Doe 1 v. Github/Microsoft/OpenAI: Much of the proof—prompt logs, output frequencies, memorization testing, preprocessing pipelines, “cleaning” steps—is uniquely in defendants’ possession... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/doe-1-v-gi...

Gemini: The probability that the Trump administration studied the Epstein files first and strategically assembled its Cabinet and supporter network on the basis of these findings, is estimated at 85%. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/gemini-the...

If this trajectory continues, the US faces the prospect of becoming a permanent autocracy, where federal law enforcement serves as the primary mechanism for maintaining the power of the ruling party. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/if-this-tr...

Tech conglomerates and infrastructure developers employ sophisticated legal, technical, and administrative maneuvers to bypass environmental protections and public oversight. This poses existential risks to regional power grids, local water sovereignty, and... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/tech-congl...

Kleiner v. Adobe is another step in a pattern: the legal system is increasingly treating “training data governance” as a compliance domain, not a research footnote. Complaint: You don’t get to outsource your risk to the open dataset supply chain. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/kleiner-v-...

The 12-Hour Novel Factory: What do we want ‘a book’ to mean in a world where text is abundant—and what governance, provenance, and value signals will we enforce to protect that meaning? p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-12-hou...

Maciel’s article is right to puncture the “AI is magic intelligence” narrative and re-anchor the debate in infrastructure, energy, and economics. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/maciels-ar...

Today, with the unprecedented power of algorithmic radicalization and decentralized digital networks, the far right poses a more sophisticated threat than at any point since the 1930s. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/today-with...

Privilege Saved, Facts Still Exposed: Judge Stein’s OpenAI Dataset Deletion Ruling—and What It Means for the Next Wave of AI Copyright Lawsuits p4sc4l.substack.com/p/privilege-...

Starlink may collect not just account/billing/performance data but also ‘communication information’ and ‘inferences.’” What govts should do (if they don’t want “connectivity sovereignty” to be a joke) p4sc4l.substack.com/p/starlink-m...

The International AI Safety Report 2026 reads like a progress report from a world sprinting into a technology it can’t yet reliably test—let alone govern. Society is being asked to make high-stakes decisions while the evidence base arrives late... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-intern...

AI is already reshaping the information environment in ways that benefit violent extremists, yet the counter-extremism sector remains under-prepared... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/ai-is-alre...

The NVIDIA complaint is trying to turn a messy cultural argument (“training vs theft”) into a narrower systems argument: “you weren’t allowed to take the files, and you had to bypass controls to do it.” p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-compla...

Administrative subpoenas can be legitimate tools, but when pointed at lawful dissent they start to resemble a state “unmasking” capability—one that can chill speech without winning a case in court. For users abroad, the core risk is asymmetry... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/administra...

If EU’s top court embraces an accessibility standard for “communication to the public,” copyright enforcement becomes less dependent on proving that a service “targeted” a country, and this could be especially consequential for AI models made available in the EU. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/if-the-eus...

The New Tech Right & Trump. While the primary public-facing narrative for this alignment focused on the deregulation of artificial intelligence, (...) a parallel and increasingly documented motivation involves the strategic management of the “Epstein files”. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-new-te...

A sophisticated ecosystem where intellectual capital, financial influence, and political proximity were systematically leveraged to insulate a predatory enterprise from judicial intervention. The prioritization of elite reputations over the protection of minors. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/a-sophisti...

Palantir's ELITE design choices collide with 3 hard constraints: (a) necessity/proportionality and fundamental-rights standards, (b) data minimisation, purpose limitation, and security, and (c) the accelerating fusion of state surveillance with Big Tech. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/palantirs-...

Wixen v. Meta: Wixen alleges Meta sought to slash license rates to a “small fraction” of historic payments, and—“on information and belief”—the reason is to replace royalty-bearing human music with royalty-free AI-generated music. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/wixen-v-me...

The absence of senior technologists within the government’s strategic apex creates a profound “negotiation gap.” This gap prevents regulators from properly unbundling and valuing the propositions presented by Big Tech. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-absenc...

Concord Music v. Anthropic (II): Anthropic and leadership allegedly chose BitTorrent because it’s fast and free, and used it to build a “vast central library” they intended to keep “forever”. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/concord-mu...

A state–platform–model triangle that can normalise, amplify, and operationalise Nazi-adjacent rhetoric and aesthetics faster than democratic institutions can metabolise it. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/a-statepla...

The governing logic of frontier-model competition: treat the totality of human expression as strategic infrastructure, and treat permissions as friction to be routed around. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-headli...

Nondeterministic “health verdicts” become a new form of algorithmic roulette. Two family members with similar profiles can get different “risk stories,” and the same person can get different “risk stories” on different days. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/nondetermi...

NATO's Mark Rutte's current framing fails because it treats US support as an unquestioned constant, when the defining feature of the moment is that US commitment is itself the variable. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/natos-mark...

Gemini's Analysis: We are witnessing the emergence of “digital authoritarianism”—a model of governance where control is automated, invisible, and seamlessly integrated into the technological fabric of daily life. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/geminis-an...

ChatGPT analyses AI-enabled mass censorship and “invisible” manipulation at scale (2021–2026). Modern censorship isn’t just “remove the post”; it’s an end-to-end control stack... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/chatgpt-an...

Ted Entertainment v. Snap: YouTube is designed to let the public stream videos, not obtain the underlying files, and Snap allegedly engineered a pipeline to defeat that architecture at scale, for commercial AI training. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/ted-entert...

An administration behaving like “rabid dogs”—officials who have shed the normative brakes of ideology, religion, or psychology, driven instead by a pathological hatred of adversaries and a rejection of all ethical barriers. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/an-adminis...

Allegation: Trump administration has repurposed and fused multiple government databases into a de facto “national citizenship data bank” and is pushing states to use it for mass “voter verification”. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/allegation...

PwC’s 29th Global CEO Survey: Many companies are buying tools before they’ve built the operating conditions that make AI economically compounding (data access, workflow integration, governance, adoption, measurement). p4sc4l.substack.com/p/pwcs-29th-...

If the default content diet becomes synthetic, low-cost, engagement-optimized media, you can get a slow-motion erosion of judgment, attention, and civic competence. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/how-major-...

SDNY complaint (Atlantic/Warner/Sony/UMG entities + Spotify v. “Anna’s Archive”) isn't “just another piracy case,” but a bid to treat mass scraping + DRM circumvention + imminent BitTorrent release as an existential threat to the streaming licensing stack. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/sdny-compl...

ABP’s Palantir position—Retirement security is increasingly financed through technologies that make states more capable of surveillance, coercion, and kinetic harm. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/abps-palan...

In practice, EU design registration can accommodate “AI output” as long as it meets design-law criteria. Even “low-creativity” processes can still yield protectable designs. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/where-no-h...

"The plausible consequences for Anna’s Archive, NVIDIA, and any other AI developer that trained (directly or indirectly) on shadow libraries like LibGen, Sci-Hub, Z-Library, Books3, or The Pile." www.linkedin.com/posts/pascal...

X needs evidence that refusal to deal was truly concerted and notice campaign was not aggressive enforcement but systematically abusive and strategically targeted to suppress licensing competition. If they can't, the practice of DMCA sending = defendants’ shield. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/x-needs-ev...

OpenAI is asking third-party contractors to upload “real assignments and tasks” from current or past jobs—ideally the actual deliverables. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/openai-is-...

Apple and Google could act against X for facilitating nonconsensual sexual deepfakes (including content involving children), their own rules appear to demand action and yet they won’t because the political and economic downside is too high. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/apple-and-...

A private investor platform can effectively set national tech priorities—especially in AI and defense—without public debate, parliamentary oversight, or enforceable transparency. When informal political access becomes a competitive advantage it erodes ethics norms p4sc4l.substack.com/p/a-private-...

When “AI Companions” Become a Consumer-Protection Case Study: What Kentucky’s Character.AI Lawsuit Signals for Global Regulators and Developers. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/when-ai-co...

Can production, consumer-facing LLMs (with guardrails) be induced to emit long, near-verbatim copyrighted text that strongly indicates memorization and training-data membership? Sometimes, yes—and at surprisingly large scale. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/can-produc...

The Goldberg/Martin case will likely serve as a pivotal case study for the next decade of cybersecurity regulation and insurance. The RaaS model has evolved. It's no longer just about “hackers vs. companies.” It's about criminal recruitment within the supply chain p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-goldbe...

Current AI systems excel at talking about science, not doing science. AI is strongest when it supports thinking, not when it pretends to execute science. Overpromising risks: eroding trust in AI, misallocating research funding, and fueling future “AI winters”. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/current-ai...

Authoritarian reflexes are not required to defeat extremist ideologies. Transparency, competence, lawful investigation, and infrastructural accountability are often sufficient. Extremism frequently collapses under the weight of its own contradictions. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/authoritar...

In this paradigm, international law functions not as a constraint on power but as a mechanism to issue modern “letters of marque,” transforming acts of predation into acts of justice. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/in-this-pa...

Gemini: The likelihood that Republicans will have no choice but to create a framework now that prevents Democrats from ever getting into power again; probability: 60% (Moderate-High Likelihood). p4sc4l.substack.com/p/gemini-the...

The STAT series ultimately documents more than an attack on science. It reveals how knowledge systems fail first when democratic norms erode. A nation that dismantles its capacity to generate and communicate truth, does not merely fall behind technologically. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-stat-s...

The Enshittifinancial Crisis is not merely a critique of AI, but a diagnosis of a financial system that has lost its capacity for self-correction. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-enshit...