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A fresh author copyright lawsuit concerning AI training has hit Meta.

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Novelist Christopher Farnsworth has initiated a proposed class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta Platforms (META.O), alleging that the technology company has improperly utilized his works, among with others, to train its Llama artificial intelligence large language model.

Farnsworth asserted in the complaint filed on Tuesday that Meta provided Llama, the technology behind its AI chatbots, with thousands of pirated books to train its response to human queries.

Other authors, including as Ta-Nehisi Coates, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, and comic Sarah Silverman, have filed analogous class-action lawsuits against Meta in the same court about its purported utilization of their novels for AI training.

Farnsworth’s case, initiated by the prominent class action plaintiffs’ law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, follows a federal judge’s admonition of the lead attorney in the prior case and permits distinguished litigator David Boies and additional attorneys from his firm Boies Schiller Flexner to join the plaintiffs’ team.

Representatives for Meta and Farnsworth’s legal counsel at Lieff Cabraser did not promptly reply to inquiries regarding the recent complaint on Wednesday.

Multiple collectives of copyright holders, including authors, visual artists, and music publishers, have initiated legal action against prominent technology firms for the illicit utilization of their creations in the training of generative AI systems.

The businesses contend that their AI training is safeguarded by the copyright doctrine of fair use and that the lawsuits jeopardize the emerging AI industry.

Farnsworth, a resident of Los Angeles, asserted in his lawsuit that his creations were incorporated in a “trove” of illicitly obtained literature utilized by Meta to educate Llama.

He requested the court for an indeterminate sum of monetary damages and an injunction compelling Meta to cease its purported infringement.

The case is Farnsworth v. Meta Platforms Inc, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, No. 3:24-cv-06893.

For Farnsworth: Elizabeth Cabraser, Daniel Hutchinson, Reilly Stoler, and Rachel Geman of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein

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In Pakistan, TikTok deleted over 30 million videos due to them breaking community norms.

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In order to further explain the platform’s proactive approach to content management in Pakistan, TikTok has issued its Q2 2024 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report. The content and accounts that were terminated for breaking the platform’s community guidelines are transparently disclosed in this quarterly report.

As the platform continues to bolster its content moderation procedures to protect its varied community, the study indicates that over 30,709,744 videos were removed from TikTok in Pakistan during the most recent reporting period. Important discoveries reveal that 97% of these films were taken down in less than a day, and 99.5% of these movies were proactively removed before people reported them. These numbers demonstrate TikTok’s dedication to preventing harmful content from being posted and guaranteeing a safer platform for its Pakistani user base.

On TikTok, millions of videos are uploaded daily by over a billion users, and the platform is always improving and giving priority to automatic moderation technology. In Q2 2024, more than 178,827,465 videos were deleted from the platform. 144,430,133 of these were eliminated automatically, demonstrating the platform’s creative application of its detection technologies to instantly delete hazardous content.

With the help of this technological breakthrough, TikTok is able to expand its moderation efforts and keep its expanding worldwide community safe. At 98.2%, TikTok’s proactive detection rate makes it more effective than ever to remove hazardous content before users see it. Reiterating the precision and efficacy of TikTok’s content control algorithms, the data also shows a 50% decrease in the quantity of restored videos.

In order to provide a safe environment for its varied user base in Pakistan and around the world, TikTok is investing in state-of-the-art moderation technology while maintaining a top priority in transparency and platform safety.

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A Lahore College “rape” victim’s hospital record has surfaced.

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As per the documentation, on October 2, the student was admitted to General Hospital, where a CT scan revealed no significant damage.

She was checked on October 3 at a private clinic by a neurosurgery specialist. She was brought to a private hospital in Model Town on October 4 after claiming to have neck pain, according to the record.

She was kept in the hospital for eight days, during which time an MRI confirmed the doctor’s diagnosis that the pain was coming from a nerve injury from a fall.

An earlier investigation into misinformation on social media about an alleged rape event at a private college in Lahore was launched by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) with the participation of a seven-member commission.

When false information about the “rape” case at Lahore College appeared on social media and disturbed public order, the FIA squad took action.

Previous to this, Maryam Nawaz, the Chief Minister of Punjab, had established a high-level committee to look into the claims of “rape” made against a female student at a private college.

The announcement states that the chief secretary of Punjab will serve as the chair of the six-member committee. The committee’s members will be the secretaries of specialised healthcare, higher education, advocacy general of Punjab, and home affairs.

Boyfriend disputes rape claim
Refuting any such occurrence, the father of a girl who was allegedly assaulted by a security officer at a private institution said that the ongoing rallies in his daughter’s honour are baseless.

“Protests are being based on our daughter, but they have nothing to do with her,” he claimed. He clarified that his daughter had fallen at home, breaking her back and requiring an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) hospitalisation.

“We have given the police our daughter’s medical reports,” he continued, looking shocked after seeing video of the protests involving his daughter. “People who are mothers can relate to this suffering,” he underlined.

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Three police officers in Buner are injured by an IED detonation.

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Shah Hassan Khan, a District Police Officer (DPO), verified the occurrence and declared, “Police have cordoned off the area.”

The wounded cops were taken to the District Headquarters Hospital in Daggar to receive medical attention.

A bomb that targeted a police car in Malam Jabba Road Swat earlier injured at least four police officers.

According to specifics, Jahanabad was the scene of the incident, which resulted in four police officers being injured.

According to a police spokesperson, while officers have arrived at the scene of the incident, the blast’s strength is still unknown.

In a another incident, a police car in the Kuchlak neighbourhood of Quetta was the target of a blast that claimed the lives of at least two officers.

Two police officers were killed after a blast approached a police car on Bostan Road. According to police officials, there was a cordoned-off area and an investigation underway.

Two persons lost their lives and numerous others were injured in an explosion that occurred at a police station in Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, last month.

The police station’s warehouse area, which held a sizable amount of explosive material that had been confiscated from terrorists, was the scene of the nighttime explosion.

Officer Haroon Rasheed of the District Police Department reports that a short circuit appears to have caused many detonations, which in turn caused the explosion.

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