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neil turkewitz

7 months

Let’s be really clear here. The AI companies that don’t want to negotiate with artists over usage terms for training AI have sought to portray this as a fight over technology. As the past resisting the future. It is not. Artists are contesting exploitation, not technology. 1/__

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

6 months

“Andreessen Horowitz is warning that billions of dollars in AI investments could be worth a lot less if companies developing the technology are forced to pay for the copyrighted data that makes it work.” This is NOT from the @TheOnion

Andreessen is not at all 'techno-optimistic' about this particular AI scenario

The famed venture capital firm a16z is fighting alongside major tech companies against potential copyright rules that would address generative AI.

www-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

9 months

“If a federal judge finds that OpenAI illegally copied The Times' articles to train its AI model, the court could order the company to destroy ChatGPT's dataset, forcing the company to recreate it using only work that it is authorized to use.”

'New York Times' considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl

The news publisher and maker of ChatGPT have held tense negotiations over striking a licensing deal for the use of the paper's articles to train the chatbot. Now, legal action is being considered.

www.npr.org

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

4 months

“Today lawmakers from both sides of the aisle agreed that OpenAI & others should pay media outlets for using their work in AI projects. “It’s not only morally right,” said ⁦ @SenBlumenthal ⁩ “It’s legally required.” —⁦ @Knibbs ⁩

Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data

At a Senate hearing on AI’s impact on journalism, lawmakers backed media industry calls to make OpenAI and other tech companies pay to license news articles and other data used to train algorithms.

www.wired.com

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

7 months

This is truly too, too perfect.

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

6 months

“I’ve resigned from my role leading the Audio team at Stability AI, because I don’t agree with the company’s opinion that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is ‘fair use’.” 🙌

Why I just resigned from my job in generative AI.

Ed Newton-Rex has quit his role at Stability AI. In an exclusive op-ed, he shares why.

www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

2 years

A number of people have asked me why I get so bothered by crypto/blockchain/NFTS/Web3 when no one is making me participate against my will. It has come up enough times that I thought it merited a response. A thread.

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

6 months

“The VC firm said AI investments are so huge that any new rules around the content used to train models ‘will significantly DISRUPT’ the investment community's plans and expectations around the technology.” This from the folks that only ever use “disruption” as a good thing. 🤦🏻

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

1 year

NEWS ALERT… Class action lawsuit filed against Midjourney, StabilityAI (StableDiffusion) & DeviantArt for the unauthorized use of copyright protected works to train their AI systems.

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

4 months

“The promise of AI is that it will generate the image in your imagination if you can describe it. Yet this promise is limited by whether or not someone else has already created part of the image you imagined.”— @itsjamestapper 🙏🏼 AI can’t imagine anything not in its training set.

Crispin Hunt

@crispinhunt

4 months

“US lawyers approached about class action against Midjourney and other AI firms accused of ‘copyright laundering’” @guardian

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

2 years

"I’ve started to worry that all of this stuff—Web3, NFT's, even the blockchain—is just a Ponzi scheme to cheat people like me out of our money, & no one even thought to explain this to me outside of the hundreds of people I deliberately ignored." @TheOnion

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him

CHICAGO—Saying he had been absolutely blindsided by the sudden change in his fortunes, local 33-year-old Tyler Branton, a man who lost everything in cryptocurrencies, told reporters Thursday that he...

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

7 months

Hey @DaveJWVillalva . Were all these copyright protected characters properly licensed? If not, you’ve just confessed to massive copyright infringement.

Dave Villalva

@DaveJWVillalva

7 months

120 days ago, I’d never generated an AI video. Now I make them every day. These Super Friends & Foes were among the first I created. They got 10k+ views, not bad for 500 followers. Here’s why it worked and how I made it 🧵

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

1 year

“Forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. GenAI systems are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it © protected…Disclosure leaves them open to legal challenges.” 🎭

OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation

OpenAI is trying to get ahead of AI regulation

www.theverge.com

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

2 months

Thoughts? Burn it all down.

Dogan Ural

@doganuraldesign

2 months

Stability AI just introduced its own Upscaler. I tried it out for you. Thoughts? Stability AI / Magnific / Midjourney / Krea

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

4 months

Anthropic, like OpenAI before it, makes the unintentional—but compelling—case for banning general purpose AI models: “If licenses were required to train LLMs on copyrighted content, today’s general-purpose AI tools simply could not exist.”

Anthropic Pushes Back Against Music Publishers' Injunction Motion

AI developer Anthropic has pushed back against a preliminary injunction motion filed by music publishers in a copyright lawsuit.

www.digitalmusicnews.com

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

1 year

China’s draft AI regulation: “providers of generative AI must ensure data used for training & optimization is obtained through legal means, & such data must…not contain content that infringes intellectual property.” While I may disagree with other provisions, China gets this 🎯

Covington Privacy

@InsidePrivacy

1 year

Read our new post: China Proposes Draft Measures to Regulate Generative AI

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

3 years

@daveweigel @nilerodgers “The Disco Sucks movement, where they held big events and burned our records, was racism. It wasn’t about them not liking the music; they were scared of the societal change that disco was bringing about.”

Nile Rodgers | This much I know

The musician, 66, on being united in the disco era, his friendship with Stephen Hawking, and inventing hip-hop

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

1 year

@molly0xFFF They kinda deserve each other. They complete an unholy circle.

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

5 months

👇🏽💙 “If we see in AI, in light of its meaningless sociopathy, something that “learns just like humans do” & so “makes art just like humans do” we should be ashamed of our low opinion of humanity, of the smallness of our imaginations, & of the gruel we are willing to settle for.”

Nicholas Kole

@FromHappyRock

5 months

Even if they solve the theft, I don’t care to see or read or listen to what the algorithm extrudes. I want my art to come from real humans with lived experiences and points of view. I never knew some others didn’t care, until AI exposed the rift…imo, art must be human to matter.

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

7 months

Nothing has changed in the past year. We’re still having the same debate about inspiration and consent 💔

Zed Edge

@ZedEdge

1 year

On the topic of #AIart : a common defense for AI is that it learns from other art in the same way humans do, therefore it's not theft. So I wanted to try to illustrate how that's not accurate.

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

10 months

I’m sorry, but “it” isn’t capable of being CREATIVE. AI models lack any form of intentionality. They can be used to produce unique images/text (while also being wholly derivative), but to call this an exercise in creativity is to diminish the very notion of what creativity means.

Doron Adler

@Norod78

10 months

It can be creative with very simple prompts such as "A magical landscape" 2/5

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

2 months

Okay, let’s talk exploitation. Did the artists, musicians, songwriters, visual artists etc whose creations were used to train the AI models all consent to the use of their works? If not, why are you advertising them? Is the end of the world not coming quickly enough?

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@minchoi

2 months

Ok, let's talk AI Music Videos. They are getting really good! I can't believe this is possible now with AI. 8 incredible examples of what's possible:

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

6 months

“Today’s generative AI models can clearly be used to create works that compete with the copyrighted works they are trained on. So I don’t see how using copyrighted works to train generative AI models of this nature can be considered fair use.” — @ednewtonrex

neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

6 months

“I’ve resigned from my role leading the Audio team at Stability AI, because I don’t agree with the company’s opinion that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is ‘fair use’.” 🙌

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@neilturkewitz

4 months

“OpenAI Says It's Fine to Vacuum Up Everyone's Content and Charge for It Without Paying Them” That’s a headline without deceptive both-sideism. 🙏🏼 @futurism @vtanger

OpenAI Says It's Fine to Vacuum Up Everyone's Content and Charge for It Without Paying Them

OpenAI published a blog post in response to the New York Times' lawsuit, arguing that it's fine it's sucking up the paper's content for free.

futurism.com

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@neilturkewitz

4 months

“Without permission or payment, Defendants [OpenAI, Microsoft] copied Plaintiffs’ work to build a massive commercial enterprise that is now valued at billions of dollars.”

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

6 months

This is very interesting. In the end, the AI architecture isn’t so important. The gold in AI is the data. Some of us understood this intuitively. It seems natural that data refineries should pay for their principal resource, no?

andi (e/alb)

@Nexuist

6 months

interesting post from an OpenAI employee claiming that all large language models reach the same endpoint regardless of training strategy or clever tricks this is of course what the bitter lesson teaches us but useful to get an up to date confirmation that it still holds true

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@neilturkewitz

10 days

“Nobody owes AI companies a right to exist, certainly not the owners of the content they have appropriated and mined for their own benefit.” 🙏🏼 @dominicyoung

Dominic Young

@dominicyoung

10 days

The future of AI, and the future of the commercial viability of human creativity, comes down to a simple question: is it OK to use someone else’s work, without their permission, to train an AI? by me for @pressgazette

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@neilturkewitz

1 year

“If SD is able to generate new paintings ‘in the style of’ a living artist, that is likely to depress demand for all of that artist’s past & future work. And SD is only able to do this because it was trained on the artist’s previous work—without paying the artist a dime.”

Timothy B. Lee

@binarybits

1 year

I wrote about the copyright challenges faced by generative AI.

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

2 years

whether I participate or not, these developments shape the world in which we all live. They’re best considered political movements, or manifestations of a political movement. That political movement is uber-libertarianism, & its goal is to destroy the institutions of democracy.

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@neilturkewitz

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“We're all slightly buying into the con by even referring to all this as AI. These are unthinking algorithms that use the work of humans without consent, credit or compensation to regurgitate something similar but empty.” — @TomHumberstone Artificial intelligence is an oxymoron.

Tom Humberstone

@TomHumberstone

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The wonderful @Aftermath_site interviewed me the other day. I ended up discussing the impacts of AI a little: "Art made by humans will always exist but I think we're making it harder for people of all classes and backgrounds to make a living doing it."

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@neilturkewitz

4 months

Does AI “learn” like a human? “It’s an entirely different category, with no shared characteristics. Analogies to the brain are just as misleading as when people used the same analogies to describe computers in the 1950s.” — @fchollet 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

François Chollet

@fchollet

2 years

Deep learning takes data points and turns them into a query-able structure that enables retrieval and interpolation between the points. You could think of it as a continuous generalization of database technology.

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3 months

Defenders of current exploitative AI practices like to say that “real authors” shouldn’t worry since AI will never replace human genius. But they (intentionally?) fail to observe that flooding the zone with shit makes “real authors” invisible. Irrelevant. #DrowningInIrrelevance

tradpunk

@aamanlamba

3 months

Every category of books in @hoopladigital is filled with AI-generated crap @GaryMarcus

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@neilturkewitz

28 days

Hey artists—thought you might want to know that the only reason you think you should be paid for your work is because you were tricked by evil media companies into believing that your consent matters. Luckily, the Chamber of Progress (Google, Meta, Amazon et al) has your back. 🤯

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@neilturkewitz

6 months

What a depressing read. All these companies who like to talk about “AI for good” then argue that unauthorized use of creative works to build their products is morally fine & wholly justifiable. There’s no happy ending down this path—AI rooted in theft won’t produce “AI for good.”

The Verge

@verge

6 months

AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content

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@neilturkewitz

2 years

I don’t wish to see this political movement succeed. It’s founded on the most anti-progressive idealization of freedom imaginable. A freedom in which any consideration of the consequences of one’s conduct is antithetical to liberty. A freedom that doesn’t consider relative power.

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@neilturkewitz

4 months

Tragic on so many levels. People generally fail to recognize how current genAI models—by using creative works without consent, effect a massive value transfer from a diverse creative community to a handful of Silicon Valley companies & VC’s. @UNESCO @WIPO @raceip @MarielzaTalks

Katie (Kathryn) Conrad

@KatieConradKS

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“AI-generated Indigenous art is appearing on online marketplaces where art and derivative products are sold-often directly competing with the work from real Indigenous artists-despite…often having policies that are supposed to protect Indigenous culture.”

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

2 years

“Instagram will soon let anyone on the platform remix your new photos, as long as your account is public. There’ll be a way to turn remixing off, but you’ll have to actively opt out once the option is live — it’ll be enabled by default.” ☎️☎️☎️ @nppalawyer @NPPA @Unite4Copyright

The Verge

@verge

2 years

Anyone can take new public Instagram photos and turn them into a Reel

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@neilturkewitz

1 year

“AI-art generators are trained on enormous datasets, containing millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge, let alone compensation or consent. This is effectively the greatest art heist in history.”

AI Open Letter — CAIR

 Restrict AI Illustration from Publishing: An Open Letter Published May 2, 2023 ︎Add your signature Since the earliest days of...

artisticinquiry.org

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@neilturkewitz

8 months

Interesting development on copyright & AI in France, reinforcing the importance of ensuring the digital economy creates opportunities for creators rather than undermining them. Consent and dignity must be our guides. Thanks @JusticeSila !

Justice Sila Owiti

@JusticeSila

8 months

The law would require AI software to obtain permission from authors or rights holders before using their works & any resulting creations must be labelled as "generated by AI" & include the names of the original authors. #AIart #AIcommunity #AIArtwork

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@neilturkewitz

1 year

Great to see governments demanding the ethical/legal collection of data to train AI. Forget about a 6 month pause—we need an immediate & global shutdown of all AI models until they can demonstrate that all data is collected on the basis of consent.

Italian regulators order ChatGPT ban over alleged violation of data privacy laws

Italy previously banned the chatbot app Replika.ai.

www.theverge.com

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@neilturkewitz

1 year

Former GC of the Copyright Office (& perhaps the most knowledgeable copyright practitioner on earth), Jon Baumgarten, just released a letter to the House Judiciary Committee rebutting suggestions that training AI was protected by fair use. The analogy to photocopying is the 🧑🏽‍🍳💋

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@neilturkewitz

2 years

Web3 is the selling of a lie. A lie that depends on buy-in from those that can least afford it. A lie that brings casino mentality to all of society. A lie that serves as a form of regressive taxation in service of a deregulatory paradise for the wealthy.

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@neilturkewitz

4 months

At today’s Senate Judiciary hearing on Journalism & AI, Jeff Jarvis plans to testify that “the real question is whether AI should have the same rights that journalists & we all have: the right to read, the right to learn…” Wait till he hears that AI can’t read or learn! 🤯

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@neilturkewitz

11 months

“I’m hard-pressed to understand how a system that rests almost entirely on the works of others, & can be commercialized or used to develop commercial products, owes nothing—not even notice—to the owners of the works it uses to power its system.” — @RepHankJohnson #StripMiningArt

Barry Sookman

@bsookman

11 months

Interoperability of Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law Examined by Congress

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

4 months

Altman says it’s “impossible” to operate ChatGPT unless there’s an exception allowing him to capture & use the world’s cultural output without consent to create his commercial product. “Impossible” may not mean what he thinks it means. @LeightonAndrews @IvorsAcademy @crispinhunt

Gary Marcus

@GaryMarcus

4 months

Rough Translation: We won’t get fabulously rich if you don’t let us steal, so please don’t make stealing a crime! Don’t make us pay 𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 fees, either! Sure Netflix might pay billions a year in licensing fees, but *we* shouldn’t have to! More money for us, moar!

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@neilturkewitz

6 months

The “AI is just like a camera, capable of infringing & non-infringing uses” is probably the stupidest assertion I’ve ever heard. Does a camera come pre-loaded with all of the existing images in the world so that the user can generate derivative content paste? @idonthaveaband

The Row House Artistry

@The_Row_House

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🤣"they want users to shoulder the legal responsibility of material generated by their systems". (Are these the same people that promised to take on legal fees for lawsuits generated from using their Invasive models??) Lies...smoke & mirrors! #FTC

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Wow. I knew @mer__edith was amazing, but this is astonishing anyway. In a few minutes, she demystifies Silicon Valley’s VC culture & pierces the hype around GenAI. This is truly must-watch TV. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥/4

Washington Post Live

@PostLive

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. @mer__edith tells @cpassariello , “VC's require hype to get a return on investment because they need an IPO or an acquisition … You don't get rich by the technology working, you get rich by people believing it works long enough that one of those two things gets you some money."

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@neilturkewitz

1 year

Hayao Miyazaki: “I will never apply AI art to my work. The art form is an insult to life itself.”

Hayao Miyazaki's Take on AI Artwork Has Never Been More Relevant

These days, it seems like artificial intelligence is just about everywhere. From phones to cars [...]

comicbook.com

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@neilturkewitz

9 months

Another article that attacks a straw man, suggesting that artists are at war with AI rather than fighting against exploitation. Many artists may indeed not like the aesthetics of “AI art,” but that’s beside the point—the fight is against misappropriation.

If Sarah Silverman wins her lawsuit, OpenAI, Meta Platforms and other AI developers could face...

A victory against formal AI service providers may not end the issue. Far from it.

www.marketwatch.com

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@neilturkewitz

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This simply, but brilliantly, explains why forcing artists to “opt-out” from the use of their works to train AI is both unfair & unworkable. It is designed to fail. AI platforms must have a duty of care to ensure the integrity of their supply chains. No putting this on artists.

Reef

@reefraf64

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OpenAI now not only demands you tell them you opt out from their training data but also that you upload all your illustrations to their servers. How is this legal? This puts enormous costs on artists. Quick math⬇️

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@neilturkewitz

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A 🧵 for all you artists campaigning against unethical AI—keep it up. We are making progress. AI companies can no longer evade questions about the provenance of their data. Special shout out to @kortizart @SarahCAndersen & @Kelly_McKernan . 1/…

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@neilturkewitz

7 months

AI is learning from stolen intellectual property. It needs to stop. “This is wholly unacceptable behavior. Our books are copyrighted material, not free fodder for wealthy companies to use as they see fit, without permission or compensation.”

Opinion | AI is learning from stolen intellectual property. It needs to stop.

Tech companies are getting even richer by vacuuming up the work of writers without permission.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@neilturkewitz

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🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 “Previous generations of creative tools weren’t built using copyrighted work. Users could infringe copyright with them, sure, by uploading or recreating copyrighted work themselves - but the companies who built the tools hadn’t used copyrighted content to build them.”

Ed Newton-Rex

@ednewtonrex

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I hear lots of people argue that gen AI companies should be no more liable for their users’ copyright infringements than tools like Photoshop are. But this is totally false. The difference with gen AI systems is that *they are built using copyrighted content*. They only work…

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@neilturkewitz

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It’s really not that complicated. Artists & other creators should be paid for use of their works. They shouldn’t be indentured servants forced to cultivate the tools of their own demise. This isn’t about technology—it’s about human conduct. Let’s be the best version of ourselves.

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@SashaMTL “I was OK stealing the work of artists to train AI. I was OK paying moderation workers $2/hour to stare at horrible images. I was OK reifying bias & discrimination. I was OK with flawed surveillance tools being used to make important decisions. But I sense something bad coming.”

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@neilturkewitz

6 months

Andreessen is definitely in the pole position for saying the most ridiculous things about AI!

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@neilturkewitz

6 months

AI companies’ Defenses to Misappropriation Greatest Hits. It’s got it all— copying is fair use unauthorized use is necessary for Innovation AI learns just like humans AI extracts only non-protectable ideas, not expression Creators wouldn’t get much $ anyway & this is the 🧑🏽‍🍳’s 💋

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@neilturkewitz

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One would hope that at some point—hopefully soon, we would stop needing to remind everyone that copies of protected works are reproduced without consent as part of the training process. OpenAI specifically noted this in comments filed with the US government.

trevor baylis

@TrevyLimited

10 months

AI systems require "copying" © works into datasets & getting the AI to reproduce (copy) BILLIONS of images as part of it's "learning" process. AI systems can't work without "copying" & making "derivatives" of © images. Notice watermark on the last image!

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“Altman announced Monday that OpenAI will “step in & defend our customers & pay the costs incurred if you face legal claims around copyright infringement.” The final dagger. Altman can generate billions thru nonconsensual use of creative works…& then treat © awards as a cost.

Hayden Field

@haydenfield

6 months

BREAKING: OpenAI announced GPT-4 Turbo -- its most powerful AI model yet -- during its first in-person event Monday, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made a surprise appearance. Plus lots more announcements in my roundup below @CNBC

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@neilturkewitz

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Artists will not give up until this issue is adequately resolved. AI companies are just delaying the inevitable. VC’s & others in the investment class may not care—they just want to get a return on their investments & don’t care that the parasitic sector will go up in flames.

Karla Ortiz

@kortizart

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1/ Mega pleased to give you all a hell of a class action update! Our MASSIVE 96 page amendment is out! Look at the AMAZING roster of artists joining @GeraldBrom , Greg Manchess, @zemotion , @GrzegorzRutko14 , @upandoutcomic , @adamtotscomix & @HawkeSouthworth !

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Anyone that characterizes this as pro AI v anti AI artists is both failing to understand reality, & being a useful tool for exploitative AI companies. Any journalist that portrays this as the old guard resisting change is contributing to exploitation. So please don’t do it 2/__

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“AI-art generators are trained on enormous datasets, containing millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested w/o their creator’s knowledge—let alone compensation or consent. This is effectively the greatest art heist in history.” — @art_inquiry )

AI Open Letter — CAIR

 Restrict AI Illustration from Publishing: An Open Letter Published May 2, 2023 ︎Add your signature Since the earliest days of...

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BREAKING: LAION recognizes that collecting & using “data” isn’t necessarily ethical. Will the next domino to fall be a rejection of “data” that’s been collected without consent? That would be monumental—a Revolution for the people, safeguarding the role of consent in a digital 🌏

Samantha Cole

@samleecole

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big breaking news: LAION just removed its datasets, following a study from Stanford that found thousands of instances of suspected child sexual abuse material

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If this isn’t a parody, I’m dead. “I spent hours in Photoshop tweaking the images, creating my own text to make them look like a proper comic book. It was a labor of love, but I knew it would be worth it.” “Labor of love!” That’s the 👩🏼‍🍳’s💋.

How I Created My First Comic Book Using ChatGPT and Midjourney

Cosmic Crusade: The Adventures of Captain Zephyr

bootcamp.uxdesign.cc

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6 months

Interesting 🧵—especially: “The steeper decline in earnings than jobs is particularly striking, because it means that not only is genAI directly taking away digital freelancers’ work, it’s also devaluing the work that they do still carry out.” AI is a labor issue, 1st & foremost

John Burn-Murdoch

@jburnmurdoch

6 months

NEW: Generative AI is already taking white collar jobs An ingenious study by @xianghui90 @oren_reshef @Zhou_Yu_AI looked at what happened on a huge online freelancing platform after ChatGPT launched last year. The answer? Freelancers got fewer jobs, and earned much less

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We were promised flying cars, and instead we got AI companies that give zero fucks about human dignity.

Glynn Tarrant 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇲🎨

@GlynnTarrant

6 months

There's another website that advertises that they will make nude photos of anyone you want "no judgment." They also ask for you to be specific about what you want. Clearly, the images are AI generated, so my guess is that they copy-paste your request into a prompt box 1/2

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Web3 is characterized as an evolution away from the centralization of Web2, but it is the same wolf in new clothes, & continues the Thiel/Bannon VC-enabled assault on our democracy. It enfeebles in the name of empowerment. Barlow on steroids.

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“Instead of playing catch-up, we need to regulate generative AI at the source: its training data. We need to protect our intellectual property & limit the ability of generative AI developers to freely plunder our minds without permission or compensation.”

Opinion: AI tools like ChatGPT are built on mass copyright infringement

Generative AI developers have shown no regard for copyright, nor have they sought consent from creators or offered compensation

www.theglobeandmail.com

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@neilturkewitz

9 months

PROPOSED: We stop using the expression “AI.” It’s virtually meaningless at this point. Just marketing hype. Henceforth, everyone should just say what function is being automated. GenAI art would, e.g. be “the use of automation to generate new combinations of existing images.”

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@neilturkewitz

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The NY Times argues “there is nothing ‘transformative’ about using [our] content without payment to create products that substitute for…it. Because the outputs..compete with & closely mimic the inputs used to train them, copying…is not fair use.”

From ChatGPT to Deepfake Apps: A Running List of AI Lawsuits

The rising adoption of AI across industries that has come about in recent years has brought with it no shortage of lawsuits.

www.thefashionlaw.com

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@neilturkewitz

7 months

Artists are poisoning AI image generators with Nightshade “We created Nightshade because right now, AI companies hold all the cards—and we need to tip the power balance back in favor of artists.” 🔥🙏🏽⚖️ —⁦ @ravenben ⁩

Artists are poisoning AI image generators with Nightshade

The tool sabotages machine learning models from the inside, causing them to break in unprecedented ways

www.documentjournal.com

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@neilturkewitz

5 months

“Tech companies aren’t just stealing your your creative content—they’re making vast profits out of selling it back to you. AI-powered apps like ChatGPT are trained on vast amounts of stolen data. What’s worse, it’s all justified as a public good.”

The Great Plunder – curbing human creativity through mass theft - ABC listen

Technology companies aren’t just stealing your intellectual property – your creative content - they’re making vast profits out of selling it back to you. AI-powered apps like ChatGPT are trained on...

www.abc.net.au

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@neilturkewitz

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“What he’s good at is taking other people’s work & putting his name on it, or doing stuff that you can’t check if it’s true.” Wow, Emad personally possesses the very foundational attributes of generative AI. He steals & makes stuff up. Is he real?

The AI Founder Taking Credit For Stable Diffusion’s Success Has A History Of Exaggeration

Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and some misleading claims from founder Emad Mostaque.

www.forbes.com

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@neilturkewitz

4 months

Read this. And weep. And get mad. And weep again. And vow to effect change. This must not be our future.

Anna Mocikat

@anna_mocikat

4 months

And just like that Amazon threw hundreds of AI-narrated titles on the market. Even though they are classified as machine narrated, this move will screw over authors who spend a lot of money on human narrators, and, of course, narrators most of all. Why? Well, those titles are…

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@neilturkewitz

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THIS 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Google says AI is actually “computational statistics,” and Meta/Facebook calls AI “a giant autocomplete system.” Today isn’t even Wacky Wednesday, and I get to say… I agree with Google & Facebook. 🎭

Samantha Dickinson @[email protected]

@sgdickinson

7 months

#IGF2023 #AI : @Kent_Walker says "computational statistics" is a more accurate way to describe what we currently call AI. @nickclegg says AI is more like a "giant autocomplete system" as they're just guessing what the next word or token should be in response to a human prompt.

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“OpenAI states that it & other defendants in a growing # of similar lawsuits “will ultimately prevail because no one—not even ⁦ @nytimes ⁩—gets to monopolize facts or the rules of language.” If OpenAI’s defense rests on this framing, they’re toast. 🤯

OpenAI Pushes for Dismissal of Bulk of New York Times Claims

OpenAI, Microsoft, and number OpenAI-affiliated entities have responded to the copyright lawsuit waged against them by the New York Times.

www.thefashionlaw.com

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@neilturkewitz

4 months

This. Really this. It’s oh so tiresome and ubiquitous. Please make it stop. Machines don’t learn. They are not inspired. They lack intelligence. They have no intentionality, no understanding. This is not to say they have no utility, but let’s have a honest conversation.

Eryk Salvaggio

@e_salvaggio

4 months

Really hope we put the whole “oh so a robot can’t look at art now but humans can?!?” debate to bed in 2024 because it’s based on zero self-awareness of how memory works.

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“Anthropomorphizing image generators & describing them as merely being ‘inspired’ by their training data, like artists are inspired by other artists, is not only misguided but also harmful. Ascribing agency to image generators diminishes the complexity of human creativity.” 🔥⚖️

Jessie Lam _(:3 」∠ )

@axl99

8 months

On that note, as per my previous tweet, here's a paper put together by industry experts and authorities on the topic of generative AI/Machine Learning and the impact this had on artists. I suggest you read it and share.

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@neilturkewitz

6 months

“Having courted billions of dollars in investment & becoming an unstoppable juggernaut of hype, the genAI industry should be sitting pretty. But it's deathly paranoid about one thing—having to compensate artists for training AI models using their © works.”

AI Investors Horrified at the Suggestion That They Pay Artists for Using Their Copyrighted Work

VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is worried that the AI industry will have to pay billions of dollars in royalties for copyrighted material.

futurism.com

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@neilturkewitz

5 months

“‘Training data’ isn’t the right phrase for what's used to train generative AI models—it dehumanises what is, in reality, human creative output. This isn't data - it's books, artwork, music & more.” 🙏🏽💙🙏🏽💙🙏🏽 It all started by calling creative works “content.” #Discontent

Ed Newton-Rex

@ednewtonrex

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'Training data' isn't the right phrase for what's used to train generative AI models - it dehumanises what is, in reality, human creative output. This isn't data - it's books, artwork, music, and more. Calling it data makes it sound like it's just a low-value, anonymous input to…

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@neilturkewitz

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How to say you have no idea what copyright is about without expressly saying it… Note to all readers: copyright was designed—at least in part, to encourage creatives to share their works with the public without divesting their property interest. A central part of the bargain.

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@neilturkewitz

6 months

“Current LLMs are trained on text data that would take 20,000 years for a human to read.” But we are told by apologists for theft that “AI learns the same way as humans.” Funny enough, I don’t know any human that’s lived to be 20,000 years old. Anyone?

Yann LeCun

@ylecun

6 months

Current LLMs are trained on text data that would take 20,000 years for a human to read. And still, they haven't learned that if A is the same as B, then B is the same as A. Humans get a lot smarter than that with comparatively little training data. Even corvids, parrots, dogs,…

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Dan calls on “everyone else who cares about the future of AI” to come to the defense of OpenAI & Microsoft. But he’s mistaking the present of AI for its future. We can do better than that. Don’t buy into a corrupt & blindered vision of our future. Let’s build the one we want.

Daniel Jeffries

@Dan_Jeffries1

4 months

The NY Times is asking that *ALL* LLMs trained on Times data be destroyed. That includes GPT 3 and 4, Claude, Mistral, Llama/Llama 2 and pretty much any other model in existence. I call on @facebook , @cohere , @AnthropicAI , @MistralAI , @huggingface , @google and everyone else…

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@neilturkewitz

10 months

“Artists are being exploited daily by having their work products and creations served up as ‘data fuel’ which has been mined and scraped from the web, without their permission, and through predatory data gathering practices.” via @Change

HISTORIC: US Senate Hearing TOMORROW (7/12) on AI with Karla Ortiz (details inside)

***LIVE STREAMING UPDATE (BETTER LINK - As of Noon 7/12):*** Senate Judiciary Committee's website has crashed for viewing. If you want to watch the hearing today, here's a better working link from...

www.change.org

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@neilturkewitz

8 months

“These authors’ livelihoods derive from the works they create. But the Defendant’s LLMs endanger fiction writers’ ability to make a living…allowing anyone to generate—automatically & freely (or very cheaply)—text they’d otherwise pay writers to create.”

George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

Martin and other popular authors said OpenAI stole their copyrighted work.

www.theverge.com

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@neilturkewitz

3 months

“Co’s & users are [using] GenAI to crank out high volumes of content. While the initial concern is abundance of content containing inaccuracies, gibberish & misinformation, the long-term effect is complete degradation of web content into useless garbage.”

The era of the AI-generated internet is already here

And it's time to talk about AI model collapse.

mashable.com

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@neilturkewitz

4 months

“GenAI’s use isn’t’ transformative’…it is not commenting on or critiquing the original story or shifting it to a different medium, purpose or context. It is, instead, reproducing substantial parts of others’ work simply to compete in the same market channels as the original.”

C-IP2

@CIP2GMU

4 months

C-IP2 Faculty Advisor & @georgemasonlaw prof Seán O’Connor has a new op-ed published on @CNN ! Read "Opinion: AI comes for the journalists" #artificialintelligence #intellectualproperty #openAI #chatGPT #copyright #fairuse #technology #generativeAI #music

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@neilturkewitz

4 years

@jmjafrx @anildash They don’t understand the nature of freedom in an interconnected world. They still cling to a two year old’s version: “You’re not the boss of me. I can do whatever I want.” They have failed to grasp that a sheep & a wolf won’t have a common definition of the meaning of freedom.

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@neilturkewitz

2 months

OpenAI’s response to the Copyright Office: “By democratizing the capacity to create, AI tools will expand the quantity, diversity, & quality of creative works, in both the commercial & noncommercial spheres.” Even OpenAI can’t really believe this. 🤯

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@neilturkewitz

9 months

BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. Copyright Office has been granted granted summary judgment against Dr. Stephen Thaler’s attempts to register GenerativeAI work!

Franklin Graves on LinkedIn: #ai #generativeai #copyright #artificialintelligence | 30 comments

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Court has upheld no registration of generative #AI works for copyright in the US! The U.S. Copyright Office has been granted granted its… | 30 comments on LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com

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@neilturkewitz

1 year

A brilliant piece from Ted Chiang in ⁦ @NewYorker ⁩: “Obviously, no one can speak for all writers, but let me make the argument that starting with a blurry copy of unoriginal work isn’t a good way to create original work.”

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web

OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?

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@neilturkewitz

3 months

Deepfakes aren’t just about celebrities. They affect each of us & erode an already fragile faith in truth in an ecosystem already battered by disinformation. What happened to Swift happens to women & girls every day. It is time to end this. Today.

Taylor Swift and George Carlin deepfakes prompt legal backlash

The battle over what AI is allowed to do rages on with two big names highlighting the need for regulation

www.salon.com

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@neilturkewitz

11 months

An interesting & positive development in Japan. As the Japanese government is apparently moving forward with an ill-considered plan to allow unauthorized use of creative works to train AI, @pixiv , a leading online artist community site, chooses a different—more enlightened—path.

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@neilturkewitz

10 months

hey artists & writers, look what the cat dragged in. certain library associations have weighed in on AI, aligning themselves with our would-be tech overlords. 😡 @AuthorsGuild @kortizart

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@neilturkewitz

5 months

“Any company adopting tools built on exploitative datasets are creating legal liabilities that will not fade into the background. "Everyone else is using it" will not absolve companies of responsibility.” 🙏🏽 @jovialjoy

Dr. Joy Buolamwini

@jovialjoy

5 months

In #UnmaskingAI , I write about the need for deep data deletion because there are core datasets (like LAION-5B) that are not only created without permission or compensation, but they are also composed of links to illegal imagery. Any company adopting tools built on exploitative…

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@neilturkewitz

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@talkingdraft @TheOnion “But it was all so unpredictable. It never occurred to me that building a product by using raw materials I didn’t own or license was somehow wrong. I mean, seriously…who could have known that?”

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@neilturkewitz

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@ProfNoahGian I am so sorry Noah. The pain is unbearable. Here’s a photo of my Monty, a Great Pyrenees that raised my children better than I did. He lived to be 14, and died 12 years ago. There is still a hole in my heart…but my heart has also grown—perhaps three sizes. Much love to you. 💙

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@neilturkewitz

3 months

Also see: “Getty Images argued that ‘ask for forgiveness later’ opt-out mechanisms were ‘contrary to fundamental principles of copyright law, which require permission to be secured in advance.’” @GettyImages is 100% right. Opt-out is a formality prohibited by Berne & TRIPS.

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@neilturkewitz

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Wise counsel from the UK House of Lords—“we do not believe it is fair for tech firms to use rightholder data for commercial purposes without permission or compensation.” h/t @ednewtonrex

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@neilturkewitz

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Sam Altman keeps on making pronouncements he doesn’t realize are indictments— *the need to expand energy sources for AI *massive investments of money for infrastructure *the impossibility of operating AI if it requires consent for data harvesting, etc For what—to lose our souls?

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@neilturkewitz

9 months

A “popular hype right now is AI art generators. Artists widely object to AI art because VC-funded companies are stealing their art & chopping it up for sale without paying the original creators. Not paying creators is the only reason the VCs are funding AI art.” — @davidgerard

Ambiva

@AmbivaResearch

11 months

A much-needed brutal takedown. Finally.

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@neilturkewitz

4 months

“The FTC has required businesses that unlawfully obtain consumer data to delete any products—including models & algorithms developed in whole or in part using that unlawfully obtained data. [We] will continue to ensure that firms are not reaping benefits from violating the law.”

FTC's Office of Technology

@TechFTC

4 months

FTC blog post highlights that #AI model-as-a-service companies may be liable for data #privacy and confidentiality misrepresentations: /1

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