As always, Fania Oz-Salzberger is spot on: When Shada Khatib, an Arab Israeli student, was killed by an Iranian missile, Israelis’ responses showed the strength of Arab-Jewish bonds—and the forces that threaten them. www.wsj.com/world/middle... via @WSJ
My article Failing to Save the Press: What Should Be Next?, forthcoming in Texas Law Rev., is now up on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... Current legislation fails to induce Google and Meta to compensate the press for posting news excerpts and links. I survey that failure and some alternatives.
Today Hamas partied around coffins of murdered Jews. The coffins were on stage, festive music played. Families gathered, children hoisted high. In the coffins were 2 Bibas children and mom Shiri. Only Shiri’s coffin contained someone else. She’s missing. The babies murdered. And the BBC reported:
Judge Bibas reverses course in the first copyright case on AI training and fair use. What happened—and what does it mean for gen AI, copyright, and the legal battles ahead? Some thoughts on Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, up now on Copyright Lately. copyrightlately.com/ai-training-...
A black and white photo of a patent model of a book sewing machine, with gears and a conveyor belt, made out of wood and metal.
New issue of my newsletter: “Books, AI, and the Public Good: A New Grant” — A Mellon-funded project to develop an ethical, public-interest way to incorporate books into artificial intelligence
The move follows complaints from politicians in Germany that X’s algorithm is promoting content by the far right ahead of the country’s February 23 elections.
BREAKING: SCOTUS upholds TikTok ban law, affirming a lower court and setting the app on a collision course with a Jan. 19 start date.
"For the foregoing reasons, we conclude that the challenged provisions do not violate petitioners’ First Amendment rights."
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Has anyone got information about the NYTimes v OpenAI oral argument today? How did it go?
Interesting post, including his thoughts and what and how to limit Meta interactions.
As someone who worked on Birdwatch/Community notes at Twitter, I can tell you that the system was NEVER designed to work on it's own. It is is designed to work alongside fact checking systems.
The eshitification of the Meta continues
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
Today’s Platformer.news on Meta rolling up its fact-checking and loosening content moderation is a seriously good analysis of how the social media giant is creating “dire” safety risks around the world. www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch... @caseynewton.bsky.social
One remaining concern for me is that even people who WANT to find accurate information are going to be challenged to do it, because we're going to lose the groups that do this fact-checking work — unless non-profits step in to fill what is going to be a huge funding gap.
The study I mentioned above bsky.app/profile/dgra...
Over the past 4–5 years, Facebook has sunset tools (chiefly CrowdTangle) used by researchers and journalists, made data difficult and expensive to get, and iced out academics studying disinformation.
Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.
I highly recommend this article by @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social: "Fair Use Defenses in Disruptive Technology Cases". It provides an excellent background of previous fair use technology cases which may be relevant to the ongoing AI litigation. www.uclalawreview.org/fair-use-def...
UK Government publishes consultation on Copyright and AI
The UK government has published its latest consultation on AI and copyright. This will look into several aspects of AI and copyright, and it is likely to prove to be a very contentious issue in the upcoming months, with a clear clash of the…
Amici briefs about the TikTok ban are rolling in... Interesting to see elected officials in Congress (at least one of whom voted for the bundle of bills that included the TikTok ban) now file a brief saying it's unconstitutional www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...
Federal judge in Manhattan sets Jan. 14 hearing date on motions to dismiss in three big copyright cases against OpenAI and Microsoft, including the NYT’s lawsuit
New: the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the TikTok divest-or-ban law challenge after the company asked the court to review the case. It will hear arguments on Jan. 10.
As expected, TikTok has asked #SCOTUS for an emergency injunction pending appeal—to keep the statute requiring U.S. companies to stop supporting the app if its Chinese owners haven’t divested by 1/19 on hold while it challenges the appeals court ruling that upheld it:
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The European Ct of Human Rights has held that states may "protect democratic debate and process from distortion by powerful financial groups with advantageous access to [the] media." Perhaps the TikTok ruling will, somehow, inform a similar right even under our neoliberal 1st A law.
Jew haters firebombed Adass Israel in Melbourne with people inside. We are a tiny interconnected family of world Jewry. Our spaces everywhere are under attack, threat, and disruption. In solidarity 🇦🇺 🎗️
