Simple country tech law professor, multidisciplinary dilettante, “idea generator.” Crocs, fizzy water, ska. Someone is wrong on the Internet and it’s probably me. No legal or good advice; opinions my own, bad. On posting hiatus.
Blake E. Reid
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👀 The House has passed the Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act, which would reconfigure the appointment process for the Librarian of Congress and the Register of Copyrights. The devil's in the details, separation-of-powers-wise, so I'm waiting to see the authoritative text before I react.
Tangentially, the ability for the full House to pass a bill without publicly posting the final text sure is problematic.
On the labor side, he seems to presume that knowledge work is mostly just fake, rote tasks *and* that no one was ever smart enough to use their computer to automate or perform those tasks more efficiently before generative AI came along. 3/4
Like much AI boosterism, this interview reveals more about the booster's own limited vision of humanity, work, and the pre-AI generative capabilities of computers (which makes sense given the company he works for and its responsibility for some of the most user-hostile software ever conceived). 4/4
His method for assessing consumer utility ~boils down to conflating the *quantity* of use (mostly of "free" versions of highly subsidized generative AI services) with the capability to properly perform highly elastic credence services that many people need but can't afford. 2/4
