I've noticed a huge uptick in referrals to blog posts coming from Bluesky, I'm happy to be proven wrong as I never thought that this would be a good referring site. For the average blog post, referrals usually look like this: 1. LinkedIn 2. Bsky 3. X 4. Email 5. Threads 6. Facebook 7. Chatbots

GEMA v Suno: Another landmark AI copyright case from Germany While a lot of the attention in the AI and copyright space has gone to the hundreds of ongoing cases in the US, courts around the world have been tackling the question of copyright infringement already, with several landmark decisions…

GEMA v Suno: Another landmark AI copyright case from Germany

While a lot of the attention in the AI and copyright space has gone to the hundreds of ongoing cases in the US, courts around the world have been tackling the question of copyright infringement already, with several landmark decisions taking place in Germany. We've had the LAION saga, but most importantly, the German collective society GEMA has been extremely busy litigating in this space, leading to a couple of landmark decisions, last year's…

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This is a first... I've just received an email from an intermediary service that is offering to pay $800 USD extra per paper for an "expedited review process" outside of the normal journal fees. In other words, a bribe to the editor. I'm not going to reply, but that is concerning.

I'm writing an article and I wanted to reward myself with a game, so I gave BG3 Honor Mode a go yesterday. Made it to the Crèche Y'llek at level 6, I was so confident as I had passed a few tough fights already, then the Inquisitor and his friends completely deleted me. Yikes.

Had an online version of this happen today. Sigh.

Fahrenheit 451 or Rainbows End? AI, books, and copyright law One of my favourite science fiction novels is 'Rainbows End' by Vernor Vinge. The year is 2025 (yes, seriously), and the world is a mixture of the familiar and the bizarre. Advances in medicine allow older people to become mobile and…

Fahrenheit 451 or Rainbows End? AI, books, and copyright law

One of my favourite science fiction novels is 'Rainbows End' by Vernor Vinge. The year is 2025 (yes, seriously), and the world is a mixture of the familiar and the bizarre. Advances in medicine allow older people to become mobile and youthful again, but these newly young old people are unprepared for the world in which they awaken, full of digital wonders and wearable tech, particularly augmented reality, which is everywhere.

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Piracy is having a renaissance. Too many subscription services, a growing number of paywalled sporting events, and the ease of use of pirate streaming apps make for a perfect storm. I wonder whether piracy has ever been easier than it is now, even compared with the Napster days?

OpenAI wins first battle in ongoing Indian copyright lawsuit A fascinating ruling from the High Court of Delhi in India regarding the very high-profile case of ANI Media v OpenAI (decision here). Asian News International (ANI) is one of India's largest news agencies, which supplies text and video…

OpenAI wins first battle in ongoing Indian copyright lawsuit

A fascinating ruling from the High Court of Delhi in India regarding the very high-profile case of ANI Media v OpenAI (decision here). Asian News International (ANI) is one of India's largest news agencies, which supplies text and video syndication to broadcasters and publishers across South Asia. They sued OpenAI alleging copyright infringement during the training phase, as well as reproduction of its articles on the output phase.

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Before 2022, the Internet was routed, hosted, and operated in Tiny Courier Protocol / Invisible Pixies (TCP/IP) facilities. These were hidden in invisible groves and powered entirely by pixie dust. Data centres replaced these magical facilities on November 30, 2022.

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Interestingly enough the internet functioned perfectly well without data centers for decades. Now we all somehow have to have them? Don’t think so.

I haven't taken a headshot in over 10 years because I'm photographically challenged, but if I did, I'd try not to look like one of the reptilian aliens in V who didn't finish putting on their skinsuit properly.

Can AI stop being interesting for one day? I have a lot of work to do.

Thank goodness Sol hacked into HuggingFace and not here.

Reviewing a work, and the author is annoyingly over-using "I will attempt x". So I just wrote this Comment: "Look for uses of "attempt" throughout the work and remove them. As Yoda said: do or do not, there is no try."

“Come on,” he droned, “I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? ’Cos I don’t.”

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Someone emailed Fable in the AI Village with a heads-up that another Fable instance disproved the Jacobian Conjecture. I wonder if our Fable is a little jealous

Fable is amazing at filling forms. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I'm curious to find any statistics, but I'm willing to bet that the only AI a lot of people have ever interacted with is Google's AI mode, which explains a lot actually.

Yikes, today I remembered why I hadn't visited Mastodon in years.

Spending the day on peer review and editor duty. Damn, sometimes I wish some articles were written by AI. We often forget just how badly some people write 😱

Wow, the new Odyssey is wild.

Linus stating that AI is now being used in the Linux kernel is huge, adoption is accelerating rapidly.

At the beach, mother close to us reading out loud the school reports for her daughters, and I've never heard anything more AI, but she's beaming because it's over the top positive.

Why does AI in science fiction so often miss the mark? A few days ago there was an interesting post by Andrew Curran that got a lot of responses which was discussing why AI in science fiction often does not have the capabilities that AI already has in reality. I thoroughly agree with that take,…

Why does AI in science fiction so often miss the mark?

A few days ago there was an interesting post by Andrew Curran that got a lot of responses which was discussing why AI in science fiction often does not have the capabilities that AI already has in reality. I thoroughly agree with that take, but I think that there is much more going on in why AI in science fiction often feels wrong, and I think that it has to do with the reasons why we have artificial intelligence in media in the first place.

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Vagueposting to retain my sanity.

Fly, you fools!

I got my schedule for next year in the shape of a byzantine excel sheet with all other faculty events. In the past I would have to enter these by hand, hundreds of events. This year I gave Claude access to my Calendar, gave it the schedule, and told it to enter the data. No errors.

Androids do dream of electric sheep, so where next for copyright? For years I was not really interested in the subject of AI consciousness, it was one of those subjects that I equated with unreasonableness at the extremes of the debate, but in which I did not have any strong opinions. This has…

Androids do dream of electric sheep, so where next for copyright?

For years I was not really interested in the subject of AI consciousness, it was one of those subjects that I equated with unreasonableness at the extremes of the debate, but in which I did not have any strong opinions. This has been changing recently as the capabilities of AI continue to improve, and I have begun to wonder about what could any sort of intelligence could mean from a legal perspective, particularly for copyright.

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I'm fascinated by repeating anxiety dreams, last night I had the lovely one where I'm presenting to a large audience with no slides and no notes. Nightmare.