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Dear Reader,
Last December, the New York Times(NYT) sued OpenAI, one of the leading AI companies, and its major backer, Microsoft, for what it claimed were apparent copyright infringements by its chatbot, ChatGPT. The lawsuit alleged that ChatPGT reproduces NYT content "verbatim, closely summarizes it, and mimics its expressive style."
In response to the lawsuits and the general criticism that ChatGPTs were allegedly using publisher's content "unauthorizedly", OpenAI has announced that they are building a "media manager" that will enable creators and content owners to decide which of their work they wanted to be included, or excluded, from the machine learning research and training. MediaNama points out, that putting the onus of ringfencing their content on the publishers is not kosher. OpenAI has to, instead, identify copyrighted material at the first stage – when the ChatGPT crawlers are scraping the content.
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court's striking down of the Electoral Bond Scheme (EBS) in February this year, The India Forum points out that, from all indications, the Scheme will be reintroduced in some form or another. Therefore, the emphasis should be on a more transparent and accountable method of political financing by business, where citizens have enough insight into the flow of funds to make informed choices.
With a coastline of almost 600 km, Kerala is home to over a million fishers, with thousands more earning a livelihood as vendors and through allied activities. The fishers have been under the cosh in recent years—erratic monsoons, sea pollution, and changes in migratory patterns of fishes have all adversely impacted the catchment.
The extreme and unusual heat has made matters even more ominous this year. Fishing stock has severely diminished, fishing days have been severely curtailed, and the mainstay of the state's fishing industry, like Mackerel and Oil Sardines, is hard to get. TrueCopy Think reports on the fishers staring at severe hardship and debt.
Under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY), launched in 2014, Lok Sabha MPs were provided the facility to adopt one village in their constituency to develop it as an ideal village. The villages were to be provided with smart schools, universal access to basic health facilities, and housing for homeless villagers. The Scheme was also envisaged as a way to promote a spirit of community and self-help.
However, Mojo Story travels to Bhilaitand village of Shikaripada block in the Dumka district of Jharkhand to find a familiar refrain—no schools, hospitals, toilets, or street lights. The village is far away from the model SAGY envisages.
For more such stories from the grantees this week, please read on.
Warmly,
Sunil Rajshekhar
IPSMF
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