Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their AI training datasets - this bill would force them.
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Zachary Berger
“Adjunctification is no longer only a university labor problem; it is becoming one of the models through which modern life organizes human beings: necessary, available, temporary, and always adjustable.“
People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.
This guy gets it.
Nuke it from orbit, and salt the earth.
Probably my favourite thing Ian Fleming wrote was this essay on how he wrote the Bond novels, which is vile, revealing and full of genuinely good advice and observations
lithub.com/ian-fleming-...
Seems ... bad.
Important work by the Author's Guild to establish rules of the road for AI. Impressed by the bipartisan nature of the work, particularly Senator Blackburn's framework that unauthorized AI training on copyrighted works does not qualify as fair use.
authorsguild.org/news/authors...
@authorsguild.org
There is no literary spy—and perhaps no literary character, full stop—more famous than James Bond, which should already be enough of an argument for any aspiring writer, but particularly any aspiri…
1/ 🧵 OMB is advancing a proposed rule that would destroy the American scientific enterprise. Randos keep disagreeing with my 'here's how to fight it'
I do this for a living. So before the "how," here's the "who" --- and why you should listen to me on this one.
Citizen of Somewhere Else
People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.
On May 20 and 21, Authors Guild legal staff and board members went to Washington, D.C., to remind members of Congress of the importance of free speech and make the case that artificial intelligence mu...
authorsguild.org
The Godyssey Podcast
Michael Strode
"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself."
working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...
Genel Jumalon 🍉
Martin Concagh
Genel Jumalon 🍉
working-mass.com
By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. They enter with a...
this story is batshit insane www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
It speaks incredibly well to the Fleming estate that while they have (perfectly reasonably) made a lot of money out of James Bond, they haven’t mutilated the original books or tried to soft soap how vile Fleming clearly is in order to get even more money, I think.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved.
White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants
These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
Managed to find several of the James Bond audiobooks at a car boot sale and having made it most of the way through Casino Royale I am genuinely fascinated by the combination of Fleming clearly writing Bond as a monster and the bits where Fleming is clearly himself a monster.
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