Jacob Shamsian

@jayshams.bsky.social

Legal Correspondent at Business Insider. Author of zero books. Jayshams.substack.com

A couple of months ago, I learned about Taste Labs. It's a startup aiming at one of the most vexing issues in AI: How do you end slop and make AI-generated content *good*? And how would you even figure that out? For me, it raised another question: What does that mean for creative people?

A startup wants to replace human creativity. But first, it needs to eliminate slop.

A startup called Taste Labs hired creatives to teach AI what is good and what isn't. It raises the question, do we want AI to define what is great?

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NEW: As Steve Bannon filmed 15 hours of interviews with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the two texted about using an obscure legal maneuver. The maneuver could explain why the footage hasn't seen the light of day. 🔗 www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...

Steve Bannon discussed using an obscure legal tactic to join Jeffrey Epstein's legal team

The arrangement could explain why Steve Bannon's 15 hours of Jeffrey Epstein footage haven't seen the light of day.

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NEW: Harry Beller isn't one of the boldfaced names who can be found all over Jeffrey Epstein's social calendar and emails. But for years, the obscure accountant was entrusted with some of the most delicate parts of Epstein's financial life. www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...

Jeffrey Epstein's accountant of 22 years raised alarm bells at JPMorgan. Now Congress wants answers.

JPMorgan flagged Harry Beller's cash withdrawals on behalf of Epstein four times, documents show. Now Congress wants to know what he knows.

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Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Kathryn Ruemmler — the former top Obama White House lawyer and onetime Attorney General candidate and potential SCOTUS nominee, now the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs — was far deeper than previously known, emails show. 🧵 www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...

Top Goldman Sachs lawyer asked Jeffrey Epstein for career advice, bashed Trump, private emails show

Newly released emails show Kathryn Ruemmler, now Goldman's top lawyer and a former Obama official, maintained ties with Jeffrey Epstein for years.

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There are a ton of emails from Jeffrey Epstein's private jet pilot telling him that Donald Trump is screwing up his travel plans because Air Force One is flying out of Palm Beach and no other planes can get in the air

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NEW: Trump's SullCrom lawyers scored a win at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. They ordered a district court judge to reconsider whether appeals of Trump's criminal conviction should play out in federal — not state — courts.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown. Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.

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Robert Jackson — the former Supreme Court justice, Solicitor General, and Nazi war crimes prosecutor — gave a speech in 1940 titled "The Federal Prosecutor" that is considered a must-read for people who join the DOJ. This passage has been circulating a lot lately:

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