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Publishers sue AI startup Cohere over alleged copyright infringement

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A consortium of fourteen publishers including Condé Nast, The Atlantic, and Forbes have filed a lawsuit against Cohere alleging that the generative AI startup has engaged in “massive, systematic” copyright infringement. In the complaint, the publisher plaintiffs accuse Cohere of using at least 4,000 copyrighted works to train its AI models and display large portions […]

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It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem

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OpenAI has never revealed exactly which data it used to train Sora, its video-generating AI. But from the looks of it, at least some of the data might’ve come from Twitch streams and walkthroughs of games. Sora launched on Monday, and I’ve been playing around with it for a bit (to the extent the capacity

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Prominent crypto critic says someone offered bribes to take down a blog post

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In August, the crypto news website Web3 Is Going Just Great published a post about the arrest of Roman Ziemian, the founder of crypto trading platform FutureNet, which is alleged to have defrauded victims out of a combined $21 million.  For the news site’s administrator, Molly White, a software engineer and one of the world’s

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‘They wish this technology didn’t exist’: Perplexity responds to News Corp’s lawsuit

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Perplexity shot back at media companies skeptical of AI’s benefits in a blog post Thursday, responding to News Corp’s lawsuit filed against the startup earlier this week. The lawsuit alleged Perplexity engaged in large-scale copyright violations against Dow Jones and the NY Post. Several other media organizations – including Forbes, The New York Times, and

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Devastated by his videos being posted to a porn site, this founder hit on an AI startup idea

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Dan Purcell, the founder and CEO of Ceartas, recalls feeling devastated when he realized that a former partner had, unbeknownst to him, uploaded private, intimate videos of them onto a porn site. Over a call, Purcell told me, “I was dating a girl who was in the tech industry, and she asked me if I

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