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 EU proposes new copyright rules for generative AI

EU proposes new copyright rules for generative AI

2023-05-09 Reuters
For two years now, the European Commission has been working on a law dedicated to regulating the emergence of Artificial Intelligence, and now more than ever there is a strong need to establish clear and precise rules. On 27 April, an agreement was finally reached in Stockholm; this could pave the way for the first com...
 A Photographer Tried to Get His Photos Removed from an AI Dataset. He Got an Invoice Instead.

A Photographer Tried to Get His Photos Removed from an AI Dataset. He Got an Invoice Instead.

2023-05-08 Vice
Robert Kneschke, a German photographer specialising in stock photography, recently became aware of hundreds of his works being used as a means to train Artificial Intelligences. Through the website "Have I Been Trained?", in fact, the artist was able to find out more about the situation and discovered that many of his ...
 Crypto Arte and NFT: Giovanni Motta’s new immersive adventure in London

Crypto Arte and NFT: Giovanni Motta’s new immersive adventure in London

2023-05-07 The Cyptonomist
It's called 'Like Tears in Rain',NFT’s new exhibition of Crypto Arte by Giovanni Motta,that is currently on display at W1 Curates in London, and that will be open to the public until the 31st of May. The exhibition consists of a fully immersive adventure into the world of digital art and crypto art. The Italian arti...
 Photography as Performance Art: Jeremy Cowart Creates a Totally New Kind of 10K NFT Collection

Photography as Performance Art: Jeremy Cowart Creates a Totally New Kind of 10K NFT Collection

2023-05-04 Decrypt.co
Renowned photographer Jeremy Cowart recently staged an innovative and spectacular performance of live photography and photo editing, in front of an audience of about 150 spectators, inside his studio. The performance, called 'Auras', was preceded by a few moments of hesitation and concern, just before the show began. ...
 OpenAI’s CEO Says the Age of Giant AI Models Is Already Over

OpenAI’s CEO Says the Age of Giant AI Models Is Already Over

2023-05-04 Wired
Sam Altman, the CEO of the giant OpenAi, said that the search strategy that gave birth to ChatGPT is already spent, and that future advances in artificial intelligence will require new ideas to continue. There is no doubt regarding the huge impact that OpenAI has had on the digital world in the last period, especially...
 NFT art pioneer wants to upload her brain so she can live forever: Josie Bellini, NFT Creator

NFT art pioneer wants to upload her brain so she can live forever: Josie Bellini, NFT Creator

2023-05-03 Cointelegraph
In this interview with artist Josie Bellini, the NFT art pioneer tells columnist Greg Oakford about her career path and the inspiration behind her works. Having been born into poverty, Bellini decided to pursue an educational career, and later a professional one, dedicated to finance and economics; an essay on Bitcoin ...
 GPT-4 Can’t Replace Striking TV Writers, But Studios Are Going to Try

GPT-4 Can’t Replace Striking TV Writers, But Studios Are Going to Try

2023-05-03 Vice
The Writers Guild of America is on strike after six weeks of negotiations with major entertainment companies such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple and Disney. The strike in question is the first in Hollywood in 15 years: for the first time ever, screenwriters are negotiating the studios' use of generative artificial intellige...
 Trump Drops More NFTs—And Now the First Batch Is Plummeting in Price

Trump Drops More NFTs—And Now the First Batch Is Plummeting in Price

2023-05-03 Decrypt.co
On April 18, former US President Donald Trump released a second collection of digital trading cards, with tens of thousands of new collectibles available for minting. (Mining an NFT is equivalent to adding the information of a token to a specific blockchain) Online, Trump wrote over and over again about how lenient he...
 Google Tells AI Agents to Behave Like 'Believable Humans' to Create 'Artificial Society'

Google Tells AI Agents to Behave Like 'Believable Humans' to Create 'Artificial Society'

2023-05-02 Vice
Smallville is a small 2D ludic environment used by researchers from Stanford and Google: through the use of ChatGPT, experts have generated 25 human-like characters, to then insert them within this fictitious city. The protagonists of this experiment are characterized by a sort of daily routine, including breakfast and...
 Writers Are Becoming ‘AI Prompt Engineers,’ a Job Which May or May Not Exist

Writers Are Becoming ‘AI Prompt Engineers,’ a Job Which May or May Not Exist

2023-05-01 Vice
Many freelancers are considering changing careers to become ChatGPT "whisperers". But is it a legitimate job or just another short-lived gold rush? A Reddit user recounted his experience in a post on the platform, explaining that due to ChatGPT he lost his most important customer, thus having to change jobs and become...
 Sony World Photography Award 2023: Winner refuses award after revealing AI creation

Sony World Photography Award 2023: Winner refuses award after revealing AI creation

2023-04-28 BBC
German artist Boris Eldagsen submitted a photograph titled 'Pseudomania: The Electrician' as an entry to the Sony World Photography Award competition, winning the 'open creativity' category. Following the results, announced last week, the artist revealed that the work he submitted had been artificially generated by an...
 ChatGPT: what the law says about who owns the copyright of AI-generated content

ChatGPT: what the law says about who owns the copyright of AI-generated content

2023-04-27 The Conversation
The ChatGPT AI chatbot produces content that can appear to be created by a human. There are many proposed uses for this specific technology, but its extraordinary capabilities raise important questions about content ownership rights. Two main questions arise when it comes to copyright and AI-generated content: The fir...
 Twitter Says Parts Of Its Source Code Got Leaked On GitHub, Sends Copyright Infringement Notice: Report

Twitter Says Parts Of Its Source Code Got Leaked On GitHub, Sends Copyright Infringement Notice: Report

2023-04-26 ABP Live
In early March, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said he would open-source the code the platform uses to recommend related tweets to users on March 31. Within days of the date, substantial portions of the social network's code were illegally released on GitHub. Following a copyright infringement notice issued by Twitter against ...
 Judge rules online archive's book service violated copyright

Judge rules online archive's book service violated copyright

2023-04-24 CBS news
The "Internet Archive" service, founded in 1996, is a non-profit project aimed at establishing a sort of online library, with the intention of offering permanent access to historical collections to researchers and experts. Unlike standard library systems, this archive obtains items and texts through donations and direc...
 Gaming Giant Sony Files Patent to Enable NFT Transferability Across Games and Consoles

Gaming Giant Sony Files Patent to Enable NFT Transferability Across Games and Consoles

2023-04-19 cryptonews
In late March, gaming giant Sony filed a patent to make NFTs transferable and usable within various games, consoles, and devices. The license specifically states that players would be able to transfer their in-game assets from one console to another, as well as from one game to another, further including computers, ph...
 How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

2023-04-18 Vice
Various banks in the United States and Europe use voice recognition as a secure method to access accounts through simple calls; the writer of the article shares his experience regarding this practice inside the post. Using free or low-cost AI, it is possible to generate voices that are convincing enough to bypass speec...