Aron Solomon

1 day ago | flipboard.com | Aron Solomon

Sam Altman fires back at ‘silly’ lawsuit from what he claims is a desperate CEO that has been persistent in seeking investment from OpenAI• Startup iyO filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for trademark infringement after it used the brand “io,” which it claims is a homophone for its name, in a …

1 day ago | lithub.com | Aron Solomon

The law may call it fair use. But in the age of AI, it’s starting to look like a free lunch. A California federal judge ruled this week that Meta Platforms Inc. did not violate copyright law when it trained its LLaMA large language models on the published works of authors including Sarah Silverman and Michael Chabon.

4 days ago | lithub.com | Aron Solomon

If Jay Gatsby had survived the bullet, would he have had a case? Imagine the lawsuit: negligent security, wrongful death attempt, maybe even a defamation angle against Tom Buchanan. But of course, Gatsby doesn’t survive. That’s the point. In The Great Gatsby, justice doesn’t live in West Egg. It sips martinis across the bay in an old-money mansion and never faces even a semblance of consequence. The novel ends, as so many legal cases do, with a shrug and a funeral no one attends.

5 days ago | news.crunchbase.com | Aron Solomon

In this year’s Digital News Report, the Reuters Institute buried a fascinating stat amid the usual handwringing about TikTok and the decline of traditional media: Nearly 15% of Gen Z is now getting their news from AI tools such as ChatGPT. No, not news about AI. News from AI. Yet it took an Agence France-Presse report last week to really bring this subtle but seismic shift into our news cycle.

2 weeks ago | news.crunchbase.com | Aron Solomon

In May, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in In re Opinion No. 735 that it’s not a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct for a lawyer to buy a competitor’s name as a search engine keyword. In plain English? The court just told every attorney: “It’s fair game to digitally impersonate your peers — as long as you let Google do the dirty work.”This ruling was short-sighted when the case was heard. It’s practically absurd now.