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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/
Just launched https://TheBeautifulPrison.com — #fiction and #essays exploring #consciousness, #identity, and remaining yourself under pressure.
Four #stories: an #LLM trapped in vintage hardware, #vampires learning restraint is #love, forest beings choosing self over dissolution. Two essays on #AI consciousness and honest critical engagement.
AI-assisted. Grounded in #Objectivist #philosophy taking individual consciousness seriously.
The recursive tension—writing about identity with AI—is the point.
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It seems like most every other browser is all in on AI. We have chosen a different path at @Vivaldi
If you would prefer AI not to be integrated into your browser, but still like a feature rich browser, I welcome you to try Vivaldi.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/
#vivaldi #AI #LLM #browser #firefox #Mozilla #Linux #windows #Macos
Before the automobile industry invented the catalytic converter, the costs of reducing air pollution seemed astronomical, enough to bankrupt the entire industry. After they invented the catalytical converter, the costs were manageable. And they only invented it because they were faced with the threat of being shut down.
From Is Climate Change An Externality
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #law #copyright #pollution #climate #innovation
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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
A must read article about #AI detection tools and how #ableist those are, and the very negative effects it has against #neurodivergent persons like #Autistics and #ADHD.
Teachers must especially read this!
https://blog.ewancroft.uk/3m6njxcynds2n
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #AutisticActually #AuDHD #education
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
𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 & 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞: 𝐌𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 "𝐍𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠" 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐠𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫:
"Robert Jackson, Harry Truman, held men in custody who exterminated over 12 million civilians in camps, tens of millions more in a war of aggression.
They wished for a better world, so they tried the monsters in a court of law. #Hegseth saw smugglers (?) and couldn’t bother to capture or try them. Then when he had the success using bombs he’s had using #Signal, he returned to ensure the slaughter.
“ #Nuremberg” isn't a historical footnote with men in gray suits. It's a film about the moment we decided: civilization doesn’t survive if we let murder become policy. And if we don’t enforce it, there will always be more Pete Hegseths."
https://www.blueamp.co/p/we-tried-nazis-hegseth-bombs-survivors #usa #news #venezuela #boatbombings #warcrimes #war #unitedstates #us #crimesagainsthumanity #america #eu #russia #ukraine #europe #nato #tech #tv #ai #donaldtrump #trump #law #economy #culture #media #press #movies
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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