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Who owns AI content? 🤷 We asked a legal expert

👨‍⚖️ Legal expert weighs in on AI content, US restricts NVIDIA chips to Middle East, generating decks in seconds, and more!

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August 31, 2023

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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Is it possible to own the AI content you create? On the flip side, could you be sued for using AI generated content? We asked a legal expert and he dished all. Give it a listen.

🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: AI-generated SEO content for your Shopify store, Runway’s new animation feature, and Call of Duty adding AI to voice chats. Read on for Fresh Finds.

đź—ž Byte Sized Daily AI News: The US is restricting certain NVIDIA chips to Middle Eastern countries, Baidu's Ernie AI Chatbot takes on ChatGPT, and AI21 Labs Raises $155M. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.

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🧠 Learn & Leveraging AI: AI content and copyright can be super complicated. So how can you use AI without having to tip-toe around all these legal matters? Keep reading for that!

↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about how Microsoft Copilot will disrupt the economy, OpenAI's revenue reaches $1 billion, and getting rid of hallucinations inside of ChatGPTl! Check it here!

Navigating the AI-Legal Maze 🧑‍⚖️

When you create AI content on the Internet, who owns it?

With AI content rising in popularity, countries are scrambling to decide what AI regulations should be implemented.

Why not ask someone who’s been dealing with AI and legal for years?

Neil Peretz, Head of Legal for WooCommerce at Automattic, joins us to discuss how to approach AI content, E-commerce, and AI regulations.

Join the conversation and ask Neil and Jordan any questions about AI and legal regulations.

Also on the pod today:

• Who has rights to outputs of generative AI? 🤔
• Recent example of AI copyright ⚖️
• Best practices for using generative AI legally ✅

It’ll be worth your 33 minutes:

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New AI Tool Spotlight – BlogSEO AI helps you generate SEO content for your Shopify store, WorkGPT is a combination of ChatGPT and Zapier, and Vispunk is a drag-and-drop AI image generator.

Big Tech – Runway has added a new animation feature called motion slider that creates a short AI video.

Business of AI - The AI boom may be chugging along but many AI startups are running into issues.

AI in Society – AI is helping to fight climate change. How? By generating a map of the world’s trees and renewable energy projects.

Pop Culture – The popular gaming franchise Call of Duty is adding AI to voice chats to moderate violations of the game’s code of conduct.

1. U.S. Puts Brakes on NVIDIA Chip Exports to Middle East đźš«

The U.S. government is tightening its grip on tech exports, now restricting certain NVIDIA chips to Middle Eastern countries, according to a recent filing. This move underscores the growing concerns around technology's role in global geopolitics. NVIDIA, a major player in the chip industry, is bound to feel the ripple effects.

2. Baidu's Ernie AI Chatbot Takes on ChatGPT 🤖

China may have its own ChatGPT. Baidu's Ernie is stepping into the ring, challenging the likes of ChatGPT. With the AI chatbot market expanding rapidly, competition is fierce, and Baidu aims to secure a significant chunk. Dive into the chatbot showdown details here.

3. AI Copyright Suits: Can a Bot Be Sentient? 🤔

The world of AI copyright is in a whirlwind, with an inventor pushing to prove his bot's sentience. This groundbreaking endeavor could reshape the boundaries of AI rights and intellectual property. As AI continues to evolve, the line between machine and consciousness blurs. Delve into this intriguing legal battle.

4. OpenAI Digs Deep in ChatGPT Copyright Lawsuit đź“ś

OpenAI is standing its ground, seemingly going all-in on the ChatGPT copyright lawsuit. As AI advancements challenge traditional copyright norms, this case could set a precedent for future AI intellectual property disputes. The outcome? It's anyone's guess.

5. AI21 Labs Raises $155M For Generative AI đź’¸

AI21 Labs has closed $155 million in series C funding to accelerate the growth of its text-based generative AI services for enterprises. The company is now valued at $1.4 billion. Many see AI21 as a rival to OpenAI, even receiving praise from NVIDIA’s CEO.

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🤷‍♂️ What’s Going On and Why It Matters:

Lawsuits. Lawsuits everywhere.

It seems we can’t go more than like 18 hours without some major headline about a new legal battle around content generated with AI.

So what do we do about this murky situation?

Stop using AI tools? Run and hide? Double-down and ignore it all?

Lucky for you, we tapped into the legal mind of Neil Peretz, the Head of Legal for WooCommerce at Automattic. Automattic is also the parent company of WordPress, which produces about 45% of the total content of the internet.

In other words, Neil knows a thing or two about the legality around content and generative AI in general.

If you need a refresher, let’s take a high-level overview of just a few ongoing legal battles around Generative AI and its use cases.

  • NY Times suing OpenAI — arguably the biggest name in GenAI is facing a potential lawsuit from the New York Times for allegedly lifting gated content.

  • Google stealing content? — Google is facing a class action lawsuit alleging it violated copyright law in scaring information from the web.

  • Microsoft and OpenAI sued for $3 billion — In a similar class action suit, Microsoft and OpenAI are being sued for $3 billion by 16 anonymous plants who claimed OpenAI secretly “scraped 300 billion words from the internet”

  • Stable Diffusion and Midjourney — The AI image-generating powerhouses are fighting lawsuits in which plaintiffs claim they’ve essentially trained their models on the rights of “millions of artists” from the world wide web “without the consent of the original artists“

  • Gen AI Is sentient? — We talked on the show today about Stephen Thaler, who after losing a judgment on trying to copyright AI images argues that his AI tool was sentient, or capable of independent thinking

OK, we could list these forever, but you signed up for a newsletter, not a 500-page legal brief.

Here’s the skinny: the legal situation around the use of Generative AI tools is going to be playing out for years to come.

(Side note, GREAT time to be a copyright lawyer. Bots ain’t takin your jobs!)

How do we handle these crazy times?

Let’s break it down 👇

🦾How You Can Leverage:

To call the legal situation around AI-generated content “sticky” is like saying Michael Jordan was a “decent basketball player” — understatement of the century.

The situation is actually a legit mess. And it has been, even before this whole AI boom.

Neil’s been covering AI and legal matters for a while.

Very few people can make sense of future legal ramifications of using AI content, or even the best way to legally/ethically implement the tech moving forward.

But luckily, Neil helped light the path forward.

Reminder: This aint legal advice EverydAIers. Just best practices from a bright legal mind who’s tackling this daily.

Let’s try and make some black and white outta this gray blob 🫠

1 – Know the dangers of GenAI ⚠️

Wait, there’s dangers of Generative AI?

If you don’t know what you’re doing, absolutely. And we couldn’t agree more. Neil mentioned the whole hallucination thing. You know, AI Chatbots can lie. There’s been many famous… errr, uh, infamous examples of improper AI use.

In short, if you don’t know how to use Generative AI tools, and potential legal issues around them, you probably shouldn’t use them.

Try this:
Here’s a simple takeaway - make sure you know how to keep GenAI tools, like ChatGPT, from hallucinating. And if your company doesn’t have AI policies or governance in place, you should push for those before implementing widespread use of AI.

2 – Tell people when you’ve used AI 🗣

Neil snuck in a golden nugget toward the end of the convo.

If you’re using GenAI to create content, you can always disclose that. Not that you need to, but Neil suggested it as a best practice. And guess what, disclosing generative AI use might seem weird now, but it’s gonna be the norm soon.

Try this:
Check out some recent trends in AI disclosure among big tech companies. Policies they set forth, if they stick, will likely trickle down to everyday usage eventually.

Here’s how Google is tackling IDing images made by AI, why TikTok and Instagram are testing out labels for AI content, and why US lawmakers are pushing for AI labels to be law.

3 – Humans should work alongside AI 🙋

Humans working alongside AI: novel concept, right?

In giving some best practices to follow, Neil re-emphasized the need for humans to still be involved. We couldn’t agree more. (Wait, an AI-focused newsletter advocating for humans? Yeaaaaaaah shorties!)

While it’s overly buzzwordy to put AI into just about every corner of a business, we can’t forget about the role of real people to ensure trustworthiness around GenAI.

Try this:
Conversation. You know, people talking.

It’s important to spark discussion around the best ways for humans and AI to work together. We talked yesterday about the impending tsunami of AI everywhere in the workplace, so these are important conversations to have now.

Find out how to responsibly balance the human-AI relationship and the vital roles that humans should always play in an AI-infused workplace.

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Feeling better about this whole AI legal thing? We get it. It can be a hard road to navigate.

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