Tag: copyright
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[Note] Bartz v. Anthropic — Training Use Is Fair Use
https://news.smol.ai/issues/25-06-24-fair-use Anthropic Wins Fair Use Ruling on Book Training Data: A federal judge has ruled that Anthropic’s use of books to train Claude constitutes fair use, a significant decision for the AI industry. The ruling, shared by @AndrewCurran_, distinguishes the act of training from the method of acquiring the data. Discussions highlighted that the method…
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Court ruling: Language models don’t copy information; they synthesise it
in AIMasse, B. (2024, November 8). OpenAI’s data scraping wins big as Raw Story’s copyright lawsuit dismissed by NY court. VentureBeat. The judge noted that “the likelihood that ChatGPT would output plagiarized content from one of Plaintiffs’ articles seems remote.” This reflects a key difficulty in these types of cases: generative AI is designed to synthesize…
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Court ruling suggests AI systems may be in the clear as long as they don’t make exact copies
https://the-decoder.com/court-ruling-suggests-ai-systems-may-be-in-the-clear-as-long-as-they-dont-make-exact-copies/ “This decision could set a precedent for AI systems trained on copyrighted data, suggesting that copyright claims may be difficult as long as AI systems do not regularly make verbatim copies of their training material in normal use.“ This won’t only apply to code, either.
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ChatGPT’s attempts to circumvent copyright law are getting incredibly creative
https://markcarrigan.net/2024/03/07/chatgpts-attempts-to-circumvent-copyright-law-are-getting-incredibly-creative/
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Health OER Africa
Yesterday I attended the morning of a workshop around a Health OER Network for Africa that’s currently in development. It’s a project that’s sponsored by the South African Institute of Distance Education (SAIDE) and includes participants from all over the continent. The objectives of the workshop were to share lessons from the first phase of…
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Knol: a unit of knowledge
http://knol.google.com/k/knol and Wikipedia article on Knol Knol, described as “a unit of knowledge” by the project’s creators, is a new initiative by Google that allows anyone to write an article, called a “knol”, about any topic. It’s a bit like Wikipedia in that respect but is limited to discrete articles with no links between them.…
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Textbooks and other resources
I’d like to begin a system of publishing reviews of academic textbooks for physiotherapists and physiotherapy students. This could eventually be expanded to include journal articles, websites and other useful sources of information. Ultimately, I’d like to get the students themselves to take part in this process, informing their own learning through a deeper interaction…