Five Things AI: Lawsuit, Journalism, Web 2.0, Democracy, Fridge
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I hope you had a nice Christmas time. Everything slowed down a bit and even AI did get a bit less coverage. But don’t worry, everything will accelerate again next week with the start of the new year. The New York Times just sued OpenAI and we will have a huge debate about the data that has been fed into the Large Language Models. Even if this will be regulated in the future, how will we deal with the fact that OpenAI and other companies had a had start by just using all the available data?
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The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work
Should AI companies just use journalistic content to feed the machine? Should they pay and if so, how much? The relationship between news organizations and Google has been difficult for over two decades now, but AI will pose plenty of new challenges.
How one of the world’s oldest newspapers is using AI to reinvent journalism
This makes sense, but editors fear that they will be replaced. Instead, they should focus on doing the more interesting stuff and leaving the mundane to the machine.
Generative AI Learned Nothing From Web 2.0
It’s the old “move fast, break things” playbook, but with an AI twist.
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue wants an AI democracy
“We need more companies and organizations to share their models and datasets publicly and in open-source so that everyone can understand and build AI themselves” - well, I doubt that many AI companies really want this.
Samsung’s new AI-enabled smart fridge can design recipes based on your dietary needs
The idea of a smart fridge continues to fascinate people. I really don’t see why I should sacrifice important space reserved for our kids’ drawings for a machine to present me with yet another screen.
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