Not many seemed to notice but what was probably meant to be a WIN for artist's rights in the US Office of Copyright has solved some fundamental issues for the community. In our recent article I outline how Companies like Suno, OpenAI, Midjourney etc can no longer claim any right to copy your work that you create with their platforms We also look at other ways this study and new rules for AI will fundamentally effect creators who use it and companies incentives to give them control over certain aspects might change because of this. it's broken down pretty well here: https://huggingface.co/blog/fuzzy-mittenz/copyright-in-ai
I recently released PrAIvateSearch v2.0-beta.0 (https://github.com/AstraBert/PrAIvateSearch), my privacy-first, AI-powered, user-centered and data-safe application aimed at providing a local and open-source alternative to big AI search engines such as SearchGPT or Perplexity AI.
We have several key changes:
- New chat UI built with NextJS - DuckDuckGo API used for web search instead of Google - Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct as a language model served on API (by FastAPI) - Crawl4AI crawler used for web scraping - Optimizations in the data workflow inside the application