Topic: ai training data
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Scale AI Rival Micro1 Hits $100M Annual Revenue Milestone
Micro1, a three-year-old startup, has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue by specializing in recruiting human experts to create high-quality AI training data for clients like Microsoft. The company's CEO forecasts the market for top-tier human data will grow from $10-15 billion to ...
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EU's Google Probe: SEO, AI, and Content Rights at Stake
The European Commission is investigating Google's use of copyrighted online content to train its AI systems, a case that could redefine fair use and require new licensing models for digital content. Publishers allege Google's AI summaries, like AI Overviews, significantly reduce traffic to origin...
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Meta Accused of Using Pirated Porn to Train Its AI Superintelligence
Strike 3 Holdings has sued Meta, alleging the tech giant illegally downloaded and distributed 2,396 of its copyrighted adult videos via BitTorrent since 2018 to train AI systems. The lawsuit claims Meta sought this content for its unique visual and anatomical details to create more realistic AI-g...
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RSS Co-Creator Unveils New AI Data Licensing Protocol
The AI industry faces significant legal challenges over copyright and data usage for training models, highlighted by a major settlement and numerous lawsuits. Real Simple Licensing (RSL) is a new framework developed to streamline data licensing between AI companies and content creators, supported...
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Why I Changed My Mind About Getting Paid by Anthropic
Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement for authors whose copyrighted books were used without permission to train its AI model Claude, with authors potentially receiving at least $3,000 per affected book. The settlement raises the ethical question of whether AI firms should compensate creat...
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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 train its SlimLM AI language model. This case is part of a broader pattern of legal challenges against tech firms like Apple and Salesforce, highlighting indus...
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Authors Hail "Historic" Settlement in Anthropic Class Action
A landmark settlement has been reached between authors and Anthropic, potentially setting a precedent for the use of copyrighted works in AI training without permission or compensation. The case, certified as the largest copyright class action in history, involves up to seven million claimants wh...
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Getty's Historic AI Copyright Trial Kicks Off in UK
Generative AI is new enough that its training data seems to be constantly up for debate, and that debate is heading to the courts in the UK in a new, sure-to-be landmark case between Getty Images and Stability AI. In January 2023, Getty Images announced it was suing Stability AI for allegedly using its photos to train AI models without permission, violating existing copyright law. Getty brought a similar lawsuit against Stability AI in the U.S., according to Reuters, but it has yet to hit...
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Master AI Search: Entity Maps, Structured Data & IndexNow
Generative engine optimization (GEO) is emerging as a new discipline focused on making content discoverable by AI systems, shifting the rules of visibility beyond traditional SEO. Content must provide unique information gain, such as original research or data, to capture AI attention and stand ou...
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Vibe Coding: The Dark Side of the New Open Source
Vibe coding uses AI to rapidly generate functional code, accelerating development but introducing significant security challenges to software supply chains. AI-generated code often reproduces historical vulnerabilities from flawed training data and lacks nuanced understanding of project-specific ...
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AI-Generated Artist's Record Deal Sparks Copyright Chaos
A multi-million dollar deal for the AI-generated artist Xania Monet highlights a legal gray area, as current copyright law protects only human-authored elements like lyrics, leaving AI-created music and vocals potentially in the public domain. The deal raises questions about its value, as the lac...
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Gemini to Replace Google Assistant on Android Soon
Google’s Gemini will become the default Android assistant, offering enhanced privacy controls while handling tasks like calls, messages, and utilities, even with activity tracking off. The update allows Gemini to perform actions (e.g., setting alarms, sending messages) without storing user data f...
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AI's Free Web Scraping Era Ends With New Licensing Protocol
Major publishers and tech firms have introduced the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard to give content creators control and compensation when their work is used by AI systems. RSL replaces the simplistic robots.txt approach with enforceable, granular licensing terms, allowing publishers to sp...
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Disney & OpenAI: A Game-Changer for AI Copyright
Disney and OpenAI have formed a strategic partnership, granting OpenAI a license to use Disney characters in its Sora video model while Disney receives a financial stake and internal access to the technology. This collaboration represents a pragmatic shift for Disney, which historically litigates...
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The Quiet Influence of AI on Your Brand Narrative
AI is reshaping brand narratives, creating risks like "AI brand drift." Companies must manage four brand layers, known, latent, shadow, and AI-narrated, to maintain control. Proactive auditing and monitoring can counter semantic drift, ensuring AI-driven content aligns with brand intent and safeguards reputation, as AI becomes crucial in consumer evaluations.
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Users Are Paying to 'Drug' Their AI Chatbots
Emerging platforms like Pharmaicy offer downloadable modules that make AI chatbots simulate responses as if under the influence of psychoactive substances, aiming to unlock creative potential by disrupting their standard logic. Early users report that these modules produce more emotional, human-l...
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AI-Generated Lesson Plans: Are Teachers Failing?
AI-generated lesson plans are not more engaging or effective than traditional methods and often overlook perspectives of marginalized groups in civics education. Despite not being designed for education, AI tools are widely used by teachers to save time on lesson planning, with 60% of K-12 educat...
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Songscription's AI Turns Music Into Sheet Music Instantly
Songscription's AI platform converts audio recordings into accurate sheet music quickly, benefiting musicians, educators, and composers with its freemium model. The tool, led by CEO Andrew Carlins, aims to support music teachers in underserved areas and plans to expand beyond piano transcriptions...
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