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New Tennessee law aims to protect musicians from generative AI

by Matt Levin
Mar 28, 2024
Tennessee, home to the capital of country music, became the first state to target the unauthorized use of AI to replicate musicians’ voices.
Country music artist Luke Bryan speaks during the signing of Tennessee's ELVIS Act in Nashville on March 21.
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First stop on the road to regulating AI? Finding humans to do the job.

by Matt Levin
Mar 25, 2024
Passing AI regulations wasn't easy for the EU. Finding people to enforce it may be even harder.
Because generative AI is so young, there isn’t a huge talent pool for regulatory offices to draw from. And big tech companies can pay way more than governments.
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Can AI patent an invention?

by Kai Ryssdal and Sofia Terenzio
Mar 5, 2024
The Patent and Trademark Office only recognizes human inventors. Regulators are trying to keep up with tech, says Fordham's Janet Freilich.
Artificial intelligence can't be considered an inventor, but people can use AI to invent new products, says Janet Freilich of Fordham.
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More employers are asking applicants to prove their skills with a test

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 4, 2024
Playing aptitude games or doing one-way video interviews might sound like a drag. But could they make the hiring process fairer?
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Will chipmaker Nvidia's earnings report be blockbuster? Or super-blockbuster?

by Mitchell Hartman
Feb 21, 2024
Nvidia reports its Q4 financial results after markets close on Wednesday. The chipmaker has forecast major revenue gains thanks to generative AI.
Nvidia forecast it would hit $59 billion in revenue for 2023 — double what it brought in in 2022.
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Why fake robocalls are sounding more and more real — and what's being done about it

by Sabri Ben-Achour and Alex Schroeder
Feb 16, 2024
How can consumers protect themselves from malicious AI? We'll dig in.
During New Hampshire's primary, some voters received phone calls that imitated President Joe Biden's voice and discouraged people from heading to the polls.
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"Invisible Beauty"

Behind the catwalk: how models are recruited and signed to exploitative contracts

by David Brancaccio , Erika Soderstrom and Natalie White
Feb 13, 2024
What is being done to protect models and hold agencies accountable?
"'Suffocating.' 'Exploitative.' 'Opaque,'" are some of the words used to describe the contracts models work under, Variety's Tatiana Siegel explained.
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Workers are worried about AI on the job, study shows

by Mitchell Hartman
Feb 7, 2024
Seven in 10 U.S. workers say they’re “very” or “somewhat” concerned about employers using AI in HR decision-making, according to a Rutgers report.
Some workers are worried AI will make their jobs obsolete. Others have concerns about AI's role in hiring and firing decisions.
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The "poison pill" that protects artists' work from AI scraping

by Sarah Leeson and Kai Ryssdal
Feb 5, 2024
"Everything is at stake," says Ben Zhao of the University of Chicago, who leads the development of two tools that support human creativity.
The goal of Nightshade "is to raise the price for unauthorized training on scraped data," says Ben Zhao at the University of Chicago.
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The economy and ethics of AI training data

by Matt Levin
Jan 31, 2024
Many artificial intelligence tools were trained on freely-available digital content. That might be legal, but is it ethical?
By publishing something on the internet without explicitly telling other computers to avoid it, you're consenting to its use by AI, says Common Crawl's Rich Skrenta.
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