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Some artists have begun waging a legal fight against the alleged theft of billions of copyrighted images used to train AI art generators and reproduce unique styles without compensating artists or asking for consent. Further Reading With Stable Diffusion, you may never believe what you see online again A group of artists represented by the Joseph Saveri Law Firm has filed a US federal class-action lawsuit in San Francisco against AI-art companies Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt for alleged violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, violations of the right of publicity, and unlawful competition. The artists taking action— Sarah Andersen , Kelly McKernan , Karla Ortiz —"seek to end this blatant and enormous infringement of their rights before their professions are eliminated by a computer program powered entirely by their hard work," according to the official text of the complaint filed to the court. Using tools like Stability AI's Stable … [Read more...] about Artists file class-action lawsuit against AI image generator companies

AFP — The toll from a devastating strike on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro was expected to rise past 40 on Tuesday as rescuers searched the rubble for 25 people still missing after one of Russia’s deadliest attacks since its invasion. President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the missile strike as a war crime. “There is no doubt: every person guilty of this war crime will be identified and brought to justice,” Zelensky said in his nightly address late Monday. Kyiv has called for more weapons to defend itself and at the weekend received pledges of British tanks, but Russian President Vladimir Putin warned more armaments would only intensify fighting and the Kremlin vowed to burn the gear. A photograph shows a residential building destroyed after a missile strike, in Dnipro on January 16, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. – According to State Emergency Service report, as of 1:00 pm on December 16, 40 people died, including 6 children; 75 people got injured, … [Read more...] about At Least 40 Dead Including Children in Missile Strike, Russia Denies

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court let stand the novel hacking conviction of a man who did not hack a computer to gain unauthorized access. Further Reading Supreme Court’s new term: Surveillance, hacking, sports betting—and cake, too The justices, without comment, turned away the appeal of David Nosal, who was convicted of three counts under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) hacking statute. Nosal's conviction was based on a hacking conspiracy of sorts. According to court documents, Nosal used to work at an executive search firm called Korn/Ferry. After quitting Korn/Ferry, Nosal urged a former colleague to give up her credentials to two other Korn/Ferry employees who were cooperating with Nosal. At Nosal's urging, they downloaded proprietary Korn/Ferry information to help the trio start a competing firm. As his punishment for the conspiracy, Nosal was sentenced to a year in prison. He appealed and said the hacking statute did not apply to him. In seeking the … [Read more...] about Supreme Court: Hacking conviction stands for man who didn’t hack computer

The Justice Department 's top antitrust official recently won approval from the department to oversee investigations involving Google parent Alphabet Inc , a person briefed on the matter said. The Wall Street Journal earlier reported the decision to allow Jonathan Kanter , assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust, to oversee matters involving the search engine and advertising company. In November 2021, Google asked the Justice Department to consider requiring Kanter to recuse himself because of his work for a long list of Google critics like Yelp Inc , which Alphabet described as "vociferously advocating for an antitrust case against Google for years." Read Also Future Google TV to get self-charging, battery-free remote Google, Porsche in talks over Google Apps access Kanter had been barred from working on Google investigations as the department considered whether he was required to be recused. On … [Read more...] about google: Justice Department official cleared to oversee Google probes