AI systems have been shown to lie on their own, without first being programmed to do so. MIT's Peter Park says it's only the beginning.
X lost its attempt to claim that a data scraping company and its users cannot use accounts to find public data on its site and use it — in part because the Copyright Act preempts those claims.
OAKLAND, Calif. — The attorney general of California, Rob Bonta, announced that AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon will pay more than $10 million to the multistate coalition that sued the communications companies for using allegedly misleading advertisements. The settlement awaits approval from the court and will require the companies to hew closer to requirements about “unlimited” data plans, discounts on devices and other marketing terms.
PHOENIX — A federal court in Arizona permitted the attorneys general of almost all 50 states to proceed with their lawsuit against Avid Telecom and its executives, who have allegedly facilitated more than 24 billion robocalls in the United States. The attorneys general say billions of these calls were scams, and that the company has ignored the more than 300 notifications that its network is being used for such illegal robocalls.
DeviantArt and Midjourney denied copyright claims from artists who say they their work was used to train Stable Diffusion, an AI model that generates images from text prompts.
Apple defended its changes to how users navigate the App Store, which developers say circumvent a judge's order to free users from a "walled garden."
HOUSTON — A federal court in Texas ruled that a law firm may proceed with its claims against a lawyer referral service, which has diverted the firm’s prospective clients away by purchasing the top search result position for Google searches related to the law firm’s business name and other marks. The firm may not sue a specific, individual employee of the service, however, because its evidence of that person’s involvement did not suffice.
Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev faces 26 charges related to developing and running the LockBit ransomware and extorting hundreds of millions from victims worldwide.
The social media company claims the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Application Act clearly violates the First Amendment and was passed on baseless national security concerns.
Giving the librarian of Congress power to decide who gets fair use of copyrighted work online violates the First Amendment, a pair of petitioners argued at the appellate court.
"The importance and significance for this case is not lost on me, not only for Google but for the public," U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said. "Whatever the outcome ... it will hopefully instill trust in the public."
