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Meta is facing an AI copyright lawsuit in France brought by authors and publishers who are accusing the company of economic “parasitism.” Read more at @Techcrunch. #Meta #Instagram #Facebook #AI #Copyright #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/mSO6-8
How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations
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When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.
https://www.propublica.org/article/using-ai-responsibly-for-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #AI #Tech #Journalism #Media #Research #Data #Technology
Microsoft's Xbox Copilot Will Act As an AI Gaming Coach - Microsoft is preparing to launch an AI-powered Copilot for Gaming soon that will g... - https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/03/13/1549238/microsofts-xbox-copilot-will-act-as-an-ai-gaming-coach?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
"Fascism: Here To Stay? How Do We End It?"
W/ #DavidShuster, an "Amped Up!" INTERVIEW w awesome historian/scholar on #authoritarianism, Ruth Ben-Ghiat!
https://www.blueamp.co/p/fascism-here-to-stay-how-do-we-end #politics #world #fascism #trump #us #usa #ai #donaldtrump #history #press #media #war #iran #israel #eu #tv #uk #russia #ukraine #middleeast #news
Newsletter: The real threat isn't AI using open knowledge — it's AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free. The future of free and open access isn't saying “wait, not like that” — it’s saying "yes, like that, but under fair terms”.
https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/
"A federal judge in California ruled Monday that Anthropic likely violated copyright law when it pirated authors’ books to create a giant dataset [...] but that training its AI on those books without authors' permission constitutes transformative fair use under copyright law. "
https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-training-ai-on-authors-books-is-legal-but-pirating-them-is-not/
Senators Demand Investigation Into Canceled VA Contracts, Citing “Damning Reporting From ProPublica”
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The senators are calling for a federal watchdog to investigate the Trump administration’s killing of hundreds of VA contracts. Among their concerns: ProPublica revealed DOGE used artificial intelligence to mark contracts as “munchable.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-veterans-affairs-ai-senator-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
"I promise you the myopic mook, #Bezos, doesn’t see the outrage of Venetians, Americans and the #world as regrettable. I’m sure it gives him the kinda dopamine high Elon needs to snort a Cybertruck to obtain. Jeff’s living his best #Trump life"
READ THE REST/SUBSCRIBE https://www.blueamp.co/p/billionaire-jeff-bezos-rented-venice #donaldtrump #politics #news #media #press #tech #tv #ai #stockmarket #usa #italy #us #america #eu #europe #unitedstates
“ProPublica’s reporting revealed these cancelled contracts were delivering essential services … and exposed the cruel and dumb AI formulas DOGE bros used to cancel contracts,” Sen. Blumenthal said. “Veterans and all Americans deserve transparency.”
#DOGE #Veterans #AI #Health #Government #Technology #Journalism #Transparency
Wait. Is this reading correct?
"Under current law, content produced entirely by AI immediately enters the public domain, allowing unrestricted commercial use."
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2025/03/20/ai-generated-works-are-public-domain-court-affirms/
Other news coverage:
"Because many of the Copyright Act's provisions make sense only if an author is a human being, the best reading of the Copyright Act is that human authorship is required for registration."
Got a website?
Feel like helping make unauthorized LLM scrapers choke on an infinite sea of garbage, potentially making their models collapse?
...Then take a look at:
https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
PS Do make sure to read the warnings, boost and have fun! 😈
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Thanks to @dlatchx for reminding me where to find this!
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"If you let workers believe that AI will soon replace them, they are going to try as much as they can to hold on to their jobs, do everything the boss says and behave so that they are not going to be fired."
https://restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-moderators-turkey/
(CW for brief references to the types of internet content moderators have to deal with.)
If you created a text corpus consisting only of true, declarative statements in English and trained a large language model on it, a generative AI system built with this trained LLM would still output false statements sometimes.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM
Several of my papers are in that LibGen database Meta used.
I feel a bunch of ways about it, but one way I feel is that it adds insult to injury. In all but two cases I was required to sign an onerous agreement to get the paper published, handing over rights to a publisher that is continuing to abuse this arrangement (in my view). I did that begrudgingly because I was early in my career and didn't think I had another option. Later I experimented with refusing to sign these agreements and publishers walked back the terms somewhat (I don't know if that's possible now).
I also feel that the Meta computer scientists responsible for this betrayed their own colleagues, which I find pretty scummy.
Anyway, I don't consent to any of this. It's been imposed on me and countless other authors.
#LibGen #meta #LLM #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI
I feel a bunch of ways about it, but one way I feel is that it adds insult to injury. In all but two cases I was required to sign an onerous agreement to get the paper published, handing over rights to a publisher that is continuing to abuse this arrangement (in my view). I did that begrudgingly because I was early in my career and didn't think I had another option. Later I experimented with refusing to sign these agreements and publishers walked back the terms somewhat (I don't know if that's possible now).
I also feel that the Meta computer scientists responsible for this betrayed their own colleagues, which I find pretty scummy.
Anyway, I don't consent to any of this. It's been imposed on me and countless other authors.
#LibGen #meta #LLM #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI
"The new feature would likely be an unwelcome one for users who would rather keep comments AI-free on Instagram, especially those who believe their friends deserve genuine comments as opposed to AI slop."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-spotted-testing-ai-generated-comments-on-instagram/
#news #technology #TechNews #meta #instagram #SocialMedia #AI #slop
We were given a prompt as an invitation to participate in this newsletter: “How are you using AI in the classroom?” While we have accepted this invitation, we are engaging in the most humanistic act we can imagine—refusing the prompt.
A nice articulation of why "incorporating AI" in the classroom is detrimental to education and learning, inducing longterm costs that no perceived benefit of doing so could outweigh.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT #education #pedagogy
💰 Spain is done with AI slop and disinfo
｢ The Spanish bill, which needs to be approved by the lower house, classifies non-compliance with proper labelling of AI-generated content as a "serious offence" that can lead to fines of up to 35 million euros ($38.2 million) or 7% of their global annual turnover ｣
It suddenly struck me the other day that generative AI used in government and media has a very Memoirs Found in a Bathtub quality about it. One of the premises of Lem's (amazing) novel is that paper disintegrates for unknown reasons, leaving very few hard records of anything. The book is a mock diary of a person who lived through the disorienting chaos that ensued.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #tech #dev #StanislawLem #fiction #SciFi #ScienceFiction #cybernetics
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #tech #dev #StanislawLem #fiction #SciFi #ScienceFiction #cybernetics
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Nothing is more valuable than a clear-headed understanding of which particular lies are most likely to succeed in the present environment, and which are just evanescent byproducts of the generally mendacious atmosphere. Dodge the decoys, save the right kind of energy to counter the real blows. Turning up the heat in lamenting the current crisis risks mistaking a mere mirage for a more substantial threat.
I found this to be an excellent and orienting read for anyone concerned about the US right now.
While folks are understandably worried about this administration, which has already inflicted significant harms, it's important to stay level headed and aligned with the actual facts and truths. That's our primary defense against what's happening which, as Arendt argued in the 1970s, hinges on a process of defactualization. Shouting "fascism!" and drawing analogies with the Nazis, as this essay argues, is going too far, turning up the heat about a mirage. Much as we wish they'd do better--and they could do better--in point of fact we do still have a functioning judicial system and media ecosystem, and there are significant numbers of people, including politicians and judges, fully willing to challenge every lie the administration emits. As dangerous as these times are we are nowhere near as far along the authoritarian trajectory as shouting "fascism!" makes it sound, and we should really stop doing that. Doing so grants bluffs and bluster more power than it actually has, which is ultimately a form of surrender. We should recognize our own strength and save it for real threats.
This is one of many reasons why I relentlessly call BS on generative AI and the claims about it coming out of the technology sector. There is a defactualization process at work there that plays into the broader political one; some of the individuals enacting this defactualization in tech are personally involved in doing the same in the federal government. If you've been watching you probably know some of their names and the companies they came from. Generative AI is itself a defactualization machine; that's one of its primary appeals to this crew.
Dodge the decoys and save your energy for the real blows.
#USPol #HannahArendt #authoritarianism #despair #tech #dev #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvm1dyp9v2o
Oof
A copywriter talks about how her employment is changing
Now her job is helping companies recover from #AI drek they deployed on their websites. She frequently needs to rewrite the whole website
So our future is not employment to write copy/ code, but clean up AI disaster zones
It's the standard "broken window" problem in economics (the notion that breaking things stimulates the economy, but you're wasting your time treading water rather than making progress)
After Microsoft laid off 9000 employees, Xbox producer Matt Turnbull suggested affected workers use AI to “reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss”
#microsoft #xbox #gaming #tech #ai #layoffs #enshittification #dystopia
Okay, Ai did alright.
I've been thinking about when to use #Ai, and how to use it as a tool to improve my work while not de-skilling me, or outputting crap.
I have a #Golang web app, which has handler, sql, api logic, for some types. Ai works really well using the existing architecture setup as a template/model for adding similar functionality for a new type.
"Add meta tag handlers to display a page of blog posts that have the specified tag"
The actual prompt was more comprehensive.
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Gentoo Linux's AI policy forbids any content, including code, created with LLMs, for contributions to official Gentoo projects due to copyright, quality, and ethical concerns.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy
In the age of batshit AI companies like Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others, a few opensource projects are making the correct call. Can Linux foundation also ban LLM?
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