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Britannica Sues OpenAI Over ChatGPT ‘Memorization’

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have sued OpenAI, alleging the unauthorized use of their copyrighted content to train AI models, which…

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Artificial Intelligence

Dictionary Publisher Sues OpenAI Over Copyright

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have sued OpenAI for "massive copyright infringement," alleging the company used their protected articles to train…

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AI & Tech

Britannica and Merriam-Webster Sue OpenAI Over AI Training

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT was trained on and reproduces their copyrighted content without permission, causing…

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BigTech Companies

Valve Sued Over Alleged Unauthorized Use of Music

PRS for Music is suing Valve Corporation, alleging that games on the Steam platform use copyrighted music without the proper…

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AI & Tech

ByteDance’s AI Push Stalled by Compute Limits and Copyright Issues

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 is a powerful new AI video model that has impressed China's tech and creative industries, raising both…

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AI & Tech

Seedance 2.0: AI Video’s Hope or Just More Slop?

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video generation model showcases a significant leap in visual quality, particularly in creating realistic celebrity deepfakes, but…

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AI & Tech

Microsoft Removes AI Training Guide Using Pirated Harry Potter

Microsoft removed a technical blog post that demonstrated an Azure AI feature after it was criticized for linking to a…

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AI & Tech

ByteDance Reverses AI Tool That Turned Celebrities Into Clip Art

ByteDance is urgently adding safeguards to its Seedance 2.0 AI tool after facing intense criticism and legal threats from Hollywood…

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AI & Tech

ByteDance to Revise AI Safeguards After Hollywood Alarm

ByteDance is enhancing safeguards for its AI video tool after it generated unauthorized, hyperrealistic content featuring celebrity likenesses and copyrighted…

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Artificial Intelligence

Hollywood Reacts to Seedance 2.0 Video Generator

ByteDance's new AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, has sparked major controversy by enabling users to easily create videos featuring copyrighted…

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Cybersecurity

Major Manga Piracy Network Shut Down

A major international operation, involving Japanese and Chinese authorities, dismantled a prominent manga piracy network, leading to the arrest of…

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Business

Judge Orders Anna’s Archive to Delete Data, Compliance Unlikely

A federal court has ruled against Anna's Archive, ordering it to delete all scraped WorldCat data and permanently cease its…

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AI & Tech

News Outlaws Win Access to 20M ChatGPT Logs, Demand More

A federal judge has ordered OpenAI to provide news organizations with access to 20 million de-identified ChatGPT user logs, rejecting…

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Cybersecurity

Massive 300TB Archive of Spotify’s Top Songs Leaked

A massive 300-terabyte dataset of Spotify metadata and audio files has been publicly released by Anna's Archive, claiming to capture…

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BigTech Companies

Massive Pirate Library Leaks 86 Million Spotify Songs

An activist group called Anna's Archive claims to have scraped metadata for approximately 86 million popular songs from Spotify, representing…

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AI & Tech

Google Sues Firm for Massively Scraping Search Data

Google is suing SerpApi for allegedly bypassing its SearchGuard technology, which protects search results and partner content from automated scraping.…

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Artificial Intelligence

Adobe sued for allegedly using authors’ work to train AI

Adobe faces a class-action lawsuit alleging it used pirated books, including the author's works, from the controversial Books3 dataset to…

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Faces Scrutiny Over Deleted Pirated Book Data

A court has ordered OpenAI to disclose confidential communications about its deletion of the "Books 1" and "Books 2" datasets,…

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Fined for German Copyright Breach

A German court ruled that OpenAI violated copyright law by using licensed music to train ChatGPT, following a lawsuit by…

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Business

Stalker 2 Devs Issue DMCA Against Copycat Game ‘Misery’

GSC Game World issued a DMCA takedown against the game Misery, leading to its removal from Steam over alleged copyright…

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