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X Stops Using Some EU User Posts for AI Training
artificial intelligence // August 08, 2024

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Thursday (Aug. 8) that X has agreed to suspend the use of personal data from some users’ public posts on the social media platform to train the artificial intelligence (AI) model, Grok.  This agreement applies to public posts that...

AI Explained: Data Scarcity and How It Impacts Innovation
artificial intelligence // July 15, 2024

As artificial intelligence (AI) powers a growing array of technologies, from chatbots to self-driving cars, a bottleneck has emerged: a shortage of high-quality data to train these sophisticated systems. Data scarcity, as it’s known in the industry, threatens to slow the rapid pace of AI...

Web Scraping Wars: How Businesses Are Fighting AI Data Harvesting
artificial intelligence // July 09, 2024

As web scraping by artificial intelligence (AI) companies intensifies, businesses are grappling with the unauthorized harvesting of their online content, prompting new defensive measures that could reshape the digital landscape. Web infrastructure company Cloudflare has unveiled a new tool against content scraping that could throw...

UK Wants More Transparency Into AI Models
artificial intelligence // May 19, 2024

The U.K. is reportedly working toward greater transparency into how tech firms train artificial intelligence (AI) models. These efforts, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (May 19), come as creators are voicing concerns that their work is being copied and used without their consent by...

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X Stops Using Some EU User Posts for AI Training

August 08, 2024
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Thursday (Aug. 8) that X has agreed to suspend the use of personal data from some users’ public posts on the social media platform to train the artificial intelligence (AI) model, Grok.  This agreement applies to public posts that were made by European Union (EU) and European Economic Area […]

UK Wants More Transparency Into AI Models

May 19, 2024
The U.K. is reportedly working toward greater transparency into how tech firms train artificial intelligence (AI) models. These efforts, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (May 19), come as creators...

OpenAI and Reddit Partner on Data Licensing, AI-Powered Features, Advertising

May 16, 2024
OpenAI will be using Reddit content to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. That’s one component of a new partnership formed by the AI company and the social media platform, Reddit said in a...

Newspapers Sue Microsoft, OpenAI for Using Content to Train AI

April 30, 2024
Eight newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital’s MediaNews Group are reportedly suing Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging that the tech companies used the newspapers’ content to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.  The newspapers, which include the New...