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NYT lawsuit cites execs admitting LLMs trained on stolen content

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The New York Times has filed a lawsuit, reportedly drafted by their lawyers, which includes statements and interviews from big tech executives. These statements allegedly admit that large language models are trained on stolen content and pose an existential risk to creators. The executives also reportedly acknowledged that these models are creating a "doom loop" that is damaging the web and the businesses from which content was taken. AI

IMPACT This lawsuit highlights ongoing legal and ethical debates surrounding AI training data and its impact on content creators and the web.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a lawsuit filed by a media company, which is a legal action rather than a core AI development.

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NYT lawsuit cites execs admitting LLMs trained on stolen content

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    'The filing was written by lawyers for the New York Times but is largely comprised of statements and interviews with big tech executives that admit both that LL

    'The filing was written by lawyers for the New York Times but is largely comprised of statements and interviews with big tech executives that admit both that LLMs are largely trained on stolen content, that they represent an existential risk for the human writers, artists, and me…

    LINKS mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren

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