RSF’s case came as U.K. newspaper The Guardian announced on Wednesday that it was leaving the “toxic” platform, citing Musk’s influence in the U.S. election and because of “often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism.” Spanish daily newspaper La Vanguardia also quit X, saying Thursday that X … Read more
Virkkunen on Tuesday took a quintessential Brussels approach to the issue, sticking to her script and spelling out the same, legalistic answer all evening: Any company operating in Europe must abide by its rules. She said she wanted to speed up the investigations under the DSA, but the work needed to be “evidence-based.” She stopped … Read more
Facebook owner Meta says it has teamed up with Blumhouse Productions, the Hollywood company behind popular horror films such as The Purge and Get Out, to put its new generative AI video model Movie Gen to the test. The announcement comes after Meta unveiled Movie Gen, which it said can create realistic-seeming video and audio … Read more
The highly anticipated filming of Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana finally began earlier this year, albeit after facing a few hurdles. After a brief pause to rework the costumes, the production commenced at Film City in Mumbai. This followed a period of meticulous planning and adjustments, including a crucial phase of look tests with the updated outfits … Read more
Nvidia, whose chips power artificial intelligence, has been sued by three US authors who said it used their copyrighted books without permission to train its NeMo AI platform. Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O’Nan said their works were part of a data set of about 196,640 books that helped train NeMo to simulate ordinary … Read more
When searching for the perfect gift for the gamer in your life, you have a lot of options. From controllers and keyboards to collectibles and more, it can be hard to figure out what they’d like best. However, it’s nearly impossible to go wrong with a Steam game, as the platform is used by millions … Read more
Netflix has become the latest major tech company to highlight the risk of generative AI. In its annual report, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, Netflix added generative AI to its list of risk factors, a section required under SEC rules. Under the sub-heading of video competition, the report reads: … Read more
Australia may push through a new law forcing tech companies to watermark or label content generated by artificial intelligence, as its federal government tries to tackle “high-risk” AI products evolving faster than legislation. A recent consultation process on safe and responsible AI use in Australia found adopting AI and automation could increase the country’s GDP … Read more
OpenAI, a pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory, has made a bold assertion, stating that the creation of sophisticated AI tools like ChatGPT is deemed ‘impossible’ without the incorporation of copyrighted material. This proclamation has ignited discussions about the interplay between AI development, intellectual property, and the ethical considerations surrounding the use of copyrighted content. … Read more
New York: San Altman-run OpenAI and Microsoft have been hit by another class-action lawsuit by book authors, who alleged that the company “simply stole” their copyrighted works to help “build a billion-dollar artificial intelligence system”. The lawsuit was filed in the Manhattan federal court late on Friday by non-fiction authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage, … Read more
