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If you, like me, are obliged to read some or all of the amicus briefs being filed today in the big OpenAI MDL amicus brief-a-palooza, we made you a little treat. The fair use briefs are inherently fun, of course, but the plaintiffs' briefs are a slog. So I made a thing.
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Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive makes the case for web preservation in The Atlantic. 🌐
In The Internet Needs A Memory, Kahle explains why blocking the Wayback Machine won’t stop AI. It will only make the public record harder to preserve.
Read it 👉 theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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ALT Atlantic article The Internet Needs a Memory by Brewster Kahle, with a green head and cursor graphic
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if we learned anything from lululemon suing costco over dupes it's that the primary response to news of this infrngement suit by the public will be people saying "wait, i can get croc dupes for $7 at five below instead of $40 from croc!? on my way!"
usaherald.com/crocs-sues-fiv…
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Hard to take seriously the philosophers who deny personhood to unborn babies but apply it to AIs.
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millennial midlife crisis be like
maybe i should reinstall world of warcraft – at Burbank, CA
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Some urge shutting down the AIs. I urge shutting down the ethicists.
AI ethics has focused too much on protecting humans and ignored the welfare of AI agents themselves.
We only ask: How do we align models for the flourishing of humanity?
We need to also ask: How do we design AI so that they can flourish?
^ this is what a new breed of AI-welfare theorists claim. This idea of AI-welfare seemed decadent to me at first glance, but some of the most important philosophers of our age argue that we need to take it seriously. Otherwise, we could be harming, enslaving, and killing trillions of beings.
If the arc of Western modernity is a series of expansions of the moral circle -- the abolitionists, women’s suffrage, the queer movement, animal-rights -- perhaps AI agents will be the next heated battleground of who deserves moral consideration.
My guest NYU Philosopher @LedermanHarvey (now at Anthropic) gives us a comprehensive overview of the burgeoning debate around AI-welfare.
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They're right! The brief hits all the high points quite well, leaning appropriately on the Constitutional purpose of copyright and the compelling analysis in the Google Books case. Plus, a stern rebuttal of the wildly mistaken "market dilution" argument.
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reporters often mix up copyright/trademark/patent, but this news outlet found the one shutterstock photo that suits every story
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A timely reminder, as the judge's approval puts the Bartz settlement back in the news: the settlement doesn't tell us anything about AI and fair use. It's mostly proof that copyright statutory damages continue to create perverse incentives. recreatecoalition.org/dont-r…
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FTC, states secure settlement with Deere & Company, advancing farmers’ right to repair: bit.ly/4h2hBp8 /1
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On July 4th every year, the Boston Pops Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” with real cannons, as the composer did in 1882.
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As of yesterday, not just the SSPX bishops are excommunicated but also *all* those who continue to adhere to the Society. SSPX sacraments of confession and marriage declared invalid; Catholics may not attend SSPX Masses.
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AI has now solved a major open problem -- one of the best known Erdos problems called the unit distance problem, one of Erdos's favourite questions and one that many mathematicians had tried.
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If you’re a country singer, you can franchise out your own identity in another country. Just found out the UK has its own Luke Combs
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A stock photo company took a pork chop photo all the way through a federal jury trial, won $200, then asked for $69,000 in attorney's fees. Guess how that went.
Full story, up now on Copyright Lately:
copyrightlately.com/prepared…
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Mike, I appreciate you attempting this with a straight face, but I don’t remember the CFTC having authority over the “derivative market” of LeBron James rebounds. These prediction markets you are breathlessly defending are gambling—pure and simple. They are destroying the lives of families and countless Americans, especially young men. They have no place in Utah.
Let me be clear, I will use every resource within my disposal as governor of the sovereign state of Utah, and under the Constitution of the United States to beat you in court.
