SentinelOne researchers have discovered AkiraBot, which is used to target small- to medium-sized company websites with generative AI, and drafted outreach messages for website chats, comments, and contact forms. SentinelOne estimates that over 400,000 websites have been targeted, and the bot has successfully spammed “at least 80,000 websites since September 2024.”

The bot generated

Thomson Reuters scored a major victory in one of the first cases dealing with the legality of using copyrighted data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. In 2020, Thomson Reuters sued the now-defunct AI start-up Ross Intelligence for alleged improper use of Thomson Reuters materials, including case headnotes in its Westlaw search engine, to train

The privacy advocacy group noyb, founded by privacy activist Max Schrems, has raised concerns over how ChatGPT handles questions about real-life individuals. The group alleges that ChatGPT has been generating inaccurate personal data, such as incorrect birth dates, which they claim is a violation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). GDPR mandates

On January 29, 2024, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) notified OpenAI of breaches of data protection laws involving its ChatGPT platform.

In March 2022, Garante temporarily banned OpenAI from processing data. Following its investigation, Garante “concluded that the available evidence pointed to the existence of breaches of the provisions contained in the EU GDPR.”

This week we are pleased to have a guest post by Robinson+Cole Artificial Intelligence Team patent agent Daniel J. Lass.

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes better and more prevalent, people will increasingly use its computing power to supplement or replace human creativity. Film director Gareth Edwards attempted to do just that  in his new

This week, the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and the Chief Privacy Officer of IBM testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law. During that hearing, it is reported that both “called on U.S. senators…to more heavily regulate artificial intelligence technologies that are raising ethical, legal and national