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In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek app is displayed on an iPhone screen on January 29, 2025 in New Delhi, India.
The DeepSeek hype cycle is in full force, but can the chatbot attribute sources more accurately than its competitors?
Subtitles for documentaries by Alex Gibney, Ava DuVernay and Ken Burns, and episodes of PBS’ Frontline and BBC’s Panorama, were used to train LLMs.
Earlier this year, the WSJ owner sued Perplexity for failing to properly license its content. Now its research tool Factiva has negotiated its own AI licensing deals.
introducing chatgpt appears on computer screen
The ruling comes after a judge dismissed similar claims filed by Raw Story and AlterNet earlier this month.
Raw Story, AlterNet, and The Intercept are among the first smaller publications to go up against the AI goliath for copyright violations.
“Comparatively little of the attention around news and AI has focused on its impact on the future economic viability of our industry, and 2024 seems likely to be the year in which this changes.” Richard Tofel
That an AI model was trained on copyrighted material does not make all of the model’s outputs a copyright violation.
The reform seeks to ensure publishers and other copyright holders are paid their fair share when their work appears online. But critics fear it could have broader implications.
A New York federal judge ruled that when publishers from The Boston Globe to Vox Media to Breitbart “caused the embedded tweets to appear on their websites, their actions violated plaintiff’s exclusive display right.” Shan Wang
The battle over snippets and links, fought country to country across the continent, is moving up to the continental level.