'We could have asked ChatGPT': students fight back over course taught by AI Students at the University of Staffordshire have said they feel "robbed of knowledge and enjoyment" after a course they hoped would launch their digital careers turned out to be taught in large part by AI. James and Owen were among 41 students who took a coding module at Staffordshire last year, hoping to change careers through a government-funded apprenticeship programme designed to help them become cybersecurity experts or software engineers. But after a term of AI-generated slides being read, at times, by an AI voiceover, James said he had lost faith in the programme and the people running it, worrying he had "used up two years" of his life on a course that had been done "in the cheapest way possible". "If we handed in stuff that was AI-generated, we would be kicked out of the uni, but we're being taught by an AI," said James during a confrontation with his lecturer recorded as a part of the course in October 2024. James and other students confronted university officials multiple times about the AI materials. But the university appears to still be using AI-generated materials to teach the course.

If you use an AI image or text generator to make a work of "art," does it belong to you? That's a huge question hanging over the heads of anyone tempted to use AI tools for commercial products. Crucially, simply plugging prompts into an AI image generator or text generator does NOT meet this burden. Because the author (or artist, or other relevant creative term) of a work is defined as "the person who translates an idea into a fixed, tangible expression," an AI system cannot meet this burden, even though it's using input from a human to generate its output. Commenting on established case law, the report says that "…the Supreme Court has made clear that originality is required, not just time and effort."

The novel draws from Shupe's eventful life, including her advocacy for more inclusive gender recognition. Its registration provides a glimpse of how the USCO is grappling with artificial intelligence, especially as more people incorporate AI tools into creative work. Shupe's case highlights some of the nuances of that struggle--because the approval of her registration comes with a significant caveat. Instead she is considered the author of the "selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial intelligence." It declined to comment on this story.

Current fail-safe measures designed to ensure material generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is clearly labeled does not meet an appropriate standard and may not be possible with current technology, an expert warns. "There's no interest, and it's difficult to do," Michael Wilkowski, chief technology officer of AI-driven bank compliance platform Silent Eight, told Fox News Digital, stressing that, in his view, it's "actually nearly impossible to discover" if something was AI-generated or not. The current method of applying a watermark at first glance appears more advanced than the traditional method, which would apply a physical mark over the material to make it clear and obvious that the watermark exists. Instead, AI-generated material has an embedded code. AI companies have championed the digital watermark as a means of combating concerns that AI-generated images and videos will end up blurring the line between authentic and generated content, with everyone from OpenAI to Meta pledging to work on the technology, Wired magazine reported.

I've been in the entertainment industry since I was nine. I joined the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) when I was 11 in 1977, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) when I was 22, and the Directors Guild of America (DGA) the following year. I got my start as a child actor on Broadway, studied film at NYU, then went on to act in movies like The Lost Boys and the Bill & Ted franchise while writing and directing my own narrative work. I've lived through several labor crises and strikes, but none like our current work shutdown, which began last spring when all three unions' contracts were simultaneously due for renegotiation and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) refused their terms. The unifying stress point for labor is the devaluing of the worker, which reached a boiling point with the rapid advancement of highly sophisticated and ubiquitous machine learning tools. Actors have been replaced by AI replications of their likenesses, or their voices have been stolen outright.

A geography professor shared his method to detect AI-generated plagiarism with Fox News. He developed it after noticing that ChatGPT produced fake citations. Companies that develop software to detect if artificial intelligence or humans authored an essay or other written assignment are having a windfall moment amid ChatGPT's wild success. ChatGPT launched last November and quickly grew to 100 million monthly active users by January, setting a record as the fastest-growing user base ever. The platform has been especially favored by younger generations, including students in middle school through college.