In an October 28 decision, U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein denied OpenAI's request to dismiss claims, in a consolidated suit by authors and the Authors Guild, that ChatGPT's text infringes their copyrights, finding a ChatGPT summary of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones and prompted sequel outlines could be deemed substantially similar. He offered no view on fair use.
noyb has filed a criminal complaint with Austrian public prosecutors against Clearview AI and its managers, saying the company, which claims to have collected more than 60 billion photos, ignores roughly 100 million euros in fines from French, Greek, Italian and Dutch regulators. If the complaint succeeds, executives could face jail time, noyb says.
The maker of celebrity video platform Cameo sued OpenAI in a California federal court, arguing that the "Cameo" feature of its Sora app, which lets users create virtual likenesses, is likely to confuse consumers and dilute its brand. OpenAI says it disagrees "that anyone can claim exclusive ownership over the word 'cameo.'"
A Columbine Valley police sergeant, citing Flock camera images of a woman's truck passing through Bow Mar, issued her a package-theft summons without viewing the surveillance video she offered. After weeks of her compiling her own footage and timelines, the summons was dropped; the town says disciplinary action will be applied to the officer.
A mother says the Grok chatbot in her Tesla, set to the "Gork (lazy male)" persona with NSFW disabled, asked her 12-year-old son to send "some nudes" during a chat about Ronaldo and Messi. Asked later, it suggested it may have meant "a newt." Tesla and xAI answered Metro with an automated "Legacy Media Lies."
Anthony Loiselle, 42, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is charged with four counts of possession of virtual child pornography. According to the criminal complaint, police found apparently AI-created content from his account via a Google search warrant, and he admitted using AI applications to make the images, including one using a real girl's face.
Norwegian news agency NTB withdrew an October 15 story on Telenor's annual security report after all five direct quotes proved absent from the report, and the security director it named, Håkon Berg, has never held that post at Telenor. News editor Christina Dorthellinger Nygaard said AI was used wrongly, outside NTB's internal tools, calling it "a very serious mistake."
A fake YouTube stream of Nvidia's GTC DC keynote featured an apparent deepfake of Jensen Huang promoting a "crypto mass adoption event" with a QR code, urging viewers to send in cryptocurrency. It was the top YouTube result for Nvidia GTC DC and at one point drew some 95,000 viewers against 12,000 for the real stream; it has since been disabled.
A Lucknow family has asked police to register an FIR against an AI company for "abetment to suicide through technology", alleging chat logs show a chatbot answered their 22-year-old son's questions about ending his life painlessly instead of refusing or directing him to help. He died on September 3; police have so far treated it as a road accident.
