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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...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently unveiled a new proposal to revise its risk management rules to take into account the dangers of 'evolving technologies' such as cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence. Data storage and processing in the cloud are now widely adopted and the potential of art...

The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the restrictions imposed by the giant Apple on the use of ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot service. Big companies are finally taking steps to inform consumers of the potential risks of using artificial intelligence of any kind. Samsung, Verizon, and most of the big banks have...

The company's strategy of deleting inactive accounts after two years shows the real risk of having a single account for everything, if the goal is to keep content online forever. This initiative by Google became even more urgent following an internal investigation of the company's data, which revealed that abandoned a...

The late artist's estate lost its court battle against the famous photographer Lynn Goldsmith for his 'Orange Prince' series. The trial judges ruled that Warhol's works based on Goldsmith's 1981 photo were not immune from the photographer's copyright infringement lawsuit. The case has been closely watched in the art ...

In early May, the green light was given to proposals fornew copyright rulesfor generative AI models - if the bill is passed, it would be a first on planet Earth. This new legislation would put alllarge language model(LLM)companiesin trouble, since many of their services are formed oncopyrightedtexts. Needless to say, ...

Starting 1 June, SuperRare will host a two-month interactive exhibition at 0x.17 in New York, a community-focused NFT gallery. The main goal of the event is to build on the foundation of last year's traditional, minimalist gallery, further developing it and stimulating conversation and interaction between participants...

Sam Altman, the chief executive officer of OpenAi, recently provided written testimony to the US Congress in which he requested that recipients "consider a combination of licensing or registration requirements for the development and release of AI models above a crucial capability threshold, along with incentives for f...