OpenAI's pivot to pursue profits, abandoning its nonprofit status and mission, has sparked legal battles and backlash from critics who argue the move undermines the company's original goal of ensuring advanced AI benefits humanity as a whole.
Alarming reports reveal AI companies are exploiting actors' digital avatars, created from licensed likenesses, in questionable ads and propaganda, often through broad contract terms granting unrestricted rights over their images and voices.
The bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act, aimed at criminalizing non-consensual intimate imagery and deepfakes, cleared a House committee, gaining widespread support for requiring websites to swiftly remove such content and addressing the growing threat of AI-generated exploitation.
In a closely watched case, a judge ruled that The New York Times' copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI's ChatGPT can proceed, allowing claims that the AI model was trained on copyrighted works, but dismissing some other claims.
The New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI for up to $450 billion, claiming ChatGPT was trained on millions of its copyrighted articles, potentially reshaping AI training and journalism.
OpenAI faces a GDPR complaint from noyb over ChatGPT's ability to generate defamatory and false information about individuals, violating data accuracy principles, with demands to delete outputs, fine-tune the model, and impose fines.
A Norwegian man filed a complaint seeking a fine against OpenAI after an older version of ChatGPT falsely claimed he killed his two sons and was jailed for 21 years, prompting OpenAI to update its models to improve accuracy.
The FTC sued Click Profit, an Amazon automation company, for defrauding customers of millions through a 'passive income' scam involving exaggerated earnings claims and misrepresenting its use of AI to manage online storefronts, despite customers failing to recoup investments.
Rep. Jim Jordan issued subpoenas to 16 major tech firms, demanding evidence of potential Biden administration pressure to censor lawful online speech using AI, escalating the GOP's probe into alleged tech industry bias against conservatives.
A prominent legal expert cautions that Labour's proposed AI copyright reforms, which would allow AI companies to utilize copyrighted works without permission, likely violate the Berne Convention, an international treaty on copyright, potentially undermining UK creative industries and inviting legal challenges through judicial review.