Did a Munich court just open a legal can of worms for AI companies? Traditionally, internet platforms and search providers like Google have been legally insulated from the content that their platforms display. If they provide a link via a search to a website that had defamatory content or obscenities, they are protected in the…
As AI project failures appear increasingly in the press, a less reported consequence is that insurance companies are starting to exclude AI from their policies. The Financial Times reports that large insurance companies including AIG, Great American and WR Berkley are limiting their liability for AI agents and chatbots. In one case, the proposed policy,…
As generative artificial intelligence (AI) flooded into the public consciousness in late 2022, corporations wrestled with how best to utilise and control it at work. Initial hopes of productivity improvements were tempered by the realisation that the public chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude were executing prompts on their servers. This content, which at work could…
In August 2025 it was revealed in the press that a report produced by Deloitte for the Australian government contained several entirely fabricated citations to articles and books that do not exist, other than in the fevered hallucinations of generative AI. The report, costing taxpayers AU$439,000, was presumably not offered at a substantial discount to…
The 26th of August 2025 may end up being quite a significant day when the definitive history book of AI is published. I had written previously about the unresolved issue of copyright associated with the training of large language models (LLMs), which underlie the generative AI technologies like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and also the…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a major impact on the creative arts. This does not just apply to books and articles, but also to artistic images, music and video. Large language models (LLMs), the underlying basis of generative AI, are capable of writing a poem, a song or an essay, and generating an image, cartoon…
All generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity are based on artificial neural networks that are trained on huge amounts of data, such as text or images. The large language models (LLMs) that underlie this technology are voracious in their need to ingest training data in massive quantities. Some of the…
Artificial intelligence has been on everyone’s lips in the last couple of years, ever since ChatGPT racked up 100 million users in record time (just two months) after its release in November 2022. Based on large language model (LLM) technology, the latest in AI could generate convincing content quickly (“generative AI”), from school essays to…