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A former executive of Stability AI, the company behind the famous artificial intelligence Stable Diffusion, resigned publicly a few months ago, following a disagreement with its owners. Finding himself at odds with the misuse of others' content to 'train' AI models, Ed Newton-Rex made his opinion known online, via a po...

The project of creating a general artificial intelligence sounds rather ambitious, even more so when considering that the definition of such a concept has not yet been identified - not even by the great minds of Silicon Valley. Recently, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his intention to approach the development of s...

It is no news that the topic of artificial intelligence is on everyone's lips these days. New technologies always attract a fair amount of attention, to be reductive, all the more so when they are as 'controversial' as today's topic. Being a topic with many facets, many meanings, and at the basis of which lies conside...

Do we need celebrity complaints to finally regularise a technology that is harming the entire population? According to the US Congress, yes. Following an increase in complaints from famous individuals and victims of misused deepfake technology, María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Madeleine Dean (D-PA) have proposed a bill...

When it comes to counterfeiting, one tends to think, first and foremost, of money. In this case, the situation is different, although money still plays a primary role in the matter. The textile sector seems to be the main victim of this illicit activity - recently, a loss of EUR 12 billion in annual sales (around 5% of...

As a result of developments in recent years, there has been a widespread realization that most jobs and professions will sooner or later be performed by robots and artificial intelligence, rather than by human hands. This hypothetical realization has profoundly shaken the arts sector, which is the most "distant" from t...

The summer of 2023 was marked by a serious strike by creatives involved in Hollywood studios. Lasting 118 days, this situation highlighted the serious consequences brought by artificial intelligence within the arts sector. During the first weeks of 2024, the SAG-AFTRA union announced an "innovative" collaboration with...

Wizards of the Coast, the famous company behind the giants "Magic: The Gathering" and "Dungeons & Dragons," seems to have a troubled relationship with artificial intelligence. In the summer of 2023, an image contained within one of the role-playing game manuals mentioned was discovered to be generated through AI; duri...

The rapid development of artificial intelligence is not limited to specific fields; nowadays, this technology is implemented and used within any environment - whether users are aware of it or not seems to be optional, most of the time. Researchers at Amazon Web Services AI recently discovered that more than half of th...

An extensive article that attempts (or perhaps not) to offer an insight into what will be the hottest topics of 2024 when it comes to technology, including cyber-crime, artificial intelligence supremacy and the metaverse. The article offers an (in our opinion) interesting overview of how Musk led the Twitter platform ...

The world of fan-art, fan-merch and fan-fiction resides in a copyright grey area, not because it is uncovered, but because legal action is taken at the discretion of the copyright holder of the original work. The case of Valve (Steam) confirms the rule, making takedown requests (DMCA) of the GIT repositories of the Te...

Gallery System, a provider of a cloud services solution for the museum world, suffered a ransomware attack on December 28th that rendered its systems, which allow users to search and view works from various museums, unusable. The impact of this incident could have wider repercussions than indicated, as the company rep...

Newsquest, the UK's second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers, is responsible for the management of over 200 titles including the Glasgow Herald, the Brighton and Hove Argus and the Lancashire Telegraph. Recently, the media group has shown great resourcefulness towards current technology by hiring eight...

The New York Times, a famous US newspaper, recently sued two giant companies that have been in the spotlight again and again over the past year. The lawsuit sees OpenAI, owner of ChatGPT, and Microsoft, as parties to be held liable for billions of dollars in damages. As repeatedly stated, OpenAi used, and uses, severa...

The use of artificial intelligence in politics is not exactly new; whether it is politicians preparing their election campaign from prison, or fake videos documenting speeches by heads of state that never took place, this new technology has often been the talk of the town. More precisely, the technology considered in ...

The famous artificial intelligence models currently in circulation are trained using thousands and thousands of pieces of information from online datasets, composed of content found in the vast world of the Internet - without any kind of filtering. One of the most widely used datasets is LAION-5B, created by the non-pr...