Wikimedia tells the NYT v. OpenAI court training can be fair use, RAG is not
Wikimedia filed an amicus brief backing neither side: training can be fair use, but RAG answers built on Wikipedia must follow its CC BY-SA licence.
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Scheffler says he is considering legal action over ChatGPT Gruffalo images
dpa reports that Axel Scheffler told Die Zeit he is considering legal action over ChatGPT images of the Gruffalo. The wire names no suit by him.
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedMeta's terms preview drops the line that said it may train on crawled pages
Meta's commercial-terms preview, still dated 30 October 2026, no longer says it may train on crawled pages. The crawl permission remains.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedMeta's 30 October terms say business users authorize its crawlers
Meta's commercial-terms preview, effective 30 October 2026, says business users authorize crawls of linked sites, including to train Meta products.
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedGNU Guix now refuses contributions written by LLM coding assistants
Guix maintainers merged a manual change on 7 October saying the project does not accept contributions written by, or based on code written by, an LLM coding assistant. Supporters call it a stop-gap.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedUSA Today Co. sues OpenAI over news articles used in training and ChatGPT
USA Today Co. and 13 affiliates sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court on 8 October, alleging copyright infringement and removal of copyright information across 19 papers. They seek more than $250 million.
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedDenmark's culture minister is tabling a bill on AI copies of people
Denmark's culture minister is tabling a bill to restrict sharing realistic AI copies of a person's face or voice without consent. It is a proposal, and she hopes it can take effect around the turn of the year.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedThird Circuit affirms Thomson Reuters on Westlaw headnotes
On 29 September the Third Circuit held 2,243 Westlaw headnotes original and ROSS's training use unfair. The panel called it an ordinary copyright case about a non-generative competitor.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedHow AI image generation works, and what publishers must check
Diffusion and autoregressive models turn prompts and references into pictures. Here is how the controls work and what to check before publishing an image.
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