AI has created a new digital divide, fracturing the world between nations with the computing power for building cutting-edge AI systems and those without. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Just finished reading this astonishingly thoughtful and beautifully written reflection on what is left for the humanities after AI. Highly recommend: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

this is a great summary of the diluting effect of chatgpt's new image generation capabilities on the distinctive aesthetic of beloved Japanese animation house, Studio Ghibli #AI #StudioGhibli #ChatGPT www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/welcome-to...

this is a really useful resource for tracking licensing of scholarly content for training AI models: sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...

The Court says that its opinion is a one-off because of TikTok's scale, data-collection practices, and susceptibility to foreign manipulation, but all of the other major platforms are very big, collect the same data, and are susceptible to strong-arming by foreign authoritarians. /1

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the TikTok divestment-or-ban law, what happens next? I have an explainer for @lawfare.bsky.social laying out the next steps. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Here's the On Point episode with me and Brewster Kahle talking about the copyright lawsuits against the Internet Archive. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

Just filed: brief of @knightcolumbia.org @freepress.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social in support of TikTok and TikTok's users. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Today's Lawfare Daily is from a conference co-hosted by Lawfare and the Georgetown Institute for Law and Technology, where Chinmayi Sharma moderated a panel on "Old Laws, New Tech: How Traditional Legal Doctrines Tackle AI,” between Catherine Sharkey, Bryan Choi, and @katgeddes.bsky.social.

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

Check out my new piece on AI terms of use restrictions w/ Mark Lemley ( @marklemley.bsky.social ). There's been a recent stir about terms of use restrictions on AI outputs & models. We dig into the legal analysis, questioning their enforceability. Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

folks, we’re bringing back nuclear power to achieve this level of quality

AI is an inherently authoritarian way of making decisions.

In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, ‪@alicetiara.bsky.social and @kevindeliban.bsky.social explain why using AI in the name of “government efficiency” is likely to create more problems than it solves — with vulnerable communities paying the steepest price. www.techpolicy.press/ai-cant-solv...

I just can't believe you think this social media is boring when it features The Challigator

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

Australia's ban on social media for teens under 16 is, among other things, an enormous gift to YouTube www.platformer.news/australia-so...

What will enter the #publicdomain in 2025? Each day through December we’ll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! publicdomainreview.org/features/ent... (+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)

Ultimately, what we found is that ChatGPT search offers publishers the illusion of control. No publisher – regardless of degree of affiliation with OpenAI – was spared from inaccurate representations of its content. (7/9)

Interesting that licensing deals don't seem to make a difference

One enduring complication with all this is that scraping happens all the time for reasons that people *don’t* find inherently objectionable, and in fact support—the Wayback Machine, all kinds of public health and extremism research, etc. The mistake was assuming that goodwill transfers.

A wonderful paper, very worth reading!!!

The unauthorized removal of copyright management information (CMI) from copyrighted works as part of AI training (although a statutory violation) does not produce concrete harm sufficient for standing in the absence of dissemination: www.wired.com/story/opena-...

Parents: lying is bad Also parents: if the ticket guy asks, you're 11

This is one of the most succinct summaries of why copyright cannot solve all of our ethical concerns around AI labor displacement that I have read to date; highly recommend reading: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @caryscraig.bsky.social

tldr: my job talk paper (see below) argues that if the "public benefit" of generative AI (see 4th fair use factor) is that it democratizes cultural production, then AI vendors should stop preventing users from engaging in fair uses of copyrighted works >> papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Today I deliberately crinkled a very loud plastic food wrapper for a very long time in a very quiet, open-plan office space to see how long my colleagues could last before finally tearing their eyes away from their screens to glare at me and the record was 4 minutes.

I made a Law and Technology Scholars starter pack!

Also a great resource! go.bsky.app/aHpf6o

This is an amazing resource!!