{"id":42938,"date":"2024-04-25T17:18:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T21:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42938"},"modified":"2024-04-25T17:18:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T21:18:58","slug":"alexa-copyright-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/25\/alexa-copyright-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexa Copyright Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/04\/22\/ghaderi_v_amazon\/\">Lindsay Clark<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=40114105\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/04\/22\/ghaderi_v_amazon\/\"><p>According to Ghaderi&rsquo;s account in the complaint, she returned to work after giving birth in January 2023, inheriting a large language model project. Part of her role was flagging violations of Amazon&rsquo;s internal copyright policies and escalating these concerns to the in-house legal team. In March 2023, the filing claims, her team director, Andrey Styskin, challenged Ghaderi to understand why Amazon was not meeting its goals on Alexa search quality.<\/p><p>The filing alleges she met with a representative from the legal department to explain her concerns and the tension they posed with the &ldquo;direction she had received from upper management, which advised her to violate the direction from legal.&rdquo;<\/p><p>According to the complaint, Styskin rejected Ghaderi&rsquo;s concerns, allegedly telling her to ignore copyright policies to improve the results. Referring to rival AI companies, the filing alleges he said: &ldquo;Everyone else is doing it.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/28\/the-new-york-times-sues-openai\/\">The New York Times Sues OpenAI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/11\/suing-openai-and-meta-for-copyright-infringement\/\">Suing OpenAI and Meta for Copyright Infringement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/07\/github-copilot-and-copyright\/\">GitHub Copilot and Copyright<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay Clark (via Hacker News): According to Ghaderi&rsquo;s account in the complaint, she returned to work after giving birth in January 2023, inheriting a large language model project. Part of her role was flagging violations of Amazon&rsquo;s internal copyright policies and escalating these concerns to the in-house legal team. In March 2023, the filing claims, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-04-25T21:19:01Z","apple_news_api_id":"beb2a1c8-113f-42c9-ac81-7290c257f165","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-04-25T21:19:01Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AvrKhyBE_QsmsgXKQwlfxZQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1518,19,1351,167,41,209],"class_list":["post-42938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-alexa","tag-amazon","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-copyright","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42939,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42938\/revisions\/42939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}