Meta Scraped Every Australian Adult’s Public Photos to Train AI
Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has admitted to scraping the public photos and text of every Australian adult Facebook or Instagram user dating back nearly 20 years.
Major AI Image Dataset is Back Online After Being Pulled Over CSAM
The open-source LAION-5B dataset used to train AI image generators has been re-released after it was pulled last year when child sex abuse material (CSAM) was discovered among the billions of pictures.
YouTuber Launches Class Action Lawsuit Against Nvidia for Scraping Videos
A YouTuber has filed a class action lawsuit against Nvidia after the technology company used his content to build an AI video model.
Ex-Google CEO Says AI Companies Can Steal Content With Impunity
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt made controversial comments during a discussion at Stanford University where he suggested AI companies don't need to worry about stealing copyrighted content.
Nvidia Used Videos From Netflix and YouTube to Build AI Model
Nvidia has been caught using videos from YouTube, Netflix, and other sources to build an AI model, according to a leak obtained by 404 Media.
AI Models Turn to Mush if Trained on AI-Generated Material
If generative AI models are to continue to expand, they will need high-quality, human-created training data say scientists who found that using AI content corrupts the output.
Runway Trained Its Video AI By Scraping Popular Photography YouTubers
The AI video generator Runway used hundreds of YouTube videos to train its latest Gen-3 model with, according to a 404 Media investigation.
Data Owners Are Increasingly Blocking AI Companies From Using Their IP
Training data for generative AI models like Midjourney and ChatGPT is beginning to dry up, according to a new study.
Tech Firms Including Apple Caught Using YouTube Data to Train AI Models
Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and Salesforce have all been caught using YouTube data to build their AI models with.
The Head of Microsoft AI Thinks All Content Online is ‘Fair Use’
The CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman has shown an alarming ignorance of copyright law after he claimed that all content on the open web is fair use.
Photojournalists Sign Open Letter Urging Meta Not to Use Their Photos for AI Training
Scores of photographers have signed an open letter rallying against Meta's plan to use public photos on Instagram and Facebook to train its AI tools.
Meta is Using Your Instagram Photos to Train its ‘Amazing’ AI Image Generator
During an interview at Bloomberg's Tech Summit last Thursday, Meta's chief product officer Chris Cox said that Instagram and Facebook have an advantage in the generative AI space because of all the "public" photos available to them.
Photographer Sues Google for Using Her Photos to Train AI Image Generator
Photographer Jingna Zhang has launched a lawsuit against Google along with three other artists who accuse the search giant of using their copyrighted work in the training of its AI image generator model Imagen.
All The Photo Companies That Have Struck Licensing Deals With AI Firms
The rise of generative AI means that huge archives of photographs and videos are suddenly valuable with the current situation being compared to a gold rush, but which platforms are licensing their content to large tech firms for the purposes of training AI models?
Artists and Photographers Bemoan There is No Way to Opt Out of Meta’s AI
After Meta announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) models were trained on public Instagram and Facebook posts; it began allowing people to "opt-out" of the training data.
Canva Adds New AI Tools with Magic Studio
Canva celebrates its 10th anniversary with the announcement of a new artificial intelligence suite, Magic Studio, that adds new tools to the editing app.
Japan Declares AI Training Data Fair Game and ‘Will Not Enforce Copyright’
In the first such declaration of its kind, Japan has seemingly asserted that it will not enforce copyrights when it comes to training generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs.