Was the court in Rylands v. Fletcher also talking about escaped AI?

Human creativity vs. AI generation - if a song has to be "substantially human made" to be on the charts, that would inevitably give rise to litigating the same kind of question one has seen in AI author/inventor cases like Thaler.

The Verge@theverge.com · 5d ago

To be eligible for the charts, songs would have to be ‘substantially human made,’ whatever that means. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Nudified deepfake victims in suit against xAI can remain anonymous internetcases.com/2026/07/31/n...

Nudified deepfake victims in suit against xAI can remain anonymous

Jane Doe and three other women sued defendant xAI alleging that the company's Grok chatbot generated non-consensual nude and sexually explicit images of them. Plaintiffs claimed the deepfakes caus

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Interesting connection between a licensing deal and web traffic - "Google’s deployment of AI summaries appears to be peeling away audience share from Reddit," and thus Reddit is "not sure whether it will renew the [2024 content] partnership with the search giant." techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/r...

Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI's impact | TechCrunch

Reddit's financial situation is looking good but uncertainty about its relationship to Google and the new AI-ified web are stirring market concerns.

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TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 6d ago

Reddit's financial situation is looking good but uncertainty about its relationship to Google and the new AI-ified web are stirring market concerns.

We see indications every day that there is pushback against the lowering of the quality of the online experience, having been flooded with AI slop the past 3 years. These acts by LinkedIn are one such indication. It's as if there's something winsome about the "organic" web of human-created content.

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 6d ago

LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.

This defamation case had an interesting outcome because the court essentially held that if you're openly vengeful enough, people won't mistake your accusations for factual defamatory claims. internetcases.com/2026/07/29/d...

Defendant’s obvious bias helped her win a defamation case

Plaintiff Lichfield sued defendants Kubler and Netflix for defamation after Kubler released a three-part Netflix documentary about her experience at a troubled-teen boarding school. The documentary

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This data would seem to support the notion that there is some real satisfaction in still doing things manually that one could automate. Like how there is something appealing about content you know is not AI slop, there is a feeling of traction in actually performing some tasks as part of work.

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · last wk.

While AI sees some significant use across a wide variety of occupations, that use “remains shallow and overwhelmingly collaborative in nature, with end-to-end task automation limited in scope.”

It's unnerving to trust AI with "content categorization" because that's where rubber meets road on the question of encoding morals and ethics and therefore bias into a system.

Daphne Keller@daphnek.bsky.social · last wk.

When I talk about middleware or decentralized/interoperable social media these days, I always talk about how AI is lowering barriers to entry by bringing down the cost of content moderation. Here is Dave Willner's explanation of an affordable, flexible, open source tool for doing that.

Social media use of competitor product photos supported unfair competition claim internetcases.com/2026/07/27/s...

Social media use of competitor product photos supported unfair competition claim

Plaintiff sued defendant for trademark infringement after defendant terminated a manufacturing agreement and began selling inflatable paint booths that allegedly copied plaintiff's distinctive des

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