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Ars Technica: Condé Nast, other news orgs say AI firm stole articles, spit out “hallucinations”. “Condé Nast and several other media companies sued the AI startup Cohere today, alleging that it engaged in ‘systematic copyright and trademark infringement’ by using news articles to train its large language model.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/18/ars-technica-conde-nast-other-news-orgs-say-ai-firm-stole-articles-spit-out-hallucinations/

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So this is interesting - by which I mean infuriating. Some company called "Subco" placed a subscription in my father's name to GQ.

My father, who died in 1997.

I called GQ (a Conde Nast company) and they will only suspend the subscription - they say I have to cancel it through the company that ordered it. So I can see this becoming a real black hole, where I'm on the hook for anything this third party has signed up for.

Has this happened to anyone else?

#fraudulent #CondeNast @ProPublica

"OpenAI announced a partnership with Ars Technica parent company Condé Nast to display content from prominent publications within its AI products, including ChatGPT and a new SearchGPT prototype. It also allows OpenAI to use Condé content to train future AI language models. The deal covers well-known Condé brands such as Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Wired, Ars Technica, and others..."

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#chatgpt
#condenast

Ars Technica · Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI servicesCondé Nast joins other publishers in allowing OpenAI to access its content.
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@not2b @jeffjarvis @msnbc I did just that a yr ago. Now I pick & choose just as I do w/podcasts.
News, I gather from multi platforms(📰 woman for 30yrs. before my🗞️ was shut down by #condenast ) I’m partial to reading news. It prepared me for the coming storm.

But I don’t confuse News & opinion. That’s what I object to. Ronna can give her opinion for💰or laughs, it has no bearing on my life. I don’t exclude discordant voices or sources.
Substantive debates are few, it’s why I…1/2

Anne Hathaway walked off a Vanity Fair photo shoot today in support of the Condé Nast Union walkout. The actress was in hair and makeup when a SAG-AFTRA staffer notified a member of her team about the 24-hour stoppage, which is in protest against what the NewsGuild of New York described as “unlawful handling of layoff negotiations and bad-faith bargaining.” Here's more from Variety.

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Variety · Anne Hathaway Leaves Vanity Fair Photoshoot Amid Union WalkoutBy Marc Malkin