Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher’s family has been awarded €200,000 in compensation from the publishers of Die Aktuelle. This German magazine printed an AI-generated ‘interview’ with Schumacher in April 2023. Its front cover featured…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
Ed Newton-Rex, ex-VP of Audio at Stability AI, announced the launch of ‘Fairly Trained,’ a non-profit organization dedicated to certifying generative AI companies for fairer training…
By Sam Jeans · 4 min read
January 2024 began with talks of Midjourney, a leading force in the AI image-generation world, using the names and styles of over 16,000 artists without their…
By Sam Jeans · 8 min read
Over 16,000 artists’ names have been linked with the non-consensual training of Midjourney’s image generation models. The Midjourney artist database is attached to an amended lawsuit…
By Sam Jeans · 5 min read
Was 2023 the Wild West era of AI development? Will lawsuits crack down on forms of misuse in 2024, or will it be more of the…
By Sam Jeans · 3 min read
A cross-party committee of Members of Parliament (MPs) has called on the UK government to reconsider its stance on text and data mining in relation to…
By Sam Jeans · 3 min read
If you thought AI’s strange hold over 2023 couldn’t get any weirder, then check this out: an AI-generated rap song featuring Donald Trump’s voice now sits…
By Sam Jeans · 3 min read
Artists and creators are putting AI developers to the sword over potential copyright infringement. Type a prompt into an AI image generator such as DALL-E, MidJourney,…
By Sam Jeans · 9 min read
News publishers discussed uniting against the unpermitted use of their news content for AI purposes in June. They’re inching closer to finalizing a deal, with potential…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
Thousands of authors, including Nora Roberts, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Chabon, and Margaret Atwood, have signed a letter to urge AI companies to stop using their…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
