OpenAI just admitted it has a bot that crawls the web to collect AI training data. If you don't block GPTbot, that's self-sabotage.

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Huntsman spider.

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Fiction Analytics Site Prosecraft Shut Down After Author Backlash

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Prosecraft.io, a site that used novels to help power a data-driven project to display word count, passive voice, and other much more subjective, writing-style markers such as vividness, shut down today after authors protested the project.

87% of classic video games are 'critically endangered.' As a millennial, I'm worried it means a huge chunk of my childhood will disappear.

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A vintage game console, by the Nintendo Game Boy handheld system, when it was released in Japan in 1989. Since then this pocket system has sold over 100 million unit.
87% of classic video games are 'critically endangered,' a new study says.

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Llama copyright drama: Meta stops disclosing what data it uses to train the company's giant AI models

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Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, U.S., October 23, 2019, wearing a suit and looking serious with facebook logo in background.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Ed Sheeran plagiarism trial erupts in laughs over nerdy, computer-generated version of 'Let's Get It On'

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Soul icon Marvin Gaye, left. Very much not Marvin Gaye, right.

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US Copyright Office rejects trademark of AI-generated book images: They are 'not the product of human authorship'

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An AI-Illustrated Comic Has Lost a Key Copyright Case

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When Kris Kashtanova attempted to copyright their comic book Zarya of the Dawn, the United States Copyright Office originally granted them the rights.

Yuga Labs Claims Its Bored Apes Have Copyright, Even if It Never Filed for Protection

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Yuga Labs, the company behind the toilet-obsessed Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, is in a strange space regarding its intellectual property.

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