safe Harbor provisions don't even apply in this case because MJ is selling the outputs — and couldn't comply with the rest of the DMCA even if they wanted to.
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Meta Reports Chinese Fake Accounts Impersonating Americans Online
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4,789 Facebook Accounts in China Impersonated Americans, Meta Says: The company warned that the inauthentic accounts underscored the threat of foreign election interference in 2024. https://
nytimes.com/2023/11/30/tec
hnology/facebook-china-fake.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Google DeepMind Presents at NeurIPS 2023 Conference
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Google DeepMind at NeurIPS 2023 https://
zurl.co/3Sa4 @GoogleDeepMind #AI #CES #CES2024 #MWC24 #IoT #5G #FutureOfWork @CES @pierrepinna @gvalan @FrRonconi @Hal_Good @JBarbosaPR @albertogaruccio @AlexMachicado -
AI Companies Liability for Infringing Generated Outputs
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1) not necessary here because the outputs alone are infringing. 2) See caselaw about hosting infringing images. If there is doubt about the legality (and MJ claiming Fair Use is intentional choice that takes on the risk), it doesn't absolve companies of responsibility.
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Getty Lawsuits Force AI Image Providers Toward Legal Settlements
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Past lawsuits by Getty and settled by Google Images suggests significant concessions will be necessary by providers in order for them to continue operations. Since you also agree it's infringement, it's indeed a question how much the providers are liable.
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What Not to Miss at CES 2024
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What Not to Miss at #CES2024 https://
ces.tech/news/press-rel
eases/ces-press-release.aspx?NodeID=cc131b88-38d7-436f-8893-e0a646b5b051
… #AI #CES #IoT #5G @CES @CTATech @JimHarris @pierrepinna @gvalan @kkruse @Hal_Good @JBarbosaPR @AlexMachicado -
Carta CEO’s Crisis Management Failure: Caught in Contradiction
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Carta CEO's response is hilariously bad. Simultaneously caught in a lie and insulting a customer. Worst of both worlds. He would've gotten a better response by just saying "yeah – so what if we do?" or "we don't do this" Instead he chose "we don't do this – so what if we do?"
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Apple’s Cash Strategy Drives Investor Value Returns
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The secret of Apple’s success: it’s the cash Apple is a cash cow, in good years and bad. That’s all that investors care about, a stable capital returns payer, growth be damned. That’s likely to remain investors’ focus for many years to come. https://
thetechnologyletter.com/the-posts/the-
secret-of-apples-success-its-the-cash
… $AAPL