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Potential Supreme Court clash looms over copyright issues in generative AI training data

September 7, 2023
As early as last fall, before ChatGPT had even launched, experts were already predicting that issues related to the copyrighted data that trained generative AI models would unleash a wave of litigation that, like other big technological changes that changed how the commercial world worked — such as video recording and Web 2.0 — could one day come before a certain group of nine…
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You can now make an AI clone of yourself — or anyone else, living or dead — with Delphi

September 7, 2023
My favorite episode of the hit sci-fi/horror TV series Black Mirror is “Be Right Back,” which premiered 10 years ago now, and captured the alienating experience of a woman cloning her dead ex-boyfriend by using a service that analyzed his social media posts and texts to recreate his personality. The episode seemed fantastical but just on the edge of plausible at the time in 2013 — after…
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Funcom’s Dune Spice Wars exits early access on September 14

September 7, 2023
Dune: Spice Wars, the Arrakis 4X strategy game developed by Shiro Games, is graduating from early access on September 14. Publisher Funcom said the full Dune Spice Wars will bring the sixth major content update since the game entered Early Access, introducing a new faction: the opulent and politically sharp House Ecaz. The game is based on Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, but it’s a very…
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Apple's AirPods Pro are back down to $199

September 7, 2023
The latest Apple AirPods Pro are back on sale for $199 at Amazon and Walmart. This is a deal we’ve seen for much of the past several months, but it’s still $50 less than the cost of buying from Apple directly. Typically, this is as low as we see the wireless earphones drop at major retailers. Photo by Billy Steele / Engadget Apple AirPods Pro $199 $249 Save…
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