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China's BIGAI unveils tong tong, world's first emotionally intelligent AI entity, echoing Iron Man's Jarvis; House of Lords urges UK ministers to protect content creators from unauthorised AI use; Bank of England Governor optimistic on AI impact, dismisses job destruction fears; Apple CEO Tim Cook confirms arrival of generative AI features 'later this year'- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. China's BIGAI unveils Tong Tong: World's first emotionally intelligent AI entity, echoing Iron Man's…

“You wouldn’t steal a car. You wouldn’t steal a handbag,” said that infamous 2000s anti-piracy commercial from the Motion Picture Association. “Piracy is stealing.”Do Not Steal Our Robot Dog!But would you pirate a song? Last year, over 17 billion visits were made to music piracy websites around the world, first reported by Wired. Music piracy is on the rise, with visits to these websites increasing by 13% from 2022. We’ve come a long way since Napster, but people are once again using the internet to illegally download…

Shein investors are trying to sell shares in private market deals that value the online fashion giant at as low as $45 billion, reflecting dwindling appetite for a company struggling with intensifying competition and regulatory scrutiny ahead of a long-awaited US debut.Shareholders offered stock at valuations ranging from $45 billion to $55 billion in late 2023, people familiar with the matter said. That’s down from the roughly $66 billion Shein achieved during a May round of fundraising. But they struggled to find buyers…

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said the NYT-OpenAI-Microsoft case is important and interesting one, and represents the broader issue of the nature of a relationship between those scraping internet and monetising from it versus the copyrighted content on the internet. Last Wednesday, New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright infringement, alleging that millions of its articles were used without consent to train chatbots and AI models, which now compete with it. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with…

Piracy is a fact of life in the entertainment industry, no matter how much studios try to fight it—and in an age where the streaming industry is feeling more and more like cable television by the day—it’s going to remain that way for the foreseeable future. But that doesn’t mean it’s not interesting to see what audiences were looking for on the high seas... and how a lot of that hasn’t really changed.Johnny Knoxville Loved Collectibles | First FandomsTorrent Freak’s annual look at piracy in 2023 saw the top 10 shows once…

The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Wednesday, accusing them of using millions of the newspaper's articles without permission to help train artificial intelligence technologies.The Times said it is the first major U.S. media organization to sue OpenAI and Microsoft, which created ChatGPT and other AI platforms, over copyright issues.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteNorthwestern UniversityKellogg Post Graduate Certificate in Product ManagementVisitIIM…

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 Branch, Stacy Schiff and eight other nonfiction writers as plaintiffs, according to an amended complaint filed Tuesday.  Bird…

Sarah Silverman, Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates and other authors accused Meta on Monday of using their copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models despite warnings from the company’s legal team. The complaint, which consolidates two copyright cases against the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, alleges Meta used an online resource to train its large language models, Llama 1 and Llama 2, that contained the authors’ works without their permission. Large language models,…

Ads for fake versions of Google’s generative AI tool, Bard, are showing up on Facebook to steal social media accounts of U.S. small businesses, according to a lawsuit from Google filed Monday.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIThe phony Facebook ads ask users to download Bard, but the AI doesn’t need to be downloaded – it’s a completely web-based product. Naive users actually downloaded malware that stole social media credentials and compromised their accounts. Google’s lawsuit aims to…

Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models. The proposed class action lawsuits filed by Silverman, Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in San Francisco federal court Friday allege Facebook parent company Meta and ChatGPT maker OpenAI used copyrighted material to train chatbots. Meta and OpenAI, a private company backed by Microsoft Corp, did not…