The recent history of AI in 32 otters
Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals
#AIArt
The recent history of AI in 32 otters
Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals
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Secret chatbot use causes workplace rifts
Why workers say they hide their AI use
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/29/secret-chatgpt-workplace
#AI #Work
Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage
#IP #Law
Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
All the ways I want the AI debate to be better
#AI
All the ways I want the AI debate to be better
Ground truths, useful rules, ideas I'd like taken seriously, and a rant
Students in Advanced Computational Fields Are Accelerated Early Adapters of Generative AI Technology
https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/students-in-advanced-computational-fields-are-accelerated-early-adapters-of-generative-ai-technology/
#AI #Academia
Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable
“So, I think people should have clear, easy to use ways of saying, no, I don’t. I want out of this. But I think expecting the industry, technologically or otherwise, to preemptively ask before they even start training — I just don’t see. I’m afraid that just collides with the physics of the technology itself.”
#AI #UK #Copyright
Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable
The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would ‘kill’ the industry
Data Commons Can Save Open AI
https://thenewstack.io/data-commons-can-save-open-ai/
#AI #LLM #Data #OpenSource
EU Will Work on Setting Water Use Caps for Thirsty Data Centers
#EU #Water #Datacenters
Energy Connects
EU Will Work on Setting Water Use Caps for Thirsty Data Centers
The European Union will work on setting minimum performance standards to curb water usage in data centers as the continent confronts potential shor...
The Real Fight Isn’t About AI—It’s About Control
#AI #Copyright
Avila Gets It: The Real Fight Isn’t About AI—It’s About Control
Political economy (and updates about me sometimes).
AI’s energy impact is still small—but how we handle it is huge
#AI #Energy
MIT Technology Review
AI’s energy impact is still small—but how we handle it is huge
The rising energy cost of data centers is a vital test case for how we deal with the broader electrification of the economy.
AI Drives Need for New Open Source Licenses – Linux Publishes the OpenMDW License
#OpenMDW #OpenSource #AI #Linux
LexBlog
AI Drives Need for New Open Source Licenses – Linux Publishes the OpenMDW License
For many reasons, existing open source licenses are not a good fit for AI. Simply put, AI involves more than just software and most open source lic...
How did “openness” fall out of fashion?
#OpenSource #FreeCulture
TechnoLlama
How did “openness” fall out of fashion?
Something curious has been occurring in the world of digital rights. Openness, once one of the cornerstones of Internet culture, has lost its shine...
AI Is Making Many People Rethink Copyright
#AI #Copyright
Techdirt
AI Is Making Many People Rethink Copyright
For the last hundred years or so, the prevailing dogma has been that copyright is an unalloyed good, and that more of it is better. Whether that wa...
Is it OK for AI to write science papers? Nature survey shows researchers are split
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01463-8
#AI #LLM #Science #Research
China now more popular worldwide than the US
#China #USA #Politics
US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return – POLITICO
Can China “Buy” America? Fifty Years Ago Last Week the Ford Administration Created the Government Body That Stops That From Happening.
#China #USA #Finance #Politics
Notes on the Crises
Can China “Buy” America? Fifty Years Ago Last Week the Ford Administration Created the Government Body That Stops That From Happening.
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I have ended up taking a lot longer to write up my biggest picture thoughts on the dollar than I initially expected. Partially this is b...
Five Takeaways from the Copyright Office’s Controversial New AI Report
#AI #Copyright #Law
Copyright Lately
Five Takeaways from the Copyright Office’s Controversial New AI Report
The Copyright Office released its AI fair use report a day before its leader was dismissed: the timing, the fallout, and what it all means.
What the hell are rare earth elements?
https://media.hubspot.com/what-the-hell-are-rare-earth-elements
#RareEarths
The Dream of the Metaverse Is Dying. Manufacturing Is Keeping It Alive
#Meta #Metaverse #Industry
WIRED
The Dream of the Metaverse Is Dying. Manufacturing Is Keeping It Alive
Forget Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of VR meetings; the industrial metaverse bridges digital and physical worlds in a way that’s actually useful.