New one from James Parker and me - wading into the fights between artists and AI companies. We suggest artists need a vocabulary beyond copyright to articulate their grievances: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

Third, @jakegoldenfein.bsky.social takes us to the frontier of value promised by foundation models which allow the monetization of massive datasets through consumer facing artificial intelligence (AI) products journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Behind all the copyright battles on AI, there are some much more substantial conceptual rearrangements taking shape. For instance, since when did we call music, prose, and visual art 'data'? And who does it benefit? My new OA piece in Platforms and Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm definitely not back on social media, but dropping by to encourage those of you in Melbourne/Narrm to come to Prof Orit Halpern's rountable at Melbourne Law School on Feb 10: events.unimelb.edu.au/ADMS/event/4...