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Perplexity AI ignores New York Times’s scraping ban (robots.txt), summarizes copyrighted article on EURO soccer match
Read more: Perplexity AI ignores New York Times’s scraping ban (robots.txt), summarizes copyrighted article on EURO soccer matchContext: The use of copyrighted material by AI providers has already given rise to several infringement complaints, and the New York Times (NYT) is arguably the highest-profile media outlet to sue (June 12, 2024 ai fray article). One would assume that AI providers would be particularly cautious about potentially infringing NYT material. But no: What’s…
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New York Times would like to pick up where Elon Musk left off, seeks discovery into OpenAI’s departure from non-profit
Read more: New York Times would like to pick up where Elon Musk left off, seeks discovery into OpenAI’s departure from non-profitThe New York Times tells a court that OpenAI refuses to provide information on its creation of a for-profit entity. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has dropped his California lawsiut over that structural question.
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UK CMA influenced heavily by Amazon, Google in software licensing part of cloud services market investigation
Read more: UK CMA influenced heavily by Amazon, Google in software licensing part of cloud services market investigationThe UK Competition & Market Authority mentioned AI in connection with its cloud services market investigation, but the focus is drifting in all sorts of different directions.
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UK CMA cloud market investigation touches on AI-related trends, but prioritizes discounts, committed spend agreements, egress fees
Read more: UK CMA cloud market investigation touches on AI-related trends, but prioritizes discounts, committed spend agreements, egress feesThe UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) released several updated documents last week concerning the state of play in its cloud service market investigation.
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New York Times shifts focus of AI copyright case from output to input, surprisingly says Exhibit J (regurgitation of articles) no longer matters
Read more: New York Times shifts focus of AI copyright case from output to input, surprisingly says Exhibit J (regurgitation of articles) no longer mattersNo exhibit to a copyright infringement complaint ever received as much attention as Exhibit J to New York Times v. Microsoft & OpenAI. But the NYT’s lawyers now say they’d rather not show it to the jury (should the case proceed to trial).
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OpenAI’s lawyers to court: New York Times doesn’t want to come clean on efforts to get ChatGPT to output passages from articles
Read more: OpenAI’s lawyers to court: New York Times doesn’t want to come clean on efforts to get ChatGPT to output passages from articlesOpenAI’s lawyers have raised a discovery issue with the district court that relates to how the New York Times managed (and how it failed) to get ChatGPT to quote entire paragraphs from NYT articles.
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UK antitrust regulator explains: any AI partnership can fall under merger law, though Microsoft-Mistral not being investigated for now
Read more: UK antitrust regulator explains: any AI partnership can fall under merger law, though Microsoft-Mistral not being investigated for nowThe UK Competition & Markets Authority determined not to review Microsoft’s partnership with Mistral further for the time being, but spells out criteria under which any Big Tech-AI partnership can potentially be reviewed under strict merger law.
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New York Times triples down on OpenAI, Microsoft copyright case: seeks to go from 3 million documents to 10 million, up to 96 years old
Read more: New York Times triples down on OpenAI, Microsoft copyright case: seeks to go from 3 million documents to 10 million, up to 96 years oldContext: Judge Sidney Stein of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York is currently working on a ruling on Microsoft’s and OpenAI’s motions to dismiss parts of the New York Times’s copyright infringement complaint (March 17, 2024 ai fray article). A dispute between the parties concerning the protection of confidential…
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