I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
James Grimmelmann
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Bad content drives out good.
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THE GUN IS GOOD
THE PENIS IS EVIL
articles that write about how "important" immigrant workers are to "the economy" without ever acknowledging that the reason they are important is that they can be treated worse for less pay
It's kind of amazing that in the year 2026, Westlaw can take a correctly formatted judicial opinion and leave the quotation marks correctly formatted as smart quotes, but convert the internal apostrophes to incorrect dumb quotes. What even is the pipeline here?
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
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It’s one thing to use AI heavily because you enjoy it, or because you like the things it enables you to do. It’s quite another to use it heavily because you’re leaning in to a dystopian vision of the future. Worst of all is to use the second—to act to make it true—as a way of justifying the first.
It may or may not be true that whether or not you race to use AI heavily right now will determine whether you’re part of a future wealthy elite ruling class or are left behind in poverty and powerlessness.
But if it is true, this strikes me as a deeply immoral future worth fighting hard against.
@afedercooper.bsky.social and I have a new paper that expands AI memorization tests to include near-verbatim copies, not just exact copies. We find that increases extraction/memorization of copyrighted content significantly. arxiv.org/abs/2603.24917
