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Amazon Brand Spammers Are Getting Lazy, And Letting Failed ChatGPT Queries...
If you buy products on Amazon, you’re well aware of the Amazon brand spammers. These tend to be drop shippers or small (often Chinese) operations trying to sell knockoffs of whatever products might...
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Congressional Witness Claims ChatGPT Won’t Write Poems Praising Jim Jordan;...
We’ve written a few times now about how the misleadingly named House “Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government” is not actually looking into the “weaponization of the federal...
View ArticleAs Predicted, Judge Dismisses Nearly All Of Sarah Silverman, Michael Chabon,...
Can’t say we didn’t warn everyone. Last summer we pointed out that Sarah Silverman and a bunch of other authors suing AI companies for copyright infringement seemed to only demonstrate that they didn’t...
View ArticleElon Sues OpenAI For Breach Of Contract Over A Contract That Doesn’t Exist,...
Do you remember Irell & Manella? Of course you do. It’s the formerly well-respected law firm that once brought a lawsuit on behalf of PETA claiming (incorrectly) to represent a monkey, which it...
View ArticleOpenAI’s Motion To Dismiss Highlights Just How Weak NYT’s Copyright Case...
A few weeks ago, Prof. James Grimmelmann and (former Techdirt) journalist Tim Lee wrote a piece for Ars Technica, stating why the NY Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI. It’s no secret...
View ArticleAn Only Slightly Modest Proposal: If AI Companies Want More Content, They...
In Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” he satirized politicians who were out of touch and were treating the poor as an inconvenience, rather than a sign of human suffering and misery. So, he took...
View ArticleCan ChatGPT Violate Your Privacy Rights If It Doesn’t Store Your Data?
If you were to ask someone to state the birthday of someone else, and the person asked just made up a date, which was not the actual birthday, would you argue that the individual’s privacy had been...
View ArticleCtrl-Alt-Speech: Between A Rock And A Hard Policy
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket...
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Hey Journalists: Not Every Elon Musk Brain Fart Warrants An Entire News Cycle
So on Monday you probably saw that Apple announced it was more tightly integrating “AI” into its mobile operating system, both via a suite of AI-powered tools dubbed Apple Intelligence, and tighter AI...
View ArticleElon Rage Quits His Silly OpenAI Lawsuit
Maybe the real artificial intelligence was the baseless lawsuits we filed along the way. In March, we wrote about Elon’s patently ridiculous lawsuit filed against OpenAI, claiming a contract violation...
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