• Music publishers sue Amazon-backed AI company over song lyrics

    Music publishers sue Amazon-backed AI company over song lyrics
    The music publishers’ lawsuit appears to be the first copyright case over AI’s use of song lyricsMusic publishers Universal Music, ABKCO and Concord Publishing sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in Tennessee federal court on Wednesday, accusing it of misusing “innumerable” copyrighted song lyrics to train its chatbot Claude.The lawsuit said Anthropic violates the publishers’ rights through its use of lyrics from at least 500 songs ranging from the Be
  • Meta’s Chief AI Guy Says Don't Regulate Us, AI Just Isn’t That Smart

    Meta’s Chief AI Guy Says Don't Regulate Us, AI Just Isn’t That Smart
    AI is too dumb to regulate now, according to Meta’s head of artificial intelligence research in an interview with the Financial Times. Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, tried to dismiss the most overblown fears of AI while offering a libertarian take against any real attempt to regulate the rapidly expanding…Read more...
  • ‘The potential to undermine democracy’: European publishing trade bodies call for action on generative AI

    ‘The potential to undermine democracy’: European publishing trade bodies call for action on generative AI
    Three organisations argue that more transparency is needed after research found AI models have been trained using pirated works by authors such as Zadie Smith and Stephen KingThree major European publishing trade bodies have urged the EU to “act now” on transparency over artificial intelligence for the sake of “the book chain and democracy”.As the world’s largest book fair began in Frankfurt, an online statement published on Wednesday called for co-legislators to &l
  • YouTube Wants to Use AI to Let You Mimic Your Favorite Musician

    YouTube Wants to Use AI to Let You Mimic Your Favorite Musician
    As AI-generated songs run rampant across the internet, YouTube looks to get in front of it by legally licensing out artist voices. The platform developed a tool powered by artificial intelligence that would reproduce the vocals of musical artists, allowing fans to have them sing whatever they want, but talks with…Read more...
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  • Could AI help diagnose schizophrenia?

    Could AI help diagnose schizophrenia?
    Madeleine Finlay meets neuroscientist and psychiatrist Matthew Nour, whose research looks at how artificial intelligence could help doctors and scientists bring precision to diagnosis of psychiatric conditions. He describes his latest study looking at patients with schizophrenia, and explains how he thinks large language models such as ChatGPT could one day be used in the clinic Continue reading...