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Anthropic pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned this week, saying that after three years of pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, neither company is acting responsibly and both are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.¹ He told the Wall Street Journal that Anthropic’s safety work is sincere but that competition makes trade-offs hard to avoid,² and two current Anthropic employees publicly confirmed some of his assertions, including alignment science lead Continue reading Anthropic Employee Quits Warning The Terminator May Be Reality→

Hypo: You record a song with your melody, your lyrics, your voice, and your arrangement. You feed that sound recording into an AI system. The AI analyzes everything and synthesizes a new sound recording that copies you perfectly and simply improves the take. Your tune is still there, your voice is still there, your melodic contour is still there, and the arrangement is now hipper. It is clearly derived from your copyrighted recording. Now someone Continue reading Copying an AI‑Enhanced Track Is Still Infringement→

You still own your lyrics/melodies. Your human‑authored inputs remain your copyright. You do not own the AI voice or performance. Suno’s vocal models and “performances” are not copyrightable by you. Suno keeps a perpetual license to your outputs. You can use them commercially, but Suno can also store/analyze them. Hard ban on imitating real artists. No generating vocals that resemble identifiable singers. Training rights clarified. Your inputs/outputs can be used to improve Suno models unless an opt‑out exists. Commercial use allowed — but conditional. No impersonation, no persona misuse, no trademark problems.

Originally published April 6, 2025 AI in the World of Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law. Updated August 17, 2026 by Elliot Zimmerman. When this article first ran, not a single U.S. court had squarely decided whether training an artificial intelligence model on copyrighted works is fair use. Sixteen months later, three federal judges have ruled on the question, a federal appeals court has heard the first appeal, the largest copyright settlement in American history has Continue reading AI and Fair Use Update→

Meta completely pulled its controversial @-mention image generation feature from Instagram after a severe global backlash. The abrupt shutdown occurred just three days after launching the tool alongside its new Muse Image AI model, with Meta admitting the feature “missed the mark.” [1, 2, 3, 4] Why Meta Withdrew the Feature Statement from Meta According to an official company update published by Fox Business, Meta corporate stated: “Our intent was to provide a useful creative Continue reading Why Meta Just Deleted Its Newest Instagram AI Tool→