Wired

Anthropic Will Use Claude Chats for Training Data. Here’s How to Opt Out

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...
TechCrunch

Court filings show Meta staffers discussed using copyrighted content for AI training

For years, Meta employees have internally discussed using copyrighted works obtained through legally questionable means to train the company’s AI models, according to court documents unsealed on ...
JD Supra

Does Training an AI Model Using Copyrighted Works Infringe the Owners’ Copyright? An Early Decision Says, “Yes.”

Thomson Reuters v. Ross was the first major U.S. AI-copyright decision that answered the question of whether the fair use defense protects an AI model provider from a copyright infringement claim. 3 ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models

YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway, and ...
Ars Technica

AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents

Scraping the open web for AI training data can have its drawbacks. On Thursday, researchers from Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute released a preprint research ...