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One of the most interesting Copyright news stories of 2023 was the discovery of Andy Warhol's use of a Copyright-protected photograph in the creation of his famous portrait of Prince. During the past month of May, the matter gained considerable media coverage because of the decision of the Supreme Court. The photograp...

It's now well-known that the art world is being profoundly influenced by the latest discovered technologies. Whether we're speaking of the birth of photography in the 1800s or the rise of Artificial Intelligence in the 2000s, art always manages to emerge unscathed - further embellished, one might say. The idea that ar...

The news comes straight from Silicon Valley, where the Amazon giant is working to keep up with other AI-dominant companies - Google and Microsoft. The company Anthropic, now identified as a potential rival to OpenAi, recently announced an arctic intelligence service called "Claude" - a competitor to ChatGPT, for all in...

The famous strike that began in May sees Hollywood as the setting for the events; after a long period punctuated by strikes and protests, it seems that the situation is reaching new potential developments. For months now, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has been in conflict with another major organization, the Alli...

In February 2023, Meta unveiled and released an artificial intelligence service called "LLaMA," an open source Large Language Model Meta AI. During the year, the company also released the updated version, which is more performant than the previous one. Recently, the situation has developed further. Meta has been accus...

Xiaohongshu, the platform known internationally as "Chinese Instagram," recently attracted media attention because of a controversy that originated during August 2023 and developed subsequently. Chinese artist Snow Fish accused the platform of using her illustrations to train the platform's proprietary AI model, calle...

The cryptocurrency market is a jungle of opportunists, thieves and self-proclaimed experts in the field. In essence, it is best to do your research and never completely trust those you are dealing with. As a result of recent developments in the field, it's now clear how even big influencers accustomed to this ignorance...

The Twitter (or X) account of Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the Ethereum phenomenon, recently fell victim to a hacking attack. The culprits in question immediately used the profile to share a phishing link, promising free NFTs-obviously, Buterin's 5 million followers were enticed by such magnanimity. The tweet stayed...

Recently, the giant Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence tool called "Copilot," the function of which lies in being able to assist professionals in online work environments. As is the norm nowadays, Copilot has the potential to generate content that may infringe on existing Copyrights. In response to the...

Distrust of Artificial Intelligence is not exactly new; recently, we have seen time and again how the use of this technology in humanistic contexts has done more harm than good. From human operators of online therapy services being replaced by AI chatbots, to "robot" girlfriends that have shown the average human how in...

Artificial Intelligence, nowadays, scares many professionals in the creative and artistic fields: not even the film industry is immune to it. Concern about this technological development has been making its way inside Hollywood studios for some time now, sowing discord among workers. During the recent Venice Film Fest...

During the first week of September 2023, the X social media platform stated within an update to the company's privacy policy that it might collect biometric and professional occupation information from its users. The update emphasizes, therefore, how the social network in question has the ability to expand the informa...

Thanks to technological developments over the past decade, people can consider themselves increasingly safe, secure and protected while driving - the high level of technology built into modern cars makes long car journeys less taxing and smoother. However, sometimes it's better to be safe than sorry. The Mozilla Found...

The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) recently stated that ten game companies have not adopted adequate on-set protections or proper regulations on the use of artificial intelligence. In June, word had spread of a strike by actors and screenwriters at Hollywood stu...

ChatGPT has conquered the world in less than a year, the AI service has managed to go from loved, to hated, to feared, without any kind of excessive commitment on the part of OpenAI. Recall that, in Italy, the platform in question was even banned during the month of March, before being reinstated in the following month...

In May, Twitter was a battleground between a Russian news organization called "Sputnik International" and an account named "CounterCloud". The former published a series of tweets criticizing U.S. foreign policy and attacking the Biden administration, while the latter always seemed to have a prompt response, often accom...