🚨Four Federal agencies just released a joint statement on #AI and related #ArtificialIntelligence technologies 🚨
It’s time to buckle up 👨🏻💻
The AI regulatory and policy space in the US is about get VERY busy.
The @FTC, @CivilRights, the @CFPB, and the @USEEOC released their joint statement outlining a commitment to enforce their respective laws and regulations to promote responsible innovation in automated systems.
All four agencies have previously expressed concerns about potentially harmful uses of automated systems and resolved to vigorously enforce their collective authorities and to monitor the development and use of automated systems.
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Q1 2023 filings for publicly traded #creatoreconomy companies leave me with one takeaway: ad revenues continue to decrease across numerous companies as advertiser spend is clearly slowing down.
Meta - 17% YoY drop in average price per ad, but they served more ads (26% more YoY)
Roku Inc. - 1% drop YoY in revenues
Both Roku and Spotify refer to the "macro" environment, with Roku explicitly pointing to industry data that shows "the total U.S. advertising market down 7.4% YoY."
It will be interesting to see how this expands into all areas of the creator economy.
The parties seek to narrow the lawsuit to just copyrighted works that have been registered, which might remove Ortiz and McKernan as plaintiffs.
It's established that to bring a copyright infringement claim in federal court, a copyright owner must first register their work with the U.S. Copyright Office and obtain the completed registration.
“We conclude that Ms. Kashtanova is the author of the Work’s text as well as the selection, coordination, and arrangement of the Work’s written and visual elements. That authorship is protected by copyright. […]
“However, as discussed below, the images in the Work that were generated by the Midjourney technology are not the product of human authorship.”
The named artists bringing the class action included references to haveibeentrained.com as proof that their works were used for the Stable Diffusion and Midjourney tools.
The complaint dives into how each company developed its specific tool & then offered them to the public.
The complaint dives deep into the details of how Stable Diffusion works. It also highlights how Stability paid LAION ("Large-Scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network") to put together LAION-5B, a dataset of 5.85 billion images.
A class action was filed in 2019 by a class of children against both Google and YouTube, as well as numerous kids and family media channels, including
Ryan's World,
CookieSwirlC,
Cartoon Network,
Hasbro,
Mattel, Inc.,
DreamWorks Animation, and more.
❓Why❓
The use of "targeted advertising, powered by persistent identifiers, that allowed Google and YouTube to collect data and track the online behavior of children without proper parental consent."