Joy Brennan
@joybrennan.bsky.social
Reading and writing Buddhist philosophy, esp Yogacara & Zen. Teaching religion and philosophy at Kenyon College, leading Kokosing Zen Center (https://www.kokosingzencenter.org/), raising my daughter, learning the native trees & plants of central Ohio
Reposted by Joy Brennan
You may be interested in this piece I wrote about liability and the disingenuous indemnity offered by AI companies, including but not limited to OpenAI.
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When double indemnity means double jeopardy: An examination of Google/Microsoft/OpenAI’s…
by Neil Turkewitz
medium.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
You may be interested in this piece I wrote about liability and the disingenuous indemnity offered by AI companies, including but not limited to OpenAI.
@joybrennan.bsky.social
@joybrennan.bsky.social
I am interested! Thank you.
November 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I am interested! Thank you.
The stuff companies will argue in court because they know most of their users will never hear that they said it. I still try to tell old Fox-news loving ppl about how they went to court and argued that they do entertainment, not news, and therefore neednt be right about anything...
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The stuff companies will argue in court because they know most of their users will never hear that they said it. I still try to tell old Fox-news loving ppl about how they went to court and argued that they do entertainment, not news, and therefore neednt be right about anything...
I think that is right. I also think it's right that we have to train our characters in order to distinguish silly-sounding but good topics from silly-sounding because actually silly topics. I think about this a lot.
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I think that is right. I also think it's right that we have to train our characters in order to distinguish silly-sounding but good topics from silly-sounding because actually silly topics. I think about this a lot.
It is extremely silly. The philosopher Jo Wolff posted on here a week or so ago some quotation where Hans Jonas says we have to train our characters to discern what technologies are good to use.
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It is extremely silly. The philosopher Jo Wolff posted on here a week or so ago some quotation where Hans Jonas says we have to train our characters to discern what technologies are good to use.
I am not sure my position is sustainable, but for now I simply decline at every turn to engage the question because I simply do not want to talk to people who sound like those people in that comment section.
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I am not sure my position is sustainable, but for now I simply decline at every turn to engage the question because I simply do not want to talk to people who sound like those people in that comment section.
So OpenAI is saying that its users are criminally liable based on doing the thing with its product that OpenAI made & marketed the product as being able to do for users?
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
So OpenAI is saying that its users are criminally liable based on doing the thing with its product that OpenAI made & marketed the product as being able to do for users?
I went to Lilith Fair as a 16 year old teenage girl and it was awesome. Really want to watch this. Thanks for posting.
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I went to Lilith Fair as a 16 year old teenage girl and it was awesome. Really want to watch this. Thanks for posting.
Where is the thread? Any leads appreciated.
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Where is the thread? Any leads appreciated.
I was kidding, just to be clear. Of course I agree with you.
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I was kidding, just to be clear. Of course I agree with you.
Well we can't know what's in his heart, so though he walks like a crook, talks like a crook, and does things that conform to crook-ish behavior, we will never really know if he is a crook.
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Well we can't know what's in his heart, so though he walks like a crook, talks like a crook, and does things that conform to crook-ish behavior, we will never really know if he is a crook.
It's unbelievable!!!
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
It's unbelievable!!!
Yes! Right in between doing nothing and a mob of us tearing these m-effers limb from limb.
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Yes! Right in between doing nothing and a mob of us tearing these m-effers limb from limb.
Damn. This is a lot. Says so much that is so real: that people are often focused in and good at pointing out a thing that is in fact their own biggest blind-spot.
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Damn. This is a lot. Says so much that is so real: that people are often focused in and good at pointing out a thing that is in fact their own biggest blind-spot.
And already having moments of 7.
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
And already having moments of 7.
Thanks. I can believe someone from this admin would say something this dumb, so I get it.
November 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Thanks. I can believe someone from this admin would say something this dumb, so I get it.
Anyone have a screenshot? I am in the dark here.
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Anyone have a screenshot? I am in the dark here.