Microsoft announced the broad availability of its Azure OpenAI Service, where cloud customers can access OpenAI tools such as GPT-3.5, Codex, DALL-E, and soon, ChatGPT. The Azure OpenAI Service was first launched to a limited number of enterprise cloud customers in late 2021. More: - With the general availability, more Azure business customers can now incorporate the AI technologies into their own applications in the cloud.
- These include OpenAI's AI image generator DALL•E 2, the code-generating system Codex, and GPT-3.5, the large lanuaged that ChatGPT is based on.
- Microsoft said it will also add access soon to ChatGPT, a "fine-tuned version of GPT-3.5." ChatGPT runs AI inference models on Azure infrastructure.
Zoom out: - The release comes a day before Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella said the company plans to incorporate AI capabilities into "every product."
- Microsoft, an early investor in OpenAI, is working rapidly to commercialize tools developed by the AI research company, he noted during a Wall Street Journal event Tuesday.
- "The best way to prepare for it is not to bet against this technology, and this technology helping you in your job and your business process," Nadella said.
- Last week, Semafor reported that Microsoft could invest a further $10B into OpenAI. Under the proposed terms, Microsoft would receive 75% of OpenAI's profits until Microsoft's investment is recouped.
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Getty Images has announced plans to sue Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI, alleging copyright violations. The stock photo giant accused Stability AI of processing millions of copyright-protected images in order to train Stable Diffusion, its text-to-image AI model that generates photo-realistic images. More: - Getty has accused Stability of profiting off the photos on its own platform and others, saying Stability AI should have sought licenses for the photos used to train its AI system.
- In an interview with The Verge, Getty Images CEO Craig Peters said the company has sent Stability AI a "letter before action" notifying the company of its plans to file a lawsuit in the U.K.
- Getty said it has initiated legal proceedings in the London-based High Court of Justice.
- Relatedly, a study shows that more than 15,000 photos in Stable Diffusion's training dataset came from Getty. Some of Stable's outputs also contain a "warped version of the Getty Images watermark," according to Artnet News.
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CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo confirmed that the media outlet has been using an AI engine to help write and compile some stories. The CNET Money editorial team started experimenting with the technology in November. More: - CNET, a consumer tech news and advice site, has now published around 75 articles using AI as an aid, according to Guglielmo.
- The AI engine was used to generate a draft of articles or output some information. However, every article was still edited and fact-checked, she noted.
- She stressed that the use of the AI technology is a test to "see if the tech can help our busy staff of reporters and editors with their job to cover topics from a 360-degree perspective."
- Meanwhile, CNET has updated the AI-assistant bylines. It now has a more clear disclosure that reads: "This story was assisted by an AI engine and reviewed, fact-checked, and edited by our editorial staff."
Zoom out: - While CNET appears to be sticking by the use of AI as an editorial aid, VICE notes that at least one of its AI stories was updated with a lengthy correction listing five errors.
- The publication has also added an editor's note at the top of other AI-assisted stories, which says: "We are currently reviewing this story for accuracy. If we find errors, we will update and issue corrections."
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Three visual artists have filed a class-action lawsuit against companies that have released AI-powered art generators. The suit targets Midjourney, Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI, and DeviantArt, which recently released the AI art generator DreamUp. More: - The plaintiffs, Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz, are being represented by the Joseph Saveri Law Firm.
- In their suit, they accuse the companies of violating the rights of millions of artists by using their artworks to train the AI systems without consent or compensation.
- The companies have benefitted commercially and profited from using the copyrighted images created by human artists, they allege.
- In response, a Stability AI spokesperson told Bloomberg Law that "Anyone that believes that this isn't fair use does not understand the technology and misunderstands the law."
Zoom out: - In November, the Joseph Saveri Law Firm also filed a proposed class action lawsuit targeting the AI-driven coding assistant GitHub Copilot.
- Copilot was trained on open-source code scraped from the web. The suit, brought by programmer and attorney Matthew Butterick, challenges the legality of Copilot, which doesn't provide credit for the licensed code when it's reproduced using AI.
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Israeli AI startup AI21 Labs released Wordtune Spices, a generative AI tool used to assist writers. Rather than composing original sentences and text from a prompt, Wordtune Spices suggests ways to improve already-written text, adding linked citations to back up its suggestions. More: - The links direct users back to the original source of a statistical, historical, or other fact.
- Wordtune Spices also provides quotes that connect to a user's writing.
- Overall, the toolbox can be used to enhance and improve a user's writing. It can provide examples, make analogies, or offer jokes and counterarguments.
- Users can also prompt the AI with various cues, like "legal," to recommend rewrites in that style.
- Ori Goshen, AI21 Labs co-CEO and co-founder, told TechCrunch that AI systems like ChatGPT "need to be robust, reliable, and explainable" to become truly useful.
- "Spices isn't a tool that generates a full essay with one click because we don't think this helps create strong writers," Goshen said.
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 |  | Beth is a writer and editor at Inside.com covering artificial intelligence and daily technology news. You can reach her at Beth.Duckett@inside.com. |   | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 and 1972 Fords. | |
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