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5 things about AI you may have missed today: McAfee unveils AI-powered product, expert calls for AI regulation and more
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: McAfee unveils AI-powered product, expert calls for AI regulation and more

[ad_1] AI Roundup: BFSI expert Alok Bansal emphasized the critical need for a unified regulatory framework in the face of rapid adoption of generative AI, especially in sectors handling sensitive data. ConveGenius just launched SwiftChat, an AI chatbot platform on Amazon Web Services, delivering personalized learning content in regional languages to government schools. In a separate development, authors, including George RR Martin, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train AI models.All this, and more in today's AI roundup. 1. “Critical Need for a Unified Regulatory Framework," says BFSI expertWith generative AI playing a crucial role in several industries, there is a critical need for regulatory guidelines around...
Sarah Silverman sues Meta, OpenAI for copyright infringement
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Sarah Silverman sues Meta, OpenAI for copyright infringement

[ad_1] Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models.The proposed class action lawsuits filed by Silverman, Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in San Francisco federal court Friday allege Facebook parent company Meta and ChatGPT maker OpenAI used copyrighted material to train chat bots. Meta and OpenAI, a private company backed by Microsoft Corp, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Sunday. The lawsuits underscore the legal risks developers of chat bots face when using troves of copyrighted material to create apps that deliver realistic responses to user prompts.Silverman, Kadrey and Golden alle...
ChatGPT dragged to US court over AI copyright
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ChatGPT dragged to US court over AI copyright

[ad_1] US comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors have sued OpenAI over copyright infringement in the latest pushback by creatives since the company's release of ChatGPT took the world by storm.The plaintiffs accuse the San Francisco company of using their works to train their artificial intelligence models without permission, adding to a series of cases that could complicate the development of tech world's biggest new trend. The trio also filed a suit against Facebook parent company Meta, whose less known open source models also used pirated downloads of their books for training purposes, the suit alleged. Much of the training material used by OpenAI and Meta "comes from copyrighted works -- including books written by the plaintiffs -- that were copied by OpenAI and Meta without...
US lawyer sorry after ChatGPT creates ‘bogus’ cases
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US lawyer sorry after ChatGPT creates ‘bogus’ cases

[ad_1] What happened when a US lawyer used ChatGPT to prepare a court filing? The artificial intelligence program invented fake cases and rulings, leaving the attorney rather red-faced.New York-based lawyer Steven Schwartz apologized to a judge this week for submitting a brief full of falsehoods generated by the OpenAI chatbot. "I simply had no idea that ChatGPT was capable of fabricating entire case citations or judicial opinions, especially in a manner that appeared authentic," Schwartz wrote in a court filing. The blunder occurred in a civil case being heard by Manhattan federal court involving a man who is suing the Colombian airline Avianca.Roberto Mata claims he was injured when a metal serving plate hit his leg during a flight in August 2019 from El Salvador to New York.After the...
Shocking! OpenAI gets sued after ChatGPT accuses man of crime
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Shocking! OpenAI gets sued after ChatGPT accuses man of crime

[ad_1] ChatGPT had created trouble for OpenAI recently for producing fake legal citations. Just last month, OpenAI's generative AI model put a lawyer in trouble as it fabricated cases that he then used in his legal filings. Now, in another recent case, ChatGPT wrongly accused a man of a crime, and OpenAI, the company behind it, is being sued for libel. While the whole world has jumped on the artificial intelligence (AI) bandwagon, several countries have also introduced their national strategy documents on AI.What happenedAccording to a report by Gizmodo, a first-of-its-kind lawsuit is being filed against OpenAI after its popular generative AI chatbot ChatGPT accused a man of embezzlement. Earlier this year, a journalist asked ChatGPT to provide the summary of a legal case titled The Sec...
Australian mayor readies world’s first defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT content
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Australian mayor readies world’s first defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT content

[ad_1] A regional Australian mayor said he may sue OpenAI if it does not correct ChatGPT's false claims that he had served time in prison for bribery, in what would be the first defamation lawsuit against the automated text service.Brian Hood, who was elected mayor of Hepburn Shire, 120km (75 miles) northwest of Melbourne, last November, became concerned about his reputation when members of the public told him ChatGPT had falsely named him as a guilty party in a foreign bribery scandal involving a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia in the early 2000s. Hood did work for the subsidiary, Note Printing Australia, but was the person who notified authorities about payment of bribes to foreign officials to win currency printing contracts, and was never charged with a crime, lawyers re...