Pluralistic: Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights (18 Nov 2024)

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Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights: Rights come from power.
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Pluralistic: AI's "human in the loop" isn't (30 Oct 2024)

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AI's "human in the loop" isn't: A moral crumple zone, an accountability sink, but not a supervisor.
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Pluralistic: Conspiratorialism as a material phenomenon (29 Oct 2024)

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Conspiratorialism as a material phenomenon: What work does a conspiracy fantasy do?
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Pluralistic: Penguin Random House, AI, and writers' rights (19 Oct 2024)

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Penguin Random House, AI, and writers' rights: "You can't train an AI with our books" isn't the same thing as "We won't train an AI with YOUR book."
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Pluralistic: Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist (02 Oct 2024)

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Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist: Clinical needs sacrificed to profit maximization.
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Pluralistic: Madeline Ashby's 'Glass Houses' (13 Aug 2024)

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Madeline Ashby's 'Glass Houses': A savage, high-tech locked-room mystery.
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Pluralistic: An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more (30 Jul 2024)

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An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more: Up-to-date, erudite, and free!
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Pluralistic: AI's productivity theater (25 Jul 2024)

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AI's productivity theater: AI CAN'T do your job, but an AI salesman CAN convince your boss to fire you and replace you with AI.
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Pluralistic: AI art has no anti-cooption immune system (20 Jul 2024)

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AI art has no anti-cooption immune system: The seeming of intention, with no intender.
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Pluralistic: Kitchensink callithump linkdump (29 Jun 2024)

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Kitchensink callithump linkdump: All the news I couldn't fit.
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