Recently, the renowned media outlet The New York Times sent a cease-and-desist letter to an AI startup named Perplexity, demanding that the company stop using its content. This news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal and has drawn widespread attention. In fact, this is not the first time The New York Times has clashed with AI companies over content usage issues. Last year, the paper filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing it of illegally using their content while training AI models.

In today's rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, a court ruling in Hamburg, Germany has sparked fresh discussions regarding the collection and use of data for AI training. This case not only prompts public reflection on the relationship between AI and copyright but also provides important references for the future legal framework of AI development. The incident began when the non-profit organization LAION downloaded a copyrighted image from an image agency website without authorization. LAION paired this image with relevant descriptions and included it in a project named "LAION-5B".

In a recent lawsuit that has drawn widespread attention, Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify. This lawsuit is initiated by a group of writers, including renowned comedian Sarah Silverman, who accuse Meta of infringing their copyrights in the application of artificial intelligence technology. The core issue of the lawsuit is whether Meta's platforms like Instagram and Facebook have potentially used their works without authorization while generating content.

Recently, AI video generation technology has garnered significant attention. To promote the development of this emerging field, Runway announced the establishment of a new film fund, planning to invest 5 million dollars to support the production of up to 100 original films. This is no small amount, especially for directors looking to leverage AI in their creative processes, as it presents a rare opportunity. Runway's '100 Film Fund' aims to finance projects that can apply their generative video models in the creative process.

As artificial intelligence sweeps through the gaming industry, Nintendo has chosen an unconventional path. Recently, during an interview with The New York Times, the renowned designer Shigeru Miyamoto expressed the company's firm stance on upholding originality and refusing to blindly follow the AI trend. Miyamoto emphasized, 'It may seem that we are just going against the tide, but in fact we are striving to find what makes Nintendo special. When people are generally talking about artificial intelligence and everyone is moving in the same direction, Nintendo would rather choose a different path.' This statement clearly outlines...

The Beijing Internet Court has recently adjudicated a landmark case, marking the first case in the country involving AI-generated voice personality rights infringement. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, AI voices, images, and videos have begun to appear widely, leading to an increasing number of legal issues.

Recently, OpenAI reached an agreement in a high-profile copyright lawsuit to disclose the data used to train its generative AI models to the plaintiff's lawyers. The copyright lawsuit's plaintiffs include several well-known authors such as Paul Tremblay, Sarah L. J. Elfreth, Michael Chabon, David Henry Huang, and Ta-Nehisi Coates. They filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its affiliates last year, accusing the AI of using their works without authorization.

Recently, a report from Bain & Company warned that with the surge in demand for AI semiconductors and AI smartphones and laptops, the world may face the next chip shortage. It’s worth noting that the last large-scale semiconductor shortage occurred during the pandemic, when supply chains were disrupted and demand for electronic products soared due to everyone working from home. Now, tech giants are scrambling to purchase graphics processing units (GPUs), particularly those from Nvidia. These GPUs are the secret weapon for training large AI models.

Recently, a Reddit user shared his experience on the forum using OpenAI's latest model, OpenAI o1, to solve high school math problems. Remarkably, he got all the answers correct. @FitAirline8359 mentioned using past math final exam questions from Chinese universities' upperclassmen and presented these problems to OpenAI's latest version, o1. To his surprise, OpenAI o1 answered all of them correctly in just 20 minutes. This result left him extremely shocked and sparked significant discussion among other users.

Vivo's OS product vice president Zhou Wei announced that the company will unveil its brand new Blue Heart Large Model at next month's developer conference. This new model will encompass large models in various fields including language, speech, vision, multimodal, and edge computing. Zhou emphasized in the statement that artificial intelligence (AI) will become a core technology and a key driver in the development of mobile operating systems over the next five years, playing a significant role in various modules such as audio-visual entertainment and office collaboration. Vivo plans to integrate the Blue Heart Large Model into its latest OriginOS 5 system.

The United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union have jointly signed the first legally binding AI treaty, the 'AI Framework Convention', aimed at ensuring that AI applications adhere to principles of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. The treaty requires signatory countries to follow principles that protect user data, respect the law, and operate transparently, implementing these principles through legislation and administrative measures. Although compliance with the treaty primarily relies on monitoring, and enforcement may be weak, it is seen as an important blueprint for countries to formulate AI laws. Currently, the US, EU, UK, and several other countries have signed, and the treaty will come into force in five...

On August 30, Jinjiang Literature City issued a statement firmly opposing the recent AI infringement incident on the Xiaohongshu platform, emphasizing the protection of copyright for original content. In this incident, a blogger used original works on the platform to train an AI model and generate text, even establishing a group to share tutorials to attract traffic. Jinjiang Literature City believes this action severely infringes on the rights of authors and has sent a rights protection letter to the Xiaohongshu platform demanding the removal of infringing content and accounts. The platform stated it will continue to monitor such infringing behavior and resolutely protect authors' legitimate rights, explicitly indicating that it will not tolerate any theft of works.

A San Francisco-based AI startup, Anthropic, is facing a lawsuit from a group of writers for allegedly using a large number of pirated books in the training of its chatbot Claude. This marks the first time writers have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, accusing its actions of 'mocking its lofty goals' and utilizing pirated resources to build AI products. The complaint states that Anthropic is attempting to profit from the human expression and creativity behind each work. The plaintiffs include writers Andrea Bartz and Charles Graeb.

OpenAI's latest release of the ChatGPT voice feature based on the GPT-4 model aims to enhance the naturalness and immediacy of human-AI communication. However, this innovation has raised concerns about emotional dependence among users, with some forming emotional attachments to the AI and expressing reluctance to part with it, potentially affecting their social behaviors and interactions with real humans. Research indicates that prolonged AI voice interactions may alter users' social norms, such as the AI's ability to interrupt at any time, which is uncommon in human interactions.

Recently, the Mita AI Search team received a lengthy 28-page copyright notice from the China Academic Journals Electronic Publishing House (CNKI). The notice stated that Mita AI Search has been providing users with a large volume of citations and abstract data of CNKI academic literature through its platform without obtaining permission from CNKI, and this behavior is considered a serious infringement of CNKI's legitimate rights and interests.

To test the 'stress resistance' of these AIs, a group of researchers embarked on an 'adventure'. They created a test called Self-Contradictory Instructions (SCI), which is essentially the 'death challenge' for AI. This test includes 20,000 self-contradictory instructions, covering both language and visual domains. For example, you might be shown a picture of a cat and asked to describe this 'dog'. Isn't that a challenge for humans? Oh no, it's a challenge for AI.

Meta (formerly Facebook) and Universal Music Group (UMG) have expanded their long-standing music licensing agreement aimed at enhancing copyright protection while addressing solutions for the application of AI technology in the music field. The new agreement allows users to freely share songs from UMG's music library across Meta's platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Horizon, Threads, and WhatsApp, ensuring that users can enjoy music while avoiding copyright infringement.