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Roll up! Roll up! OpenAI now offering a miracle cure… for ChatGPT

February 1, 2023 No Comments

OpenAI are making an astoundingly successful business out of releasing products that sort of work, most of the time, but that they themselves say you shouldn’t use and will probably make mistakes… https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579942/chatgpt-ai-text-detection-openai-classifier Most EULAs and software licences say the same sort of thing, but far less of overtly but

ChatGPT agrees – AI creations are derivative and subject to copyright law

January 20, 2023 No Comments

The battle between copyright holders and generative AI platforms is heating up. What happens when I ask Open AI’s ChatGPT for some copyright advice? Copyright holders are starting to sue AI vendors Whether it’s screeds of text or pretty pictures, generative AI needs a large bank of training data to

Google Issues ‘Code Red’ Over ChatGPT

December 26, 2022 No Comments

Business Insider are reporting a “Code Red” alert being issued over at Google as the management team panic about the image of ChatGPT on their search engine business. It’s a great reminder that no business, no matter how large, is immune to disruption. Google is sitting on a database of

AI-Created Comic Has Been Deemed Ineligible for Copyright Protection

December 24, 2022 2 Comments

The United States Copyright Office (USCO) has reversed an earlier decision to grant a copyright to a comic book that was created using “A.I. art,” and announced that the copyright protection on the comic book will be revoked, stating that copyrighted works must be created by humans to gain official

Stable Diffusion won’t steal your art (if you tell them not to)

December 18, 2022 No Comments

StabilityAI has announced that they will honour artists who choose to “opt-out” of having their artwork included AI training data for the next iteration of their picture-making machine, Stable Diffusion 3. Frankly, I think this is a bogus move. Of all the millions of artists out there, only a tiny

On the topic of AI; Chat GPT and Stable Diffusion

December 16, 2022 No Comments

I’ve come to the conclusion that how impressive you think a piece of AI is directly correlates to your level of expertise in the skill that the AI is emulating (AIs don’t have skills, in my opinion – they emulate them by shredding, blending, and regurgitating the work of others).

The theft of code by Microsoft Co-Pilot will be decided in court.

November 26, 2022 No Comments

Once upon a time, three witches sat around a cauldron. Their names were Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish. They were the three merry witches of Microsoft and under the silvery light of a crescent moon, they were casting a spell to rid the world of their mortal foe – open-source software.

Confirmed: AI-Generated Content Is Against Google’s Guidelines

April 16, 2022 1 Comment

Throughout my career in digital marketing, there were a few rules that I always held to be immutable. One of them was this – If you can automate it, it’s probably SPAM. This rule steered me the right way on many occasions when tempting shortcuts were offered to me. I’d