#lawsuit

[saywhat-politics]

#florida #republican governor #ron desantis #hamburger mary’s #lawsuit

[lennythereviewer]

Hey remember when Tumblr banned porn and everyone fled to Twitter and the internet by and large became that much more insufferable? Yeah well, we’re about to get the sequel no one’s been waiting for

A recent lawsuit is calling into question the very law that makes user-generated content possible on the internet and it’s going before a bunch of old people who have no idea how the internet works. If Section 230 gets repealed or modified, the internet as we know it will radically change forever. Content policing will be that much worse; and either the guidelines will be so restrictive it’ll squeeze the life out of their sites, or sites will close their doors all together by not being able to meet the moderation demand and not wanting to risk being liable. 

Unlike SOPA way back in the day, this one is quietly flying under everyone’s radar so there’s no big pushback like last time, so there is a very real possibility this goes down in the worst way possible. So Yeah Ya’ll may want to start saving your favorite content if you feel it’s going to go bye-bye

#What do I even tag this as? #Section 230 #Internet #Content Policing #Lawsuit #Congress #Supreme Court

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was watching a guy document his journey on TikTok of suing a hospital for losing his parents' corpses. He was awarded 171 million by the jury and did a dance to celebrate.

#dream #tiktok #lawsuit #hospital #death tw

[destiel-news-network]

(Source)

#destiel #panera #panera bread #lawsuit #wrongful death #castiel #dean winchester #breaking news

[reasonsforhope]

got anything good, boss?

Sure do!

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"Weeks after The New York Times updated its terms of service (TOS) to prohibit AI companies from scraping its articles and images to train AI models, it appears that the Times may be preparing to sue OpenAI. The result, experts speculate, could be devastating to OpenAI, including the destruction of ChatGPT's dataset and fines up to $150,000 per infringing piece of content.

NPR spoke to two people "with direct knowledge" who confirmed that the Times' lawyers were mulling whether a lawsuit might be necessary "to protect the intellectual property rights" of the Times' reporting.

Neither OpenAI nor the Times immediately responded to Ars' request to comment.

If the Times were to follow through and sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, NPR suggested that the lawsuit could become "the most high-profile" legal battle yet over copyright protection since ChatGPT's explosively popular launch. This speculation comes a month after Sarah Silverman joined other popular authors suing OpenAI over similar concerns, seeking to protect the copyright of their books.

Of course, ChatGPT isn't the only generative AI tool drawing legal challenges over copyright claims. In April, experts told Ars that image-generator Stable Diffusion could be a "legal earthquake" due to copyright concerns.

But OpenAI seems to be a prime target for early lawsuits, and NPR reported that OpenAI risks a federal judge ordering ChatGPT's entire data set to be completely rebuilt—if the Times successfully proves the company copied its content illegally and the court restricts OpenAI training models to only include explicitly authorized data. OpenAI could face huge fines for each piece of infringing content, dealing OpenAI a massive financial blow just months after The Washington Post reported that ChatGPT has begun shedding users, "shaking faith in AI revolution." Beyond that, a legal victory could trigger an avalanche of similar claims from other rights holders.

Unlike authors who appear most concerned about retaining the option to remove their books from OpenAI's training models, the Times has other concerns about AI tools like ChatGPT. NPR reported that a "top concern" is that ChatGPT could use The Times' content to become a "competitor" by "creating text that answers questions based on the original reporting and writing of the paper's staff."

As of this month, the Times' TOS prohibits any use of its content for "the development of any software program, including, but not limited to, training a machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) system.""

-via Ars Technica, August 17, 2023

#Anonymous #ask #me #open ai #chatgpt #anti ai #ai writing #lawsuit #united states #copyright law #new york times #good news #hope

[facts-i-just-made-up]

The children who “didn’t need no education” in Pink Floyd’s The Wall later sued the band as they also didn’t get no royalties.

#pink floyd #the wall #music #rock #lawsuit #unreality

[antifainternational]

Another day, another loss for Andy "Milkshake" Ngo. It's worth noting that The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund provided legal aid support to one of the people Ngo was attempting to sue. Being able to help provide good lawyers for anti-fascists is more important than ever and it works! Help us to continue to defend anti-fascists by making a contribution to the Defence Fund.

#antifa #antifascist #antifascism #andy ngo #lawsuit #solidarity' #the international anti-fascist defence fund #fighting hate is not a crime #anti-fascism = self-defence #solidarity is our weapon

[namnammunchmunch]

One day thos blue checkmarks will hatch into beautiful little 🦀🦀

#twitter #tumblr feature #tumblr #tumblr staff #staff #tumblr features #feature #features #blue checkmarks #blue checkmark #checkmarks #checkmark #elon musk #lawsuit #crab #crabs #get crabed #🦀 #destiel #spn #destiel meme #🦀🦀

[luckydiorxoxo]

#lizzo #lawsuit

[onlytiktoks]

#tiktok #Google #Google lawsuit #lawsuit #morning brew

[alwaysbewoke]

#Boeing #whistleblower #John Barnett #quality-control concerns #safety concerns #South Carolina #death #investigation #self-inflicted gunshot wound #Charleston County coroner’s office #Charleston City Police Department #lawsuit #retaliation #deposition #Robert M. Turkewitz #lawyer #Federal Aviation Administration #FAA

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My teacher told us to comment on two posts but didn’t specify so half the class commented on Instagram or Tumblr posts. Then the teacher failed everyone and the smart kid sued him, won, and became our teacher.

#dream #I’m not even in school anymore #I graduated two years ago #teacher #class #instagram #school #lawsuit

[fyexo]

(INFO) Xiumin, Baekhyun and Chen have filed a lawsuit to terminate their contracts with SM Entertainment.

Legal representation for EXO-CBX states: SM Entertainment pushes their artists to sign 20 year "slave" contracts; EXO-CBX were unable to negotiate the terms of their contract renewal; Over the past 12-13 years, SM Entertainment has not provided accurate reports of EXO-CBX's income.

EXO-CBX have been requesting income reports since March 21st with a deadline of May 31st. Since SM Entertainment has refused to provide the reports, EXO-CBX have grounds to terminate their contracts. It is their belief that SM Entertainment has not properly paid their artists, and that is why they will not provide the reports. EXO-CBX have chosun to undertake this lawsuit knowing that this is a potential issue for all artists under SM.

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#exo #xiumin #baekhyun #chen #t: info #lawsuit

[reasonsforhope]

"A federal judge has ruled that artwork created solely by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted because “human authorship is an essential part of a valid copyright claim.”

The decision, issued by Judge Beryl Howell, stemmed from computer scientist Stephen Thaler’s efforts to copyright an image he said was created by an AI model, identified as Creativity Machine. Thaler claimed that as the owner of Creativity Machine, he was entitled to the copyright. The Copyright Office rejected that application on the grounds that human authorship is necessary to secure a copyright, prompting Thaler to sue. 

Howell ultimately upheld the Copyright Office’s decision, citing long-standing precedent about human authorship. “The act of human creation — and how to best encourage human individuals to engage in that creation, and thereby promote science and the useful arts — was thus central to American copyright from its very inception,” Howell wrote. “Non-human actors need no incentivization with the promise of exclusive rights under United States law, and copyright was therefore not designed to reach them.” ...

Howell’s opinion did nod to the drastically shifting landscape of copyright law in the AI era. She even acknowledged Thaller’s own argument about the malleability of copyright law to account for changes in technology. But again, Howell noted that human authorship remained key."

-via Rolling Stone, August 18, 2023

#ai #ai art #ai generated #anti ai #copyright #united states #us politics #lawsuit #good news #hope

[queerism1969]

#elon musty #elon is an idiot #elon mask #elon tweets #elon musk #elon twitter #elon moschus #fuck elon #elonjet #musk #tesla #billion #revenue #lawsuit #working class #workers rights #anti capitalism #income inequality #capitalism #late stage capitalism

[datamined]

Because it's relevant to the blog: TLDR; The United States' Justice Department have Google in an Antitrust lawsuit over it's ability as a monopoly to corrupt search engine results and more people need to understand what's going on and why this is important. https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198558372/doj-google-monopoly-antitrust-trial-search-engine At work one of my bosses threw a fit (justifably) because Google is doing a lot shittier things with advertising and their algorithm than you think. I feel like most people know at this point that Google search results are essentially bunk- the top searches is influenced by how much a company directly works with and pays google. People bid to make their names or businesses at the top of the search results. But it goes a little deeper in that. Recently, I learned that top bidders do not actually get the top result. Why? Because Google wants to make it look less bad when Amazon always gets the top result for virtually anything you're looking for. Top bidders get second top search, the NEXT top bidders actually get the top spot. I could be wrong, but this is essentially my understanding of it at our office in super simple terms. But the biggest issue right now is that Google actually quietly (but significantly) raised their prices for bidding and nobody has any fucking say in it. This makes large corporations (such as Amazon) more likely to be only ones that can manage to take up these top spots, and smaller companies continue to get shafted because they simply cannot compete and Google is essentially stiffing the competition, so to speak, harder than ever before. BUT ON TOP OF THAT, my boss also found that Google is actively making it harder to find information about this and the incoming huge fucking lawsuits thrown at them. They're trying to make it difficult for their users (and basically, the entire world considering so many devices automatically use google search, as Google has deals with Apple and Samsung) to find out anything about their corporate greed and corruption. When searching for the same thing in a different Search Engine like Bing, the lawsuits are the first things to come up. It's huge fucking news but few people know about it or are talking about it. The results of this lawsuit are going to permanently and drastically change the internet and how people find their information.

#google #lawsuit #us politics #monopoly #capitalism #internet #information #advertising #data diary