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The Enjoyment Purpose
The enjoyment purpose. Do exceptions under the copyright laws of Japan & Singapore allow GenAI training? TLDR: Not really… The latest issue of the AI Copyright Newsletter
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Publishers, authors, has your book been used to train an AI model without your permission?
Here’s one place you can look. https://github.com/psmedia/Books3Info
I’ve placed on GitHub a list of some 85,600 ISBNs extracted from the Books3 dataset that was used to train Facebook’s latest model, LLaMA, launched Feb 24th.
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The problem is not the power of the AI, it’s the power of our brains
My AI was making me angry. I had trained up a chatbot on the Character.ai website, in the personality and style of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Good AIs copy, great AIs steal
untangling the copyright status of foundation models I presented this paper in mid-October 2022 to the annual conference of the Asian Pacific Copyright Association (the candid shot above is by Vincent Nghai; I’m the blur one!
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Foundation models and copyright
I’ve recently started a newsletter — imaginatively titled AI and Copyright, with the goal of tracking the shifting legal picture around the copyright status of the Foundation Models, including the Large Language Models (LLMs), and their cousins the image- (and video- and 3D-) generating models like DALL-E2.
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December 3, 2019
Singapore's national AI strategy takes aim at curriculum
Singapore has just announced its national AI strategy, comprising a series of ecosystem-strengthening moves, and major national projects in five key areas, one of which is right in the book publishing wheelhouse: education.
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