Mealey's Artificial Intelligence
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March 25, 2024
Michael Cohen, Attorney Avoid Sanctions Over AI-Generated Fake Cites
NEW YORK — Fictional artificial intelligence-created citations used in support of a motion for early termination of former Donald Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen’s supervised release resulted from a misunderstanding on his part and sloppiness bordering on negligent conduct by his attorney but do not rise to the level required for sanctions, a federal judge in New York said.
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March 22, 2024
Tennessee Governor Signs Bill Protecting Performers From AI Impersonation
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s governor on March 21 signed into law legislation extending existing protections for songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals to include artificial intelligence voice impersonations.
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March 22, 2024
New York Times: Copyright Violations, Not Hacking, At Heart Of ChatGPT Case
NEW YORK — OpenAI Inc. knew that ChatGPT would produce material protected by copyright, not only because of well-publicized incidents where artificial intelligences output protected works but because it was told as much and discussed the issue internally, the New York Times Co. (NYT) says in opposing a motion to dismiss.
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March 21, 2024
Accrediting Group Certifies 1st Large Language Model Trained On ‘Clean’ Data
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nonprofit Fairly Trained on March 20 announced certification of the first large language model (LLM) trained with a consent-based approach to data, saying the step proves that artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained while treating creators fairly and ethically.
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March 19, 2024
Plaintiffs Fire Back In UCL, Copyright Case Involving Google AI Training Data
SAN FRANCISCO — Individuals enjoy a property right in their personal information, and a complaint alleges unlawful and unfair conduct sufficiently enough for claims under all three prongs of the California unfair competition law (UCL), plaintiffs in a copyright and privacy class action accusing Google LLC of “wide-scale data theft” in the training of its artificial intelligence tell a federal court in opposing dismissal.
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March 19, 2024
MosaicML AI Model Comes Under Fire In Authors’ Lawsuit
SAN FRANCISCO — A trio of authors sued MosaicML, the provider of tools facilitating the training of artificial intelligence, and its parent company, claiming that they benefitted from the improper copying of potentially hundreds of thousands of copyrighted works.
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March 19, 2024
Judge Says OpenAI Prevails In Dispute Over Use Of Name
SAN FRANCISCO — Since OpenAI Inc. saw its attempt to trademark its name denied, “the landscape has changed” through its introduction of two applications that have made it a household name, a federal judge in California said in enjoining defendants from using the Open AI mark or open.ai.
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March 18, 2024
Executive Can’t Shake Claims Company Infringed ‘Playground AI’ Mark
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Litigation over the “Playground AI” trademark will proceed in California with the founder of the artificial intelligence company Mighty Computing Inc. named as a co-defendant, a federal judge there held in denying a motion to dismiss.
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March 18, 2024
League Of Women Voters Files Suit Over AI-Generated Joe Biden Robocalls
CONCORD, N.H. — The League of Women Voters and others filed suit against the parties responsible for the artificial-intelligence generated robocalls in which a deepfake of President Joe Biden’s voice urged voters to skip the Democratic primary, alleging in its New Hampshire federal court complaint that absent court action, similar conduct will continue and voter rights will likely be impaired.
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March 15, 2024
AI Hiring Program Maker Says It Makes Software, Isn’t An Employment Agency
SAN FRANCISCO — A man’s amended complaint hides an “old theory in artful vagary” and cannot show that Workday Inc., rather than an end user, directs an artificial intelligence applicant review program or that providing the application transforms Workday into an employment agency, the company tells a federal judge in California in seeking dismissal of an employment discrimination case.
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March 15, 2024
Google Employee Stole AI Secrets For Chinese Companies, United States Says
SAN FRANCISCO — A long-time Google LLC employee covertly began secreting away the company’s artificial intelligence trade secrets while he started working for companies in China, according to an indictment filed in a California federal court.
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March 12, 2024
WilmerHale Investigation Condones OpenAI’s Rehiring Of Altman As CEO
SAN FRANCISCO — Sam Altman will once again lead OpenAI as CEO after the company’s board announced that an investigation into the situation led by the WilmerHale law firm expressed “full confidence” in his ability to lead and determined that a mistaken belief that the move would ease the company’s troubles was at the heart of the move, rather than more serious concerns, according to a post on the OpenAI website.
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March 12, 2024
Discovery Orders Granted, Appeal Filed In Vesttoo Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Cases
WILMINGTON, Del. — A notice of appeal has been filed concerning the confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan of liquidation for Vesttoo Ltd. and its dozens of affiliates, and a Delaware federal bankruptcy judge on March 11 granted four unopposed motions for leave to conduct discovery against banking entities.
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March 11, 2024
Nvidia’s NeMo Megatron AI Latest LLM Targeted With Copyright Suit
SAN FRANCISCO — Nvidia Corp. trained its NeMo Megatron artificial intelligence with 20 billion “weights” derived from an enormous amount of copyrighted and otherwise protected material, a trio of authors claims in a March 8 California federal class action targeting large language model (LLM) training methods.
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March 11, 2024
Legislation Seeks To Protect Individuals Victimized By Deepfake Pornography
WASHINGTON, D.C. — New legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to protect individuals from nonconsensual pornography created by artificial intelligence, creating a statute of 10 years from discovery of the images or from age 18, whichever is later, and actual damages sustained or liquidated damages of $150,000 plus court costs.
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March 11, 2024
Copyright Office Calls Human Authorship ‘Basic Prerequisite’ In AI Copyright Suit
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An artificial intelligence developer has not established any reason why the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals should “upend . . . well-established principles” that “nonhuman authors are not entitled to copyright protection,” the U.S. Copyright Office argues in an appellee brief, asking the court to find that a trial court properly upheld the office’s refusal to issue a copyright for a work of art to an AI machine.
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March 05, 2024
Judge Dismisses Copyright-Based Claims Against OpenAI, Won’t Enjoin Its Defense
SAN FRANCISCO — Plaintiffs pursuing class claims in California against OpenAI Inc. and related companies stemming from alleged copyright violations have not demonstrated that the court overseeing their cases can enjoin the companies from defending themselves from similar litigation in New York federal court, a federal judge said in denying a motion to enjoin after dismissing the bulk of the case in an earlier ruling.
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February 21, 2024
COMMENTARY: The AI Governance Challenge For Privacy And Data Risks
By Robert Grosvenor and Sam Lowe
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March 04, 2024
3 More Media Outlets Launch Copyright Actions Over Artificial Intelligence
NEW YORK — Three media outlets filed two new lawsuits in New York federal court targeting OpenAI Inc. and related entities associated with the use of copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence ChatGPT-4.
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March 01, 2024
Elon Musk Takes On OpenAI’s Altman With Contract, UCL Suit
SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI’s founders breached the company’s founding agreements dictating that it operate as a nonprofit and be open source when they partnered with Microsoft in exchange for millions of dollars, Elon Musk alleges in a Feb. 29 lawsuit filed in California against Sam Altman for breach of contract and violation of the California unfair competition law (UCL).
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February 20, 2024
COMMENTARY: Diverging International Approaches To The Copyrightability And Authorship Of AI-Created Works
By Christopher W. Savage and James Rosenfeld
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February 29, 2024
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Approves Liquidation Plan In Vesttoo Chapter 11 Cases
WILMINGTON, Del. — After the latest in a string of recent hearings, a Delaware federal bankruptcy judge on Feb. 29 confirmed a Chapter 11 plan of liquidation for Vesttoo Ltd. and its dozens of affiliates, also approving four settlements — one with a caveat and one with conditions precedent.
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February 29, 2024
OpenAI Says New York Times Used ChatGPT Hack To Produce Copyrighted Work
NEW YORK — The New York Times Co. (NYT) — using a known bug — hacked ChatGPT, and tens of thousands of attempts tricked it into producing “highly anomalous results” that it now uses as the basis for a copyright suit, the company behind the artificial intelligence tells a federal judge in New York in seeking dismissal of the suit.
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February 29, 2024
Parties Brief Fee Ruling In Appeal Of OpenAI Defamation Remand Case
ATLANTA — A man who secured remand of claims that the ChatGPT artificial intelligence defamed him by naming him as a defendant in a financial misconduct lawsuit told the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that it should vacate a ruling denying him fees and costs and remand the case for an explanation of the decision. But in response, OpenAI LLC says it is well within the court’s powers to determine that a reasonable basis existed for removal.
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February 28, 2024
Settlements Sought, Liquidation Proposal Updated In Vesttoo Chapter 11 Cases
WILMINGTON, Del. — After putting forth several proposed settlements for approval in a Delaware federal bankruptcy court following mediation, the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors on Feb. 28 filed the latest of its recent amendments to its proposed Chapter 11 plan of liquidation for Vesttoo Ltd. and dozens of Vesttoo affiliates.