The newly proposed Senate bill could greatly affect what works can be used as training materials for LLMs. Not only would the bill prohibit the use of personal identifying information in training ...

The Recentive decision exemplifies the Federal Circuit’s skepticism toward claims that dress up longstanding business problems in machine-learning garb, while the USPTO’s examples confirm that ...

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to ...

Two recent district court opinions from the Northern District of California, filed within days of each other address the use of copyrighted ...

Recent US copyright rulings on Gen AI model training disputes suggests plaintiffs may need to build stronger cases around ...

Data centers house thousands — and in some cases millions — of computers and servers, used to power technology like artificial intelligence. The machines are cooled down by water.

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Cancer registries face funding cuts as CDC decisions near. Experts warn cancer tracking and screening could suffer, emerging threats would remain hidden.

Federal court says copyrighted books are fair use for AI training Anthropic didn’t break the law when it trained its chatbot with copyrighted books, a judge said, but it must go to trial for ...

In his ruling, Alsup claimed that, by training its LLM without the authors’ permission, Anthropic did not infringe on copyrighted materials because the work it produced was, in his eyes, original. He ...

But, the judge ruled, AI companies shouldn’t be pirating the books they’re training on.