Just a simple question: but what is art, anyway?| The Verge
Are text-to-image AI legal? It’s a hard question to answer.| The Verge
How does it feel to be turned into an AI image model? To find out, I opened a door to the multiverse and interviewed the creator and unwilling subject of a controversial DreamBooth model.| Waxy.org
Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI are being sued for allegedly violating copyright law by reproducing open-source code using AI. But the suit could have a huge impact on the wider world of artificial intelligence.| The Verge
What images were used to train Stable Diffusion's text-to-image AI model? I worked with Simon Willison to make a data browser to explore and search a sample of 12 million images.| Waxy.org
As part of the BigCode project, we released and will maintain The Stack, a 6.4 TB dataset of permissively licensed source code in 358 programming languages, along with a collection of datasets created through the course of research during the project. Release Description v1.0 Initial release of the Stack. Included 30 programming languages and 18 permissive licenses. Note: Three included licenses (MPL/EPL/LGPL) are considered weak copyleft licenses. The resulting near-deduplicated dataset ...| BigCode
Introduction The challenge handed to the musician was peculiar and daunting: Take a five-second sample of a randomly selected song and, with just a moment’s notice, transform it into a full-length piece composed in the style of a completely different artist.[1] On this occasion, the musician rose to the challenge with such aplomb that it […]| Texas Law Review
The goal of the Index is to make the principles and application of fair use more accessible and understandable to the public by presenting a searchable database of court opinions, including by category and type of use (e.g., music, internet/digitization, parody).| www.copyright.gov