ChatGPT Is Eating the World

the latest news in ChatGPT + AI + DALL-E + Midjourney + Stable Diffusion (*not affiliated with their makers OpenAI or Microsoft)

[Edward Lee @edleeprof]

OpenAI scores its biggest legal victory in MDL Litigation. Judge Stein reverses magistrate judge ruling. OpenAI did not waive attorney client privilege re: deletion of Books 1 and 2 datasets years after training. Judge Stein’s opinion is important precedent. Lisa Blatt delivers.

[Edward Lee @edleeprof]

ROSS Intelligence asks Third Circuit to hold that its AI training with West headnotes summarizing uncopyrightable judicial opinions was a fair use.

[Edward Lee @edleeprof]

Pres. Trump supports fair use in AI training. Notes the national interest and how China won’t require copyright licenses for training data.

[Edward Lee @edleeprof]

I also spoke yesterday on AI national priority before Senate subcommittee hearing here, citing @davidsacks47

[Edward Lee @edleeprof]

Judge Alsup gives split decision: Anthropic AI training copies were fair use, exceedingly transformative. But Anthropic’s pirated books to build a permanent library are infringing. Trial on damages, including willfulness!

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Midjourney launches video generator. But it enabled me to create video with characters of Disney or Universal. Risky business? Full story: https://t.co/P12yT60Gi4

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Third Circuits accepts interlocutory appeal of Judge Bibas’s decision rejecting fair use in Thompson Reuters v ROSS Intelligence. https://t.co/QWhRYdLBAK

[Bitcoin MicroStrategy Maxi 🧡 @BitcoinMSTR]

We came up with this infographic to show Strategy’s business model as a Bitcoin treasury. Welcome any comments or suggestions for edits. Thanks 🙏🏽

[Edward Lee @edleeprof]

Updated map of AI copyright lawsuits. 42 lawsuits with Disney v Midjourney. Download the PDF with links to each docket below: https://t.co/W7lFgpgfUj

[Bitcoin MicroStrategy Maxi 🧡 @BitcoinMSTR]

We prepared an infographic to diagram $MSTR strategy for raising capital to fund its Bitcoin purchases. What do you think? Let us know if we are missing something or something is off. Thx.

[Edward Lee @edleeprof]

Lots of new AI research on memorization by models. I weigh in on how courts should treat unintentional memorization of content from training datasets. https://t.co/2i9zwl0w2R

[Edward Lee @edleeprof]

Should Dr. Ben Zhao be disqualified as an expert from the Andersen v Stability AI, given his deployment of adversarial tools to poison image data that might be used to train diffusion image models?

https://t.co/ak4liNHVmo

[Edward Lee @edleeprof]

Updated my article to respond to the Copyright Office’s endorsement of copyright dilution as market harm under Factor 4 of fair use. It’s not only “uncharted territory,” it’s unconstitutional. Paper: https://t.co/VUd4aVHjyg

[Edward Lee @edleeprof]

If the Copyright Office can issue its report on fair use in pre-publication form, I’ll do the same with my article, “Fair Use and the Origin of AI Training.” Forthcoming in @HoustonLRev 2025. My article shows why Copyright Office is wrong about fair use. https://t.co/VUd4aVGLII

[Bitcoin MicroStrategy Maxi 🧡 @BitcoinMSTR]

Did you watch the Crypto Summit? Pres. Trump gave the funniest line:

"From this day on, America will follow the rule, ... Never sell your Bitcoin...

"That's a little phrase they have. I don't know if that's right or not. Who the hell knows , right."

[APPLAUSE.]
https://t.co/in0lbZ6cjh

[Bitcoin MicroStrategy Maxi 🧡 @BitcoinMSTR]

Pres. Trump jokes about whether it’s actually true you should never sell your Bitcoin. Who knows? Full video : https://t.co/Jbisnvph5R

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Ok expect big news from @saylor on Monday…

[Bitcoin MicroStrategy Maxi 🧡 @BitcoinMSTR]

Saylor alert ‼️ Wall Street Journal has a long feature story on the one and only @saylor Are you bullish? 🐂

https://t.co/83kFInh6UR

[Bitcoin MicroStrategy Maxi 🧡 @BitcoinMSTR]

Judge Bibas rebukes SEC under Gary Gensler for lack of transparency re cryptocurrency treatment.

Link to concurrence in Coinbase v SEC:

https://t.co/b4GpDEB0dl

[Bitcoin MicroStrategy Maxi 🧡 @BitcoinMSTR]

Huge legal decision today: the SEC under Gary Gensler acted arbitrarily in denying Coinbase’s petition for rulemaking on cryptocurrency. SEC must explain its position more. Judge Bibas warns SEC in his concurrence of potential violation of Constitution in failing to give people fair notice on cryptocurrency regulations.

Full story here: https://t.co/3DJLwtYv4L