In the world of AI, what might be called “small language models” have been growing in popularity recently because they can be run on a local device instead of requiring data center-grade computers in the cloud. On Wednesday, Apple introduced a set of tiny source-available AI language models […]
The allegation emerges from a complaint [PDF] accusing the tech and retail mega-corp of demoting, and then dismissing, a former high-flying AI scientist after it discovered she was pregnant. As well as alleging sexism and discrimination against her, Ghaderi also accuses the tech giant of singling […]
The proliferation of large language models and generative AI has created fertile ground for vector database technologies to flourish. Vector databases, store and process data in the form of vector embeddings, which convert text, documents, images, and other data into numerical representations that […]
The Internet Archive is doubling down on its position that its digital lending library service operates under the bounds of fair use. Major publishers assert that digitizing books without appropriate licensing amounts to infringement but IA counters that the practice is in the public interest. It […]
As music IP owners continue to clash with AI behemoths over what constitutes fair use, Soundtrack Loops’ latest expansion — specifically with its OneStop Audio Library for AI training — aims to remove copyright conflict from the picture entirely. The company believes that in the face of […]
California politicians are advancing a bill that would force Google and Meta — which owns Facebook and Instagram — to pay news publishers each time they display pieces of their articles or show links to them in search results or on social media. The companies are lobbying furiously to block it, […]
En masse, the music industry seems to have decided that NFTs were a terrible idea best swept under the carpet and forgotten. And in fairness, many of the industry’s initial experiments with NFTs deserve exactly that fate. However, with the hype having ebbed away the musicians who are still […]
When Walter Woodman and his team were working on one of their latest film productions, they kept hitting a snag. They couldn’t get the character at the centre of their picture, a man with a balloon for a head, to look quite right. “It would draw a face on the balloon and we didn’t really want […]
Fight for control becomes a bidding war
Jeff Price, the founder and CEO of global publishing administrator Word Collections, has released an article providing the results of auditing the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) using the MLC’s own publically available data. The results, according to Price, reveal that since the […]
