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Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees over alleged data scraping

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Midjourney says it has banned Stability AI staffers from using its service, accusing employees at the rival generative AI company of causing a systems outage earlier this month during an attempt to scrape Midjourney’s data. Midjourney posted an update to its Discord server on March 2nd that acknowledged an extended server outage was preventing generated … Read more

Data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against AI scraping. Here’s how

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Derikjohn/Getty Images A major issue plaguing generative AI models is AI scraping, the process used by AI companies to train their AI models by capturing data from internet sources without the owners’ permission. AI scraping can have an especially negative impact on visual artists,  whose work is scraped to generate new art in text-to-image models. Now, … Read more

The BBC is blocking OpenAI data scraping but is open to AI-powered journalism

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The BBC, the UK’s largest news organization, laid out principles it plans to follow as it evaluates the use of generative AI — including for research and production of journalism, archival, and “personalized experiences.” In a blog post, BBC director of nations Rhodri Talfan Davies said the broadcaster believes the technology provides opportunities to deliver “more … Read more