A federal judge sanctioned a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and a group of authors. Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt and Runway face a proposed class action lawsuit from visual artists.
Previous judicial findings suggested that training models on copyrighted works might qualify as fair use. Cristóbal Valenzuela addressed the View Conference in Turin to discuss the evolution of AI.
Valenzuela authored an essay titled “The Cost of a Frame” and remarked that this represents the last expensive layer. The speaker predicted that models will eventually reach a point where users can direct them in a very similar way, though not immediately.
Jeff Kember delivered a presentation on “Creative Control in the Age of AI Agents” during the same event. Kerris, Nvidia VP of developer relations and general manager of media and entertainment, noted that the similarities of fear and rush to judgment on things is so similar to what I’ve seen in the past.
