Former President Donald Trump was ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees and other costs to The New York Times and three reporters he had sued after they published a piece on his tax schemes.
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In what may be a landmark case, the New York Times has sued Open AI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, saying the publication’s content is being by the platform to feed automated chatbots, constituting “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.”
It’s the first time a major media organization has sued an AI platforms although there are a handful of pending cases brought by IP owners from Sarah Silverman to John Grisham to Getty Images.
The suit says Open AI should be responsible for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” chatbot and training models that use copyrighted material from The Times should be destroyed.
Generative AI, a surging and well-funded field led by Microsoft’s Open AI trains chatbots on large data sets. The suit says the platform uses “The Times’s content without payment to create products that substitute for The Times and steal audiences away from it.”
The Authors Guild, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, Michael Connelly, Jodi Picoult and a group of other famous fiction writers filed a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming that their technology is infringing on their works.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon and Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang are among another group of writers that filed a class action lawsuit against Meta in federal court for having “copied and ingested” their works to train its LLaMA AI platform.
At issue that case is training data for AI software programs that are designed to produce convincingly natural text in response user prompts. They are trained, the suit says, “by copying massive amounts of text and extracting expressive information from it. The body of text is referred to as the training dataset,” said that
Former President Donald Trump was ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees and other costs to The New York Times and three reporters he had sued after they published a piece on his tax schemes.
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A number of documents relating to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein have been published, with a number of his associates and friends being named, including the Duke Of York, former US President Bill Clinton, and singer Michael Jackson. US Judge Loretta Preska ruled last month that documents naming more than 170 people who were either associates, friends or victims of Epstein should be made public.
Christmas is history, but there’s still some holiday celebrating to be done. New Year’s Eve festivities are being broadcast across the country Sunday, December 31 from Puerto Rico to Los Angeles to the famous Times Square ball drop in New York City.
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Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, the creators of ChatGPT and other A.I. platforms, over copyright infringement, claiming the companies are responsible for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages.” The suit, filed Wednesday in Federal District Court in Manhattan, does not include a specific monetary demand but does assert the above-mentioned claim that Microsoft and OpenAI are responsible for billions in damages, and also demands that any chatbot models and data that pulled copyrighted work from The Times be dismantled.
Caroline Brew editor FX has released the first teaser for Ryan Murphy‘s upcoming series “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.” The second season of Murphy’s anthology series chronicles the literary scandal that sparked a fallout between writer Truman Capote and a high-society group of women, known as his “Swans.” Tom Hollander portrays Truman Capote, the “In Cold Blood” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” author who betrayed his close circle of powerful women by publishing a story titled “La Côte Basque, 1965” in Esquire. The “Swans” include Babe Paley (Naomi Watts), C.Z.
The Libertines have covered The Pogues‘ ‘Fairy Tale Of New York’ in tribute to the band’s late frontman, Shane MacGowan.The band – comprised of Pete Doherty, Carl Barât, John Hassall and Gary Powell – shared a video on their official Instagram page of Barât playing the famous Christmas tune on the piano with both him and Doherty singing along. The caption of the video read: “RIP Shane, this one’s for you matey x”.Two days later, they posted another video of the whole band performing ‘Fairy Tale Of New York’ while on stage during one of their intimate shows.” Another one for Shane x,” read the caption.MacGowan was laid to rest on December 8 after he died from pneumonia in hospital, aged 65, on November 30.
EXCLUSIVE: Starring an electrifying Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Boulevard ends its limited run at London’s Savoy Theatre on January 6. However, Deadline can reveal in its 2024 West End look ahead that the singer will lead the Andrew Lloyd Webber show to Broadway in November, according to insiders connected with the production.