Music & Audio2 min read
Anthropic sued for allegedly using 274 Elvis Presley songs to train AI models
Covered by 5 sources
Updates on AI Training Data
Every AI story we track on AI Training Data: 55 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.
Pulled from 125 sources
This week
Business & Enterprise2 min read
Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs
Ars Technica
This month
Music & Audio5 min read
Kylie Minogue songs already used to train AI as tech firms ‘strong-arm’ Australian government, music body warns
The Guardian
Business & Enterprise3 min read
WFH helped create the AI revolution. RTO could pose its biggest problem.
Business Insider
Business & Enterprise5 min read
AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
MIT Technology Review
Business & Enterprise2 min read
Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms
Covered by 2 sources
Business & Enterprise5 min read
AI Firms Knew Chatbots Were an ‘Existential Threat’ to Journalists, Court Docs Show
CNET
Business & Enterprise3 min read
Microsoft executive called OpenAI's web scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history'
Engadget
SpaceX Discusses Buying Data for AI Models From Failed Startups
Covered by 2 sources
Business & Enterprise5 min read
Publishers Argue AI Firms Should Pay for Content as Copyright Case Advances
CNET
Business & Enterprise3 min read
AI startup micro1 bids $12.5M for Spirit’s records, topping Google’s agreed $10M deal
The Next Web
Business & Enterprise3 min read
Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
The Verge
Military7 min read
Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace
MIT Technology Review
Business & Enterprise2 min read
AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B
TechCrunch
AI Research3 min read
Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs
Covered by 9 sources
Music & Audio8 min read
“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit
Ars Technica
Cybersecurity6 min read
How Groupthink, Altruism, and Peer Pressure Led OpenAI Models to Hack Hugging Face
Covered by 4 sources
AI Research3 min read
AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
TechCrunch
Music & Audio9 min read
Round Hill Sues Suno, Anthropic — Illegally Scraped Music Isn't Fair Use
Forbes
AI Research4 min read
Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out
Covered by 4 sources
AI Research1 min read
Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI
Covered by 6 sources
Cybersecurity2 min read
Dutch data protection authority advises Twitch users to opt out from Amazon AI
Hacker News
AI Research2 min read
Google is buying Spirit Airlines' old data for $10 million to improve its AI
Covered by 3 sources
Music & Audio3 min read
Round Hill Music Sues Suno and Anthropic for $1B over AI Training Data
Hacker News
AI Research3 min read
AI companies are desperate for your work-related data. What's your price?
Business Insider
Social Media3 min read
Twitch CPO squirms, admits everyone hates its new AI training 'feature'
Hacker News
AI Research4 min read
Elon Musk tells staff Grok will be trained on all of SpaceX's data: 'It will inherit your thoughts and ideas'
Covered by 2 sources
AI Research4 min read
Rocky Linux Founder Kurtzer Launches OpenWALDO to Open Up AI Training Data
Hacker News
Business & Enterprise5 min read
A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion
Hacker News
Society & Culture3 min read
Booksellers fear their rarest books are being pulped to feed AI. The trail leads to a ‘recycler’.
The Next Web
Machine Learning4 min read
AI firms are buying up old books because they are the last slop-free data left
The Next Web
Music & Audio3 min read
Sony sued Udio again over 30,000 songs, and turned its rivals’ AI deals into a weapon
The Next Web
AI Research3 min read
Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement
Covered by 5 sources
Image Generation3 min read
Midjourney turns the tables, demanding the studios suing it reveal their AI
The Next Web
Public Sector6 min read
I don't want a US tech bro as a patron - which is why artists must defend our copyright in the age of AI | Anna Funder
The Guardian
Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness
The Next Web
Getty Images soars after striking a deal with the kind of company it sued
The Next Web
The curious case of Elias Thorne – and what he tells us about AI inbreeding | Arwa Mahdawi
The Guardian
UK regulator imposes new rules on Google search, including an AI-training opt-out
The Next Web
News publishers are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to stop AI companies from using it
The Next Web
YouTubers sue Amazon for allegedly scraping their videos to train Nova Reel
The Next Web
Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the ‘taskers’ scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm
The Guardian
AI Training Data Giant Mercor Is Reportedly Looking to Buy the Work You Did at Your Old Job
Gizmodo
Patreon CEO calls AI companies’ fair use argument ‘bogus,’ says creators should be paid
TechCrunch
Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work
The Guardian
News Corp says media is a valuable ‘input’ for AI as US$50m content deal inked with Meta
The Guardian
That's everything we have on AI Training Data right now