There’s a fascinating legal conflict brewing online that has really caught my attention. This story has everything: niche online communities, obscure horror fandom, internet drama, independent film-making, misappropriation of internet culture, and Creative Commons licences. It involves SCP (Secure. Contain. Read more
It’s been a quiet month here at Llama Towers because I have been writing an article on memorisation and I haven’t had the right mental space to blog, so this will be a bit of a short one. I was Read more
While a lot of the attention in the AI and copyright space has gone to the hundreds of ongoing cases in the US, courts around the world have been tackling the question of copyright infringement already, with several landmark decisions Read more
One of my favourite science fiction novels is ‘Rainbows End‘ by Vernor Vinge. The year is 2025 (yes, seriously), and the world is a mixture of the familiar and the bizarre. Advances in medicine allow older people to become mobile Read more
A fascinating ruling from the High Court of Delhi in India regarding the very high-profile case of ANI Media v OpenAI (decision here). Asian News International (ANI) is one of India’s largest news agencies, which supplies text and video syndication Read more
A few days ago there was an interesting post by Andrew Curran that got a lot of responses which was discussing why AI in science fiction often does not have the capabilities that AI already has in reality. I thoroughly Read more
For years I was not really interested in the subject of AI consciousness, it was one of those subjects that I equated with unreasonableness at the extremes of the debate, but in which I did not have any strong opinions. Read more
Back in 2013, Google developed a controversial piece of gear that has long lived in infamy, Google Glass. This was an interesting proto-AR wearable device that contained a camera, earphones, a touchpad, and a small display that was heralded as Read more
There’s a small indie game from 2013 that I think about often. In Lucas Pope’s Papers, Please you play an immigration inspector at the border of the gloriously miserable communist republic of Arstotzka, and your entire job is to scrutinise Read more
Even by the standards of AI development, where each month often feels like a year, this has been quite the week. Back in April, Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos, a frontier model that was supposed to be exceptionally capable of finding Read more