I am planning to go too! Thanks for the reminder and first impressions
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I am planning to go too! Thanks for the reminder and first impressions
Until we go back to in person exams, we’re toast.
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
Thanks but the first European decision on copyright in AI outputs was the Czech one in 2024: www.twobirds.com/en/insights/...
Perhaps less known as it wasn’t decided in a ‘Western’ jurisdiction but that never mattered to me. Still good to know.
The unbearable sensation of nausea I get whenever I see the words ‘patent’, ‘AI’ and ‘innovation’ in the same sentence…
Meta is blocking access to ICE List, which doesn't dox people but does identify some ICE agents But you can find it and contribute to it at wiki[dot]icelist[dot]is. Because people should know if they are hiring lawless thugs
www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
Page 10-11 of the linked PDF
On AI’s ‘mediocrity trap’ — experiments indicates that while AI helps the less skilled make something passable, the highly skilled don’t use it to produce something better than they could have; they produce something ok, but lose motivation to make it great. www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/...
Signed😓
I am giving a talk in a week on “After Patent Republic” as part of the International Society for the History and Theory of IP @ishtip.bsky.social seminar series.
All welcome and you can register here (it’s online)
Bovino could be the inspiration for Colonel Lockjaw from One Battle After Another.
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Three years into the AI Wars and not a single company has been brought down by copyright litigation. By this time into the P2P Wars, Napster had already been obliterated. When will the people who were assured that copyright would destroy AI realise they were lied to?
Some good news from Germany
chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/10/01/m...
🚨 PhD Vacancy – Generative AI in the Media 🚨
Exciting opportunity to join us on the @algosoc.org project, working w/ myself, @cgoanta.bsky.social & @natalihelberger.bsky.social
📅 Closing date: 31 October 2025
🔗 More info: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Cc: @ivir-uva.bsky.social
Here lies human civilization. They were watching things on television that were different from what was happening.
Questionable reasoning in the digital age. Case remanded curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
Austrian oil company OMV objects to its brand being associated with vagina care products 🤪 The oil company claims dilution over the ‘OMV! By Vagisil’ word mark. The General Court found a link couldn’t be ruled out bc products might be sold at filling stations.
This article will feature on my course intro slides; ty
Same🥹
MISERABLE GHOSTS - bloody university rankings follow everything around like a bad smell
I agree with everything you say. This poses broader questions about the public domain coming under attack (even more than it already is) if this such registrations are allowed.
It is crazy how some regard public domain items as res nullius or res derelictae rather than inalienable public property
My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"
Turns out, mom was right.
Now this is what I call a textbook example of trade mark tarnishment where the US parody defence would not work :))
Cox on Normative Uncertainty and Legal AI, buff.ly/S3sT27b - Courtney M. Cox (Fordham University School of Law) has posted Non-Herculean Data: A Philosophical Intervention in a Technical Debate about Judicial Opinions as Data Sources (Proc. 20th Intern. Conf. on AI & Law (forthcoming 2025)) on SSRN.
It’s becoming endemic…
Here’s a break down up to July 2025 which will need to be updated regularly:
www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/ai-...
Oxford University Press is introducing an AI summarisation & quizzing asst. into their law textbook ‘trove’: it took considerable effort from our Fac+Library to have them engineer in a license-level off switch (they initially refused!). They did not clock how important the skill of summarisation is.
Sorry to hear this Ali! Looking forward to reading your findings when the bureaucracy Gods will allow it…
i wish brands would include more technical information in their product descriptions. i don't need to know this was inspired by timeless italian men summering in nantucket who could dress up or down. i want to know the fabric weight, leather tanning method, seam construction, etc.
