David Newhoff
@davidnewhoff.bsky.social
Writer, copyright expert, rights advocate. www.DavidNewhoff.com
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"What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
"What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
"... the human authorship doctrine, which Thaler seeks to erase, is not a philosophy unique to the views of Director Perlmutter..."
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Thaler Asks the Court to Make Copyright Policy - The Illusion of More
In asking the Supreme Court to hold its petition for certiorari, Dr. Thaler seeks to distract from the legal question presented.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"... the human authorship doctrine, which Thaler seeks to erase, is not a philosophy unique to the views of Director Perlmutter..."
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In light of Big Tech's legacy of disdain for human rights and human dignity, it may be fair to wonder whether chatbot-assisted suicide is not seen by developers as a feature rather than a bug. When does this end? www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In light of Big Tech's legacy of disdain for human rights and human dignity, it may be fair to wonder whether chatbot-assisted suicide is not seen by developers as a feature rather than a bug. When does this end? www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Reposted by David Newhoff
We should be talking about "Kavanaugh Abductions."
U.S. citizens are disappearing into detention.
U.S. citizens are disappearing into detention.
A big shakeup at ICE isn't reshuffling the deck chairs on the U-Boat. More "Kavanaugh Stops," more violent arrests, and more tear gas chaos is coming very soon to Philly and a slew of other big cities
The terror we see in Chicago is going national. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The terror we see in Chicago is going national. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
How an ICE shakeup will bring Chicago-level terror to Philly | Will Bunch
The brutal arrest tactics and stepped-up immigration raids that have roiled Chicago are coming to Philly after an ICE shakeup.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We should be talking about "Kavanaugh Abductions."
U.S. citizens are disappearing into detention.
U.S. citizens are disappearing into detention.
"If the Supreme Court agrees to review the case, I hope it will not be distracted by the selection and arrangement of precedent employed in the sleight of hand at work in Thaler’s arguments—all true out of context, all fatal in context."
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Dr. Thaler Asks SCOTUS to Decide the GAI Authorship Question - The Illusion of More
Dr. Stephen Thaler wants SCOTUS to agree that humans are not necessary for copyright to attach to works of expression.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"If the Supreme Court agrees to review the case, I hope it will not be distracted by the selection and arrangement of precedent employed in the sleight of hand at work in Thaler’s arguments—all true out of context, all fatal in context."
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“With generative AI, Big Tech—again with the help of many in IP academia—now promotes the alleged value of ‘democratizing’ the production of works, finally revealing democratization as the anti-humanist and, therefore, anti-democratic term that it truly is.”
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Rescuing Democracy from Democratization - The Illusion of More
Regarding intellectual property and artificial intelligence, it is essential to rescue democracy from democratization.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
“With generative AI, Big Tech—again with the help of many in IP academia—now promotes the alleged value of ‘democratizing’ the production of works, finally revealing democratization as the anti-humanist and, therefore, anti-democratic term that it truly is.”
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@davidnewhoff.bsky.social
That word "democratization" should be rejected by anyone who cares about democracy.
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Rescuing Democracy from Democratization - The Illusion of More
Regarding intellectual property and artificial intelligence, it is essential to rescue democracy from democratization.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
That word "democratization" should be rejected by anyone who cares about democracy.
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"...we confront an authoritarianism that we recognize from history paired with a threat of technological feudalism that is unprecedented."
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Rescuing Democracy from Democratization - The Illusion of More
Regarding intellectual property and artificial intelligence, it is essential to rescue democracy from democratization.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"...we confront an authoritarianism that we recognize from history paired with a threat of technological feudalism that is unprecedented."
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"We don't need to guess what happens without meaningful oversight. We're living with the consequences right now. The question is what we do differently this time. Real accountability should mean independent safety testing before deployment.."
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When "Move Fast and Break Things" Breaks People: What Social Media's Reckoning Teaches Us About AI
There’s an old adage: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. It’s time to apply the lessons of the social media platforms to AI. Anything less would be foolish.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"We don't need to guess what happens without meaningful oversight. We're living with the consequences right now. The question is what we do differently this time. Real accountability should mean independent safety testing before deployment.."
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www.digitalcitizensalliance.org/news/press-r...
Limiting constraints in the creative process has its pros and cons. illusionofmore.com/on-ai-removi...
On AI Removing Creative Constraints - The Illusion of More
Notwithstanding some valuable applications of GAI, the idea that artistic expression functions without constraints is misguided.
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October 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Limiting constraints in the creative process has its pros and cons. illusionofmore.com/on-ai-removi...
"... GAI...reframes the question of what it means to create works of expression in the first place. And this includes the question as to whether removing “constraints” is either conducive or harmful to the creative process."
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On AI Removing Creative Constraints - The Illusion of More
Notwithstanding some valuable applications of GAI, the idea that artistic expression functions without constraints is misguided.
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October 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"... GAI...reframes the question of what it means to create works of expression in the first place. And this includes the question as to whether removing “constraints” is either conducive or harmful to the creative process."
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#Photographers, We're hosting a free #copyrirght webinar for members of Photographic Society of America. Tomorrow 6p ET. Join us! psaphotoworldwide.org/Login.aspx
October 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#Photographers, We're hosting a free #copyrirght webinar for members of Photographic Society of America. Tomorrow 6p ET. Join us! psaphotoworldwide.org/Login.aspx
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I genuinely wonder how #TemuGoebbels thinks this going to end. The real Goebbels ended his story murdering his 5 kids in Hitler’s bunker before shooting his wife, then himself & had their bodies burned so the people couldn’t abuse their corpses for revenge like they did w Mussolini.
#NurembergWaits
#NurembergWaits
“I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil,” Miller’s cousin wrote in a July Facebook post that resurfaced over the weekend. “This is not by accident, but by design. Your design, Stephen.”
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Stephen Miller’s Own Cousin Calls Him the “Face of Evil”
Alisa Kasmer says Stephen Miller has betrayed all of their family values.
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October 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I genuinely wonder how #TemuGoebbels thinks this going to end. The real Goebbels ended his story murdering his 5 kids in Hitler’s bunker before shooting his wife, then himself & had their bodies burned so the people couldn’t abuse their corpses for revenge like they did w Mussolini.
#NurembergWaits
#NurembergWaits
As tragic cases like Garcia v. Companion AI and Raine v. Open AI proceed, expect to see the defendants argue the speech right to avoid liability. Some discussion...
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Are AI Outputs Protected Speech? - The Illusion of More
AI companionship has already led to the death of teens and causes psychological harm. Can developers argue that the bot's outputs are speech?
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October 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
As tragic cases like Garcia v. Companion AI and Raine v. Open AI proceed, expect to see the defendants argue the speech right to avoid liability. Some discussion...
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Kid Rock. Fashion critic.
Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.
October 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Kid Rock. Fashion critic.
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Republicans now apply the anti-vax model across the board: Something (vaccines, basic government functioning, the economy) works well enough for so long that they start to blame the thing itself for often imaginary problems. They break the thing. And now we wait for the consequences.
RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Republicans now apply the anti-vax model across the board: Something (vaccines, basic government functioning, the economy) works well enough for so long that they start to blame the thing itself for often imaginary problems. They break the thing. And now we wait for the consequences.
"But Sam is post-rights. The question is: if he’s post creative rights, can we honestly believe he isn’t effectively post other kinds of rights?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde
His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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October 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"But Sam is post-rights. The question is: if he’s post creative rights, can we honestly believe he isn’t effectively post other kinds of rights?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Many arguments advocating the view that AI training does not conflict with copyright rights share a common fallacy, namely that AI outputs represent “competitive” works that copyright law was intended to promote." illusionofmore.com/ai-works-do-...
AI Works Do Not “Compete” with Works of Authorship - The Illusion of More
Claims that AI outputs "compete" with works of authorship are meant to undermine market dilution as a consideration under fair use.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"Many arguments advocating the view that AI training does not conflict with copyright rights share a common fallacy, namely that AI outputs represent “competitive” works that copyright law was intended to promote." illusionofmore.com/ai-works-do-...
RightsClick, Inc is looking forward to hosting this webinar for members of the Photographic Society of America. lnkd.in/e_k37iZn
October 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
RightsClick, Inc is looking forward to hosting this webinar for members of the Photographic Society of America. lnkd.in/e_k37iZn
"Simply put, if development of AI severely degrades the incentive of people to create new works, then both the creative economy and the AI models will collapse."
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Sound AI Policy Demands Protecting Diverse Expression - The Illusion of More
Contrary to the claim that copyright rights cannot be allowed to stymie AI development, protecting diverse expression is essential.
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September 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Simply put, if development of AI severely degrades the incentive of people to create new works, then both the creative economy and the AI models will collapse."
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"...policymakers should take note that America’s diversity of expression is a critical advantage in developing world-class artificial intelligence (AI)." illusionofmore.com/sound-ai-pol...
Sound AI Policy Demands Protecting Diverse Expression - The Illusion of More
Contrary to the claim that copyright rights cannot be allowed to stymie AI development, protecting diverse expression is essential.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"...policymakers should take note that America’s diversity of expression is a critical advantage in developing world-class artificial intelligence (AI)." illusionofmore.com/sound-ai-pol...
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Hegseth is by far the worst in his job in history. And that’s including the three months when Rutherford B. Hayes mistakenly named a walrus in a top hat the Secretary of War.
September 26, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Hegseth is by far the worst in his job in history. And that’s including the three months when Rutherford B. Hayes mistakenly named a walrus in a top hat the Secretary of War.
"If the tone of the senate hearing and the opinion of the court so far in the Garcia case are any indication, Big Tech may not so easily shape-shift its way around AI product liability as it has with the harm caused by social media." illusionofmore.com/are-ai-outpu...
Are AI Outputs Protected Speech? - The Illusion of More
AI companionship has already led to the death of teens and causes psychological harm. Can developers argue that the bot's outputs are speech?
illusionofmore.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"If the tone of the senate hearing and the opinion of the court so far in the Garcia case are any indication, Big Tech may not so easily shape-shift its way around AI product liability as it has with the harm caused by social media." illusionofmore.com/are-ai-outpu...
The argument that AI training is per se fair use is wishful thinking. It would also be bad law. illusionofmore.com/public-knowl...
Public Knowledge Post on AI & Fair Use Misses the Mark - The Illusion of More
Public Knowledge issues a PR statement disguised as a copyright argument claiming that AI training is per se fair use.
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September 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The argument that AI training is per se fair use is wishful thinking. It would also be bad law. illusionofmore.com/public-knowl...