Now we must deal with all those other worms in the can… Can AI sign a contract? Who gets paid? Does the AI have a basis to sue to obtain full ownership of the copyright?
https://ipwatchdog.com/2023/03/15/copyright-office-makes-ai-authorship-policy-official/id=157831/
Copyright Office Makes AI Authorship Policy Official
The U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) has announced a new statement of policy on “Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence” that will be published in the Federal Register tomorrow, March 16. The statement comes following several recent cases that have tested the bounds of copyright protection for works generated solely or in part by AI authors.
… First, the Office will ask, as dictated by the Compendium, “whether the ‘work’ is basically one of human authorship, with the computer [or other device] merely being an assisting instrument, or whether the traditional elements of authorship in the work (literary, artistic, or musical expression or elements of selection, arrangement, etc.) were actually conceived and executed not by man but by a machine.”
If a work contains AI-generated material, the Office will first consider “whether the AI contributions are the result of ‘mechanical reproduction’ or instead of an author’s ‘own original mental conception, to which [the author] gave visible form.’” This will depend on the particular circumstances, how the AI tool works and how it was used, and will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
If a work is determined to have been created solely by a machine, it will not be registered. The Office gave the example of tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney, which generate complex musical, visual and written works with a simple prompt from a human. “Based on the Office’s understanding of the generative AI technologies currently available, users do not exercise ultimate creative control over how such systems interpret prompts and generate material,” wrote the USCO.
In cases where AI-generated works also contain enough human authorship to support copyright protection, the Office will grant registration:
Another “first.”
Plaintiff Gets Default Judgment Against Hackers After Serving Court Papers via NFT, a Legal First
Sander Lutz reports:
A federal judge in Florida has ruled in favor of a plaintiff who sued anonymous hackers and issued formal notice of the legal action via NFT, according to recent court filings.
The ruling, a default judgment from Judge Beth Bloom of the United States District Court Southern District of Florida, declares that the unidentified hackers are on the hook for the $971,291 worth of USDT (Tether) that they stole from plaintiff Rangan Bandyopadhyay’s Coinbase wallet in December 2021.
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Judge Bloom’s determination that NFTs constituted a legitimate form of legal notification for these defendants marks the first time an American federal court has allowed defendants to be served by NFT.
Read more at Decrypt.
The case is: 1:22-cv-22907-BB BANDYOPADHYAY v. Defendant 1 et al
Many philosophers, many views.
https://dailynous.com/2023/03/14/philosophers-on-next-generation-large-language-models/
Philosophers on Next-Generation Large Language Models
… Philosophers On is an occasional series of group posts on issues of current interest, with the aim of showing what the careful thinking characteristic of philosophers (and occasionally scholars in related fields) can bring to popular ongoing conversations. The contributions that the authors make to these posts are not fully worked out position papers, but rather brief thoughts that can serve as prompts for further reflection and discussion.
Perspective. Can we tell true sentience from an overly anthropomorphized view?
AI isn’t close to becoming sentient – the real danger lies in how easily we’re prone to anthropomorphize it
… In the past few years, my colleagues and I at UMass Boston’s Applied Ethics Center have been studying the impact of engagement with AI on people’s understanding of themselves.
Chatbots like ChatGPT raise important new questions about how artificial intelligence will shape our lives, and about how our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies.
(Related)
The stupidity of AI
Artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually intelligent could be actively dangerous
Tools & Techniques. Develop some AI skills?
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/03/an-overview-of-using-and-detecting.html
An Overview of Using and Detecting Artificial Intelligence
This week's news that Google Workspace will have new artificial intelligence tools added to it throughout the year was not unexpected. It was another sign that if you haven't being paying attention to the development of AI tools this year, you should start paying attention to them. Even if your school tries to ban or block AI tools, students will figure out a way to use them outside of school if not in your school. With that out of the way, here's a round-up of some the AI tools that I've written and or made videos about in recent months.
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