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Innovation Profs - 7/1/2025
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Innovation Profs
July 01, 2025
Latest Gen AI News
Judge rules Anthropic did not violate authors' copyrights with AI book training
In the first major legal development on AI in the past week, US District Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train their Claude family of models should be counted as fair use. According to Alsup, “The purpose and character of using copyrighted works to train LLMs to generate new text was quintessentially transformative. Like any reader aspiring to be a writer.”
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
As part of the above decision, we learned this week that Anthropic “cut millions of print books from their bindings, scanned them into digital files, and threw away the originals solely for the purpose of training AI.” This fact proved to be central to the ruling discussed above, as Anthropic legally obtained the materials they used to train their models. However, Anthropic may still be on the hook for training using illegally downloaded materials: “We will have a trial on the pirated copies used to create Anthropic's central library and the resulting damages, actual or statutory (including for willfulness).”
Meta wins AI copyright lawsuit as US judge rules against authors
In the second major legal development on AI in the past week, US District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled that arguments brought by authors including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates against Meta’s use of copyrighted books to train the Meta family of models did not support their central claim. However, he left open the possibility that Meta could still be found liable for copyright violation: “This ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta’s use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful.” In stark contrast to Alsup’s fair use decision, Chhabria added, “No matter how transformative LLM training may be, it’s hard to imagine that it can be fair use to use copyrighted books to develop a tool to make billions or trillions of dollars while enabling the creation of a potentially endless stream of competing works that could significantly harm the market for those books.”
Getty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI, but UK lawsuit continues
In the third major legal development on AI in the past week, over in the UK, Getty Images dropped its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI while still pursuing a secondary infringement claim, namely that “the AI models themselves might infringe copyright law,” and a trademark violation claim. Why were the primary claims of infringement dropped? “In Getty’s closing arguments, the company’s lawyers said they dropped those claims due to weak evidence and a lack of knowledgeable witnesses from Stability AI.” A separate lawsuit brought by Getty Images against Stability AI in the US continues.
Quick Hits
Even Quicker Hits
(It’s been a busy week!)
Tool of the week: ChatGPT Record
ChatGPT Record transforms the ChatGPT macOS app into a powerful meeting assistant.
With this feature, you can record audio from meetings, brainstorms, or voice notes. ChatGPT will transcribe and summarize the recordings, saving the summaries in your chat history. You can then use those summaries to generate useful content like project plans, emails, or code. ChatGPT can also refer back to your recordings to provide more relevant responses in future conversations.
This feature is available on the macOS desktop app for users with Enterprise, Education, Team, or Pro workspaces.
AI-generated image of the week
Here’s another fun ChatGPT prompt to try to create an image about your life.
Prompt: Create a movie poster about my life based on everything you know. Be creative and unhinged but try to make it fit with who I am.What we found
The New York Times created a test to see how well users can distinguish AI-created videos from real videos. Take the test here, and let us know how you did. Not to brag, but we got 10/10 correct. It’s almost like this is our job!
