Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post are suing AI-driven search startup Perplexity for using their news content to train its large language model. The publications from these two news groups accuse Perplexity of copyright infringement by generating answers to people's queries using their articles, thereby diverting traffic from the publications' websites. 'This lawsuit is brought by news publishers seeking compensation as Perplexity openly plans to provide services for free.'

A Massachusetts YouTube creator named David Millette has filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of using the transcription content of millions of YouTube videos without permission to train generative AI models like ChatGPT. The lawsuit states that OpenAI's AI products profit from the use of unlicensed and uncompensated training data, violating copyright law and YouTube's terms of service. Millette seeks over $5 million in damages on behalf of all potentially affected YouTube users.

Three authors have sued Nvidia for using their copyrighted books without permission to train the NeMo AI platform. The lawsuit claims that the authors' works became part of a dataset consisting of approximately 196,640 books. The authors assert that their works were removed after training in NeMo. Nvidia has not issued a formal response to the case, which could set a significant precedent for copyright in the AI field.

Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson is suing an AI app developer, accusing them of using her name and image without authorization in an advertisement. The ad featured an AI-generated voice of Johansson, claiming that the app could create images and videos. This could be an example of future similar cases, as musicians have already faced challenges with voice cloning and deepfake technology.

{1: Australian Defense Department personnel used the AI chatbot ChatGPT thousands of times without approval. 2: The Australian Defense Department restricted access to the network domain of ChatGPT's owner, OpenAI, to prevent data or privacy breaches. 3: Lack of government-wide policies to manage the safety issues of using generative AI products in government departments.}