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A copyright lawsuit over pirated books could result in ‘business-ending’ damages for Anthropic

The lawsuit centers on Anthropic’s use of books to train its LLM, Claude, and could leave the company on the hook for billions of dollars’ worth of damages.

Fortune

Meta and Anthropic win key verdicts in US AI copyright cases

The two companies at the forefront of the artificial intelligence race won two key verdicts from US courts this week regarding whether they can train on copyrighted books.

Euronews

Meta wins AI copyright lawsuit as US judge rules against authors

Writers accused Facebook owner of breach over its use of books without permission to train its AI system

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US Judge Sides With Meta In AI Training Copyright Case

A US judge on Wednesday handed Meta a victory over authors who accused the tech giant of violating copyright law by training Llama artificial intelligence on their creations without permission.

International Business Times

AI training is ‘fair use’ federal judge rules in Anthropic copyright case

Training AI on books Anthropic bought is okay, but downloading pirated ones is not, judge says.

Fortune

US federal judge on Meta's AI copyright fair use argument: 'You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work'

"I just don't understand how that can be fair use."

PC Gamer

Class Action Not Allowed in Suit Alleging Psychological Harm to TikTok Content Moderators

From yesterday's Order Denying Motion for Class Certification, by Judge Vince Chhabria (N.D. Cal.) in Young v. ByteDance Inc.: [1.]… The post Class Action Not Allowed in Suit Alleging Psychological Harm to TikTok Content Moderators appeared first on Reason.com.

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Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of ‘pirated’ books to train AI models, authors claim

Sarah Silverman and others file court case claiming CEO approved use of dataset despite warnings

The Guardian - UK

California prosecutors used anti-gay slurs to refer to prospective jurors

Handwritten notes show Alameda county DA’s office prosecutors using homophobic labels

The Guardian - US

California county to review 35 death penalty cases after judge cites ‘pattern of misconduct’

Alameda county district attorney’s office said it unearthed records suggesting prosecutors deliberately excluded Jewish and Black jurors from capital trials

The Guardian - US

Meta ‘discussed buying publisher Simon & Schuster to train AI’

Audio shared with the New York Times appears to record executives discussing purchase of the US books giant to feed into its large language models

The Guardian - UK

Judge Junks Lawsuit Against Apple Alleging Crypto Tech Restrictions On Cash App, Venmo

In the sea of antitrust accusations against Apple, the big tech titan has won one, as a judge dismissed a consumer lawsuit alleging the company was blocking payment apps from facilitating crypto payments.

International Business Times

Elon Musk-Owned X Faces A Lawsuit Over Non Payment Of Annual Bonuses

Aside from being rebranded to X, Twitter has witnessed several changes after Elon Musk acquired the microblogging site in October 2022.

International Business Times UK

Man acquitted in San Francisco pier fatal shooting is sentenced on gun charges

LOS ANGELES — The man who was acquitted of homicide after a woman was fatally shot on a San Francisco pier in 2015 was sentenced Monday to time served for federal firearms charges.

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Time served for Mexican in 2015 San Francisco pier killing

A California federal judge has sentenced the Mexican man who fatally shot a woman along a San Francisco pier to the seven years he’s already spent in jail

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