Intellectual Property (IP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Open Movements (OM)

Issues and developments related to IP, AI, and OM, examined in the IP and tech ethics graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology", coming in Summer 2025, includes major chapters on IP, AI, OM, and other emerging technologies (IoT, drones, robots, autonomous vehicles, VR/AR). Kip Currier, PhD, JD

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Friday, October 6, 2023

This AI chatbot was ‘trained’ using my books, but don’t blame me for its incredible stupidity; Los Angeles Times, October 5, 2023

MICHAEL HILTZIK, Los Angeles Times; This AI chatbot was ‘trained’ using my books, but don’t blame me for its incredible stupidity

"Alex Reisner of the Atlantic compiled a handy search tool for the database, which is known as Books3, giving authors the world over an opportunity to hunt for their names and decide how to think about the results."

Monday, July 3, 2023

Bestselling authors Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay sue OpenAI over copyright infringement; The Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2023

EMILY ST. MARTIN, The Los Angeles Times; Bestselling authors Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay sue OpenAI over copyright infringement

"Two bestselling novelists filed a suit against OpenAI in a San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company used copyright-protected intellectual property to “train” its artificial intelligence chatbot.

Authors Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay claim that ChatGPT was trained in part by “ingesting” their novels without their consent."