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How we can survive AI. Ben Sasse’s WSJ Op-Ed

Ben Sasse has Stage 4 metatastic cancer. Based on his initial 4-month prognosis, he should be already dead as he discussed recently. In today’s Wall Street Journal, he wrote an Op-Ed on “Habits for Humanity in the Age of AI.” The article is “adapted from his speech accepting the Manhattan Institute’s Alexander Hamilton Award on…
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Amid protest by 6,000 artists, Christie’s holds successful auction of AI-generated artworks, exceeding expected sales

Christie’s first auction for all AI-generated artworks went off without a hitch, despite the protest, in the form of an open letter, of 6,492 artists who demanded Christie’s to cancel the entire auction due to the creative use of AI. The auction had sales of the AI artworks of prominent artists, including Refik Anadol, Holly…
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UK musicians revolt at AI copyright proposal to allow training subject to authors’ opt out. Release Silent Album as protest.

The AI backlash is in full bloom in the UK. The government entertained a proposal to allow AI training with copyrighted works, subject to authors’ ability to opt out. But that triggered a huge outcry of turning copyright on its head. Now, over 1,000 artists, including Annie Lennox, Kate Bush, and Billy Ocean, have released…
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Cancel culture strikes Christie’s auction of AI art

A group of 5,000 plus artists organized an open letter demanding that Christie’s cancel its auction involving AI artworks from the artists Refik Anadol, Holly Herron & Matt Dryhurst, Robbie Barrot and Ronan Barrot, Harold Cohen, Pindar Van Arman, Claire Silver, and others. (Update: we found the webpage listing all 34 lots.) Without identifying any…
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US Copyright Office issues Report on Economic Implications of AI for Copyright Policy

Somewhat surprisingly, the Copyright Office just issued another report (on the heels of its authorship and AI report). This one is edited by Brent Lutes, the Chief Economist of the Copyright. The Report analyzes The Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Copyright Policy. Here’s ChatGPT’s summary of the Report: Below is a bullet point summary…
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Chief Justice Roberts discusses AI in remarkable Year-End Report

Not to be outdone by Pope Francis, who devoted his annual World Day of Peace address to AI, Chief Justice John Roberts just published his Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary. In a sweeping historical discussion of advances in new techonologies dating back to electricity, Chief Justice Roberts focuses his Year-End Report on AI and…
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Category: AI and Society

How we can survive AI. Ben Sasse’s WSJ Op-Ed

Amid protest by 6,000 artists, Christie’s holds successful auction of AI-generated artworks, exceeding expected sales

UK musicians revolt at AI copyright proposal to allow training subject to authors’ opt out. Release Silent Album as protest.

Cancel culture strikes Christie’s auction of AI art

US Copyright Office issues Report on Economic Implications of AI for Copyright Policy

Chief Justice Roberts discusses AI in remarkable Year-End Report