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Adam Schiff introduces bill amid growing legal battle over whether major AI companies have made illegal use of copyrighted worksA bill introduced in the US Congress on Tuesday intends to force artificial intelligence companies to reveal the copyrighted material they use to make their generative AI models. The legislation adds to a growing number of attempts from lawmakers, news outlets and artists to establish how AI firms use creative works like songs, visual art, books and movies to train thei

Major elections around the world so far this year have not suffered from systematic malicious interference, says global affairs chiefGenerative AI is overblown as an election risk, according to Meta’s Nick Clegg, who claims the technology is more useful for defending democracy than attacking it.Speaking at the Meta AI Day event in London on Tuesday, the social network’s global affairs chief said that the evidence from major elections that have already been run this year around the wo

Audio shared with the New York Times appears to record executives discussing purchase of the US books giant to feed into its large language modelsStaff at technology company Meta discussed buying publishing house Simon & Schuster last year in order to procure books to train the company’s artificial intelligence tools, it has been reported.According to recordings of internal meetings shared with the New York Times, managers, lawyers and engineers at Meta met on a near-daily basis betwee

His claims come with a caveat that shortages of training chips and growing demand for power could limit tech evolutionSuperhuman artificial intelligence that is smarter than anyone on Earth could exist next year, Elon Musk has said, unless the sector’s power and computing demands become unsustainable before then.The prediction is a sharp tightening of an earlier claim from the multibillionaire, that superintelligent AI would exist by 2029. Whereas “superhuman” is generally defi

IDF cyber-intelligence chief Yossi Sariel exposed online by social media activity and accidental government leakThe commander of Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, is facing fresh embarrassment after it emerged that an extensive digital trail identifying him as a senior intelligence official has been exposed online for years.The Guardian revealed on Friday how Yossi Sariel, whose name had been protected by the Israeli state, inadvertently disclosed his identity online in a s

From hyperrealistic deepfakes to videos that not only hijack our attention but also our emotions, tech seems increasingly full of ‘cognitohazards’• Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereLet’s talk about sci-fi.Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash is the book that launched a thousand startups. It was the first book to use the Hindu term avatar to describe a virtual representation of a person, it coined the term “m

From hyperrealistic deepfakes to videos that not only hijack our attention but also our emotions, tech seems increasingly full of ‘cognitohazards’• Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereLet’s talk about sci-fi.Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash is the book that launched a thousand startups. It was the first book to use the Hindu term avatar to describe a virtual representation of a person, it coined the term “m