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Why is Mark Zuckerberg laying off thousands of employees?
Read more: Why is Mark Zuckerberg laying off thousands of employees?Meta is laying off 8,000 more employees globally, representing 10% of its workforce. A 10% reduction in employees is comparable to the controversial reduction of federal employees at the behest of DOGE. But Meta’s 2026 layoffs are more than that. They follow previous layoffs of 11,000 in 2022 (13% of its workforce then) and 10,000…
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Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 Nobel Prize winner in literature, draws anti-AI flak for admitting the benefits of using AI to research and brainstorm for her writing
Read more: Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 Nobel Prize winner in literature, draws anti-AI flak for admitting the benefits of using AI to research and brainstorm for her writingThe anti-AI backlash is getting bad. Real bad. The acclaimed author and Nobel Prize winner in literature Olga Tokarczuk is receiving blowback for comments she made during a recent interview in Poland. Tokarrczuk reportedly said (machine translated), as reported by My Company Polska: “The reality is that in today’s market, absolutely no publisher would be…
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University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt over AI, as well as past “abuser” allegation
Read more: University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt over AI, as well as past “abuser” allegationA group of students at University of Arizona asked the University for the “Immediate Removal of Eric Schmidt as the UA 2026 Commencement Speaker.” The students stated: “We, the undersigned students of the University of Arizona, along with concerned staff, faculty, and community members, join to urge you to stand with survivors of sexual violence…
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How we can survive AI. Ben Sasse’s WSJ Op-Ed
Read more: How we can survive AI. Ben Sasse’s WSJ Op-EdBen 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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Hachette Book Group shelves “Shy Girl” horror novel after suspecting it is AI-generated
Read more: Hachette Book Group shelves “Shy Girl” horror novel after suspecting it is AI-generatedA horror story turned into a nightmare for Hachette Book Group. After rabid Internet sleuths surmised that a recent horror novel “Shy Girl” by Mia Ballard contained large portions that were AI-generated, Hachette reportedly did its own investigation and decided to pull the book from shelves in UK and online–and to nix the planned publication…
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10,000 authors publish empty book “Don’t Steal this Book” v. AI
Read more: 10,000 authors publish empty book “Don’t Steal this Book” v. AIA group of 10,000 writers joined a protest book titled “Don’t Steal this Book,” to protest AI. It was distributed at the London Book Fair last week. Will it become a bestseller? The controversy stems from revelations from the copyright lawsuits in the United States that most, if not all, of the early LLMs developed…
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AI backlash: 3 open ChatGPT tabs spark allegations of AI use for Stranger Things show
Read more: AI backlash: 3 open ChatGPT tabs spark allegations of AI use for Stranger Things showJust to show you how triggering AI usage can be, Internet sleuths are running wild almost conspiracy theories that the Duffer Brothers relied on ChatGPT when creating Stranger Things Season 5. What’s the evidence? Apparently, a shot from the documentary about Stranger Things showing 3 open ChatGPT tabs on the brower while one of the…
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Partly AI-generated album cover for Jeremy Renner’s album receives copyright registration, with AI-generated elements excluded
Read more: Partly AI-generated album cover for Jeremy Renner’s album receives copyright registration, with AI-generated elements excludedRecord Street Music, the label behind Jeremy Renner’s album Love and Titanium, received a copyright registration for the album cover that was partly AI-generated. Basis for the claim of a work of authorship: “2-D artwork, The author?s contributions to the image consist of the following: author modified the abstracted bird at the top center of…
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AI copyright debate roils UK
Read more: AI copyright debate roils UKCountries seeking to become world leaders in AI development face a copyright dilemma: should it be copyright infringement to train AI models on large datasets consisting of copyrighted works? If so, what if AI other countries allow it and gain a competitive advantage in AI technology? Right now, the UK government is embroiled in a…
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UK musicians revolt at AI copyright proposal to allow training subject to authors’ opt out. Release Silent Album as protest.
Read more: 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…