Ed Newton-Rex

Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies. The UK government is considering upending copyright law to benefit AI companies. Don’t Steal This Book urges them not to. Apart from the list of authors involved, the book is empty, representing the effect the government’s plans would have on authors' livelihoods. We're handing out 1,000 free copies at London Book Fair over the next couple of days. If you’re there, pick up a copy! A huge thank you to the thousands of authors involved. Read more here: theguardian.com/technology/202… #DontStealThisBook

@NandoDF I read it, but it doesn't answer the question. Are you saying you only train on (i) public domain / CC images and (ii) images you have licensed?

The grok answer addresses your question about public licenses. I'd like to emphasise that the photographs that we purchase are essential to generate high quality artistic images. Now more than ever, photographers can profit by selling their images to companies like ours or many startups.

playground.microsoft.ai is now available in the USA and soon all over the world. Today we unveil our image generation models. Soon everyone will have access to many more models to play with in our playground. Enjoy! Wanna help build these models? JoinAITeam@microsoft.com - In particular, I'm looking for exceptional data, research and infra engineers.

@NandoDF Thank you! What does ‘legally available data’ mean?

@ednewtonrex Legally available data and licensed data. For us trust is important.

@AndersHjemdahl @ACEStudio_en @ACEStudio_en can you confirm?

@ednewtonrex @ACEStudio_en Hopefully the training data contains as much music as possible made throughout as much of history as possible.

ACE Studio Video Composer doesn’t just generate tracks. It analyzes your scenes, cuts, and motion to create synced music & SFX on a full timeline. It’s like an AI audio assistant that builds your soundtrack and gives you fully editable clips. Download: acestudio.ai 🚀

AI is going to make a lot of people feel poorer, not richer.

The Green Party just came out strongly in favour of creatives in their battle against exploitation by AI companies. They urge the government to commit to not weakening copyright law. With Labour still considering a new copyright exception to benefit AI developers, this is fantastic to see. greenparty.org.uk/2026/03/19/dep…

@AndrewCurran_ @carlfranzen good riddance to a terrible plan tbh

The UK government has changed its position on allowing AI to train on copyrighted works and now no longer supports allowing training with an opt-out option. The government 'no longer has a preferred option' for what to do next, and has committed to no new plan.

@AndrewCurran_ “However, this decline may also be driven by other significant factors, including compute availability and energy costs.”

From the second report (they did two): 'In recent years, the proportion of "notable models" developed by UK-based companies has declined from around 11% in 2010–14 to around 3% in 2020–24, and to 0% in 2025.'

@mustafasuleyman @arena What’s the training data?

Our new image generator MAI-Image-2 is out! Available now on MAI Playground for everything from lifelike realism to detailed infographics. Our team has been pushing immensely hard for this release, and we are now among the top models out there: #3 family on @arena. Check out the details in our blog: microsoft.ai/news/introduci… It's shipping soon in Copilot and Bing Image Creator, as well as Microsoft Foundry. Really proud of our progress on models and products - stay tuned for new releases and come join us on our Superintelligence mission!

Just the Labour Party posting AI slop

@higgsfield not sure, but i bet it uses other people’s work without permission

We're about to drop something game-changing today... 🤫 Can you guess what it is? 👀

A good day

There’s misleading info circulating about yesterday’s UK government update on AI & copyright. It’s good but not great. Good: gov no longer officially supports a copyright exception with creatives having to opt out Bad: changing copyright law is still on the table More detail:

@InSpatio_AI What's the training data?

We don’t generate videos. 🎬 We generate worlds from videos. 🌍 Introducing InSpatio-World — the world's first open-source real-time 4D world model‼️ Your input: a video clip Our output: a dynamic, navigable, persistent world 🕹️ explore freely across viewpoints ⏪ control time forward and backward 🔓 open-source and ready to build on :) Live demo: 🔗 world.inspatio.com Code & weights: 🔗 github.com/inspatio/inspa… Project page: 🔗 inspatio.github.io/inspatio-world

@runwayml @nvidia @NVIDIAGTC What's the training data?

A breakthrough in real-time video generation. As a research preview developed with @NVIDIA and shared at @NVIDIAGTC this week, we trained a new real-time video model running on Vera Rubin. HD videos generate instantly, with time-to-first-frame under 100ms. Unlocking an entirely new creative paradigm and bolstering the foundations of our General World Model, GWM-1. Real-time generation opens a fundamentally different design space for video models and world simulation. We're investing in co-designing our models alongside advances in hardware to keep pushing this frontier.

@openart_ai What's the training data?

Today, we’re launching a new way to create with AI. With OpenArt Worlds, you can generate a fully navigable 3D environment from a single prompt or image, step inside it, and capture shots exactly the way you envision them. No more starting over. No more inconsistent scenes. You build the world once - and create inside it. • Move through your scene freely • Find your angles • Add characters and elements • Capture production-ready shots

The artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency industries spent big and lost often in this week’s Illinois primaries, an early setback for technology firms that are trying to reshape the midterm elections. bit.ly/4rAjxXx

BMG Sues Anthropic, Entering AI Copyright Battlefield: ‘Egregious Law-Breaking’ billboard.com/pro/bmg-ai-son…