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Kat Geddes

@katgeddes.bsky.social

Postdoc @NYU Law and Cornell Tech. Writing about generative AI, copyright, and tech law >> katrinageddes.com

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Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Court says that its opinion is a one-off because of TikTok's scale, data-collection practices, and susceptibility to foreign manipulation, but all of the other major platforms are very big, collect the same data, and are susceptible to strong-arming by foreign authoritarians. /1

Derek Thompson@dkthomp.bsky.social · 2y ago

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y ago

Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature

A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...

nature.com

klaudia jaźwińska@klaudia.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ultimately, what we found is that ChatGPT search offers publishers the illusion of control. No publisher – regardless of degree of affiliation with OpenAI – was spared from inaccurate representations of its content. (7/9)

A table indicating the affiliation each of the publishers in our dataset have with OpenAI, whether the publisher’s content was accessible to OpenAI’s search crawler through their “robots.txt” file, and the accuracy of ChatGPT in referencing their content.
Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻@mrose.ink · 2y ago

One enduring complication with all this is that scraping happens all the time for reasons that people *don’t* find inherently objectionable, and in fact support—the Wayback Machine, all kinds of public health and extremism research, etc. The mistake was assuming that goodwill transfers.

Kat Geddes@katgeddes.bsky.social · 2y ago

The unauthorized removal of copyright management information (CMI) from copyrighted works as part of AI training (although a statutory violation) does not produce concrete harm sufficient for standing in the absence of dissemination: www.wired.com/story/opena-...

OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

A judge tossed out a case against OpenAI brought by Alternet and Raw Story, in what could be a significant ruling in the larger battle between AI companies and publishers.

wired.com

Kat Geddes@katgeddes.bsky.social · 2y ago

tldr: my job talk paper (see below) argues that if the "public benefit" of generative AI (see 4th fair use factor) is that it democratizes cultural production, then AI vendors should stop preventing users from engaging in fair uses of copyrighted works >> papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

How Art Became Posthuman: Copyright, AI, and Synthetic Media

In response to the threats posed by new copy-reliant technologies, copyright law often expands in scope. Frequently this results in overzealous rights enforceme

papers.ssrn.com

Kat Geddes@katgeddes.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today I deliberately crinkled a very loud plastic food wrapper for a very long time in a very quiet, open-plan office space to see how long my colleagues could last before finally tearing their eyes away from their screens to glare at me and the record was 4 minutes.