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Blizzard's 'Diablo' Devs Unionize. There's Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers
PC Gamer reports:
The Diablo team is the next in line to unionize at Blizzard. Over 450 developers across multiple disciplines have voted to form a union under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), and they're now the fourth major Blizzard team to do so... A wave of unions have formed at Bli...
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Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You 'Buy' a Long-Term Streaming Rental
"Typically when something is available to "buy," ownership of that good or access to that service is offered in exchange for money," writes Ars Technica.
"That's not really the case, though, when it comes to digital content."
Often, streaming services like Amazon Prime Video offer customers the op...
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First 'AI Music Creator' Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry?
"I have no musical talent at all," says Oliver McCann. "I can't sing, I can't play instruments, and I have no musical background at all!"
But the Associated Press describes 37-year-old McCann as a British "AI music creator" — and last month McCann signed with an independent record label "aft...
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OpenAI Is Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police
Futurism reports:
Earlier this week, buried in the middle of a lengthy blog post addressing ChatGPT's propensity for severe mental health harms, OpenAI admitted that it's scanning users' conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems sufficiently threatening.
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Are AI Web Crawlers 'Destroying Websites' In Their Hunt for Training Data?
"AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model mills," argues Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at the Register.
And "when AI searchbots, with Meta (52% of AI searchbot traffic), Google (23%), and OpenAI (20%) leading the way...
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