If 2022 was the year the generative AI boom started, 2023 was the year of the generative AI panic. Just over 12 months since OpenAI released ChatGPT and set a record for the fastest-growing consumer product, it appears to have also helped set a record for fastest government intervention in a new technology. The US … Read more
The New York Times has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, seeking to end the practice of using its stories to train chatbots. In the suit filed Wednesday in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, the Times said OpenAI and Microsoft are advancing their technology through the “unlawful use of The … Read more
I was never afraid to train an AI chatbot on my writing, because OpenAI had already broken the seal. CEO Sam Altman announced the “GPT” feature at OpenAI’s first developer day in November, prior to the company’s five days of leadership chaos. Before the release of custom GPTs, ChatGPT with web browsing was already able … Read more
Several Pulitzer Prize winning authors have joined a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, the creator of the popular ChatGPT tool, alleging the tech companies used their copyrighted work to train artificial intelligence (AI) models without permission. The lawsuit, which was originally filed by author Julian Sancton in late November, now features Kai Bird, Taylor … Read more
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) company behind the popular AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, unveiled a framework to protect against the “catastrophic risks” posed by the rapidly developing technology. “The study of frontier AI risks has fallen far short of what is possible and where we need to be,” OpenAI said in a Monday news release. “To … Read more
OpenAI was founded on a promise to build artificial intelligence that benefits all of humanity—even when that AI becomes considerably smarter than its creators. Since the debut of ChatGPT last year and during the company’s recent governance crisis, its commercial ambitions have been more prominent. Now, the company says a new research group working on … Read more
