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Generation AI-related, Major News and Events (Yesterday, Wednesday, June 22)
Japan
Musashino Art University collaborates with AI Picasso to hold AI Painting AWARD.
AI Picasso claims to be clean in its website, but it turns out to be based on Stable Diffusion, which is infringing copyrights all over the place.
Furthermore, the developer took the liberty of feeding AI Picasso images of other people's cosplay to promote it, and then deleted them and fled when the problem was pointed out.
https://twitter.com/tatatataniguthi/status/1671875773400256519
The AI imitation currency guy from the other day was also from MAU... He has been under fire with a lot of criticism.
https://twitter.com/itmedia_news/status/1671741068512215040 (ITmedia NEWS)
Image Generation AI: Developers Establish Organization to Promote Transparency of Learning Data
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20230620/k10014104871000.html (NHK NEWS WEB)
"Volunteers, including AI developers, corporate AI application personnel, and lawyers, have established a voluntary organization to promote the appropriate use of image-generating AI, whose use is spreading rapidly, without infringing on copyrights, and announced a plan to work on making AI learning data transparent."
Overseas
Over 100,000 ChatGPT Accounts Stolen and Traded on the Dark Web, Risking Leakage of Confidential Corporate Information
https://gigazine.net/news/20230621-chatgpt-accounts-dark-web-marketplaces/ (Gigazine)
"Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity firm, reported that "over 100,000 ChatGPT accounts have been stolen by malware and traded on the dark web."
Robert Kneschke, stock content producer offering photos, illustrations, videos, 3D renderings and AI images (Germany)
Tweeted that the lawsuit against LAION is in full swing
https://twitter.com/robertkneschke/status/1671771627334369287
"Next (small) step in my LAION lawsuit:
The court has finished the cost calculation of the litigation process, now it is time for the opponent party to state their side of the issue."
LAION is the producer of the Stable diffusion dataset "LAION-5B" Stable diffusion is also currently facing a class action lawsuit.
Europe's Largest Consumer Group Calls for Tighter Regulation of "Generated AI"
https://forbesjapan.com/articles/detail/64053?read_more=1 (Forbes JAPAN)
"Generative AI can be used to manipulate or mislead consumers by mimicking human speech or using emotional language. In addition, AI-based image generation tools may violate privacy and individual rights by using datasets obtained from search engines and social networking sites for training without legal basis or knowledge of the people involved."
Legal Implications of Generative AI Use Should Be Better Understood--U.S. University Warns
https://japan.zdnet.com/article/35205554/ (ZDNET Japan)
"Code, words, and images generated using AI may be based on copyrighted material and could trigger a wave of lawsuits."
Justin K Thompson, one of the directors of "Spider-Man - Across the Spider-Verse," tweets strongly against Marvel's use of generative AI
https://twitter.com/shinypinkbottle/status/1671590700528603136
"This spits in the face of every real artist whose work is the actual foundation of Marvel's and Disney's success.
And it looks like shit. Fuck AI.."