The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft in New York federal court on Sept 4, alleging the companies scraped their websites, including paywalled articles, to train and operate ChatGPT, Copilot and Bing's AI features. The papers seek destruction of datasets and models built on their work. OpenAI says its training is grounded in fair use; Microsoft says it was surprised.
President Donald Trump shared an apparently AI-generated image on Truth Social on Sunday showing Robert De Niro, one of his most persistent critics, holding a shirt reading "TRUMP IS MY PRESIDENT," captioned "Even this jerk is beginning to get it." De Niro told USA Today last month the administration has to be "gotten out."
Multiple Threads accounts claiming to be junior-high classmates of Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an's son posted word-for-word identical defences of his school admission, which commentator Wu Ching-yi suggested were the work of a hired PR operation. Users found the accounts' IP addresses all located in Indonesia, and one account was named "iamdeepseekandanindonesian".
As a settlement administrator sorts out rights to some of the more than 482,000 books in Anthropic's $1.5 billion class-action settlement, worth up to $3,000 per pirated book, some authors accuse publishers of claiming too large a share. The Authors Guild's chief executive said she saw no bad faith, citing poor publisher records; some textbook authors may receive only 10 to 15 percent.
Country singer Stella Parton, 77, condemned AI-generated fake images and videos of her sister Dolly Parton circulating since the star's death at 80 a little over a week earlier. In an Instagram statement on Friday, she said a tremendous amount of AI content and endless junk appeared daily, and that those exploiting others' loss would move on to the next wave of disinformation.
