3 Count: LLaMA Too

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1: Michael Chabon, David Henry Hwang, Other Writers Sue Meta AI Platform LLaMA For Copyright Infringement, Seek Class Action Status

First off today, Jill Goldsmith at Deadline reports that a group of thousands of authors, headed by Michael Chabon, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook owner Meta over the company’s LLaMA large language model.

According to the lawsuit, Meta used work that they hold the copyright to train LLaMA, which they argue is a copyright infringement. They claim that this is worsened by the fact that the AI can be used to generate new works that are in the style or voice of the authors involved.

The lawsuit is nearly identical to one filed days ago by the same group against OpenAI and their ChatGPT AI chatbot. In both cases, they are seeking an injunction barring further infringement and unspecified damages.

2: ACE Takes Aim at Zoro.to Successor Aniwatch.to

Next up today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) is now targeting Aniwatch.to, a pirate site that is widely seen as the successor to the popular Zoro.to site.

Earlier this year, ACE successfully took down Zoro.to along with a media embedding service that was owned by the same person. However, just before Zoro.to disappeared, it was “sold” to Aniwatch.to, creating a passing of the torch moment between the two sites.

ACE, for their part, has now begun targeting Aniwatch.to, sending a subpoena to Cloudflare demanding all information the service has on the operator(s) of the site. The site is just one of dozens included in a recent wave of subpoenas, all of which ware hosted by Cloudflare.

3: Grammy CEO Clarifies AI Drake Song Ineligible for Award Over Copyright Issues

Finally today, Savannah Fortis Cointelegraph reports that the CEO of the Record Academy, the organization that hosts the Grammys Music Awards, has clarified an earlier statement about why an AI-generated song in the style of Drake is not eligible for Grammy consideration.

Earlier this month, Harvey Mason Jr. posted a statement on his Instagram saying that an AI-generated song in the style of Drake was not eligible for Grammy consideration. However, he has now clarified that it’s because the use of Drake’s voice was not properly cleared and the fact the song has not been commercially released.

Mason stressed that works with AI elements are eligible for consideration as long as they are primarily written by a human and all of the elements of the song are either original or were properly cleared.

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