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The ownership of content in the age of artificial intelligence
16Mar By adminNo Comments
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The ownership of content in the age of artificial intelligence

[ad_1] As artificial intelligence (AI) begins to touch our lives in every aspect, who owns the digital content we generate on a daily basis? The answer is complex. Today's consumers find themselves in a world where their personal data is constantly being collected, analyzed, and utilized to boost the services we use. In fact, now it's also being used to create further content? Who truly owns all this digital content?According to a report by Chiratae Ventures, the consumer tech industry will touch US$300 billion by 2027, and more than 500 million Indians are currently seeking entertainment and gaming services on the internet on a daily basis. According to Forbes, active social media penetration in India is 33.4%, and generally, in January 2023, 67.5% of all internet users in India, whate...
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Facebook must face $3.7 bln UK mass action over market dominance, tribunal rules
16Feb By adminNo Comments
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Facebook must face $3.7 bln UK mass action over market dominance, tribunal rules

[ad_1] Facebook must face a collective lawsuit valued at around 3 billion pounds ($3.77 billion) over allegations the social media giant abused its dominant position to monetise users' personal data, a London tribunal ruled on Thursday.Legal academic Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, who is bringing the case on behalf of around 45 million Facebook users in the UK, says users were not properly compensated for the value of personal data they had to provide. The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) initially refused to give the go-ahead to the case against Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms Inc, which has previously said the lawsuit is "entirely without merit". We are on WhatsApp Channels. Click to join. But the CAT ruled on Thursday that a revised claim put forward by Gormsen's lawyers should be a...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI adoption by Indian businesses, Nasscom survey, AI in cancer fight, more
26Dec By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI adoption by Indian businesses, Nasscom survey, AI in cancer fight, more

[ad_1] Today, December 26, is the day after Christmas, also known as Boxing Day. As Businesses open again and people return to work, we have new artificial intelligence developments to report on. At first, a Nasscom survey found that the majority of Indian businesses have reported having either matured Responsible AI (RAI) practices and policies or having initiated formal steps towards the adoption of such responsible practices. In other news, researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have run tests and found that doctors can more efficiently catch cancer-causing tumors during colonoscopy with the help of AI. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.Indian businesses take steps for responsible AI adoptionAccording to a Nasscom survey, almost 60 percent of ...
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AI shock to the system! Researchers fool ChatGPT to reveal personal data using a simple prompt
1Dec By adminNo Comments
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AI shock to the system! Researchers fool ChatGPT to reveal personal data using a simple prompt

[ad_1] A team of artificial intelligence (AI) researchers has successfully exploited a vulnerability in OpenAI's generative AI model ChatGPT, as per a study published by them. Researchers used a simple prompt to trick the chatbot into revealing personal information of individuals including name, email address, phone number, and more. Surprisingly, the study claimed that the team was able to repeat the exploit multiple times to extract 10,000 unique verbatim memorized training examples. The extracted personal information is believed to be embedded deep into the system's training data, which it should not be able to divulge, and is a major privacy concern.The study is currently uploaded to arXiv as a pre-print version and is not peer-reviewed yet, which would shed more light on its credib...
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Italian watchdog OKs Google’s commitments to end data case
1Aug By adminNo Comments
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Italian watchdog OKs Google’s commitments to end data case

[ad_1] Italy's AGCM competition watchdog said on Monday it had accepted commitments proposed by Google to end a case over the tech giant's alleged abuse of its dominant position in the user data portability market. The regulator opened the investigation last year following a complaint from Italian startup Hoda which accused Google of hindering the right of the U.S. company's users to share their personal data with other digital service platforms. In response to the probe, Google proposed some changes to its data backup service in order to enhance users' ability to extract their personal data from the Alphabet unit's services, the regulator said in a statement. The company also pledged to make available a test version of a tool it is developing to enable other digital service operators...
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