I’m on holiday, so I’m not likely to be writing much until next year unless there’s a big development. I’ve been hearing good things about OpenAI’s latest model, so I asked it to write a blog post about AI sentience in my style, and here is the result. It lacks Read more…
On October 30 2024, the District Court of Amsterdam decided on a very interesting case about copyright infringement of RSS feeds, and I believe that some of the legal issues involved could prove to be relevant to open legal issues surrounding AI and copyright, particularly about the application of the Read more…
We are in the midst of a substantial technological revolution embodied by artificial intelligence, and whilst the technology is frequently overhyped, there is little doubt that it will continue to exert a significant influence on everyday life. Technological developments have been accompanied by lawsuits, policy papers, and even legislative action Read more…
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 German here, courtesy of Mirko Brüß). In short, LAION was successful in its defence against Read more…
With the release of Grok 2, Twitter’s latest model, there has been a growing number of images depicting fictional characters as well as celebrities and public personalities on the social media platform, sometimes with hilarious results, and often quite disturbing. This has resulted in a surprising number of people asking Read more…
My social media timeline has started filling up with angry reactions to the news that several academic publishers have been licensing academic works to AI companies for training purposes without having consulted the authors of those works. I can understand the anger and frustration that this news have generated, so Read more…
It’s been an interesting couple of years here in Llama Towers. While AI has long been a subject of interest to this blog, it’s undeniable that the subject has exploded recently due to the growing number of generative AI tools made available to the wider public. Only two years ago Read more…
If you’re at all interested in artificial intelligence, and if you’re reading this I suspect that you may be, you will probably already be aware about the dispute between OpenAI and actress Scarlett Johansson. On May 13, OpenAI revealed a new version of ChatGPT, and also announced that it would Read more…
There’s growing controversy online about the use of the word “delve” as an easy detector of whether a text has been written by an AI. I have to admit that I’m personally sad to see the word “delve” go, I realised that I used it regularly, even before AI (hey, Read more…
The European Parliament has approved the AI Act (voted version here), setting in motion its publication in the official journal in the next few months (given further edits). While full implementation will take place between 2025 and 2026, we will start seeing its effects sooner rather than later as AI Read more…