His work implies that without a clear legal framework that respects the “commons,” the Open Source AI movement risks being stifled by proprietary black boxes or bogged down by infinite litigation. https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/16/book-review-the-artificial-author/

The "Artificial Author" is a misnomer and that’s the point. The book challenges the anthropomorphic language. If an AI "hallucinates", who owns the dream? The prompter, the coder, or the public domain? https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/16/book-review-the-artificial-author/

“Siri doesn’t understand my accent.” It’s not you, it’s the data. @mozdatacollective.bsky.social is working with communities around the world to build more representative datasets that actually reflect how people speak, text, and live. https://bit.ly/48Occh4

Copyright isn't dead, but it is definitely under construction. For a sober, legally grounded, and forward-thinking analysis of AI and IP, grab a copy of Simone Aliprandi’s The Artificial Author.. https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/16/book-review-the-artificial-author/

One thing I've learned about @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social: she doesn't hold punches. This interview with Julius Krein (American Affairs) is a gut punch. Worth listening to, but be prepared for the rage to mount. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP5s... #Europe #Sovereignity

Crucially for me, The Artificial Author fits alongside the work I led at the @opensource.org Copyright isn't dead, but it is definitely under construction. Grab a copy of Simone Aliprandi’s book https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/16/book-review-the-artificial-author/

The clearest explanation I’ve read of the difference betw… https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/17/25053/

Mozilla is doing the only thing possibile for Firefox: evolve and reach to new audience with a product that people want to use. The alternative is to die trying to satisfy a shrinking user base. Go on, @firefox.com you're on the right track.

Really great to see NVIDIA staking out a pro-open data position. This used to be common, if not the norm in AI, and the backing away from this level of transparency has done a lot of harm to the research community.

@Mautic.org, the largest #OpenSource #marketing automation product, adapts its prices to the local purchasing power. Interesting approach mautic.org/blog/introdu...

The current wave of litigation against AI labs isn't about infringement: it's a battle over the definition of fair use in the 21st century. The Artificial Author dissects the legal status of training data https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/16/book-review-the-artificial-author/

NVIDIA keeps releasing models and now datasets, too. It's time to read the licenses nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-... Starting from: * The "NVIDIA Data Agreement for Model Training" huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...

In The Artificial Author, Italian lawyer and researcher Simone Aliprandi tackles the collision of generative artificial intelligence with the centuries-old framework of copyright law. https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/16/book-review-the-artificial-author/

dear DHH Fizzy has a long list of Open Source dependencies. Fizzy relies on #OpenSource as defined by @opensource.org You didn't have to ask for permissions by the hundreds of contributors to the Ruby packages used by your new product.

Memorization in AI is a narrow technical term: Using the same term for copyright discussions leads to bad policy. "Treating it as anything but a category error risks of stretching copyirght law far beyond its original purpose" by Aline Larroyed ailab.transistor.fm/episodes/ai-...

Change is hard, and the debate surrounding AI is proving to be highly polarizing. @mozilla.org is doing the right thing https://www.maffulli.net/2025/11/24/internet-is-changing-browsers-need-to-adapt/ #ai #freedom #mozilla

Will this pass Trump's cabinet scrutiny? about.netflix.com/en/news/netf...

Firefox must change to adapt to the latest web, the team needs to run experiments, explore the new technology, learn, and master it so that it can stay Open and true to the @Mozilla.org Manifesto. https://www.maffulli.net/2025/11/24/internet-is-changing-browsers-need-to-adapt/

It is both true that: 1️⃣ nationally, data centers use way less water than golf courses 2️⃣ locally, if your watershed and supply are extremely constrained (or as here, horribly mismanaged) dropping a data center into the mix may tip you and your neighbors into a very bad situation

As expected, the opinion I published earlier raised some eyebrow. ICYMI here it is: www.maffulli.net/2025/12/03/a... @Pierre-Yves pointed out that the French police migrated 70k desktops to Ubuntu and LibreOffice 15+ years ago. And that's exactly my point.

Asking the EU to drop Microsoft Office is pointless https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/03/asking-the-eu-to-drop-microsoft-office-is-pointless/ #eu #migration #policy

Internet is changing, browsers need to adapt https://www.maffulli.net/2025/11/24/internet-is-changing-browsers-need-to-adapt/ #ai #freedom #mozilla

At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools

DeepSeek-Math-V2 means we now have an open weights (Apache 2) model that can achieve gold medal performance on this year's International Mathematical Olympiad - previously proprietary models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind had achieved that 689GB from Hugging Face! simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/27/...

some might know how @roost.tools is approaching open safety tool development, but many more may not! @annebdh.bsky.social lays it all out here, including our governance structure, how people can get involved, and how working in the open doesn't mean more abuse! roost.tools/blog/open-by...

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

I write about some interesting developments in the ATmosphere (and the broader universe of decentralised and federated social media). Very intrigued by #Eurosky, especially the idea of shared moderation infrastructure. I will be following (and hopefully writing about!) this with a lot of interest.

Not sure how to take this: Mastodon already exists and it's a European project... and it's struggling to take off. I don't think that the problem is the ActivityPub protocol. What does ATProtocol have that will lead to wider adoption?

Galloway thinking outside the box about GLP-1s (not sure why he pits it against AI...)

1/ The idea that licensing deals can scale to supply training data for cutting-edge AI systems is deeply flawed. As OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and others show: licensing deals so far cover only a tiny sliver of the content needed.

"What have you done to secure the Open Source packages you rely on since Log4j?" asks the US and the EU. What do you think the big tech companies will answer? about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-... #security #CyberResiliencyAct #OpenSource #sustainability

OpenFold3 is an Open Source foundation model competing with the proprietary AlphaFold https://www.maffulli.net/2025/10/30/openfold3-open-source-replacement-alphafold/ #ai

OpenAI picked the new ROOST Foundation rather than other hosting foundations. Given the competition out there, the Foundation’s leadership deserves praise. https://www.maffulli.net/2025/10/31/roost-foundation-releases-ai-safety-tool-with-openai/ #ai #safety

Let the neo-Luddites dream their dreams while @Mozilla.org and others stay busy shaping the future technology the way we want it to be: open and controlled by its users. https://www.maffulli.net/2025/11/24/internet-is-changing-browsers-need-to-adapt/ #ai #freedom #mozilla

Given this deep division, the backlash against the new @mozilla.org Firefox AI panel is entirely predictable. @Mozilla.org is on the right side of history. https://www.maffulli.net/2025/11/24/internet-is-changing-browsers-need-to-adapt/ #ai #freedom #mozilla

The Italian Data Protection Authority is swept by a huge scandal. The last act is the resignation of its administrative chief youtube.com/shorts/oqqFy... #privacy

A tag to distinguish content that was created by human or generated by AI. How hard can this be, right? How would you address it? Check the draft proposal at IETF. datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wi... #AI #IETF #data #content

Internet was built to survive a nuclear attack: no single point of failure.The plan was perfect but ...Cloudflare is down and it took a large chunk of the internet with it.

Why AI writing is mid How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing). www.interconnects.ai/p/why-ai-wri...

From @cnn.com: Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

Let's rewrite this lede: After more than a decade failing at regulating big US tech, the EU gives up. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t....

This week, our President, @camillefrancois.bsky.social, visited the Vatican for a discussion on protecting children in the digital age. We were very humbled to have been invited to participate in such an important meeting and at such a pivotal time.

@paulk.bsky.social Keller @openfuture.bsky.social read the GEMA v. OpenAI judgment. In his view, the judgment reaffirms the TDM exceptions enable AI training—provided the training doesn’t lead to memorization. openfuture.eu/blog/g... #AI

As age verification laws proliferate around the world, people have predictably turned to VPNs to protect their privacy. Instead of taking this as a sign that surveillance isn't popular, lawmakers have decided they might as well ban VPNs altogether. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I don't have the patience to debug Google Calendar #Android to understand why it's dropping my Open-Xchange calendar after it syncs to the phone. Pure rage for this blatant attack to the most elementary interoperability.

We are hiring a postdoc to build open-source tools for deep learning–based antibiotic discovery in @chzimmer.bsky.social lab at Institut Pasteur. Part of the AI4AMR consortium with HZI and University of Würzburg. Details: research.pasteur.fr/fr/job/open-...

Lowering the onboarding curve for new users, @Mautic.org will become more accessible to marketers who are new to automation https://mautic.org/blog/mautics-campaign-library-initiative-phase-2-funded-by-nlnet-and-the-european-commission/ #marketing #mautic #OpenSource

Data scraping, AI and the battle for the open web https://www.financierworldwide.com/data-scraping-ai-and-the-battle-for-the-open-web #ai #data #datagovernance

Academic institutions rely on web crawling and data scraping for research. Preference signals aren't as simple as they look. https://www.financierworldwide.com/data-scraping-ai-and-the-battle-for-the-open-web #ai #data #datagovernance

Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors," #MozFest