This past week, comedian Sarah Silverman filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Facebook parent company Meta, alleging they used a pirated copy of her book in training data because the companies' chatbots can summarize her book accurately. Novelists Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI. And more than 5,000 authors, including Jodi Picoult, Margaret Atwood and Viet Thanh Nguyen, have signed a petition asking tech companies to get consent from and give credit and compensation to writers whose books were used in training data.

The world's most valuable and dominant internet companies are based in the US, but the nation's unproductive lawmakers and business-friendly courts have effectively outsourced the regulation of tech giants to the EU. That has given tremendous power to Didier Reynders, the European commissioner for justice, who is in charge of crafting and enforcing laws that apply across the 27-nation bloc. After nearly four years on the job, he's tired of hearing big talk from the US with little action. Ahead of his latest round of biannual meetings with US officials, including attorney general Merrick Garland in Washington, DC, tomorrow, Reynders told WIRED why the US needs to finally step up, where a probe into ChatGPT is headed, and why he made contentious comments about one of the world's most prominent privacy activists. His bicoastal tour began with a Waymo robotaxi ride through San Francisco (he gave it a rave review) and include meetings with Google and California's privacy czar.

This story was originally published by Slate's Future Tense partnership and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In August 2021, forest range officer Remya Raghavan caught three people carrying wild boar meat in the Wayanad forest of Kerala, a state in southern India. Possessing wild animal meat is a crime under the country's 1972 Wildlife Protection Act, so Raghavan entered all the details of the crime--location, witnesses, names of the accused, items seized, and section of the forest--in a mobile application. Just like that, the case was officially registered in the app-based system, which signaled that it needed to be taken to court. The app Raghavan used is called HAWK, or Hostile Activity Watch Kernel, and it appears to be the first such digital intelligence gathering system for wildlife crime in India.

Fox News anchor Julie Banderas reacts to the vice president's gaffe and CNN calling Dylan Mulvaney a man on'Jesse Watters Primetime.' EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ted Cruz is criticizing Democrats for what he believes is a rush to regulate the artificial intelligence sector, and says new rules for AI would be a drag on the U.S. in the critical tech race against China. "I am concerned China is investing heavily in AI. I'm also concerned that Democrats want to impose such stringent regulations on the development of AI that it stifles innovation in the United States, and allows China to take the lead," Cruz told Fox News Digital after a classified briefing on AI and national security this week. "That would be a generational mistake," he said of the Democrats' effort.

The task of Argument Mining, that is extracting argumentative sentences for a specific topic from large document sources, is an inherently difficult task for machine learning models and humans alike, as large Argument Mining datasets are rare and recognition of argumentative sentences requires expert knowledge. The task becomes even more difficult if it also involves stance detection of retrieved arguments. Given the cost and complexity of creating suitably large Argument Mining datasets, we ask whether it is necessary for acceptable performance to have datasets growing in size. Our findings show that, when using carefully composed training samples and a model pretrained on related tasks, we can reach 95% of the maximum performance while reducing the training sample size by at least 85%. This gain is consistent across three Argument Mining tasks on three different datasets. We also publish a new dataset for future benchmarking.

Russell Wald, director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, sounds off on'The Story.' A Massachusetts Democrat is calling on the U.S. to pass legislation that would keep artificial intelligence away from nuclear power. On Thursday, Sen. Edward Markey said, "78 years ago this weekend, Robert Oppenheimer witnessed the world's first nuclear weapons explosion. In 2023, we face a new kind of nuclear threat: the militarization of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems." "We must pass legislation to keep AI away from the nuclear button before it's too late," he asserted.

You know it's bad when the cocreator of The Matrix thinks your artificial intelligence plan stinks. In June, as the Directors Guild of America was about to sign its union contract with Hollywood studios, Lilly Wachowski sent out a series of tweets explaining why she was voting no. The contact's AI clause, which stipulates that generative AI can't be considered a "person" or perform duties normally done by DGA members, didn't go far enough. "We need to change the language to imply that we won't use AI in any department, on any show we work on," Wachowski wrote. "I strongly believe the fight we [are] in right now in our industry is a microcosm of a much larger and critical crisis."

Rep. Matt Gaetz is introducing a resolution calling for Congress to let FISA expire at the end of 2023. FISA RENEWAL – The House Judiciary Committee is expected to hold a hearing beginning at 9:15 a.m. Friday to discuss renewing the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978. FEELING THE'FORCE': 'Star Wars' TV show actress says sci-fi now'safe' for'Black nerds.' Continue reading … 'OPPENHEIMER MOMENT' - Christopher Nolan weighs in on use of artificial intelligence in movies. 'DOMINANT PERSPECTIVE' - Laura Ingraham believes Fox News Channel's revamped lineup is critical for Americans.

The "Interim Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services" announced Thursday and set to take effect on Aug. 15, represent Beijing's attempt to encourage the growth of China's AI industry while retaining total control over information available to the public. It is an enormous challenge made more difficult by the rising global popularity of tools that allow people to generate unique text, images and music.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) spoke with Fox News Digital about her AI Training Expansion Act of 2023; she also discussed the future of AI, and Congress' current effort to get ahead of the rapidly advancing tech. The House advanced legislation this week that would require federal officials to be trained up on artificial intelligence systems, in an effort to make sure agencies are as prepared as possible for this rapidly advancing technology. Rep. Nancy Mace's AI Training Expansion Act passed through the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, and she told Fox News Digital "we're doing everything we need to do" for the bill to reach the House floor for a vote. "AI is going to change the way we live and we work, and we want to make sure that our federal workforce is prepared for the future and what that might hold," said Mace, R-S.C. Rep. Nancy Mace spoke with Fox News Digital about her AI bill that was approved in committee this week (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) The bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., would mandate that supervisors, managers, and data and technology workers whose jobs are linked to the federal government's use of AI systems adhere to certain training requirements to ensure they properly understand the technology they're using.