Lawsuits GALORE. Anthropic's Claude 2 aims to outdo ChatGPT. Google accused of AI 'Data Theft' in new lawsuit. Real Photo rejected from contest for looking too much like AI.
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Here’s what we’ve got for ya today:
Anthropic's Claude 2 aims to outdo ChatGPT
Google accused of AI 'Data Theft' in new lawsuit
Real photo rejected from contest for looking too much like AI
Sarah Silverman and authors sue OpenAI, Meta for AI 'Copyright Theft'
AI News: The Headliners 🏁
1/ Anthropic's Claude 2 aims to outdo ChatGPT
[The News] Anthropic has dropped a bombshell in the AI chatbot wars by unleashing the next evolution of its Claude chatbot - Claude 2.
This souped-up version is ready to take on ChatGPT and steal the conversational AI crown.
Here are the deets:
[The AI] Claude 2 is no mere incremental update. Compared to its competitors, it's a beastly upgrade stuffed with more, more, and more.
We're talking about 100,000 tokens of knowledge retention, or around 75,000 words. That’s up from 9,000 in the first iteration.
Also, Claude 2 will be able to pop out short stories up to a few thousand tokens. Its coding capability score has also increased from 56% to 71.2%. on the Codex HumanEval benchmark.
[Why this matters] Claude 2's upgrades give it a big leg up on ChatGPT in many areas and make it a formidable contender as a leading chatbot.
Its enhanced reasoning and stability mean you should be able to trust the output more than in previous versions.
Anthropic claims that Claude 2 is reportedly “2x better at giving harmless responses compared to Claude 1.3.”
For Anthropic, it shows their pedal-to-the-metal pace of innovation.
Looking forward... Anthropic has made it clear that this is just the beginning too. They're pushing Claude's limits to set the standard for responsible conversational AI. ChatGPT better watch its back!
Claude 2 is currently only available to US and UK audiences.
2/ Google accused of AI 'Data Theft' in new lawsuit
[The News] Google got slammed with a potential class action lawsuit alleging it scraped personal data and copyrighted content without consent to train its AI systems.
YES…we're talking photos, playlists, and books. The lawsuit claims Google could owe at least $5 billion for its unauthorized data harvesting.
[The Suit] The lawsuit specifically calls out Google's chatbot Bard and other generative AI services.
It accuses Google of feeding these systems with data like social media posts, Spotify playlists, TikTok videos, and even entire books without permission.
One of the 8 plaintiffs found that Google copied her whole book to train Bard. This seems to violate Google's own "responsible" AI principles.
[Why this matters] This lawsuit highlights serious ethical concerns around how AI systems obtain their vast knowledge.
If services like Bard rely on "borrowing" data, where should we draw the line between copyright and fair use? Do tech giants really own the rights to our public digital activity? It appears Google may have crossed some moral and legal boundaries here.
Looking forward... This case could drive much-needed regulation around using personal data ethically for AI training. Tech firms need clear rules to avoid shady "move fast and break things" plagiarism in our digital lives.
If not, privacy lawsuits could become routine. Overall, Google needs to rethink its data collection - the days of grabbing data first and asking questions later seem numbered.
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AI News: The Shorts 🩳
3/ Real photo rejected from contest for looking too much like AI
[The News] Suzi Dougherty's photo of her son Caspar was rejected from a competition for looking too much like AI art, despite being a real iPhone photo.
Judges called it "suspicious,” even though Suzi insists it's genuine.
[The Deets] The photo shows Caspar dressed like mannequins at a Sydney Gucci exhibit.
Judges said "you can't ignore the gut instincts of four judges" in calling it AI-generated.
But Suzi said "I wouldn't have the slightest clue how to create an AI image."
This case shows we've reached a point where even experts can't distinguish some real photos from AI fakes.
Kinda scary? For sure.
Looking forward... As an "amazed" Suzi mused, "It is just hard, and obviously people can't tell anymore what is real and what's not real."
Philosophically, it raises deep questions about how AI mimics reality so well.
And for artists like Suzi, it shows the need for better ways to verify authenticity.
4/ Sarah Silverman and authors sue OpenAI, Meta for AI 'Copyright Theft'
[The News] Comedian Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta, claiming their AI models like ChatGPT and LLaMA were trained on her copyrighted work without permission.
Authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey joined the lawsuits too.
[The Suit] The suits provide exhibits of ChatGPT summarizing the authors' books when prompted, showing it ingested their work illegally.
They accuse Meta's training data of containing "many" of the authors' copyrighted books from "shadow library" sites.
[Why this matters] This raises concerns about AI systems "uncannily" mimicking copyrighted text, with authors worrying their work is being used to train models without consent.
It highlights legal gray areas around scraping online data.
Looking forward... We may see more lawsuits from writers and publishers as AI text generation advances. Clearer copyright laws are needed regarding the use of scraped online text to train powerful models.
Authors want to control the use of their creations, not have them quietly "ingested" by AI.
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