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The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case

The Internet Archive has lost a major legal battle—in a decision that could have a significant impact on the future of internet history. Today, the US Court of Appeals for the Second...

A New Group Is Trying to Make AI Data Licensing Ethical

The first wave of major generative AI tools largely were trained on “publicly available” data—basically, anything and everything that could be scraped from the internet. Now, sources of training data are increasingly...

Major Sites Are Saying No to Apple’s AI Scraping

Less than three months after Apple quietly debuted a tool for publishers to opt out of its AI training, a number of prominent news outlets and social platforms have taken the company...

This Political Startup Wants to Help Progressives Win … With AI-Generated Ads

Stories about AI-generated political content are like stories about people drunkenly setting off fireworks: There’s a good chance they’ll end in disaster. WIRED is tracking AI usage in political campaigns across the...

Condé Nast Signs Deal With OpenAI

Condé Nast and OpenAI have struck a multi-year deal that will allow the AI giant to use content from the media giant’s roster of properties—which includes the New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair,...

Generative AI Has a ‘Shoplifting’ Problem. This Startup CEO Has a Plan to Fix It

Bill Gross made his name in the tech world in the 1990s, when he came up with a novel way for search engines to make money on advertising. Under his pricing scheme,...

Zombie Alt-Weeklies Are Stuffed With AI Slop About OnlyFans

Several of the most prominent alt-weekly newspapers in the United States are running search-engine-optimized listicles about porn performers, which appear to be AI-generated, alongside their editorial content.If you pull up the homepage...

US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement

The music industry has officially declared war on Suno and Udio, two of the most prominent AI music generators. A group of music labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and...

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