Tumblr and Wordpress.com parent company Automattic will reportedly sell user data to OpenAI and MidJourney to train its AI.
Meta drops lawsuit against web scraping firm Bright Data that sold millions of Instagram records
Meta has dropped its lawsuit against an Israeli web scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case a few weeks ago. The social networking […]
Reddit says it’s made $203M so far licensing its data
Reddit’s prospects as it barrels toward a stock market listing have a lot more to do with relationships with AI vendors such as OpenAI than one might expect. […]
DatologyAI is building tech to automatically curate AI training data sets
Massive training data sets are the gateway to powerful AI models — but often, also those models’ downfall. Biases emerge from prejudicial patterns concealed in large data sets, […]
Big Tech AI infrastructure tie-ups set for deeper scrutiny, says EU antitrust chief
The impact of AI must be front of mind for enforcers of merger control policy, the European Union’s antitrust chief and digital EVP, Margrethe Vestager, said yesterday, warning […]
This German nonprofit is building an open voice assistant that anyone can use
There’s been many attempts at open source AI-powered voice assistants (see Rhasspy, Mycroft and Jasper, to name a few) — all established with the goal of creating privacy-preserving, […]
Kin.art launches free tool to prevent GenAI models from training on artwork
It’s a wonder what GenAI, particularly text-to-image AI models like Midjourney and OpenAI’s DALL-E 3, can do. From photorealism to cubism, image-generating models can translate practically any description, […]
Instagram co-founders’ news aggregation startup Artifact to shut down
Artifact, the news aggregator-turned social network from Instagram’s founders is shutting down. On Friday, the startup announced via a blog post it had made the decision to “wind […]
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