OpenAI

This week, OpenAI – the organization behind ChatGPT – responded to class-action lawsuits from several book authors, including notable names like Sarah Silverman and Paul Tremblay. The authors allege that ChatGPT was trained on pirated copies of their books, thus infringing on their copyrights. Continue Reading →

When speaking about ChatGPT for business, the very first question asked is: "How do we keep our data private?" We have helped dozens of organizations build Generative AI tech stacks that prioritize data privacy and security, and OpenAI just made our jobs a lot easier. Continue Reading →

ChatGPT became available to the public on November 30, 2022. I’ve given that date a name: the Curation/Generation AI Boundary (C/G Boundary). The C/G Boundary marks the transition from a time when AI was predominantly used to curate and organize preexisting content to a period characterized by AI’s capability to autonomously generate content and solutions. Continue Reading →

The New York Times (NYT) is contemplating legal action against OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT. The crux of the dispute lies in copyright concerns surrounding the use of the newspaper's content. Continue Reading →

OpenAI will now allow website operators to block its web crawler by updating their site's robots.txt file or by directly blocking the IP address for OpenAI's GPTBot. Either technique will ensure that a site is not scrapped for AI training by OpenAI. Continue Reading →

Seven AI tech giants – OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection – have committed to watermarking AI-generated content. The goal is to label the provenance of AI-generated text, video, audio, and images, thereby reducing the risk of misleading users about the content's origins. As Google's blog aptly puts it, "None of us can get AI right on our own." Continue Reading →

OpenAI just launched a way to improve your ChatGPT Plus prompts. You can now save a bunch of keystrokes (tokens) using a new beta feature called "Custom Instructions." Unlike our forgetful ChatGPT of yesterweeks, the improved interface can "remember" your persona, your preferences, your style, etc., to save you from having to constantly tell it who you are, who it is acting as, and what constraints it should respect. Continue Reading →

In an eyebrow-raising display of regulatory bravado, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is now playing detective with OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT. Apparently, the FTC suspects this AI tool of engaging in deceptive practices, generating erroneous information that could harm consumers. This is a bit rich, considering OpenAI has been up front about potential flaws, even including a warning label about the possibility of false or misleading info. But hey, who reads those, right? Continue Reading →

A new lawsuit may bring AI copyright law into clearer focus, continuing a common debate on the ethics of machine learning. Authors Paul Tremblay (“The Cabin at the End of the World") and Mona Awad (“Bunny” and “13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl") claim OpenAI used their books to train ChatGPT without their permission, thereby infringing copyright. Continue Reading →

OpenAI has temporarily disabled the "Browse with Bing" feature in its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, following user reports of paywall bypassing. The feature – introduced to enhance the search experience beyond the limitations of the GPT-4 model – inadvertently allowed users to access premium content without a subscription. Continue Reading →