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Anyone offering opinions on whether AI reconstruction of text from a bunch of statistical weights is a violation of copyright, should first write an essay explaining their thinking in the context of the Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance affair
2025/07/23
A nuanced “Global South” take by @nwbrownboi re: LibGen, Copyright & AI + contrast from @greg_jenner & @prof_alice_roberts (all Threads) HT @dsearls
2025/03/24
Copium & Puerversiveness: when geeks aren’t as clever as they think they are
2025/02/06
Honestly can’t tell if Civil Society believes that copyright-breaking LibGen & SciHub are rebel heroes or piratical villains
2025/02/06
Essay: “Securing Model Weights” considered pointless | Lessons learned from (failed) protection of the Unix source code, et al…
2025/01/30
Media is flooded with complaints about AIs being trained on images or text & roughly reproducing them; meanwhile in the (human) music industry for the past 100 years…
2024/12/24
Somewhere in the world someone is using an LLM to read, arrange, and produce rough-cut songs direct from out-of-copyright sheet music
2024/04/26
Microsoft going big in Japan on AI Infrastructure
2024/04/10
Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints | WIRED
2024/03/12
Nineteen Eighty Pooh
2024/01/15
The reason why armchair (and professional) lawyers who want to argue the Open AI vs: New York Times copyright lawsuit, should look towards the Dead Sea Scrolls…
2023/12/29
A Short Twitter-Thread on Scraping, Copyright, and Licensing, touching on Derivative Use, and LLMs / OpenAI / ChatGPT, etc…
2023/04/02