Plaintiffs claim the company overstated the capabilities of the R1T and R1S. Rivian has been sued on allegations that it made misleading statements about the self-driving capabilities of its R1T truck and R1S SUV. According to the class action complaint brought by Rivian customers, the first-generation models of these vehicles are not capable of the offering the self-driving potential that the company had promised. The plaintiffs argued that Rivian represented that those early models would be capable of level 3 autonomous driving, meaning the vehicle would be able to steer, accelerate and break without driver action. In reality, Rivian manufactured its Gen 1 Vehicles without the hardware, cameras, sensors, and compute to enable hands-free driving and/or Level 3 autonomous operation, the complaint states.

The complaint says park visitors don't get sufficient notice they're being scanned. Disney is being sued over use of facial recognition technology at its amusement parks. The class action lawsuit alleges that the entertainment brand does not adequately inform guests that it scans people's faces at the entrances to Disneyland and California Adventure. The complaint is seeking at least $5 million on behalf of park visitors. Guests should be able to expressly opt in to this type of sensitive facial recognition technology with written consent -- the onus of privacy rights should not be on the victim, writes Blake Yagman, a lawyer for the proposed class of visitors, in the complaint.

The first attempts to regulate artificial intelligence programs that play a hidden role in hiring, housing and medical decisions for millions of Americans are facing pressure from all sides and floundering in statehouses nationwide. Only one of seven bills aimed at preventing AI's penchant to discriminate when making consequential decisions -- including who gets hired, money for a home or medical care -- has passed. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis hesitantly signed the bill on Friday. Colorado's bill and those that faltered in Washington, Connecticut and elsewhere faced battles on many fronts, including between civil rights groups and the tech industry, and lawmakers wary of wading into a technology few yet understand and governors worried about being the odd-state-out and spooking AI startups. Polis signed Colorado's bill "with reservations," saying in an statement he was wary of regulations dousing AI innovation.

Australian singer Nick Cave came out strongly against an AI-generated track "in the style of Nick Cave" sent to him in January by a fan. It is "bullshit," said Cave. Meanwhile, three female fine artists recently filed a class action lawsuit in the US against several AI companies, charging them with theft of creative ideas. There's no doubt that artificial intelligence is making its way into the art world. While the consequences remain uncertain at this early stage, artists are already concerned about the appropriation of their intellectual property.

Type in a prompt like "a chocolate bar riding a bicycle in the style of Picasso," and artificial intelligence tools including DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion can conjure an image for you in seconds. They do so by incorporating elements from the vast libraries of digitally available images and artwork from across the internet that they have been trained on. That question is at the heart of two new lawsuits. Last week, Seattle-based stock image giant Getty Images announced that it has initiated legal proceedings against Stability AI, the maker of Stable Diffusion. Getty alleges that the company has copied millions of its images and "[chosen] to ignore viable licensing options and long-standing legal protections in pursuit of their stand-alone commercial interests."

A class action lawsuit is filed in the US against Midjourney and Stability AI as well as the art platform DeviantArt. US artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz file a class action lawsuit in California against Stability AI (Stable Diffusion) and Midjourney. The artists are seeking damages and an injunction to prevent future harm. Art platform DeviantArt is also accused of providing thousands or even millions of images from the LAION dataset for Stable Diffusion's training. Instead of siding with the artists, DeviantArt put DreamUp online, an AI art app based on Stable Diffusion, according to the plaintiffs.

Cense.ai is an Artificial Intelligence company that works in a wide range of areas. According to the company website, Cense.ai It is this last practice that led to the company exposing over 2.5 million medical records. According to researcher Jeremiah Fowler, all of the records were readily available to view or download by anyone with an Internet connection. Though it remains unclear how long the data was available online, Fowler made the discovery on July 7th, 2020.

Facebook scientists have proposed using watermarks to identify when online images get used to train neural networks. The proposal appears to be aimed at least in part at the rise of big data startups, such as Clearview AI, that are scraping publicly available photographs from social networks and other sites and using them for facial recognition purposes, prompting privacy concerns (see: Facial Recognition: Big Trouble With Big Data Biometrics). Neural networks are a type of machine learning that involves using a large set of training data to devise rules that can be used to identify future patterns (see: What's Artificial Intelligence? To detect if training sets have used Facebook images, a team of the company's researchers has proposed building a system that can be used to find out. "We have developed a new technique to mark the images in a data set so that researchers can determine whether a particular machine learning model has been trained using those images," say Facebook researchers Alexandre Sablayrolles, Matthijs Douze and Hervé Jégou in a blog post.

Facebook has agreed to pay a $550 million settlement over its use of facial recognition technology nearly a decade ago. This comes just days after a relatively unknown startup selling facial recognition systems to police departments caught the attention of Congress. It seems, after years of civil liberties advocates worrying, facial recognition technology is more powerful and more prevalent than ever. Neither a mammoth new settlement nor the piecemeal legislation nationwide seem suited to stop the takeover. As it announced in the company's quarterly earnings report on Wednesday, Facebook will shell out half a billion dollars to settle a 2015 class action lawsuit over its facial recognition software that suggested tags for people it identified in users' photos.

Tesla on Thursday reached an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit with buyers of its Model S and Model X cars who alleged that the company's assisted-driving Autopilot system was'essentially unusable and demonstrably dangerous.' The agreement, announced in a filing in San Jose federal court late Thursday, still has to be approved by U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman. Tesla said in a statement it wanted to do right by its customers and, as part of the proposed deal, agreed to compensate car owners who purchased the 2.0 version of Autopilot and had to wait longer than expected for the driving features to become active. Tesla-CEO Elon Musk speaks during the delivery of the first more reasonable Tesla vehicle Model 3 in Fremont. Two U.S. consumer advocacy groups urged the FTC to investigate what they called Tesla's'deceptive and misleading' use of the name Autopilot for its assisted-driving technology.