reader comments 772 with Two weeks ago, the US Copyright Office refused to register a copyright for Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, an AI-generated image that got widespread media attention last year after it won an art competition. It’s at least the third time the Copyright Office has ruled that AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted. The Copyright ..
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reader comments 74 with Yelp has started publicly naming and shaming businesses that pay for reviews. The review site’s new index documents businesses offering everything from a crisp $100 bill for leaving the best review to a $400 Home Depot gift card for a five-star review. It also lists every business whose reviews have ever ..
The collapsed bridge that Philip Paxson drove off of. Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky reader comments 549 with Google is being sued by a widow who says her husband drowned in September 2022 after Google Maps directed him over a collapsed bridge in Hickory, North Carolina. Google failed to correct its map service despite warnings about the ..
Enlarge / A T-Mobile sign on a storefront on August 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Anna Moneymaker reader comments 23 with A T-Mobile mistake during an overnight technology update resulted in some customers seeing the private information of other users today. T-Mobile users posting on social media said they saw other customers’ ..
Enlarge / George R.R. Martin at an HBO Max screening. reader comments 175 with Yesterday, popular authors including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, and George Saunders joined the Authors Guild in suing OpenAI, alleging that training the company’s large language models (LLMs) used to power AI tools like ChatGPT on pirated ..
Getty Images | Thamrongpat Theerathammakorn reader comments 64 with A suspicious phone company is on the verge of having all its calls blocked by US-based telcos after being accused of ignoring orders to investigate and block robocalls. One Owl Telecom is a US-based gateway provider that routes phone calls from outside the US to consumer ..
Enlarge / Joseph Bankman, father of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, leaves after a bail hearing for his son at US District Court on August 11, 2023 in New York City. reader comments 83 with Enlarge / Barbara Fried, mother of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. Getty Images | Michael M. Santiago FTX yesterday sued ..
reader comments 72 with A California law requiring a wide range of platforms to estimate ages of users and protect minors from accessing harmful content appears to be just as unconstitutional as a recently blocked law in Texas requiring age verification to access adult content. Yesterday, US District Judge Beth Labson Freeman ordered a preliminary ..
reader comments 155 with SpaceX has sued US Attorney General Merrick Garland and two other Department of Justice officials in response to the government’s allegations that SpaceX discriminated against asylees and refugees in hiring. SpaceX denied the hiring discrimination claims and alleged that the DOJ’s administrative process for handling the discrimination complaint is unconstitutional. The ..
reader comments 22 with Today, Elon Musk and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu livestreamed a discussion largely focused on the future of AI on Musk’s platform X, formerly known as Twitter. According to The New York Times, the talk was arranged at Musk’s suggestion, and some perceived it as an attempt by Musk to seek ..
