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Artificial Intelligence, Trademark And Copyright: Emerging Issues

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Artificial Intelligence refers to the simulation of human intelligence, where machines are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions. The problem is exacerbated when deep fakes, driven by AI, are so good that it is impossible for the brand owner — let alone the hapless judge — to tell one from the other. If it is, after all, …

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Who Is Suchir Balaji? Former OpenAI Researcher & Whistleblower Who Opposed AI's Use Of Copyrighted Works Without Permission

ABP News

A former researcher at OpenAI and whistleblower, Suchir Balaji, passed away last month at his San Francisco flat, reigniting discussions about ethical challenges surrounding AI. Who Is Suchir Balaji: His Last Tweet Balaji in his last post on X wrote, “I recently participated in a NYT story about fair use and generative AI, and why I’m sceptical ‘fair use’ would …

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1 week, 2 days ago

Who is Suchir Balaji, ex-OpenAI researcher who worked on ChatGPT and exposed AI’s ‘dark side’?

The Hindu

26-year-old Suchir Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26. His sudden death has shocked the industry as the news comes three months after Balaji spoke to The New York Times, in a lengthy interview, against OpenAI’s unabashed use of copyrighted data and how it was illegal and why it could ultimately harm the Internet. Finally, …

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Who was Suchir Balaji, the OpenAI whistleblower found dead in US?

Firstpost

Suchir Balaji, the Indian-origin former OpenAI researcher has reportedly died by suicide in his San Francisco apartment. The 26-year-old blew the whistle on alleged ethical breaches by the AI giant and cited concerns of them illegally using copyrighted material to train their technologies, including ChatGPT Balaji came into the spotlight after he raised worries over generative AI and its purported …

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What did Suchir Balaji expose about OpenAI? Whistleblower wrote about ‘copyright, fair use’ in final X post before death

Hindustan Times

The tragic suicide of former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji has renewed conversations about companies breaking copyright law. Final X post reveals details Balaji worked at OpenAI for four years, before quitting after he realised the technology would bring more harm than good to society. As part of a good faith compromise, OpenAI reportedly said it would search Balaji’s custodial file …

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1 week, 2 days ago

OpenAI Whistleblower Who Raised Concerns Over Copyright Breaches Found Dead In His San Francisco Flat

ABP News

A 26-year-old former OpenAI researcher, who flagged concerns about the company's operations and practices, was found dead in his flat in San Francisco recently. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation.” The director of the office of city's chief medical examiner said, “The manner of death has been determined to be suicide.” Suchir Balaji Vs OpenAI …

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OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco home, police ruled suicide

Firstpost

OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji was found dead at his San Franciso home, two months after he alleged that the company is infringing copyright laws to train ChatGPT A former employee of the artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, who alleged that the company’s programs violated copyright law, was found dead at his San Francisco apartment. San Francisco police found 26-year-old Suchir Balaji …

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1 week, 2 days ago

Whistleblower's post on ChatGPT, OpenAI goes viral after his death

Hindustan Times

A social media post by deceased OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji, in which he detailed why the ChatGPT maker's argument of “fair use” in response to lawsuits by media organisations was “pretty implausible,” has gone viral after the news of his death, ruled by officials as suicide, became public. He wrote in the post, “I recently participated in a NYT story …

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1 week, 2 days ago

OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji, Indian-American, found dead in San Francisco apartment. Who was he?

Live Mint

Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old former OpenAI researcher who had voiced concerns about the company's policies and procedures, was discovered dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26, the Chicago Tribune reported. Balaji’s death comes three months after he publicly accused OpenAI of violating US copyright law while developing ChatGPT. Suchir Balaji's last social media post "At first, I knew …

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OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco apartment

India Today

Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the artificial intelligence company's operations and practices, was found dead in his flat in San Francisco on November 26, reports said on Saturday. The death of Balaji, an Indian-American researcher who had accused OpenAI of copyright violations shortly after resigning from the company in August, sparked a strong reaction …

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Canadian news media companies sue ChatGPT owner OpenAI over copyright breaches: 'It's illegal'

Hindustan Times

Five Canadian news media companies filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT owner OpenAI on Friday, accusing the artificial intelligence company of repeatedly violating copyright and online terms of use, news agency Reuters reported. "Instead of obtaining the information legally, OpenAI has chosen to blatantly misappropriate the News Media Companies’ valuable intellectual property and use it for its own, including commercial, purposes, …

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4 weeks, 1 day 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 …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

OpenAI says New York Times 'hacked' ChatGPT to build copyright lawsuit

Hindustan Times

OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times' copyright lawsuit against it, arguing that the newspaper "hacked" its chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence systems to generate misleading evidence for the case. OpenAI said in a filing in Manhattan federal court on Monday that the Times caused the technology to reproduce its material through "deceptive …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Column: Who’s really winning in Sarah Silverman’s copyright suit against OpenAI?

LA Times

If you’ve been following the war between authors and the purveyors of AI chatbots over whether the latter are infringing the copyrights of the former, you might have concluded that comedian and author Sarah Silverman and several fellow authors suffered a crushing blow in their lawsuit against OpenAI, the leading bot maker. That’s the way much of the press portrayed …

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11 months, 1 week 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, …

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11 months, 1 week ago

ChatGPT-maker braces for fight with New York Times and authors on 'fair use' of copyrighted works

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. THE RESPONSE OpenAI and Microsoft haven't yet filed formal …

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11 months, 1 week ago

ChatGPT-maker braces for fight with New York Times and authors on ‘fair use’ of copyrighted works

Associated Press

A barrage of high-profile lawsuits in a New York federal court will test the future of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products that wouldn’t be so eloquent had they not ingested huge troves of copyrighted human works. THE RESPONSE OpenAI and Microsoft haven’t yet filed formal counter-arguments on the New York cases, but OpenAI made a public statement this week …

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1 year 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 …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Column: AI investors say they’ll go broke if they have to pay for copyrighted works. Don’t believe it

LA Times

President Biden signing an executive order on artificial intelligence, including a government study of its copyright implications, as Vice President Kamala Harris looks on. — Andreessen Horowitz They say that if they’re forced to pay fees to copyright holders simply for using their creative works to “train” AI chatbots and other such programs, most AI firms might be forced out …

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1 year, 2 months ago

AI is causing panic for authors. Now the courts are involved

LA Times

When novelist Douglas Preston first started messing around with ChatGPT, he gave the AI software a challenge: Could it write an original poem based on a character from some of his books? “That was a very disturbing feeling,” Preston said, “not unlike coming home and finding that someone’s been in your house and taken things.” Those worries led Preston to …

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1 year, 2 months ago

A.I. May Not Get a Chance to Kill Us if This Kills It First

Slate

The brain that wrote your favorite novel consumed Dickens and Austen, Pynchon and Didion. Reuters argues that Ross’ product was simply “headnotes with question marks at the end,” as the judge recently summarized. “If your work is directly competing in the same market with the work that you’re using, that’s a huge factor weighing against fair use,” said Bob Brauneis, …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Thomson Reuters AI copyright dispute must go to trial, judge says

The Hindu

A jury must decide the outcome of a lawsuit by information services company Thomson Reuters accusing Ross Intelligence of unlawfully copying content from its legal-research platform Westlaw to train a competing artificial intelligence-based platform, a Delaware federal judge said on Monday. "This case continues to be about Ross’ theft of Thomson Reuters proprietary commentary, analysis, and organisational system," the spokesperson …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Game of Thrones creator and other authors sue ChatGPT-maker for ‘theft’

Al Jazeera

OpenAI and other defendants have said their use of training data scraped from the internet qualifies as fair use under US copyright law. An OpenAI spokesperson said on Wednesday that the company respects authors’ rights and is “having productive conversations with many creators around the world, including the Authors Guild”. In papers filed in federal court in New York, the …

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1 year, 3 months ago

OpenAI defends alleged use of novels in training data sets for “innovation”

The Hindu

OpenAI has defended the use of copyrighted materials such as novels in data sets for training large language models, claiming that fair use protects such innovation. In a court filing dated August 28, OpenAI responded to the suit filed by authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad, who claimed that the AI startup used their copyrighted work to train ChatGPT. Authors …

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Artificial Intelligence, Trademark And Copyright: Emerging Issues

Who Is Suchir Balaji? Former OpenAI Researcher & Whistleblower Who Opposed AI's Use Of Copyrighted Works Without Permission

Who is Suchir Balaji, ex-OpenAI researcher who worked on ChatGPT and exposed AI’s ‘dark side’?

Who was Suchir Balaji, the OpenAI whistleblower found dead in US?

What did Suchir Balaji expose about OpenAI? Whistleblower wrote about ‘copyright, fair use’ in final X post before death

OpenAI Whistleblower Who Raised Concerns Over Copyright Breaches Found Dead In His San Francisco Flat

OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco home, police ruled suicide

Whistleblower's post on ChatGPT, OpenAI goes viral after his death

OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji, Indian-American, found dead in San Francisco apartment. Who was he?

OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco apartment

Canadian news media companies sue ChatGPT owner OpenAI over copyright breaches: 'It's illegal'

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

OpenAI says New York Times 'hacked' ChatGPT to build copyright lawsuit

Column: Who’s really winning in Sarah Silverman’s copyright suit against OpenAI?

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

ChatGPT-maker braces for fight with New York Times and authors on 'fair use' of copyrighted works

ChatGPT-maker braces for fight with New York Times and authors on ‘fair use’ of copyrighted works

The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started

Column: AI investors say they’ll go broke if they have to pay for copyrighted works. Don’t believe it

AI is causing panic for authors. Now the courts are involved

A.I. May Not Get a Chance to Kill Us if This Kills It First

Thomson Reuters AI copyright dispute must go to trial, judge says

Game of Thrones creator and other authors sue ChatGPT-maker for ‘theft’

OpenAI defends alleged use of novels in training data sets for “innovation”