How conservatives learned to stop worrying and love the nanny state

This is a use case for AI of which I heartily approve www.wired.com/story/ai-is-...

AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals

Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.

wired.com

I'm glad I no longer teach in a state that has fallen under the control of the American Taliban and its censors www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas

The state now controls what professors can teach.

theatlantic.com

We have met the enemy and he is us. WALT KELLY

Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social · 3d ago

Trump is creating a special task force to encourage killing seals! "Sec. 7. Managing Predators. (a) To address the rising rates of shark and pinniped depredation, the Secretary shall establish an Interagency Shark and Pinniped Depredation Task Force." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Trump is creating a special task force to encourage killing seals! "Sec. 7. Managing Predators. (a) To address the rising rates of shark and pinniped depredation, the Secretary shall establish an Interagency Shark and Pinniped Depredation Task Force." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

RESTORING AMERICAN SALTWATER ANGLING AND RECREATION

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and Every child deserves a safe and nurturing hom...

whitehouse.gov

The United States continues to shoot itself in the foot by telling the best and brightest students from around the world they aren't welcome here. The damage may be permanent if the best students and inventors decide they'd rather be somewhere else. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Probes Harvard, Yale and Stanford Over Scholar Exchange Visas

The Trump administration is launching investigations into the use of foreign exchange visa programs at nine top colleges including Harvard University, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institu...

bloomberg.com

This is actually a great idea because now I will be able to identify the biggest effing morons in everyday life, including work.

Gonna be really funny if he forces OpenAI to become OpenSI

Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social · 3d ago

To be fair, ANY form of intelligence is an enemy to Trump 

This is just the dumbest shit I've ever seen. It's like if he said "anyone who calls positively charged particles 'protons' as opposed to the new more accurate term 'neutrons'" is an enemy!!

Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social · 3d ago

To be fair, ANY form of intelligence is an enemy to Trump 

New rule: don't be mean to the AIs www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude

The usage policy update also adds new rules addressing propaganda campaigns, surveillance, and weapon development.

theverge.com

To be fair, ANY form of intelligence is an enemy to Trump 

A teaser for my public lecture on Copyright and Generative AI in Auckland next week. www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2026...

A reminder that Republicans under Trump do NOT care about America and would be happy to watch millions of Americans die www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump suggests Iran could ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San Diego

Gavin Newsom calls comments ‘deranged and dangerous’ after president tells Nebraska rally: ‘They can take out a city’

theguardian.com

Microsoft Word suggests replacing all references to "tarnishment cases" with "garnishment cases" and now I'm imagining what havoc AI could wreak with trademark law

Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)

My Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic is hiring a new teaching fellow! If you find joy in iPIP work; share our enthusiasm for collaborating; and demonstrate creativity through your work—maybe it could be you? Apply by the end of the month: apply.interfolio.com/194762 Share broadly!

The centrist/non-partisan talking shops that have popped up lately like mushrooms are attacking the wrong thing. America isn't suffering from "polarization." It's suffering from right-wing radicalization against pluralism and democracy. Here's a great explainer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwW9...

Forget about "polarization"; the real problem with American politics is the radicalized right-wing

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

youtube.com

Here is a (more) accessible summary of my new work with A. Feder Cooper and others expanding memorization research from verbatim extraction of content from AI models to include extraction of works that are similar but not identical afedercooper.info/near-verbatim/

How much more extraction risk do we find when we count near-verbatim cases?

Measuring near-verbatim probabilistic extraction reveals significantly more extraction risk than its verbatim counterpart.

afedercooper.info

The Thomson v. ROSS Intelligence opinion is now published, and it mostly does no harm. In particular, it doesnt rule on AI training in general or on the market dilution theory. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#214 in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc (3rd Cir., 25-2153) – CourtListener.com

PRECEDENTIAL OPINION. Coram: RESTREPO, MONTGOMERY-REEVES and BOVE, Circuit Judges. Total Pages: 32. Authoring Judge: Montgomery-Reeves (SB) [Entered: 09/30/2026 12:28 PM]

storage.courtlistener.com

how do you kill RSS and believe you're a good guy.

for posterity, the output I got after writing "play minecraft" in the america.gov chatbot window

Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social · 2w ago

WTAF? This is a real thing (just type "play Minecraft" at America.gov

Here, I fixed it for you: "Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because it wants the exclusive power to sell your content to AI bots"

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 2w ago

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

#RatepayerProtectionAct

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2w ago

US Senate blocks legislation to cap electricity bill increases tied to data centers

WTAF? This is a real thing (just type "play Minecraft" at America.gov

America.gov

Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.

america.gov

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 2w ago

Uhhhhhhhh

With @marklemley.bsky.social and others, we developed a novel and efficient approach for measuring verbatim memorization in LLMs (via extraction in outputs). There are a lot of findings and takeaways, so I'll only cover a few of them (briefly):

Working with @marklemley.bsky.social et al. has been a career highlight. It's a privilege to have our papers referenced in research, litigation, policy, and the press. I'm grateful others acknowledge our work as setting the standard for rigorous empirical research on copyright and generative AI.

The Supreme Court majority once again demonstrates it has no understanding of (or perhaps just no interest in following) the law of stays. "Sure, kill and torture a bunch of innocent people while we decide whether doing so is legal" is NOT how stays are supposed to work. 1/2

"The Party insisted that you defy the evidence of your own eyes..." www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

DoorDash driver shot by ICE in Texas is charged with assaulting officers

Wilber Garcés Pérez is accused of striking an agent with his rear-view mirror before he was arrested with a bullet near his spine

the-independent.com

One thing to be said for the Third Circuit's one-line decision in Thomson v. ROSS Intelligence is that at least they didn't make bad law on AI copyright