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AI Music Is Not Art. It's... The Opposite
A look at legal and ethical issues with AI-generated music.
Newsletter
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How Will AI Change Law & the Legal Industry? (Level 3)
The deeper, philosophical question of how AI will change society.
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How Will AI Change Law & the Legal Industry? (Level 2)
The AI Act's risk-based approach to regulation and three conflicts between AI and law: the copyright issue, the black box issue, and the evaluation issue.
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How Will AI Change Law & the Legal Industry? (Level 1)
A brief look at the leading AI tools for lawyers, and how lawyers may choose to work with AI in the future.
Coopting Disruption - How Five Companies Dominate the Web
A new paper titled "Coopting Disruption" exposes the tricks and tactics used by BigTech to stay ahead of startups and potential competitors.
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Thoughts on AI Writing Assistance
Reflections on why relying too heavily on AI writing assistance may be a disservice writers impose on themselves.
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Understand the Essentials of the Digital Markets Act & the Digital Services Acts
Both acts, especially the Digital Services Act, will be burdensome for the tech giants to comply with. The EU is imposing a lot of paper pushing and compliance work but it's arguably for the better.
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Is This the End for Stability AI?
Deep Dive on Stability AI + interview with Cyrus Johnson
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The Social Costs of Meta’s AI Playbook
Also, OpenAI's Sora, Apple Vision Pro, and conversation with Nick Potkalitsky about AI's impact on education.
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To Open-Source or Not to Open-Source?
Defining open-source AI vs open-source software, why Meta's Llama models are not open-source, and how open foundation models could help us sidestep the traps we fell into with social media.
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How to Deal with Data Harvesting AI Girlfriends?
Chatbots everywhere, privacy study by the Mozillla Foundation on "romantic AI chatbot apps" and considerations on why they are so popular.
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Lawyers Need Wisdom, Not to Call GPT
LLMs as writing editors, existential thoughts on the role of lawyers, and a case study of corporate product promotion disguised as academic research + OpenAI lawsuits