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European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova called on online platforms to add labels to text, photos and other AI-generated content, following a statement regarding the potential of this new technology to bring forth new challenges in the fight against disinformation. Naming just a few of the prominent companies i...

BBC Two's Forensics: The Real CSI is a new television programme dedicated to exploring the crucial role forensic science plays in bringing criminals to justice today. Recently, it illustrated how an advanced artificial intelligence software was instrumental in the conviction of Luke Cassidy, a Coventry paedophile. Inv...

Content creators are much closer to traditional works of art than one might think. Suffice it to say that when cultural assets appear in an individual's posts or stories, their use automatically falls under the (digital) reproduction of that artwork, which in Italy may be subject to the need for authorisation by the au...

Japan recently declared that the use of datasets for training Artificial Intelligence models does not violate copyright law. This means that those who develop the 'trainings' can collect publicly available data without having to seek licences or permission from the owners of the aforementioned data. On one hand, the ...

As we immerse ourselves in the digital world, artificial intelligence comes forward to offer companionship and even psychological therapy. Humans tend to make associations with anything as if it were another person. It is in our nature and it is why we experience emotional reactions to fictional characters in films, e...

Images generated by Midjourney artificial intelligence have recently caused panic in the US. Hobby Lobby, the popular chain dedicated to selling products for creative projects and crafts, was targeted and boycotted by a large number of customers following a series of images that went viral on Facebook. The 'photos' de...

We recently referred to an article about an eating disorder helpline, which had decided to replace its human staff following a series of their more than legitimate requests. The replacement was due to take place at the end of last month, and 'Tessa', an Artificial Intelligence in the form of a chatbot, was to become th...

Ashley Crossland, a graphic designer from Cardigan, became one of the most commercially successful artists in Wales overnight. After designing 7,200 individual works, these were sold and purchased as NFT, enabling him to earn nearly £500,000. In this case, selling the artworks through NFT allowed Crossland to protect...

A New York lawyer is facing a court hearing after his firm used ChatGPT for legal research. The judge stated that the court was faced with an unprecedented circumstance after a document was discovered that referred to sample legal cases that did not exist. The lawyer in question told the court that he was not aware th...

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI has stated that he has no plans to leave Europe. The head of the company behind ChatGPT backed down from his threat earlier this week to leave the block if it becomes too difficult to comply with upcoming artificial intelligence laws. The planned EU legislation could be the first to legislate...

The management of the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) decided to replace staff members with a chatbot, four days after the unionisation of the workers involved. As of 1 June 2023, in fact, the telephone operators of the line in question have been completely replaced by Tessa, a chatbot intended to take the...

The UShas accused the country's largest cryptocurrency trading platform of operating illegally, expanding the crackdown on the industry. The Securities and Exchange Commission said the company acted as an investment broker subject to SEC rules but failed to register properly. The alleged perpetrators mentioned defended...

Now there is an alternative for all those who are frightened by the idea of disclosing personal information to an online chatbot: PrivateGPT is an open-source model that allows users to ask questions based on their documents without an Internet connection. The service runs locally on the device used and requires the d...

The Frost is a 12-minute short film, made by Latent Cinema and Waymark, which features an important innovation: every shot in the film was generated by OpenAI's DALL-E 2 text-to-image model. The human hand still played its part, however, as the textual prompts had to be written and the quality and consistency of the st...

Moderators of Stack Overflow, a popular forum for software developers to ask and answer questions of all kinds, run by Stack Exchange, are on strike following the announcement of a new company policy. The latter would claim that all GPT-generated content would now be allowed on the site, and that suspensions for AI-gen...

NFTs quickly went from boom to predictable bust. By the end of 2022, about a year and a half after the initial explosion, marketplaces had closed or lost almost all of their value. That said, it is important to emphasise that the failure of NFTs in no way negates the blockchain - the underlying technology that makes N...