I missed this when it came out, but Meta has announced it will add a content label for AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more  → material across its platforms. It will introduce a ‘Made with AI’ label for content with “industry standard AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more  → image indicators or when people disclose that they’re uploading AI-generated content.”

Last week Representative Adam Schiff released a Generative AI Copyright Disclosure bill which would “require a notice to be submitted to the Register of Copyrights prior to the release of a new generative AIWhen text, images and other content are generated by AI (hence why it is called generative AI). Learn more  → system with regard to all copyrighted works used in building or altering the training dataset for that system.” If passed, it is also proposed that the disclosure requirements would apply retroactively to previously released generative AIWhen text, images and other content are generated by AI (hence why it is called generative AI). Learn more  → systems. Lots of bills never go anywhere so we will wait and see if it gets up, but it is attracting support from industry groups in the US.

The University of Melbourne has launched a STEM program called Return to Country which aims to help Aboriginal students stay connected to Country while studying and inspire them through examples of Indigenous engineering such as fish and eel traps. It sounds like an exciting program.

ArtsHub reports that freelance creatives income is down based on the results of the most recent Hnry Sole Trader Pulse survey. Certainly, in my own experience as an arts marketing consultant, opportunities in the end of Q4 2023 and all through Q1 2024 were down on previous years. It is interesting the article suggests that, despire COVID-19 recovery money going into the arts, arts organisations are spending that in-house rather than bringing in external contractors.

Research has been released that suggests Australian media organisations introduce image-specific AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more  → policies to help combat misinformation and disinformation. Currently over a third of media organisations don’t have such a policy.

The recent granting of copyright registrations by the the US Copyright Office to a few creators who used AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more  → may be unintentionally creating an AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more  → arrangement right. The USCO’s notice granting Shupe copyright registration of her book does not recognize her as author of the whole text as is conventional for written works. Elisa Shupe was recently granted registration of a book that was drafted using ChatGPT, but the registration is only to the “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial intelligenceAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more  →.” This is what Professor Matthew Sag refers to a ‘thin’ copyright protection.

A database published by Mozilla mapping social justice and human rights intersections with AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more  → and its impacts. AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more  → can generate a lot of hope and harm. Certainly the database is important work for documenting some of the points at which harm can and is occurring.

It may have slipped you by, but Google is proposing to update its Terms of Service (ToS) effective from Wednesday 22 May 2024. The proposed updated ToS is available to preview now, including a colour coded . A subtle but important addition clarifies that Google won’t claim ownership over content you generate using a Google service that allows you to generate original content. This is likely not some altruistic gesture to generative AIWhen text, images and other content are generated by AI (hence why it is called generative AI). Learn more  → users but, seemingly, rather the move is designed to distance Google from content users generate using Google’s generative AIWhen text, images and other content are generated by AI (hence why it is called generative AI). Learn more  → tools such as Gemini ⟨  as I have written about before, OpenAI seemingly does not take a copyright licence to content generated using its tools either. But I will publish a blog post about why I think this is happening sometime soon!⟩

This came out last week but I am adding it to the read pile this week. Creative Commons have put out a speculative paper exploring “… a possible future in which a “books data commons for AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more  → training” might exist, and what such a commons might look like.” CC has a blog post that explores the idea further. I am looking forward to getting more across the idea soon.

I haven’t read it yet, but from the abstract it seems Assistant Professor Kalpana Tyagi focus is on text and data mining (TDM) as a threat to copyright and that Generative AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more  → substitutes the romanticised human author that sits at the centre of copyright.