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Stability AI raises new finance, appoints Sean Parker as Chair

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Stability AI raises new finance, appoints Sean Parker as Chair

Cash-strapped AI company Stability has announced it has raised $80 million in new finance. It has also appointed Napster co-founder and early Spotify investor Sean Parker as Chair, who says the new cash will allow “the creation of even more powerful AI models”…

Chris Cooke • 26 Jun 2024

Stability files defence in important test case on AI and UK copyright law

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Stability files defence in important test case on AI and UK copyright law

Stability AI has argued that it can’t be held liable for copyright infringement in the UK, because training of its Stable Diffusion AI platform took place on servers in the US. Getty Images says that the company infringed its copyrights by training its AI model on pictures it owns without permission…

Chris Cooke • 04 Mar 2024

Chinese judge discusses ruling that granted AI-generated image copyright protection

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Chinese judge discusses ruling that granted AI-generated image copyright protection

A judge in China has discussed her 2023 ruling that an image created using generative AI should enjoy copyright protection, stating during a lecture that she hoped her judgement would encourage people to make use of generative AI tools…

Chris Cooke • 17 Jan 2024

CMU Digest: YouTube’s voice-cloning announcements, Stability AI audio chief resigns over the company’s fair use position + more

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CMU Digest • 5 min read

CMU Digest: YouTube’s voice-cloning announcements, Stability AI audio chief resigns over the company’s fair use position + more

In this week's digest: YouTube launches a new voice cloning tool; Stability AI’s audio chief resigns over its insistence that training AI is ‘fair use’; Spotify’s new anti-fraud fines are criticised + more…

Chris Cooke • 18 Nov 2023

Setlist Podcast: Stability AI exec resigns over fair use claim

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Setlist Podcast: Stability AI exec resigns over fair use claim

The resignation of Stability AI's VP Of Audio Ed Newton-Rex over the company's fair use claims, and YouTube’s plans to get AI generated clones both off and onto its platform…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 17 Nov 2023

Stability AI's VP Of Audio resigns over its position that training AI with copyright works is 'fair use'

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Stability AI's VP Of Audio resigns over its position that training AI with copyright works is 'fair use'

The VP Of Audio at Stability AI, Ed Newton-Rex, has resigned in protest at the company’s position that training generative AI models with existing content is fair use under US copyright law - meaning it does not need to get the permission of copyright owners…

Chris Cooke • 16 Nov 2023

Setlist Podcast: Tech companies say fair use trumps copyright in AI

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Setlist Podcast: Tech companies say fair use trumps copyright in AI

Big tech companies' insistence that training AI on existing content constitutes fair use under US copyright law, and the Grammy Awards' insistence that Christians do not swear…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 03 Nov 2023

Visual art copyright case against Stability AI stripped back but will proceed

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Visual art copyright case against Stability AI stripped back but will proceed

A US lawsuit testing the copyright obligations of AI companies - pursued by visual artists against image-generating AI platforms - can proceed, although with various parties removed and claims dismissed…

Chris Cooke • 31 Oct 2023

Stability AI launches music-generating AI tool

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Stability AI launches music-generating AI tool

Stability AI yesterday launched Stable Audio, which it says “will empower music enthusiasts and creative professionals to generate new content with the help of AI”…

Chris Cooke • 14 Sep 2023