AI-Fraid For Life
2 months, 2 weeks ago

AI-Fraid For Life

Deccan Chronicle  

Whistleblowers have often paid a heavy price for exposing the powerful, sometimes even with their lives. He says, “AI systems use large datasets, frequently from the internet, generating data privacy and copyright concerns. Some companies are integrating customers’ personal data with AI platforms to offer more personalised solutions, raising concerns about data integrity and protection, especially given India’s weak data protection laws,” he says. “To counter these risks, we certainly need mandatory and independent audits of AI training data sets to ensure complete compliance with the privacy laws,” says Ayush. The horizons of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, must be expanded to take into consideration the new and nuanced risks,” says Ayush, adding, “We need to develop a comprehensive legal framework around AI and also strong regulatory oversight, mandating regular compliance and checks.” AI systems use large datasets, frequently from the internet, generating data privacy and copyright concerns.” — Vivek Sharma, Investment Head, Estee Advisors Balaji’s Role at OpenAI During his four years at OpenAI, Balaji worked on many major projects, including WebGPT.

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India’s AI investment, the budgetary push, the need for regulations
3 weeks, 6 days ago

India’s AI investment, the budgetary push, the need for regulations

The Hindu  

The allocation of ₹2,000 crore to the IndiaAI mission in the Union Budget 2025-26 demonstrates India’s commitment to developing its artificial intelligence infrastructure. India’s focus and what needs to be done Circling back to India’s budgetary allocations, it is worth noting that almost 44% of the Budget’s allocation towards AI will be directed towards building domestic computing capabilities. In light …

AI nonprofit CEO says ‘closed nature’ of most artificial intelligence research hinders innovation
1 month ago

AI nonprofit CEO says ‘closed nature’ of most artificial intelligence research hinders innovation

Associated Press  

A year before Elon Musk helped start OpenAI in San Francisco, philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen already had established his own nonprofit artificial intelligence research laboratory in Seattle. More than a decade later, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, or Ai2, isn’t nearly as well-known as the ChatGPT maker but is still pursuing the “high-impact” AI sought by Allen, …

We need not give access to AI to protect our data: Former US Energy Department official
1 month, 1 week ago

We need not give access to AI to protect our data: Former US Energy Department official

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: AI need not access our data to protect it, said Ann Dunkin, Former Chief Information Officer of the US Department of Energy, during a session on AI in cybersecurity at the Global Investors' Meet: Invest Karnataka 2025. In the session titled 'AI, Cybersecurity and Government: Building digital resilience in an uncertain world', a question was raised on the threats …

PM Modi highlights threat of deepfakes and disinformation enabled by AI
1 month, 1 week ago

PM Modi highlights threat of deepfakes and disinformation enabled by AI

Op India  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday highlighted the potential risk of Artificial Intelligence such as deepfakes and disinformation and urged world leaders to democratise the technology and re-skilling the people. Addressing the AI Summit in Paris on Tuesday, PM Modi emphasised that the technology must be rooted in local ecosystem and should enhance trust and transparency making them more people-centric …

Human artists could disappear if copyright not protected from AI, MPs told
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Human artists could disappear if copyright not protected from AI, MPs told

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Allowing the erosion of copyright …

Google removes guidelines barring its AI from being used in surveillance and weapons
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Google removes guidelines barring its AI from being used in surveillance and weapons

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In a blog post Tuesday from senior company officials involved in AI, the company argued there’s “a …

Govt eyes domestic AI models
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Govt eyes domestic AI models

Hindustan Times  

The government announced plans to support homegrown large language models developed by Indian startups and companies, days after a Chinese company’s demonstration of cost-efficient AI capabilities led to a trillion-dollar market value drop for American tech giants. Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday that six Indian entities had already shown promise and could release their foundation models in …

Column: OpenAI accuses China of stealing its content, the same accusation that authors have made against OpenAI
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Column: OpenAI accuses China of stealing its content, the same accusation that authors have made against OpenAI

LA Times  

The unveiling Monday of a Chinese-made AI bot that seems cheaper, more efficient and in some ways more accurate than American-grown versions certainly kicked up a fuss in the AI space. At some level, “OpenAI may well have done analogous things to YouTube, New York Times, and countless artists and writers” that it now charges DeepSeek with, observes AI critic …

AI-assisted works can get copyright with enough human creativity, says US copyright office
1 month, 3 weeks ago

AI-assisted works can get copyright with enough human creativity, says US copyright office

Associated Press  

Artists can copyright works they made with the help of artificial intelligence, according to a new report by the U.S. The nation’s copyright office, which sits in the Library of Congress and is not part of the executive branch, receives about half a million copyright applications per year covering millions of individual works. And while many of those decisions are …

ANI vs OpenAI: Delhi HC to hear India’s first GenAI copyright suit starting 21 February
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

ANI vs OpenAI: Delhi HC to hear India’s first GenAI copyright suit starting 21 February

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI : The Delhi high court said on Tuesday that it will begin detailed hearings on 21 February to address the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by ANI Media, a New Delhi-based media company, against OpenAI, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research organization. This marks the first copyright dispute involving OpenAI in India, with ANI accusing the company of using …

AI industry in panic after China’s DeepSeek overtakes ChatGPT and Meta
1 month, 3 weeks ago

AI industry in panic after China’s DeepSeek overtakes ChatGPT and Meta

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released the latest version of its open-source AI last week, which rivals the …

AI copyright rules ‘threaten to rip rug from under’ artists, warns MP
1 month, 3 weeks ago

AI copyright rules ‘threaten to rip rug from under’ artists, warns MP

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. According to a Government consultation pack, ministers could introduce an exception to copyright law for …

Cannot delete training data as Indian courts have no jurisdiction: OpenAI in copyright case
2 months ago

Cannot delete training data as Indian courts have no jurisdiction: OpenAI in copyright case

Firstpost  

OpenAI explained in a court filing that deleting ANI’s data would go against US laws. The company also argued that Indian courts don’t have the jurisdiction to enforce the request, as OpenAI doesn’t have any offices or servers in India This case is just one example of a larger trend of copyright disputes between content creators and AI companies. As …

Jaspreet Bindra: The ethics of AI will matter more than the technology
2 months, 1 week ago

Jaspreet Bindra: The ethics of AI will matter more than the technology

Live Mint  

My first two articles of the three-part series where I predict what AI will bring in 2025 and beyond focused on the human-artificial intelligence relationship and AI agents. Historians like Yuval Noah Harari have written eloquently about how our species could evolve to combine human intelligence and AI, harking back to the cyborgs of yore. Prediction eleven of twelve—Ethics is …

The IT ministry’s AI regulation report is broadly welcome but not entirely
2 months, 1 week ago

The IT ministry’s AI regulation report is broadly welcome but not entirely

Live Mint  

Last week, the ministry of information technology released a Report on the Regulatory Framework for AI in India. The report argues that if we assign immutable, unique identities to participants in the AI ecosystem, we will be able to use the consent artefact to track and record their activities. I am also glad that it has highlighted the need to …

AI, autonomous agents shaping future of business: Salesforce India CEO
2 months, 1 week ago

AI, autonomous agents shaping future of business: Salesforce India CEO

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Salesforce India Chairperson and CEO Arundhati Bhattacharya said they are glad that Digital Personal Data Protection rules are here and that they intend to be 100% compliant whatever comes out at the end. Bhattacharya also spoke about the growing adoption of agentic AI in India and she said start-ups in the country will define the future of agentic AI. …

Elon Musk says xAI ran out of all human-made data on the internet in 2024, may move to synthetic data
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Elon Musk says xAI ran out of all human-made data on the internet in 2024, may move to synthetic data

Firstpost  

Elon Musk noted that tech firms might now have to rely on synthetic data—material created by AI itself—to train and refine their models. This marks a significant shift in how cutting-edge AI systems like ChatGPT are developed Musk explained that the supply of this training data has been used up, leaving companies to seek alternative methods. Speaking about his AI …

Why open-source AI models are good for the world
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Why open-source AI models are good for the world

Live Mint  

Open innovation lies at the heart of the artificial-intelligence boom. Models that are “open-source"—ie, that make underlying code available to all, to remix and reuse as they please—are often seen as dangerous. Anthropic, a model-maker, has called for urgent regulation, warning about the “unique" risks of open models, such as their ability to be “fine-tuned" using data on, say, making …

Ethical concerns around AI are genuine, need scrutiny: Experts
3 months ago

Ethical concerns around AI are genuine, need scrutiny: Experts

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: The ethical concerns around Artificial Intelligence are serious and genuine and are not being addressed to the extent they should be. The perceived benefits of AI and Large Language Models at the moment are more in the nature of conjectures and need backing with solid evidence of impact on the ground, especially when it comes to under-served and marginal …

Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized
55 years, 2 months ago

Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized

Wired  

In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal AI startup called Ross Intelligence, alleging that it had violated US copyright law by reproducing materials from Westlaw, Thomson Reuters’ legal research platform. But it’s now clear that the case—filed more than two years before the generative AI boom began—was the first strike in a much …

In charts: How AI companies' data hunt is sparking copyright wars
3 months, 2 weeks ago

In charts: How AI companies' data hunt is sparking copyright wars

Live Mint  

Last month, news agency ANI filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, alleging unauthorized use of its content to train the generative artificial intelligence chatbot. AI companies, however, largely argue that their language models are built on publicly available data, which they contend is protected under fair use policy. Read this | OpenAI vs ANI: Why ‘hallucinations’ are …

Ethical use of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and opportunities
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Ethical use of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and opportunities

Hindustan Times  

The journey of Artificial Intelligence traces its roots back to 1950, when British mathematician Alan Turing asked, "Can machines think?" Leveraging techniques like deep learning, limited memory AI drives the functionality of generative AI models, which can produce human-like text, music, and even code. Data privacy and security - With vast data troves powering AI, ensuring robust encryption, anonymisation, and …

Rise of AI presents dual challenges on security front
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Rise of AI presents dual challenges on security front

China Daily  

Regulatory controls The large amount of polluted information on AI platforms and abuse of AI-generated content, have made more people realize that what they see is not necessarily real, prompting them to demand stronger oversight and more comprehensive management of the technology. In August 2023, China issued an interim regulation to manage AI-generated services and products, aiming to safeguard national …

Mint Explainer: The OpenAI case and what’s at stake for AI and copyright in India
4 months ago

Mint Explainer: The OpenAI case and what’s at stake for AI and copyright in India

Live Mint  

The first legal challenge to generative artificial intelligence models in India surfaced last week when news agency ANI filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the Delhi High Court alleging copyright infringement. “This case asks an Indian court to decide whether the unauthorized scraping and use of copyrighted content for AI training constitutes copyright infringement and whether AI outputs based on …

New York Times accuses OpenAI of deleting crucial evidence in copyright lawsuit
4 months ago

New York Times accuses OpenAI of deleting crucial evidence in copyright lawsuit

Firstpost  

The Times has been embroiled in a lawsuit against both OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of unlawfully using its articles to train AI tools. This case is one of several ongoing legal battles between publishers and AI companies over the use of copyrighted content in training AI system As part of the discovery process, the court required OpenAI to share …

EU publishes first draft of regulatory guidance for AI Act covering transparency, copyright and risk assessment
4 months, 1 week ago

EU publishes first draft of regulatory guidance for AI Act covering transparency, copyright and risk assessment

Firstpost  

The EU’s AI Act, which officially went into effect on August 1, laid the foundation for these new guidelines. However, there were gaps left in regulating more complex AI systems At the heart of this draft are rules around transparency, copyright, risk assessment, and governance. File Image The European Union has released the first draft of its Code of Practice …

Trump 2.0 is making OpenAI sweat as other AI players look forward to major shakeup
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump 2.0 is making OpenAI sweat as other AI players look forward to major shakeup

Firstpost  

Trump’s dislike for regulating AI firms is no secret. A hot topic is his intention to scrap President Biden’s 2023 Executive Order on AI, a rule focused on strict measures to curb AI misuse Donald Trump is back, winning the 2024 presidential race with just over 270 electoral votes. Making AI Great Again Despite some eyebrow-raising comments Trump has made, …

Balancing Innovation and Consumer Protection: A Framework for High-Risk AI in India
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Balancing Innovation and Consumer Protection: A Framework for High-Risk AI in India

Live Mint  

India's approach to regulating high-risk AI systems should be targeted and risk-based, prioritizing consumer protection while fostering innovation. The country should learn from the successes of other nations while considering local needs and challenges. The draft Digital India Act 2023 should be revised to address high-risk AI systems and ensure consumer protection. Existing legal frameworks should be leveraged, and the …

Open-Source AI: A Chance for European Innovation
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Open-Source AI: A Chance for European Innovation

Live Mint  

Europe should embrace open-source AI to create a more level playing field and foster innovation. The open-source AI model, developed by Meta, is a powerful tool that can help artists and creators discover new opportunities. However, the current regulatory structure in Europe is hindering innovation and holding back developers. Open-source AI can help to address this issue and create a …

DAMIAN COLLINS: No 10 must block AI giants attempting to steal our artists' work
5 months ago

DAMIAN COLLINS: No 10 must block AI giants attempting to steal our artists' work

Daily Mail  

The creative industries are one of the UK’s greatest assets: drivers of innovation and growth, as well as a source of cultural power and wellbeing. At the beginning of last month, however, Google published a policy paper entitled: Unlocking The UK’s AI Potential. At the beginning of last month Google published a policy paper entitled: Unlocking The UK’s AI Potential …

OpenAI Agrees With New AI Bill Which Needs Watermarking For Images And Content
6 months, 3 weeks ago

OpenAI Agrees With New AI Bill Which Needs Watermarking For Images And Content

News 18  

SAN FRANCISCO: ChatGPT developer OpenAI is supporting a California bill that would require tech companies to label AI-generated content, which can range from harmless memes to deepfakes aimed at spreading misinformation about political candidates. The bill, called AB 3211, has so far been overshadowed by attention on another California state artificial intelligence bill, SB 1047, which mandates that AI developers …

AI systems could collapse into nonsense, scientists warn
7 months, 3 weeks ago

AI systems could collapse into nonsense, scientists warn

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy AI systems could collapse into nonsense as more of the internet gets filled …

Everything On The Internet Can Be Used For Free To Train AI Models: Microsoft's AI Division CEO
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Everything On The Internet Can Be Used For Free To Train AI Models: Microsoft's AI Division CEO

ABP News  

The Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft's new artificial intelligence division, in a recent interview with CNBC, said that anything that is published on the internet ends up becoming a 'freeware' which can be copied and then used for the training of AI models. That’s been the understanding.” Microsoft Sidelines With AI Companies Against Publishers & News Organisations He then went …

Opinion: As AI is embraced, what happens to the artists whose work was stolen to build it?
9 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: As AI is embraced, what happens to the artists whose work was stolen to build it?

LA Times  

OpenAI announced Media Manager, a tool to be released next year that purportedly will help writers and other creators control how their work is used. Amid the hype surrounding Apple’s new deal with OpenAI, one issue has been largely papered over: The AI company’s foundational models are, and have always been, built atop the theft of creative professionals’ work. But …

AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text
9 months, 2 weeks ago

AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In the short term, tech companies like ChatGPT-maker OpenAI …

Former OpenAI employees lead push to protect whistleblowers flagging artificial intelligence risks
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Former OpenAI employees lead push to protect whistleblowers flagging artificial intelligence risks

Associated Press  

A group of OpenAI’s current and former workers is calling on the ChatGPT-maker and other artificial intelligence companies to protect employees who flag safety risks about AI technology. The development of more powerful AI systems is “moving fast and there are a lot of strong incentives to barrel ahead without adequate caution,” said former OpenAI engineer Daniel Ziegler, one of …

How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI
11 months, 2 weeks ago

How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI

Wired  

Anything you’ve ever posted online—a cringey tweet, an ancient blog post, an enthusiastic restaurant review, or a blurry Instagram selfie—has almost assuredly been gobbled up and used as part of the training materials for the current bombardment of generative AI. Tech companies have scraped vast swathes of the web to gather the data they claim is needed to create generative …

Big Tech in ‘underground’ race to license archives that will train Artificial Intelligence
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Big Tech in ‘underground’ race to license archives that will train Artificial Intelligence

The Hindu  

At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world’s top image-hosting site. CEO Ted Leonard, who runs the 40-strong company out of Edwards, Colorado, said he is in talks with multiple tech companies to license Photobucket’s 13 billion photos and videos to be used to train generative AI models that can produce new content in response to text …

Today’s Cache | EU’s AI Rules get lawmaker approval; OpenAI’s Sora to become available this year; U.S. moves closer towards TikTok ban
1 year ago

Today’s Cache | EU’s AI Rules get lawmaker approval; OpenAI’s Sora to become available this year; U.S. moves closer towards TikTok ban

The Hindu  

EU’s AI Rules get lawmaker approval Five years after the European Union’s AI Act regulations were proposed, EU lawmakers have given their final approval to the bloc’s AI law, and voted in favour of it. OpenAI’s Sora to become available this year OpenAI’s text-to-video generator, Sora, is likely to be released to most users within a few months, according to …

Will artists lead the revolution against AI?
1 year ago

Will artists lead the revolution against AI?

Live Mint  

I doubt there is any form of love comparable to what an artist has for her art. On to Mint’s best journalism from this week: Executives of India’s largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services huddled up in Abu Dhabi last week to discuss the company’s future. Mint’s startup and new economy editor Ranjani Raghavan along with Sneha Shah take a …

It's not just Elon Musk: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confronting a mountain of legal challenges
1 year ago

It's not just Elon Musk: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confronting a mountain of legal challenges

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It's too early to tell if OpenAI and …

It’s not just Elon Musk: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confronting a mountain of legal challenges
1 year ago

It’s not just Elon Musk: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confronting a mountain of legal challenges

Associated Press  

After a year of basking in global fame, the San Francisco company OpenAI is now confronting a multitude of challenges that could threaten its position at the vanguard of artificial intelligence research. It’s too early to tell if OpenAI and its attorneys will beat back a barrage of lawsuits from Elon Musk, The New York Times and bestselling novelists such …

AI And The Legal Landscape: Embracing Innovation, Addressing Challenges
1 year ago

AI And The Legal Landscape: Embracing Innovation, Addressing Challenges

Live Law  

In the realm of technological advancement, one of the most intriguing and rapidly evolving fields is the integration of Artificial Intelligence into various aspects of society. It is essential to delve into the complex relationship between law and AI, exploring the legal frameworks, ethical concerns, and emerging issues in this dynamic landscape. Additionally, the rapid pace of technological advancement in …

Risky AI tools to operate under mandatory safeguards, as government lays out response to rapid rise of AI
1 year, 2 months ago

Risky AI tools to operate under mandatory safeguards, as government lays out response to rapid rise of AI

ABC  

The federal government has introduced its plan to respond to the rapid rise in use of artificial intelligence technologies, which will impose hard rules on the highest risk technologies, while minimising interventions in low risk AI to allow its growth to continue. Key points: The government will introduce a risk-based system to protect against the worst potential harms of AI …

Column: The AI industry has a battle-tested plan to keep using our content without paying for it
1 year, 2 months ago

Column: The AI industry has a battle-tested plan to keep using our content without paying for it

LA Times  

ChatGPT replicates New York Times articles nearly verbatim, a lawsuit by the newspaper claims. “It’s legally required.” Meanwhile, a fiery study recently published in IEEE Spectrum, co-written by the cognitive scientist and AI expert Gary Marcus and the film industry veteran Reid Southern, shows that Midjourney and Dall-E, two of the leading AI image generators, were trained on copyrighted material, …

Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data
55 years, 2 months ago

Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data

Wired  

Do AI companies need to pay for the training data that powers their generative AI systems? Today, at a Senate hearing on AI’s impact on journalism, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle agreed that OpenAI and others should pay media outlets for using their work in AI projects. Coffey claimed that AI companies “eviscerate the quality content they feed …

Meta used copyrighted books for AI training despite its own lawyers' warnings, authors allege
1 year, 3 months ago

Meta used copyrighted books for AI training despite its own lawyers' warnings, authors allege

The Hindu  

Meta Platforms' lawyers had warned it about the legal perils of using thousands of pirated books to train its AI models, but the company did it anyway, according to a new filing in a copyright infringement lawsuit initially brought this summer. The new filing late on Monday night consolidates two lawsuits brought against the Facebook and Instagram owner by comedian …

The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started
1 year, 3 months ago

The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started

Wired  

The biggest fight of the generative AI revolution is headed to the courtroom—and no, it’s not about the latest boardroom drama at OpenAI. AI builders have largely assumed that using copyrighted material as training data is perfectly legal under the umbrella of “fair use”—after all, they’re only borrowing the work to extract statistical signals from it, not trying to pass …

AI companies can be innovative and responsible: Markham Erickson, Google executive
1 year, 3 months ago

AI companies can be innovative and responsible: Markham Erickson, Google executive

Hindustan Times  

Regulating artificial intelligence does not need to be a binary choice between self-regulation by companies and strict legal guardrails prescribed by governments, and AI companies can be innovative while behaving responsibly, a top Google executive said on Wednesday. In an interview with HT, Markham Erickson, vice president, government affairs and public policy at Google’s Centers for Excellence, shared the company’s …

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