Graham Lovelace
@glovelace.bsky.social
Keynote speaker | Writer | Strategist | I chart the impacts of generative AI on human-made media. Subscribe: https://grahamlovelace.substack.com
🚨SIX AUTHORS including John Carreyrou, investigative reporter at The New York Times, are taking on the might of America’s AI establishment, accusing Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI and Perplexity of using pirated copies of their books to train LLMs. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/pulitzer-p...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and fellow writers sue AI giants accusing them of 'copyright theft'
Lawsuit takes aim at recent class actions saying they 'serve defendants, not creators'
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December 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🚨SIX AUTHORS including John Carreyrou, investigative reporter at The New York Times, are taking on the might of America’s AI establishment, accusing Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI and Perplexity of using pirated copies of their books to train LLMs. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/pulitzer-p...
🚨CREATOR GROUPS and their allies are calling on the UK government to make its intentions on AI and copyright clear, and drop its support for a copyright exception in favour of Big Tech. That story all the week’s key developments in Charting Gen AI. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/pressure-g...
Pressure grows on UK government to finally get off the fence on AI and copyright
#85 | Equity members back action over AI | Hollywood launches AI coalition | Animators raise Disney AI concerns | WaPo staffers voice AI podcast fears | Adobe sued over AI |✨AND: Another fine AI mess?
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December 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🚨CREATOR GROUPS and their allies are calling on the UK government to make its intentions on AI and copyright clear, and drop its support for a copyright exception in favour of Big Tech. That story all the week’s key developments in Charting Gen AI. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/pressure-g...
Thrilled to appear on BBC News’ AI Decoded to talk about AI and copyright. Find out why I believe the UK government's preferred option in a consultation on the future of copyright in the era of generative AI only received the support of 3% of respondents. Link to show: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
December 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Thrilled to appear on BBC News’ AI Decoded to talk about AI and copyright. Find out why I believe the UK government's preferred option in a consultation on the future of copyright in the era of generative AI only received the support of 3% of respondents. Link to show: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
🚨HUNDREDS OF ICONIC Disney characters are being licensed to Sora in a breakthrough deal struck today with the short-form video platform’s owner, OpenAI.
Full story and pithy analysis in Charting Gen AI's Quick Take. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/disney-str...
Full story and pithy analysis in Charting Gen AI's Quick Take. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/disney-str...
Disney strikes watershed licensing deal with OpenAI over short-form video platform Sora
In a joint statement OpenAI commits to ‘protecting the rights of creators’
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December 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🚨HUNDREDS OF ICONIC Disney characters are being licensed to Sora in a breakthrough deal struck today with the short-form video platform’s owner, OpenAI.
Full story and pithy analysis in Charting Gen AI's Quick Take. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/disney-str...
Full story and pithy analysis in Charting Gen AI's Quick Take. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/disney-str...
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Using Gen AI can really be brand damaging - as @glovelace.bsky.social points out in this piece at @auworks.bsky.social
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November 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Using Gen AI can really be brand damaging - as @glovelace.bsky.social points out in this piece at @auworks.bsky.social
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THE UK COULD be heading for a Hollywood 2023-style strike over actors’ AI protections. We have the full inside story in Charting Gen AI's Weekly Newsletter. Do subscribe!
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Performers' union Equity ballots members on potential strike action over AI protections
#83 | PLUS: The New York Times and Mediaset sue Perplexity | UK minister admits regulatory gap over lethal AI chatbots |✨AND: Luxury brand Valentino goes Christmas slopping with 'baffling' AI ad
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December 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
THE UK COULD be heading for a Hollywood 2023-style strike over actors’ AI protections. We have the full inside story in Charting Gen AI's Weekly Newsletter. Do subscribe!
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🚨Musk's latest model fails on the simplest of challenges, including maps, labelled diagrams, left-handed writers, clocks, glasses brimming with water, and darts! We took Grok 4.1 for a spin, and found it map-tacularly wrong! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/lets-have-...
Let's have fun ... with Grok 4.1! Musk's latest model fails on the simplest of challenges
We take the latest version of xAI's 'exceptionally capable' chatbot for a spin
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November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🚨Musk's latest model fails on the simplest of challenges, including maps, labelled diagrams, left-handed writers, clocks, glasses brimming with water, and darts! We took Grok 4.1 for a spin, and found it map-tacularly wrong! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/lets-have-...
🚨PRIVACY GROUPS, civil society organisations and rights campaigners are urging the European Commission to think again on plans to pause full implementation of Europe’s landmark AI legislation and dilute other digital laws. Full story and weekly round-up: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/campaigner...
Campaigners call on European Commission to ditch plans to pause AI Act and dilute digital laws
#80 | Sora 2 is 'inherently unsafe' | OpenAI loses landmark copyright ruling | Deezer: listeners can't spot AI music | TIME launches AI agent | LeCun to quit? |✨AND: AI snafu causes red faces at Dawn
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November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🚨PRIVACY GROUPS, civil society organisations and rights campaigners are urging the European Commission to think again on plans to pause full implementation of Europe’s landmark AI legislation and dilute other digital laws. Full story and weekly round-up: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/campaigner...
🚨CREATORS ARE celebrating after a court in Germany ruled that ChatGPT violates European copyright laws by reproducing lyrics used to train OpenAI’s generative models. Charting Gen AI has the full story with pithy analysis.
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Music rights group scores landmark legal victory in copyright battle with OpenAI
Composer tells Charting court's ruling is 'the best outcome we could have hoped for'
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November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🚨CREATORS ARE celebrating after a court in Germany ruled that ChatGPT violates European copyright laws by reproducing lyrics used to train OpenAI’s generative models. Charting Gen AI has the full story with pithy analysis.
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🚨GETTY IMAGES has broadly lost a landmark legal battle against Stability AI in a case that has major ramifications for UK creators seeking to enforce copyright over AI models trained overseas. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/blow-for-u...
Blow for UK copyright holders as High Court sides with Stability in Getty infringement claim
Getty calls for 'stronger transparency rules' so creators can protect their rights
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November 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🚨GETTY IMAGES has broadly lost a landmark legal battle against Stability AI in a case that has major ramifications for UK creators seeking to enforce copyright over AI models trained overseas. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/blow-for-u...
🚨CHARACTER.AI HAS banned under-18s access to chatbots that have been implicated in the deaths by suicide of US teens. The move has been welcomed by the lawyer calling for AI developers to be made more accountable, but she says more needs to be done.
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Character.ai announces under-18 ban on lethal chatbots but lawyer says 'more action is needed'
AI developer claims to be taking a 'bold step' following deaths by suicide of US teenagers
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October 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
🚨CHARACTER.AI HAS banned under-18s access to chatbots that have been implicated in the deaths by suicide of US teens. The move has been welcomed by the lawyer calling for AI developers to be made more accountable, but she says more needs to be done.
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🚨CREATOR GROUPS in Australia are celebrating after the government ruled out a copyright exception that would have allowed AI developers to train their generative models on creative content without the consent of rightsholders. Full story: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/creators-c...
Creators cheer as Australian government rules out copyright exception for AI developers
Attorney general backs creative sector as she launches consultation on copyright laws
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October 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
🚨CREATOR GROUPS in Australia are celebrating after the government ruled out a copyright exception that would have allowed AI developers to train their generative models on creative content without the consent of rightsholders. Full story: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/creators-c...
🚨CHARTING GEN AI's latest edition leads with the revelation that OpenAI is planning to allow a far less buttoned-down version of ChatGPT to engage in erotic conversations with what its technology judges to be adults. We have that full story, and much more!
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Altman teases 'eroticAI' having previously ruled out putting 'a sexbot avatar in ChatGPT'
#76 | PLUS: Newsom signs chatbot bill | Google UK could be forced to change AI Overviews | Apple faces another copyright lawsuit | Music chief makes AI pledge |✨AND: The world's first gen AI camera
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October 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
🚨CHARTING GEN AI's latest edition leads with the revelation that OpenAI is planning to allow a far less buttoned-down version of ChatGPT to engage in erotic conversations with what its technology judges to be adults. We have that full story, and much more!
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Great to talk #AI #Ethics and #Innovation with Roger Steare! We discuss the ethical dilemmas and potential for responsible AI development. #CHATROG
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AI's Hidden Truths: Graham Lovelace Exposes the Myths
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September 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Great to talk #AI #Ethics and #Innovation with Roger Steare! We discuss the ethical dilemmas and potential for responsible AI development. #CHATROG
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Then they came for the late night show hosts
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a late night show host
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a late night show host
September 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Then they came for the late night show hosts
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a late night show host
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a late night show host
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"The parents of a teenage boy who took his own life are suing OpenAI saying ChatGPT encouraged their son to plan his death — and even offered to draft a suicide note."
@glovelace.bsky.social details the claim.
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@glovelace.bsky.social details the claim.
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August 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
"The parents of a teenage boy who took his own life are suing OpenAI saying ChatGPT encouraged their son to plan his death — and even offered to draft a suicide note."
@glovelace.bsky.social details the claim.
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@glovelace.bsky.social details the claim.
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So wonderful we can fully trust on AI and those Tec bros who have the best of intentions 🥰 - what a marvelous future we will bring upon us /s
🚨Having been accused of causing the wrongful death of a teenage boy OpenAI says it’s working on a fix. Its blogpost makes no mention of a lawsuit’s claim that features within GPT-4o were “intentionally designed to foster psychological dependency”. Story: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/parents-ac...
Parents accuse OpenAI of encouraging wrongful death of son who died by suicide
#69 | PLUS: Trump threatens retaliatory tariffs | Tech site scraped 1.6 million times in a day | Anthropic settlement welcomed by N/MA | Netflix unveils AI policy |✨AND: Doh! Where's my pizza deal?
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August 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
So wonderful we can fully trust on AI and those Tec bros who have the best of intentions 🥰 - what a marvelous future we will bring upon us /s
🚨US president Donald Trump this week delivered an ultimatum to countries that dare to regulate Silicon Valley tech giants: drop your rules or face punitive tariffs and restricted access to American technology — including AI chips. Will copyright be next? grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/parents-ac...
August 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🚨US president Donald Trump this week delivered an ultimatum to countries that dare to regulate Silicon Valley tech giants: drop your rules or face punitive tariffs and restricted access to American technology — including AI chips. Will copyright be next? grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/parents-ac...
🚨Having been accused of causing the wrongful death of a teenage boy OpenAI says it’s working on a fix. Its blogpost makes no mention of a lawsuit’s claim that features within GPT-4o were “intentionally designed to foster psychological dependency”. Story: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/parents-ac...
Parents accuse OpenAI of encouraging wrongful death of son who died by suicide
#69 | PLUS: Trump threatens retaliatory tariffs | Tech site scraped 1.6 million times in a day | Anthropic settlement welcomed by N/MA | Netflix unveils AI policy |✨AND: Doh! Where's my pizza deal?
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August 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
🚨Having been accused of causing the wrongful death of a teenage boy OpenAI says it’s working on a fix. Its blogpost makes no mention of a lawsuit’s claim that features within GPT-4o were “intentionally designed to foster psychological dependency”. Story: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/parents-ac...
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Disappointment and hype: leading AI expert Maria Sukhareva on GPT-5’s big letdown.
August 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Disappointment and hype: leading AI expert Maria Sukhareva on GPT-5’s big letdown.
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Is the botched launch of GPT-5 an ‘emperor with no clothes’ moment? AI expert Maria Sukhareva doesn’t hold back!
August 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Is the botched launch of GPT-5 an ‘emperor with no clothes’ moment? AI expert Maria Sukhareva doesn’t hold back!
Is the botched launch of GPT-5 an ‘emperor with no clothes’ moment? AI expert Maria Sukhareva doesn’t hold back!
August 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Is the botched launch of GPT-5 an ‘emperor with no clothes’ moment? AI expert Maria Sukhareva doesn’t hold back!
Disappointment and hype: leading AI expert Maria Sukhareva on GPT-5’s big letdown.
August 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Disappointment and hype: leading AI expert Maria Sukhareva on GPT-5’s big letdown.
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August 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM