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A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead

Fable, a popular social media app that describes itself as a haven for “bookworms and bingewatchers,” created an AI-powered end-of-year summary feature recapping what books users read in 2024. It was meant...

Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized

In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal AI startup called Ross Intelligence, alleging that it had violated US copyright law by reproducing materials from Westlaw,...

OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up With Their DMs

One of the more persistent concerns in the age of AI is that the robots will take our jobs. The extent to which this fear is founded remains to be seen, but...

Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft

Harvard University announced Thursday it’s releasing a high-quality dataset of nearly one million public-domain books that could be used by anyone to train large language models and other AI tools. The dataset...

Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated

AI-generated writing is now all over the internet. The introduction of automated prose can sometimes change a website’s character, like when once beloved publications get purchased and overhauled into AI content mills....

New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence

Lawsuits are never exactly a lovefest, but the copyright fight between The New York Times and both OpenAI and Microsoft is getting especially contentious. This week, the Times alleged that OpenAI’s engineers...

Some of Substack’s Biggest Writers Rely On AI Writing Tools

The most popular writers on Substack earn up to seven figures each year primarily by persuading readers to pay for their work. The newsletter platform’s subscription-driven business model offers creators different incentives...

OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

OpenAI has notched a victory in its ongoing legal fight against publishers over how its AI tools use creative work. On November 7, a judge dismissed a copyright case against the startup...

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