🚨CHINESE TECH giant ByteDance parked its tanks on the Hollywood skyline this week. We comment on why it’s wrong to frame its intellectual property violation as ‘America good, China bad’ in Charting Gen AI's jam-packed Weekly Newsletter: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/why-its-wr...

🚨CHINESE TECH giant ByteDance parked its tanks on the Hollywood skyline this week. We comment on why it’s wrong to frame its intellectual property violation as ‘America good, China bad’ in Charting Gen AI's jam-packed Weekly Newsletter: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/why-its-wr...

🚨NETFLIX’S DECISION to use generative AI to disguise interviewees in a highly sensitive documentary has prompted a call for a TV industry debate on the use of the technology. Charting Gen AI has the full story and all the week's main stories. Do subscribe! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/netflixs-u...

I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

"This proves what many have long suspected — that even the CEOs of the largest AI companies know their mass exploitation of copyrighted works is unfair and unsustainable.” @ednewtonrex.bsky.social

🚨ANTHROPIC CEO Dario Amodei once supported the idea that publishers and creators should be paid when their works are used to train AI models, according to an unsealed court document unearthed by Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social. That, and more here: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/anthropic-...

🚨THE UK’S DATA watchdog has been accused of dragging its heels in launching an investigation into the Grok sexualised deepfake scandal. Full story and what we think UK tech secretary Liz Kendall should do now: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/online-saf...

🚨ONLINE PUBLISHERS are inching closer to victory in their battle to control how Google scrapes their content for its generative search products. Find out how, and catch up with the week's main stories in Charting Gen AI's Weekly Newsletter. Do subscribe! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/publishers...

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Baroness Kidron h/t @glovelace.bsky.social

🚨A COALITION of creator groups is today calling on the UK government to implement immediate measures aimed at protecting the nation’s creative sector, or risk losing it. Charting Gen AI has the full story and comment. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/creator-gr...

🚨CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS an online training course on AI and intellectual property offered by the UK government as part of a flagship AI initiative. We’ve the full ‘you couldn’t make it up’ story. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

🚨CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS an online training course on AI and intellectual property offered by the UK government as part of a flagship AI initiative. We’ve the full ‘you couldn’t make it up’ story. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

🚨GOOD NEWS for creators: ‘AI godfather’ Yann LeCun @yann-lecun.bsky.social says his alternative approach to machines capable of matching or exceeding human-level intelligence won't need to be trained on copyrighted content. Full story and pithy analysis: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/ai-godfath...

🚨ELON MUSK’S AI chatbot Grok generated and shared over 3 million sexualised images of women and children in the 11 days before its editing feature was restricted, a study estimated this week. Full story and the week’s big developments: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/musks-sexu...

‘Responsibility for the way Grok behaves rests squarely with xAI and ultimately with Musk. He’s shown, once again, he cannot be trusted with one of mankind’s most powerful and dangerous inventions. Sanctions must follow. And fast.’ grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/musk-retre...

🚨UK PRIME MINISTER Sir Keir Starmer has thrown down the gauntlet to Elon Musk saying he "will not stand" for the "absolutely disgusting and shameful” actions of his social media platform X. Full story and poll on whether Ofcom should ban X in the UK👇 grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/if-x-cant-...

🚨ELON MUSK’S social network X provoked international outrage this week as its AI chatbot Grok flooded the platform with non-consensual sexualised images of women and minors. What might happen next? See Charting Gen AI's Weekly Newsletter. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/uk-says-xs...

Thinking about the Minneapolis video and the Trump-Noem false narrative that followed soon afterwards. Orwell foretold it in 1984. "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." Americans: read it, while you can.

🚨ON THE EVE of a new year Charting Gen AI picks five stories from 2025 that are likely to shape the course of events during 2026. Our selection straddles regulation, transparency, licensing, chatbot safety and copyright lawsuits. Happy New Year everyone!🥂 grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/five-stori...

🚨SIX AUTHORS including John Carreyrou, investigative reporter at The New York Times, are taking on the might of America’s AI establishment, accusing Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI and Perplexity of using pirated copies of their books to train LLMs. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/pulitzer-p...

🚨CREATOR GROUPS and their allies are calling on the UK government to make its intentions on AI and copyright clear, and drop its support for a copyright exception in favour of Big Tech. That story all the week’s key developments in Charting Gen AI. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/pressure-g...

Thrilled to appear on BBC News’ AI Decoded to talk about AI and copyright. Find out why I believe the UK government's preferred option in a consultation on the future of copyright in the era of generative AI only received the support of 3% of respondents. Link to show: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

🚨HUNDREDS OF ICONIC Disney characters are being licensed to Sora in a breakthrough deal struck today with the short-form video platform’s owner, OpenAI. Full story and pithy analysis in Charting Gen AI's Quick Take. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/disney-str...

Using Gen AI can really be brand damaging - as @glovelace.bsky.social points out in this piece at @auworks.bsky.social au-works.com/content-by-n...

THE UK COULD be heading for a Hollywood 2023-style strike over actors’ AI protections. We have the full inside story in Charting Gen AI's Weekly Newsletter. Do subscribe! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/performers...

🚨Musk's latest model fails on the simplest of challenges, including maps, labelled diagrams, left-handed writers, clocks, glasses brimming with water, and darts! We took Grok 4.1 for a spin, and found it map-tacularly wrong! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/lets-have-...

🚨PRIVACY GROUPS, civil society organisations and rights campaigners are urging the European Commission to think again on plans to pause full implementation of Europe’s landmark AI legislation and dilute other digital laws. Full story and weekly round-up: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/campaigner...

🚨CREATORS ARE celebrating after a court in Germany ruled that ChatGPT violates European copyright laws by reproducing lyrics used to train OpenAI’s generative models. Charting Gen AI has the full story with pithy analysis. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/music-righ...

🚨GETTY IMAGES has broadly lost a landmark legal battle against Stability AI in a case that has major ramifications for UK creators seeking to enforce copyright over AI models trained overseas. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/blow-for-u...

🚨CHARACTER.AI HAS banned under-18s access to chatbots that have been implicated in the deaths by suicide of US teens. The move has been welcomed by the lawyer calling for AI developers to be made more accountable, but she says more needs to be done. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/charactera...

🚨CREATOR GROUPS in Australia are celebrating after the government ruled out a copyright exception that would have allowed AI developers to train their generative models on creative content without the consent of rightsholders. Full story: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/creators-c...

🚨CHARTING GEN AI's latest edition leads with the revelation that OpenAI is planning to allow a far less buttoned-down version of ChatGPT to engage in erotic conversations with what its technology judges to be adults. We have that full story, and much more! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/altman-tea...

Great to talk #AI #Ethics and #Innovation with Roger Steare! We discuss the ethical dilemmas and potential for responsible AI development. #CHATROG www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Yb...

Then they came for the late night show hosts And I did not speak out Because I was not a late night show host

"The parents of a teenage boy who took his own life are suing OpenAI saying ChatGPT encouraged their son to plan his death — and even offered to draft a suicide note." @glovelace.bsky.social details the claim. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/parents-ac...

So wonderful we can fully trust on AI and those Tec bros who have the best of intentions 🥰 - what a marvelous future we will bring upon us /s

🚨US president Donald Trump this week delivered an ultimatum to countries that dare to regulate Silicon Valley tech giants: drop your rules or face punitive tariffs and restricted access to American technology — including AI chips. Will copyright be next? grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/parents-ac...

🚨Having been accused of causing the wrongful death of a teenage boy OpenAI says it’s working on a fix. Its blogpost makes no mention of a lawsuit’s claim that features within GPT-4o were “intentionally designed to foster psychological dependency”. Story: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/parents-ac...

Disappointment and hype: leading AI expert Maria Sukhareva on GPT-5’s big letdown.

Is the botched launch of GPT-5 an ‘emperor with no clothes’ moment? AI expert Maria Sukhareva doesn’t hold back!

Is the botched launch of GPT-5 an ‘emperor with no clothes’ moment? AI expert Maria Sukhareva doesn’t hold back!

Disappointment and hype: leading AI expert Maria Sukhareva on GPT-5’s big letdown.

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🚨CREATOR GROUPS in Australia are up in arms after a government advisory body floated a text and data mining (TDM) exception giving AI giants free rein to train their models on copyrighted works without consent or compensation. Full story & pithy analysis: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/creators-c...

🚨It thinks, it has feelings, it learns like a human ... let's play anthropomorphic AI BINGO! Several new models are set to be released by the major developers in coming days. Let’s see how many of these phrases are used. Good luck! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/it-thinks-...

🚨It thinks, it has feelings, it learns like a human ... let's play anthropomorphic AI BINGO! Several new models are set to be released by the major developers in coming days. Let’s see how many of these phrases are used. Good luck! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/it-thinks-...

THE GRIEVING PARENTS of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji this week launched a defence fund to support those who “courageously speak out against injustice”. Find out what they said in this week's Charting Gen AI. Do subscribe! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/defence-fu...

THE GRIEVING PARENTS of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji this week launched a defence fund to support those who “courageously speak out against injustice”. Find out what they said in this week's Charting Gen AI. Do subscribe! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/defence-fu...

with the insights of Nina George , EWC's political commissioner, on "A LONG-AWAITED template intended to force AI providers to reveal the sources of their training data" … Find more in Graham Lovelace ' Post: