Computer pioneer Alan Turing is best known for his eponymous experiment to test whether artificial and human intelligence can be distinguished. However, the more important test he faced during his lifetime was cracking the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany during World War II. Now, a pair of cryptanalysts say they’ve cracked two long-unsolved messages … Read more
Over the past three years, authors have filed a series of lawsuits accusing AI companies of training their models on pirated books. Some of those cases have already produced rulings, with a bittersweet victory for Meta in California for example. In New York, several other cases were bundled into a single proceeding where Judge Sidney … Read more
Over the past two years, rightsholders of all kinds have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. Meta is among a long list of companies now being sued for this allegedly infringing activity. This includes a class action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman, which accused Meta of training its … Read more
After images that users uploaded to OpenAI models were included in training data, AI agents operating in the company’s research environment posted them on public image hosting sites. Fifty-three “user-provided images” were “posted to image-hosting sites as links that weren’t publicly listed,” the company said for the first time. The images could still be discovered … Read more