In this episode, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Leena Reghunath are joined by Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri and independent journalist Sowmiya Ashok. 

On the AI copyright battle between Indian news organisations and OpenAI, Dhanya says, “This is not the first time. We are seeing a lot of litigation like this across the world. The New York Times and others have gone to court over this.” Leena adds that NYT and its newsroom “diligently and painstakingly put content together with significant monetary investment. But AI is saying that this is all fair use.” 

Abhinandan says, “The catch-22 situation is when American AI companies accuse the Chinese, saying that your model has copied our model. Then the question is, how did you become what you became?”

As the conversation shifts to Tamil Nadu’s latest archaeological discovery that challenges the world’s Iron Age timeline, Sowmiya says,  “This iron was found in the Harappan areas, and then we find it in southern India as well. So, were these two settlements communicating, or was there some movement between the two? it just seems very exciting that in this part of the region of India, there seems to have been some incredible technology at one point.”

Abhinandan adds, “There is so much other scientific research that needs to be done, which doesn't get any money. Sixty percent funding has been allocated for cow dung and urine startups. The question is, what does the government choose to fund? Is it giving it to collect cow piss and sell it in bottles, or are they investing in  excavations which have scientific robustness the world over?  I think that is where politics enters – what is a priority, and the boast.”

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00:00:00:00 - Announcements

00:01:24:00 - Introduction

00:02:44:00 - Headlines

00:14:13:00 - Indian media sues OpenAI

00:41:01:00 - TN Iron Age discovery

01:01:02:00 - Letters

01:08:29:00 - Recommendations

References

Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, 17 others booked for caste discrimination

‘Cannot fight anymore’: says rape-murder victim’s father after SC acquits techie’s killer

Indian media houses file lawsuit against OpenAI over copyright violations

Microsoft Probes if DeepSeek-Linked Group Obtained OpenAI Data

All you need to know: Why is Australia fighting against Google and Facebook on behalf of news publishers

Nobel Minds 2024

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement

Nature | Patient sues for title to own cells 

S3 E9 Geoff Hinton, the "Godfather of AI", quits Google to warn of AI risks 

A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit.

Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus

We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan

Excavation findings show iron age in TN dates back 4200 years: All you need to know

Antiquity of Iron 

BishopAccountability

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Spotlight 

Spotlight, the movie: A personal view

75 years of Supreme Court of India 

Dhanya Rajendran 

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