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The European Union reached a preliminary deal that would limit how the advanced ChatGPT model could operate, in what’s seen as a key part of the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence regulation.All developers of general purpose AI systems – powerful models that have a wide range of possible uses – must meet basic transparency requirements, unless they’re provided free and open-source, according to an EU document seen by Bloomberg.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

Google questioned Australia’s copyright laws in an open letter to the government last month, asking it to relax the law so it doesn’t restrict the use of artificial intelligence. The company asked if the Australian government has considered if its copyright legislation has“the necessary flexibilities” to support AI development. It requested the government include a fair dealing exception that would also allow for Text and Data Mining (TDM).The FTC Just Prescribed a Can of Whoop Ass on Health DataThe response comes as…

Consider two approaches in the music industry to artificial…

The BAYC community is granted the ability to commercially use their NFTs, such as for a pop up burger joint in California. Critics have said Yuga Labs doesn’t grant ownership, so much as a license for their ape.Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images)Yuga Labs, the company behind the toilet-obsessed Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, is in a strange space regarding its intellectual property.As first reported by ARTnews, new documents filed by Yuga Labs in an ongoing lawsuit go out of its way to explainwhether its infamous Bored Ape…

Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of Prince (left) was used to create a series of 16 silkscreen prints by Andy Warhol.Screenshot: Collection of the Supreme Court of the United StatesIn 1981 the photographer Lynn Goldsmith took a portrait of Prince. He sits alone on a white background, wearing a blank expression with a glint of light in his eyes. In 1984 Andy Warhol used that photo to create art. Warhol altered the image, adjusting the angle of Prince’s face, layering on swaths of color, darkening the edges, and adding hand-drawn…

Covered... by COPYRIGHT LAW!!Image: DC Comics/Marshall RogersA new Joker film had its first—and probably last—showing earlier this month at the Toronto International Film Festival. The People’s Joker, described as “a queer coming-of-age story complete with a copyright-defying array of villains and heroes,” was screened once and only once. Future screenings of the film have been pulled due to “rights issues,” creating yet another controversy surrounding copyright, trademarks, fandom, and fair use.The People’s Joker is,…

Image: Gizmodo/Shutterstock (Shutterstock)Gizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the anniversary, we’re looking back at some of the most significant ways our lives have been thrown for a loop by our digital tools.In the revisionist history of the internet, we were all sold down the river by the “techno-optimists,” who assumed that once we “connected every person in the world” we’d enter a kind of post-industrial nirvana, a condition so wondrous that it behooved us all to “move fast,” even if that meant that we’d “break…