#17 | March 22, 2024
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The real Anthony Joshua?
Under Armour AI-powered ad plagiarises earlier work
Concocted in 'three weeks flat, 'the world’s 'first Ai-powered sports commercial' was quickly found to be in large part the repackaging of another ad, without acknowledging its directors. Cue a tonne of publicity, not all of it welcome but which, with a little thought, could easily have been anticipated.
Google fined EUR 250m for training Gemini on news content without consent
Alphabet’s latest slap on the wrist from France’s competition authority took the form of a copyright fine. Google grumbled that the penalty was unfair and chose not to contest it, but the penalty may well have other tech firms quaking.LEGO uses non-licensed IP in AI-generated toy promotion
A case of unintended copyright abuse, according to the toy maker, which in this case seems likely. But the fracas is also seen to beg a broader question: to what extent are LEGO and others looking to replace or complement human creativity using generative AI and other forms of automation? Time will tell.Italian PM seeks damages over deepfake porn videos
Georgia Meloni is seeking EUR 1000,000 from a Sardinian father and son who seemed to think it would be entertaining - or worse - to turn the Italian PM into a porn object and share the output with a US porn site. Proceeds are said to go to charity should she be successful.Voiceify sued for training AI with copyrighted material
In what appears to be another case of a student emerging from their bedroom into the stark light of reality, UK-based voice cloning company Voiceify was accused by the British Phonographic Industry of infringing on the sound recording copyrights of musicians and other creators.SEC fines money makers for misleading AI claims
Investment companies Delphia (USA) Inc. and Global Predictions paid a total USD 400,000 in civil penalties after the SEC charged them with making false and misleading statements about their purported use of AI to clients and prospects.Scientific journals publish papers with AI-generated introductions
AI’s ‘enshittification’ of the internet has spread to academic journals, bringing the names of Elsevier and other top scientific publishers into disrepute and (further) underscoring concerns about the role of AI - especially generative AI - in scientific publishing.Domino's sued for AI phone-order voice print collection
In a proposed class action suit, three Illinois customers accused the pizza company and the developer of its voice recognition system of secretly collecting their voice prints without informing them and gaining their consent.Adobe Firefly shows 'woke' photos of black Nazis
Where Google goes, Adobe bravely (or is it meekly?) follows.
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Archive additions
FTC investigates Evolv Technology for misleading marketing (2023)
Meta sues predictive policing firm Voyager Labs for data scraping (2023)
AI virtual learning platform Edgenuity gamed by students (2020)
Student reading aloud during remote exam is falsely accused of cheating (2020)
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