OpenAI has announced that it will train its AI models on The Associated Press news stories for the next two years. The deal between the two companies will give OpenAI access to some of the content in AP’s archive as far back as 1985. That isn’t the only one this week — On Tuesday, the AI company announced a six-year deal with Shutterstock that will let OpenAI license images, videos, music, and metadata to train its text-to-image model,
Comedian Sarah Silverman and two others are suing OpenAI, alleging the firms trained their large language models on copyrighted materials, including works they published, without obtaining consent.
Adobe announced that its Firefly web service is now available globally with support for text prompts in 100 languages and has generated over 1 billion assets. This offering is designed to ensure that the images businesses create with Firefly are commercially safe because it’s trained on a corpus of images that are part of Adobe’s stock imagery service. The company even goes as far as indemnifying its enterprise users.
And the FTC is looking into OpenAI – opening an investigation to see if the company has violated consumer protection laws. The agency this week sent the San Francisco company a 20-page demand for records about how it addresses risks related to its AI model.
Anthropic now allows anyone to try its chatbot Claude 2 on its website. Anthropic says to “think of Claude as a friendly, enthusiastic colleague or personal assistant who can be instructed in natural language to help you with many tasks.”
We’re entering the legal phase, it seems. As with everything AI, that didn’t take long. This is a significant, positive development. A colleague recently remarked that a sure sign of innovation is when the lawyers don’t have an answer for you. Is it clear how these questions will be answered? The Copyright Office has indicated that generative works are not copyrightable. The investigation by the FTC and lawsuits like Silverman’s are good news. They shake out the rules of the road.
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