Also: A Financial Review opinion piece says Michelle Rowlands needs to find a solution to the copyright and AI problem or risk losing AI investment, Amazon Web Services outages tied to AI have been blamed on humans, Accenture is tying promotions to AI usage.
#WTFnow #CopyrightAndAI
AI News Wrap-Up: 23rd December 2025
Carreyrou sues over AI book training; NY/CA regulate AI companions; health AI disclosure rollback; UK CAT results; Alexa+ integrations
www.aiassistantstore.com/blogs/latest...
#AINews #AIRegulation #AIandLaw #CopyrightAndAI #HealthTech #PublicSectorAI #AIPolicy
I've seen several posts on here about Google using Gmail emails to train AI.
In this article, published today, Google state that "we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
#CopyrightAndAI #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #BookSky
Great to see new software that’s flagging up copyright theft instead of engaging in it.
#CopyrightAndAI
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This is a $1.5 billion copyright settlement for the use of pirated books to train an AI model.
If your book is included in the list that can be searched on this page – secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup – then you may be able to claim a share of it.
#CopyrightAndAI
"Any enjoyment you might get from weird, funny AI slop tends to be undercut when you know that someone's hard work was stolen in order to create it."
John Oliver lays into AI slop.
youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc?...
#CopyrightAndAI
I'd add cultural costs to the list in the last sentence, given Labour's proposed copyright exemption for generative AI.
#CopyrightAndAI
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If you're in the publishing community and have been using WeTransfer to share work with publishers and others, but don't want your work exploited by AIs without compensation, YOU NEED TO STOP USING WETRANSFER!
#CopyrightAndAI
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This week's IN OUR TIME on "The Evolution of Copyright" makes for interesting listening in the light of the current controversy over #CopyrightAndAI.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
4️⃣ Australia’s literary peak bodies lash out over Meta’s use of LibGen to train its AI.
#CopyrightAndAI #LibGen
5️⃣ You have likely seen the Hayao Miyazaki-style images on your feeds, but what, if anything, can Studio Ghibli do?
#CopyrightAndAI #OpenAI #HayaoMiyazaki #StudioGhibli
ChatGPT Surges as Viral Ghibli AI Art Grips the Internet
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#ChatGPT #AIart #StudioGhibli #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #GPT4o #AICreativity #Miyazaki #DigitalArt #CopyrightAndAI
WTF else happened?:
A US court reaffirmed human authorship for AI copyright protection, the Resale Royalty Scheme will extend to nine more countries at month’s end
#CopyrightAndAI #ResaleRoyalty
3️⃣ The Atlantic has a search tool to see if you were included in Meta’s AI training data.
#CopyrightAndAI #BooksAndPublishing #LibGen @theatlantic.com
2️⃣ ‘Kadrey v Meta’ court documents reveal Meta dropped attempts to get licences from book publishers to train their AI systems.
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Copyright #CopyrightAndAI
3️⃣ Meta wants to link five continents to a huge subsea internet cable.
#Meta #InternetInfrastructure
Good to see a university professor flagging up mass theft of IP "without permission of authors/creators … leading to their mass joblessness" as one of the many ethical reasons for her students to avoid using generative AI.
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I hope the UK Gov't are getting this message too!
#CopyrightAndAI
The government's preferred proposal on #CopyrightAndAI will have a crippling effect on the UK's creative industries.
So, if you're NOT a creative, but you value the arts and like living in a country that has a healthy creative industry and can spare the time to object to this proposal, please do!
3️⃣ The cost of training AI is going down, but a recent copyright court case could increase costs. If ‘Thomson Reuters v Ross’ is followed by other courts then AI developers may have to start factoring in copyright fees.
#Copyright #ArtificialIntelligence #CopyrightAndAI
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If you've signed the statement at aitrainingstatement.org addressing the same issue, you might want to sign this open letter as well. It was initiated by illustrators, but open to anyone working in the creative industries.
The more pushback the better on this!
#KidLitUK #CopyrightAndAI
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Microsoft 365 is imposing a £25 per year subscription increase to cover the cost of their Copilot AI software.
If you don't want to let their AI see everything you type, you can find instructions on how to opt out here:
www.howtogeek.com/avoid-paying...
#KidLitUK #CopyrightAndAI
“The gov't is suggesting a wholesale transfer of wealth from a hugely successful sector that invests hundreds of millions in the UK to a tech industry that extracts profit that is not assured and will accrue largely to the US and indeed China.”
Beeban Kidron on the gov't's #CopyrightAndAI proposal.
🚩The UK government's refusal to sign a pledge for an "open", "inclusive" and "ethical" approach to AI development will be a red flag to UK creatives already concerned by its proposed policy on #CopyrightAndAI.
🚩Siding with the Trump gov't on this is a second red flag.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Personalised" AI-written books like the one featured in this article may be "designed to be a light-hearted form of consumer AI", but they are grim portent of the shape of things to come for anyone who makes their living from writing. ☹️
#CopyrightAndAI
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
While permitting AI to cannibalise the work of human creators may result in a short-term boost to the UK economy, its long-term economic implications will be catastrophic. As genuine human creativity is inevitably squeezed out of the creative sector, AI will increasingly be feeding off its own output, producing increasingly derivative, stale, soulless art which will be indistinguishable from the AI generated output produced by other countries. As a consequence, the UK will lose its creative edge and with it, its position as a world-leader in the creative industries.
I’ve just written to my MP regarding the government’s new proposal on Copyright and AI.
The government thinks the proposal will be good for the economy.
This is the argument I gave for why the long-term economic implications of the proposal will be catastrophic.
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