A 2024 law that banned landlords from using rent-setting algorithms has yet to produce a single lawsuit.
It’s Back. Congress Gears Up for Year-End Fight Over Moratorium on AI Laws. | TechPolicy.Press
A proposed federal moratorium on enforcement of state AI laws failed last summer, but lawmakers have resurrected the idea, writes Cristiano Lima-Strong.
Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks
Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco
SF chief economist warns of an 'uptick in evictions' as AI companies wreck the city.
The fight over downloadable AI is not really about a ban - Sensemaker
Companies want access, Anthropic wants testing, and Washington and Beijing are arguing over alleged copying.
Protect Me From What I Want
Over on Mastodon, there are many people who enjoy not being in the grip of software like Facebook or Twitter that single-mindedly tries to maximize “engagement”, which means the amount of time you stare at the screen so they can show you ads. These algorithms don’t care what they’re showing you and if it turns out that showing you exclusively stories vilifying or praising Donald Trump (depending) maximizes engagement, then that’s what you’ll see. So the chant over there is “No algorithms on Mastodon!” This chant is wrong, and the discussion around it teaches us that we need clarity on what algorithms are, what moral weight they can carry, and whether they can be avoided. (Spoiler: They can’t.)
AI and Doctrinal Collapse
Artificial intelligence runs on data. But the two legal regimes that govern data—information privacy law and copyright law—are under pressure. Formally, each re
Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI - Impact of Social Sciences
Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.
It's open season for refusing AI
There's been a wave of successful efforts to ban, reject and shut down AI.
Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data
Scraping user data to train AI models is a growing concern, and Mastodon has responded by banning the use of its content for such purposes.
AI Has Ruined the Job Market
Maybe flawed people were better than brute algorithms.
ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.
An Anti-License Manifesto
software licenses are unavoidably a legal tool. the legal system, in the US and approximately everywhere else, is not a machine that leads to justice. therefore, software licenses do not lead to justice.
AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers
AI slop is ripping up the social contract between maintainers and contributors essential to open source development. Practitioners have been repeatedly assured that AI would supercharge their communities, but so far that hasn’t been the case. Just look at what happened last month. Mitchell Hashimoto’s Ghostty implemented a zero-tolerance policy where submitting bad AI-generated code
NYC school system to ban AI for elementary, middle school students
The Department of Education is unveiling new guidelines following backlash.
Exclusive: Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites, licensing firm says
Multiple artificial intelligence companies are circumventing a common web standard used by publishers to block the scraping of their content for use in generative AI systems, content licensing startup TollBit has told publishers.
Child Predators Turn to Open-Source AI to Make Unlimited Illegal Images
Open-source AI tools are fueling a rise in explicit child sexual images, and current laws are ill-equipped to stop it
