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Matthias Bastian

Nov 24, 2024

Judge allows The Intercept's main DMCA complaint against OpenAI to proceed

OpenAI has entered into a long-term global partnership with News Corp, giving the AI company access to current and archived content from News Corp's news sources to improve its products and answer user questions. A leaked pitch deck for OpenAI's "Preferred Publisher Program" shows that the startup decides what constitutes quality journalism. The criteria for selecting publishers are not transparent. If OpenAI succeeds with its content economy based on assistants, chatbots, or products like SearchGPT, select media would be favored, while smaller, independent publishers would lose out. Politicians are missing out on this development, potentially giving OpenAI a lot of power over the future media system.

Matthias Bastian

Nov 23, 2024

US court ruling backs schools' right to penalize students for AI cheating

AI tools like ChatGPT are rapidly changing daily life for teachers in the US, according to a new Gallup study.

Matthias Bastian

Nov 23, 2024

Update

Elon Musk vs. OpenAI is "beyond any HBO show," says former Deepmind researcher

Elon Musk did not want to portray OpenAI as a "marketing bitch" from Microsoft

Maximilian Schreiner

Nov 21, 2024

Three reasons why Jensen Huang thinks Nvidia will continue to rise in value

Kim M. Scheurenbrand

Nov 20, 2024

US Congress pushes for Manhattan Project-style AGI program to outpace China

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Kim M. Scheurenbrand

Nov 20, 2024

EU AI office proposes external testing for large-scale models in first draft of AI code of conduct

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Maximilian Schreiner

Nov 18, 2024

Wall Street giants prepare for the biggest tech infrastructure boom since the internet

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Kim M. Scheurenbrand

Nov 16, 2024

72% of Germans have never heard of the EU AI Act, Europe's landmark AI regulation

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Matthias Bastian

Nov 15, 2024

Update

German music rights group GEMA sues OpenAI over unlicensed song lyrics in ChatGPT

German music rights organization GEMA filed a test case against OpenAI in Munich Regional Court on November 13, making it the first collecting society worldwide to take legal action against an AI provider.

Matthias Bastian

Nov 13, 2024

Generative AI reduces demand for some freelance jobs in writing, coding and design, study says

A new study reveals that the demand for freelance jobs in tasks considered easily automatable has dropped by an average of 21% since the introduction of ChatGPT, with copywriters experiencing a particularly sharp decline of over 30%. The launch of AI image generators like Midjourney and DALL-E has also led to a 17% decrease in demand for graphic designers and 3D modelers, resulting in increased competition for the remaining positions and higher application requirements. ChatGPT is increasingly becoming a mandatory skill, especially in software development, and the study's authors advise companies to train low-wage workers in the use of AI tools as the focus of work shifts towards tasks requiring human judgment.