Andres Guadamuz
@technollama.bsky.social
Law and technology academic. Posts about copyright law, internet regulation, AI, llamas, pandas, and cats. Rare dual Tico-British citizen.
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"I hate The Clash". That noise you heard was the collective gasp of millions of Gen-Xers.
I'm sure that I've identified a Like booster network on X that works for some anti AI accounts, the speed of likes and views don't appear legit.
The same thing happened to pre-Web cyberpunk, where the internet was described as mostly directories and dial-up services that couldn't talk to each other, and hacking was mostly about information retrieval.
Currently reading "Project Hail Mary", really enjoying it, good book for the beach. It was published in 2021, and the one aspect that aged badly is how stupid the onboard computer is. Even November '22 ChatGPT would have been smarter, it's amazing how fast things have moved.
CHIEF: "Conan, what is best in life?"
CONAN: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."
The enemy:
CONAN: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."
The enemy:
I take the view that every white hair brings me closer to being a wizard.
a man with a beard and a hat is standing in front of a row of empty seats .
ALT: a man with a beard and a hat is standing in front of a row of empty seats .
media.tenor.com
I'm officially on vacation and yet I spent the day working.
Thanks!
LAION wins copyright infringement lawsuit in German court
Copyright AI nerds have been eagerly awaiting a decision in the German case of Kneschke v LAION (previous blog post about the case here), and yesterday we got a ruling (text of the decision in Germ…
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Here's my discussion on the first decision. www.technollama.co.uk/laion-wins-c...
There's no link to the decision, but according to the report there are a couple of very interesting points: Firstly, Art 4 DSM covers AI training, can we finally declare this meme dead? Secondly, opt-outs have to be in machine-readable format.
AI and Copyright: Hamburg Court of Appeal Rejects Appeal in LAION Case | Grünecker
In the proceeding brought by a photographer against LAION e.V., the Court of Appeal dismissed the plaintiffs' appeal and confirmed the first-instance judgment of the Regional Court of Hamburg.
grunecker.de
Big news out of Germany. The appeal in Kneschke v LAION has been rejected, LAION wins again. grunecker.de/en/insights/...
Thinking of a new AI policy in essays. If the student used AI to write it, I will mark it with AI and give feedback with AI.
Machines marking machines.
Machines marking machines.
I thought about writing a post about the Disney - OpenAI deal here, but seeing the level of responses I might as well not.
Reposted by Andrés Guadamuz
Disney and OpenAI have made a surprise deal – what happens next?
In a stunning reversal, Disney has changed tack with regard to safeguarding its copyrighted characters from incorporation into AI tools – perhaps a sign that no one can stem the tide of AI
www.newscientist.com
Disney and OpenAI just made a deal that has surprised onlookers - and I'd wager shocked people within both companies. For @newscientist.com I tried to answer what happens next? www.newscientist.com/article/2508...
So I think that it's happening mostly from bad prompts if you're not familiar with the case, you may miss important bits.
It seems to be mostly when students ask about a case generally and not specifics about it. So for example I have a seminar question on the UK case Chokri v Sheeran dealing with access and similarity, but chatbots concentrated on the similarity part and not access.
Interestingly, I'm starting to see more questions that seem to come directly from the disparity between what the text of a case says, and what chatbots say about a case. I just had to tell a student to read the case because the answer was there.
It's crazy that Europe should be castigated by a corrupt plutocracy with no balance of power, but here we are.
One of those days when I’m tempted to quit and open a bar on a Costa Rican beach. I love academia, but some days the sheer level of snobbery really drags me down.
Probably a very boring answer under English Tort law though, I don't think the case meets the three tests for negligence: duty of care, breach of duty, and causation.
It would be a fun seminar question though.
It would be a fun seminar question though.
Good point, I try not too mention it as much as it hasn't been applied, but it's true that it was another inspiration for the EU TDM exception.
Generative AI as we know it dates back from 2014 (at least).
We need to talk about the EU TDM exception and AI training
Following the recent decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and last year's Kneschke v LAION, we now have two German courts grappling with the applicability of the text and data mining exceptions to AI training. Despite arriving at different outcomes, LAION won, OpenAI lost, both decisions share something important: they confirm that the TDM exception in Article 4 of the…
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We need to talk about the EU TDM exception and AI training
Following the recent decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and last year's Kneschke v LAION, we now have two German courts grappling with the applicability of the text and data mining exceptions to AI training. Despite arriving at different outcomes,…
Following the recent decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and last year's Kneschke v LAION, we now have two German courts grappling with the applicability of the text and data mining exceptions to AI training. Despite arriving at different outcomes,…
It would appear that ChatGPT has noticed a trend in my prompts.
I feel it in my bones. 2026 will finally be the year of the Linux desktop.
They're dying.
I understand and agree, the CC licences are not applicable here. Just restating a couple of points about derivatives and styles.
LLMs are not derivative works of the xkcd cartoons.
The xkcd style is not protectable, nothing in these slides is a direct infringement of specific xkcd cartoons, it just uses a style.