🎉 FUTURE PERFECT IS BACK! (Again!)

Thank you to my loyal and new subscribers alike - your support has grown our community by a whopping 25% during my hiatus so I had no choice but to relaunch Future Perfect yet again!

I know there are many AI newsletters out there, so I wanted to make Future Perfect even better, and your feedback has been clear: simplicity wins.

So, starting today, you’ll get just the top 3 AI news stories, succinctly summarized in a few short bullet points, every weekday morning as always. No extra frills, just essential news, straight to the point. You even get a new logo — AI-generated, of course!

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United States Legal Perspective on AI Defamation (tap for full article)

• AI models can inadvertently learn biases, leading to harmful speech, raising concerns about defamation standards application.

• The U.S. legal framework, particularly Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, faces challenges in its applicability to AI-generated content.

• Ethical issues arise due to AI's inability to form mens rea — intent — complicating liability in defamation cases.

• Safety mechanisms like using verbatim quotes in AI models to align with Section 230 immunity are suggested.

• Unresolved questions remain about AI's liability for defaming private individuals and establishing a state of mind in liability cases.

• Legal and ethical standards must evolve with technology to address AI-generated defamation.

OpenAI: 'Impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials' (tap for full article)

• OpenAI claims building top-tier AI without copyrighted content is impossible, raising legal debates on liability.

• A study highlights AI's capability to recreate copyrighted scenes, suggesting training on such material.

• Legal challenges include determining liability between AI vendors and users for potential infringement.

• OpenAI, facing lawsuits, argues its AI's content generation is a rare bug and defends training practices as fair use.

• Experts debate the extent of AI's reliance on copyrighted content and the fairness of using widely disseminated material.

• OpenAI and Midjourney face scrutiny over their training methods and potential infringement, with ongoing legal implications.

Why a Chinese court’s landmark decision recognizing the copyright for an AI-generated image benefits creators in this nascent field (tap for full article)

• A Beijing court recognized AI-generated images as copyrightable, based on human input and originality.

• The ruling aims to boost the AI industry by encouraging creative uses of AI tools.

• The case involved an image of an Asian lady created using Stable Diffusion, leading to a copyright dispute.

• The court's decision considers AI-generated content as artwork, reflecting the creator's aesthetic choices.

• The ruling emphasizes case-by-case assessment of authorship in AI-assisted image creation.

• This decision aligns with China's growing interest in AI, potentially influencing future generative AI industry developments.

MARC HOAG LAW.

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