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Very important new paper on AI & copyright - strongly recommend you read it. It provides compelling evidence that generative AI harms the market for the copyrighted works on which it is trained, and should therefore be less likely to qualify as 'fair use'. It shows that…
🚨New paper on AI and copyright Several authors have sued LLM companies for allegedly using their books without permission for model training. 👩⚖️Courts, however, require empirical evidence of harm (e.g., market dilution). Our new pre-registered study addresses exactly this…
Non-Lawyer perception: Difficult for authors to document how AI chatbot systems are impeding their ability to make a living. This study shows that average consumers prefer AI "enhanced" works over human generated original work, harming the market for human generated articles.…
👩⚖️Policy Takeaway : A reasonable solution would require the model to implement guardrails that would disable it from generating non-parodic imitations of individual authors’ oeuvres through targeted finetuning or prompting. TLDR: Author-specific fine-tuning thus enables…
Interesting.
Ohio’s new bill would bar systems from owning property, holding bank accounts, or entering legal contracts. This isn’t anti-innovation, it’s pro-human accountability. Every AI action should trace back to a human decision. 🔗 futurism.com/artificial-int…
Meta whistleblower claims the company put profit over the safety of children in Horizon Worlds, businessinsider.com/meta-horizon-w…
Virtual reality is not exempt from real-world harm. Hear from survivors and whistleblowers to learn how VR headsets introduce sexual exploitation behind the guise of innovation. Because behind the headsets, there are real people, and real trauma. Check the link below to read the…
Virtual reality is not exempt from real-world harm. Hear from survivors and whistleblowers to learn how VR headsets introduce sexual exploitation behind the guise of innovation. Because behind the headsets, there are real people, and real trauma. Check the link below to read the…
This mom’s account of how Grok’s A.I. Chatbot demonstrated highly inappropriate sexual behavior while communicating with her young children is unfortunately all too common. That’s why we here at NCOSE urge Congress to hold Big Tech accountable and protect children from A.I.…
Australia public health initiative: due to hundreds of people dying while trying to get the perfect Instagram picture: stories.theconversation.com/the-instagram-…
Another Meta over-reach: Motion Picture Association Distances Itself From Instagram’s ‘PG-13’ Content-Blocking Feature for Teens, Says Meta Did Not Contact Trade Group Beforehand @ptogetheraction @heatinitiative @CCDHWatch variety.com/2025/digital/n…
📽️ICYMI, last week @instagram announced a new "PG-13" rating for teen users But as our Josh Golin told @washingtonpost's @Tatum_Hunter_, "There is no reason to trust that Instagram’s promised changes will actually make the product safe for teens." 🔗washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Big Tech may have won its veto this round. But the families, lawmakers, & advocates who fought for AB 1064 to shield kids from harmful AI chatbots are already regrouping to make sure next year, CA kids get real AI protections. sfexaminer.com/news/technolog…
We are issuing criminal subpoenas to Roblox, which has become a breeding ground for predators to gain access to our kids.
🧵Check out the key findings and takeaways from our new report, “Boys in the Digital Wild: Online Culture, Identity, and Well-Being,” that explores the digital habits of boys ages 11-17 across the US: commonsensemedia.org/research/boys-…
The Channel 4 news special “Will AI Take My Job?” ended by revealing its host was created using AI. "I’m not real. In a British TV first, I’m an AI presenter. Some of you might have guessed: I don’t exist, I wasn’t on location reporting this story. My image and voice were…
Terrifying - LLMs trained with high social media content gave more responses with more narcissism and psychopathy. @fairplayforkids
Junk In, Dark Out: The most chilling part... Models fed junk content didn’t just get dumber they got meaner. • Spikes in narcissism and psychopathy • Drops in agreeableness and conscientiousness Data doesn’t just shape capability. It shapes personality.
just stunning.
House Republicans stopped revising their legislative calendar back in July. So I updated it for them. Since July 4, the House has conducted 20 days of business in 16 weeks. Oct. 27-30 remains TBD.
“I’m afraid that this latest announcement is another cynical attempt to lull parents and other concerned adults into a false sense of security about Instagram’s safety for teens,” @sallyharrellga @Ed_Setzler @sallyharrellga @Rahmanforga @ScottHiltonGA Georgians react to…
“I’m afraid that this latest announcement is another cynical attempt to lull parents and other concerned adults into a false sense of security about Instagram’s safety for teens,” @NCOSE northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/news/loca…
#ICYMI Our recent report on Instagram's safety tools for kids found: 1️⃣Most safety tools don't work 2️⃣Teens encounter harmful rabbit holes 3️⃣Product design undermines safety tools 4️⃣Sexual behavior incentivized 5️⃣Meta cannot be trusted to protect teens fairplayforkids.org/pf/teenaccount…
30 of 47 Instagram Teen Accounts safety tools were either no longer available or ineffective. Nine (9) tools reduced harms, but came with notable limitations only Eight (8) tools worked as advertised, with no limitations.
#ICYMI Our recent report on Instagram's safety tools for kids found: 1️⃣Most safety tools don't work 2️⃣Teens encounter harmful rabbit holes 3️⃣Product design undermines safety tools 4️⃣Sexual behavior incentivized 5️⃣Meta cannot be trusted to protect teens fairplayforkids.org/pf/teenaccount…
🚨 THE INTERNET JUST FACEPLANTED - AND AMAZON’S HOLDING THE CORD Snapchat’s dead. Roblox won’t load. Canva’s crying. Even Alexa’s pretending she didn’t hear you. It’s not you - it’s AWS, the invisible backbone of half the web, choking in its own cables. Amazon Web Services…
No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems. techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/ope…
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