Alex Kozak
@akozak.bsky.social
Fan of computers, empiricism, creativity, California. Consulting now, former: Public Policy at Google X, Google, Creative Commons
Internet scholars: Does anyone know of a *recent* study of the CIPA-compliant filtering provider landscape in US libraries and schools? Apparently the e-rate administrative entity doesn't collect that information.
October 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Internet scholars: Does anyone know of a *recent* study of the CIPA-compliant filtering provider landscape in US libraries and schools? Apparently the e-rate administrative entity doesn't collect that information.
Neighbors getting the carpentry they're paying for 😅
September 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Neighbors getting the carpentry they're paying for 😅
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Again, I know this will upset some AI haters, but I worry that in our efforts to stop all AI, we're going to end up shutting down the open internet in ways we won't easily get back.
We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else
A longtime open internet activist recently asked me whether I'd reversed my position on internet openness and copyright because of AI. The question caught me off guard—until I realized what he was seeing.…
A longtime open internet activist recently asked me whether I'd reversed my position on internet openness and copyright because of AI. The question caught me off guard—until I realized what he was seeing.…
We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else
A longtime open internet activist recently asked me whether I'd reversed my position on internet openness and copyright because of AI. The question caught me off guard—until I realized what he was seeing. Across the tech policy world, people who spent decades fighting for an open, accessible internet are now cheering as that same internet gets locked down, walled off, and restricted.
www.techdirt.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Again, I know this will upset some AI haters, but I worry that in our efforts to stop all AI, we're going to end up shutting down the open internet in ways we won't easily get back.
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Why didn't Salieri just get good?
August 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Why didn't Salieri just get good?
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New from me and @derekslater.bsky.social on @lawfaremedia.org: What History Can Teach Us About Copyright, AI, and ‘Market Floods’
What History Can Teach Us About Copyright, AI, and ‘Market Floods’
Although some fear that AI will flood the market, harming existing copyrighted works, historical examples seem to tell a different story.
www.lawfaremedia.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New from me and @derekslater.bsky.social on @lawfaremedia.org: What History Can Teach Us About Copyright, AI, and ‘Market Floods’
Hmm, proof of concept indeed. Must take forever on most computers...
#ESETResearch has discovered the first known AI-powered ransomware, which we named #PromptLock. The PromptLock malware uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts on the fly, which it then executes 1/7
August 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Hmm, proof of concept indeed. Must take forever on most computers...
Leave Banks out of all this 😭
July 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Leave Banks out of all this 😭
Feeling a little dumb for paying attention and counting votes on the state AI enforcement moratorium. Had an OK time and life is all about the ride I guess.
July 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Feeling a little dumb for paying attention and counting votes on the state AI enforcement moratorium. Had an OK time and life is all about the ride I guess.
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What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔
NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
June 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔
NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
Big ugc platforms already have lots of licensed content. Fair use and (c) exceptions is pro competition.
June 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Big ugc platforms already have lots of licensed content. Fair use and (c) exceptions is pro competition.
Amazon licensing the NYT recipe hub is sparking joy. Send help.
May 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Amazon licensing the NYT recipe hub is sparking joy. Send help.
TNG Chain of Command Part 2, but instead of Captain Picard it's two heavily diversified media conglomerates attempting to merge, and instead of 'five lights' it's ending DEI programs and journalistic independence. FCC is Cardassia, Schumer is Jelico
May 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
TNG Chain of Command Part 2, but instead of Captain Picard it's two heavily diversified media conglomerates attempting to merge, and instead of 'five lights' it's ending DEI programs and journalistic independence. FCC is Cardassia, Schumer is Jelico
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I regret to inform you this is a thing I just read with my own eyes (p 28) www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...
May 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I regret to inform you this is a thing I just read with my own eyes (p 28) www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...
Clay Shirky should write a follow-up book on synthetic friends called "Here Comes Nobody"
May 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Clay Shirky should write a follow-up book on synthetic friends called "Here Comes Nobody"
Calling for a pause on Men until we can figure this out
April 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Calling for a pause on Men until we can figure this out
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Filmmaker James Cameron with simple, cogent advice for the AI copyfight - focus on outputs, not training inputs. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
April 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Filmmaker James Cameron with simple, cogent advice for the AI copyfight - focus on outputs, not training inputs. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Reading between the lines, Schumer’s theory seems to be that SCOTUS is likely to rule on impoundment by September; that will crack the coalition dynamics that made it possible for House Rs to pass this CR; and budget talks will revert to “normal,” where House Rs can’t pass anything without D help.
Schumer tells me Republicans might try to jam Democrats again in September, but thinks Trump will be less popular then and Republican appropriators might be more willing to stand up to him. He said they refused to do so now.
March 14, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Reading between the lines, Schumer’s theory seems to be that SCOTUS is likely to rule on impoundment by September; that will crack the coalition dynamics that made it possible for House Rs to pass this CR; and budget talks will revert to “normal,” where House Rs can’t pass anything without D help.
tired: give exclusive to mainstream outlet
wired: build audience and capacity for 1st party media
inspired: give exclusive to trump
wired: build audience and capacity for 1st party media
inspired: give exclusive to trump
February 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
tired: give exclusive to mainstream outlet
wired: build audience and capacity for 1st party media
inspired: give exclusive to trump
wired: build audience and capacity for 1st party media
inspired: give exclusive to trump
Damian Lewis is Kierkegaard
February 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Damian Lewis is Kierkegaard
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First AI fair use ruling, but probably of little predictive value for the big pending genAI cases, as it involved an AI developer that copied Westlaw headnotes to train a legal research model to directly compete with Westlaw (at least that's how the court describes it).
Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
wrd.cm
February 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
First AI fair use ruling, but probably of little predictive value for the big pending genAI cases, as it involved an AI developer that copied Westlaw headnotes to train a legal research model to directly compete with Westlaw (at least that's how the court describes it).
[as I'm being mechanically harvested to feed the solar overmind's insatiable appetites] this is definitely a violation of the llama acceptable use policy
February 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
[as I'm being mechanically harvested to feed the solar overmind's insatiable appetites] this is definitely a violation of the llama acceptable use policy
can't wait to see what hand gestures Australian teenagers show the government www.npr.org/2024/12/19/n...
January 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
can't wait to see what hand gestures Australian teenagers show the government www.npr.org/2024/12/19/n...
Fire sale!
Wow. With data center owners hunting for power, South Carolina utility Santee Cooper is accepting bids to buy the site of the disastrous V.C. Summer nuclear project, which cost $9 billion before being cancelled in 2017 with the twin reactors just 40% complete www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/b... 🔌💡 ⚛️
South Carolina Utility Wants to Sell Unfinished Nuclear Power Site (Gift Article)
The utility, Santee Cooper, is trying to sell two nuclear reactors that it abandoned in 2017 as tech companies seek new sources of electricity for data centers.
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Fire sale!
can't a guy just learn to play kashakas in his own home
January 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
can't a guy just learn to play kashakas in his own home