OpenAI wins first round against Raw Story and AlterNet copyright case

OpenAI is facing multiple lawsuits for using content from multiple publications and books to train its large language models without explicit permission or proper compensation. A judge has just dismissed one of them. New York federal judge Colleen McMahon has dismissed the lawsuit filed by Raw Story and AlterNet, which accused the company of using… Read More: OpenAI wins first round against Raw Story and AlterNet copyright… »

Researcher’s ‘unfollow everything’ lawsuit against Meta gets dismissed

A lawsuit from a researcher who attempted to develop a browser extension for Facebook called “Unfollow Everything 2.0” has been dismissed for now, the New York Times reports. Ethan Zuckerman of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University attempted to use the Section 230 Tech Shield law in a new way, to allow Meta… Read More: Researcher’s ‘unfollow everything’ lawsuit against Meta gets dismissed »