Anthropic has agreed to pay a minimum of $1.5 billion to settle the lawsuit brought by a group of authors who sued the AI company for illegally using pirated copies of their books to train large-language models. This covers 500,000 works, but judge William Alsup says if the list exceeds that number, Anthropic must pay an addition $3,000 per work. This is the largest settlement in U.S. history. John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult are part of a group of nearly 20 bestselling authors who have sued OpenAI, alleging “systematic theft on a mass scale,” and this ruling could indicate the likely outcome of that case.

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"Blaming AI is an increasingly popular strategy for politicians seeking to dodge responsibility for something embarrassing."

@AssociatedPress reports: "Asked about viral footage showing someone tossing something out an upper-story White House window, [Trump] replied, 'No, that’s probably AI' — after his press team had indicated to reporters that the video was real."

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Few industries have been as hard hit by AI as translation. For his Blood in the Machine site, @brianmerchant spoke to translators about slashed rates, career pivots, and months that go by with zero work. "I always have to plan for the day when the worst will happen. I can never relax. Living in this AI-driven economy is always expecting the rug to be pulled out from underneath you. I invested in my profession for years, and now I don't get to reap the benefits of that investment. I have to start all over again, always putting energy into this bottomless pit they call work," says one Canada-based translator who chose to remain anonymous.

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A let-off or tougher than it looks? What the Google monopoly ruling means.

"The emergence of GenAI changed the course of this case," Judge Mehta wrote in his ruling, noting how swiftly money has flowed into the emerging technology.

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#Google#Chrome#AI#Antitrust#Tech#Technology

After several reports of disturbing incidents, OpenAI says it will safeguard ChatGPT for teens and people in crisis.

@axios reports: "One way to potentially mitigate these tragedies is to stop allowing ChatGPT or other bots to act as therapists — or to stop designing them to act like any person at all."

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AI Apocalypse? Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious.

From @AssociatedPress: "At 77 years old, Geoffrey Hinton has a new calling in life. Like a modern-day prophet, the Nobel Prize winner is raising alarms about the dangers of uncontrolled and unregulated artificial intelligence."

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e527 with Andy, Michael and Michael - stories about #AI #restaurant experiences, #historical#LLMs, #zoetropes and a whole lot more.

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e527 with Andy, Michael and Michael - stories about #AI #restaurant experiences, #historical#LLMs, #zoetropes and a whole lot more.

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Meta invested $14.3 billion in data-labeling vendor Scale AI, but the relationship is already showing signs of fraying. Read more from @Techcrunch:

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ChatGPT allegedly fueled a man’s paranoia, leading to a murder-suicide. @WSJ has more details [gift link].

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