Judge: What’s the injury? Lieberman: “You’re leaving people open for massive copyright infringement without the ability to trace it…It’s like it causes the alarm system in your house to go down.”
POLICY
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Copyright Management and Attribution Retraction in AI Outputs
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Lieberman: When copyright management information (CMI) is retracted, outputs will be "either the verbatim language or a summary without the attribution of the new york times or the daily news.”
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ChatGPT Copyright Trial: Sources Not Cited to Users
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The judge asked plaintiffs to show examples of harm. Steven Lieberman, a lawyer repping NY Daily News and NYT, gave examples of how ChatGPT won't cite the original source when user asks an LLM for info about an old Super bowl or a past presidential debate.
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AI Search Citations Risk Siphoning Traffic From Original Sources
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Crosby pointed out traditional search engines give blue links to original sources, but AI search provides answers w/ citations to original sources. He worries AI citations could further siphon traffic from original sources by boosting user confidence in answers via citations.
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NYT Lawyer Distinguishes LLM Outputs from Search Engines
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NYT's lawyer Ian Crosby said LLM outputs are just "the expression of the words and facts, not the underlying facts in the words and the models.” “They’re not next-generation search engines, but answer engines," Crosby said, adding that they're not substitutional.
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OpenAI Lawyer Clarifies GPT Training Data in NYT Copyright Case
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Judge just asked OpenAI's lawyer if GPT models have NYT content in its database. Lawyer said not doesn't, but then clarified it doesn’t have a database but instead relies on weights. I wonder how NYT's lawyers will respond to that.
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OpenAI Lawyer Explains LLM Use Case in NYT Trial
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One of OpenAI's lawyers in this NYT v OpenAI trial is explaining LLMs to the judge & said someone can use ChatGPT to make a letter to a landlord "sound less angry." haha I've literally did that when our heat went out last year! (Full circle with out heat broken again today.)
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CMA Investigates SMS Status to Address Anti-Competitive Tech Behavior
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If deemed to have SMS status, it could lead to @CMAgovUK to explore changes to prevent anti-competitive behavior. As part of the process, the CMA invites interested parties to submit commentary by February 3.
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CMA Launches First Strategic Market Status Investigation Against Google
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The @CMAgovUK just announced a new investigation into Google's search and search ads business. It's also the first time the CMA has investigated a company for strategic market status (SMS) under the UK's new Digital Markets, Competition & Consumers Act.
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NYT v OpenAI oral arguments audio feed disruptions
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Just joined the NYT v OpenAI oral arguments. Every time someone joins the audio feed, it announces the person w/ each person's voice & name…Awkward and distracting!