Fascinating to finally see some AI skepticism from... CNN? Let's go??? www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...

If you're in the UK, please sign this open letter asking the government to correct the misleading claims they made in the AI & copyright consultation. They said copyright law is currently unclear on this point, which is false. This misled the public. openletter.earth/uk-governmen...

Have you followed up? This is still with the Senate! A regulatory moratorium preempting state laws is not a budgetary matter, and this subsection can still be stricken/removed, but senators need to know it exists, and that people care! bsky.app/profile/crca...

labour is buying into the hype in the hope of getting some of the investment going into the AI machine without really asking whether there are tangible results on the other side. this strategy is doomed.

If you cannot run your business by following simple laws, you don’t have a business, you have a racket.

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would kill the AI industry: www.theverge.com/news/674366/... Then maybe it shouldn't be an industry that exists in its current form? For hailing from such "innovation-focused" spaces, you would think they could innovate an ethical model.

Peter Kyle, to Parliament last week: “I’ve not used the word uncertainty” [to describe how copyright law applies to AI]. Also Peter Kyle, 6 months ago: “That is why we are setting out a balanced package of proposals to address uncertainty about how copyright law applies to AI”. 1/2

Artists don't create so that Tech bros can profit while we don't. Creation is our livelihood, our only way of making a living. And this mofo wants us to sit down so him and his AI bros can profit? Nick Clegg can eat a bag of dicks. AI is a parasite. It's an industry that needs to be killed.

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

I know I don't usually touch political stuff but like heyyyy.... I would have a hard time forgiving myself if this went through and I didn't try to do anything about it. Let's send the email together, yeah?

Tech has entirely turned on the customer www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

Thank you @adamconover.net for the update and apology. Like most humans, we can all make mistakes. You accepted responsibility for platforming con-artists and recovered nicely. 👍🏻👍🏻. Well done! #TheFutureIsHuman 💪🏻 youtu.be/eDsSg-Xm1ms

DEAR AMERICANS! CALL YOUR SENATORS IN ORDER TO STOP THE 10 YEAR STATE BAN ON REGULATING AI! CALL TODAY! IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DO IT... PLEASE REFER TO @crcadvocacy.bsky.social 's guide! #PROTECTCOPYRIGHT #VOTENOONTHEBILL

Woah, US Copyright Office (USCO) Director is suing the Administration for her firing! Also this is a great opportunity to share the @authorsguild.bsky.social open petition to reinstate Shira Perlmutter as the USCO Director that I think everyone should sign 🔥 authorsguild.org/petition-to-...

I called my Senators today, left a message. If you've never done this before, 5calls is a really great resource, and made this very easy. Your senators need to listen to you; that's their entire job, even if it doesn't feel like it these days.

And here’s *another* topic that 5 Calls provides a script for. I know it’s a ton that these fucks are throwing all at once. I struggle with getting the spoons for these calls too. But that’s their plan; drown us in gut punches. But if we don’t stop them here it gets tons harder. Make the calls.

Folks, the House advanced the disastrous reconciliation bill, with the destructive 10-year State Ban against regulations for AI intact! We now MUST mobilize our calls to the Senate! Call today! If you need a script the post below offers a fantastic alternative! We only have one chance! Lets go!

The House just advanced §43201 (Sub. C, Title IV), AKA the 10 year ban on state AI laws: thehill.com/homenews/hou... It's now time to reach out to your Senators! Wondering how? See: 5calls.org/issue/ai-reg... Or feel free to use the card below.

Nothing about the U.S. budget is a done deal. It just passed the House, but it needs to survive the Senate with zero changes. ZERO. Or it goes back to the House + they have to vote all over again. If you have a Republican Senator you need to be holding a flamethrower to their ass rn. Lock in.

Made a cheat sheet to help you with the calling process. There is info on how to find out who to call, script ideas, and hopefully everything else you'll need. Feel free to share or offer suggestions! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Did you make calls to Congress today? There was a delay today, so we get more time to keep calling, keep pushing & keep organizing. GET THE WORD OUT! TY @zacharyberger.bsky.social for the excellent cheat sheet! Share/Distribute widely! #NoStateAIRegulationsBan docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Please read this brilliant piece by Baroness Kidron in The Times, in which she rightly eviscerates UK government ministers for "obeisance to the tech bros". 🧵 1/2 www.thetimes.com/article/ae9d...

Sincerely, people just need to keep calling, to say (Unequivocally NO on the State AI Regulation Ban). You should plan on calling every single morning (at least through the Summer). SO HEADS DOWN - KEEP CALLING - AND DON’T LET UP!!!

Reminder that the UK’s House of Lords has twice proposed legislation that would make AI companies disclose their training data, and the Labour government has twice rejected it. Can't think why www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Do you live in the US? 🚨 Please STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING and call your US Senators and House representatives IMMEDIATELY. This is a potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years. Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down! INSTRUCTIONS HERE: rb.gy/go0ai7

Here are more instructions to follow. Clearer language, and better document reference by @crcadvocacy.bsky.social CALL your House Members AND Senators. Tell them to kill the AI regulation ban in the Budget Reconciliation Bill. KEEP CALLING! ☎️ bsky.app/profile/crca...

I just called my House Member, and BOTH of my US Senators ... Call them to tell them UNEQUIVOCALLY NO on the State AI Regulation Ban. No joke, we are going to have to repeatedly call these guys. Do it every morning while you’re having your breakfast. Easy peasy! 5calls.org/issue/ai-reg...

Everyone please STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING and call Congress RIGHT NOW we need to do everything we can to stop this maddness. Call BOTH of your US Senators and your member in the US House of Representatives.  You can find their numbers here. (4/4) www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

🚨 CALL TO ACTION 🚨 Call your US Senators and House Reps IMMEDIATELY! Sen. Cruz (one single US Senator from TX) is trying to say States do not have the power to regulate AI - AT ALL! That nobody anywhere can have any laws for 10yrs. on this.  OUTRAGEOUS! (1/4) www.404media.co/republicans-...

Exactly - this is beyond outrageous! People need to call their US Senators IMMEDIATELY to tell them they MUST stop this!!!

I just called my House Member, and BOTH of my US Senators ... Call them to tell them UNEQUIVOCALLY NO on the State AI Regulation Ban. No joke, we are going to have to repeatedly call these guys. Do it every morning while you’re having your breakfast. Easy peasy! 5calls.org/issue/ai-reg...

Very sad to see the UK Labour party today vote to reject common sense legislation, introduced this week in the Lords, that would make AI companies disclose their training data - which would let British creators enforce their rights. Legislation the Lords support, and all other parties support.

Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean? It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again! Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban! (Info in thread)

I wanted to provide a thread here of some of the things I've been involved with in the fight against unethical generative AI for easy reference, starting with my work with @GaryMarcus.bsky.social. Our article shows irrefutable evidence of blatant plagiarism 🧵 spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-c...

www.techpolicy.press/us-house-com... A Ban on state AI regulations prioritizes corporate consolidation of wealth over reasonable safeguards, and suppresses efforts to mitigate harms/exploitation. Congress has not offered any back up plan to replace safeguards, only desires to remove them.

[1] Hidden language in @HouseCommerce budget bill would strip states from the ability to regulate AI systems. CA has long led on tech oversight and this would silence our ability to protect people from the technology harms they face every day...

28 seconds that should kick off every game film album broadcast concert for like a year. #AIEthics #genAI

Folks call your Senators now!! A ban on any state laws on GenAi for 10 YEARS is gonna do unthinkable harm! For those of you wondering what to say here are two posts you can use to build your own script (use alt script to cut and paste) Need to find your representatives? Here you go: 5calls.org

Guthrie's (R-KY) "Subtitle C" budget rider erases every state AI safeguard for 10 years before Congress has any backup plan. It freezes the laboratories of democracy, shields giants, and lets credit/housing/health decisions run on untested code. Please reach out to your representatives!

Let's not forget for a second that AI is now overwhelmingly an oligarchic project. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright. Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."

In any reporting on this, I never see appropriate focus on that millions of pieces of pirated writing, art, etc. are posted on their platforms every day. They obviously CANNOT legally claim a right to those under TOS. But yeah fuck the EU on this, as if the byzantine opt-out option is enough.

What a misguided and terrible ruling from the EU. They just handed people’s rights, privacy and copyrighted works away for free to a US behemoth. This also affects any company whose work is copyright dependent. I thought the EU was better than this. Shame on them. finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-wi...

I wrote today about why creators are losing the AI copyright battle. ✅ We’re winning in the courts. ✅ We’re winning in public opinion. ❌ But the risk is governments changing the law. Creators need to organize. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

In a court filing today, Google says "absent protection for intellectual property, there exists little reason to invest in developing software". Yet they lobby governments to weaken IP law to allow unlicensed AI training on copyrighted work. ??

Congratulations to @teastainss.bsky.social on this feature article by Yuri Nagano representing artists around the world wonderfully in this feature in the SF Public Press. www.sfpublicpress.org/california-c... #NoAI #SupportHumanArtists #CreateDontScrape