Lawyer Ex Machina #53: routing around crypto
AI
A bit lost about how many lawsuits there are against OpenAI? There's now a page tracking the 10 open suits against OpenAI, including the 2 GitHub suits; the suit against developers MidJourney and Stable Diffusion is not included
In Almendralejo, Spain, a group of teenage girls have had their photos taken from social media and processed through AI image generators to produce nude photos, that were then circulated on WhatApp and Telegram by teen boys.
Getty Images partnered with Nvidia to release an AI image generator trained on images from the company's library of licensed photos; the company also promises to pay the legal fees of any customer sued for copyright infringement based on work created by the product [MIT Tech Review]
Inioluwa Deborah Raji, a UC Berkeley researcher specializing in AI accountability, bias, and risk assessments, talks about what happened at the AI Insight Forum from the perspective of civil society. [MIT Tech Review | Archive]
Last week, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School held an AI summit - here at some highlights from one attendee
The judge in the lawsuit between Thomson Reuters and Ross Intelligence (over whether Ross unlawfully infringed copyright in Westlaw material to train its AI model) has denied many of the summary judgment motions submitted by the two parties
From Law360 Pulse [$]: How Microsoft is "expanding its dominance" over law firm technology through the deployment of generative AI services
Some details on the AI provisions in the agreement that led to the end of the writers' strike in Hollywood
Blockchain
A crypto company in Hong Kong, Mixin Network, disclosed a hack that resulted in $200 million in lost assets
Is fintech moving on from blockchain?
Miscellaneous
The Center for Democracy and Technology issued a report on educational technology and the civil rights of students
Related: CDT and other groups have sent a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Education and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, urging more guidance and enforcement by the federal government to protect the civil rights to students in light of increasing usage of educational technology
Long Reads/Views
Claypool, Rick, "Chatbots Are Not People: Designed-In Dangers of Human-Like A.I. Systems," Public Citizen, Sept. 26, 2023, https://www.citizen.org/article/chatbots-are-not-people-dangerous-human-like-anthropomorphic-ai-report/
Lee, Katherine and Cooper, A. Feder and Grimmelmann, James, Talkin’ ‘Bout AI Generation: Copyright and the Generative-AI Supply Chain (July 27, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4523551 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4523551
Samuelson, Pamela, Large Language Models Meet Copyright Law [Video], Large Language Models and Transformers Workshop, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley, August 16, 2023 [YouTube]