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Andres Guadamuz
@technollama.bsky.social
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Law and technology academic. Posts about copyright law, internet regulation, AI, llamas, pandas, and cats. Dual Tico-British citizen.
https://www.technollama.co.uk/

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 1d
"Oh wow, your Spanish is so good! You almost sound Costa Rican!"

Reposted by Andrés Guadamuz

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 2d
This new paper is very cool. But takeaway isn't "LLMs constantly leak books.' It’s "with the right (adversarial) procedure, you can extract memorized text." Prevalence in the wild is a separate question!!

arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 3d
Why are Americans so loud? I've never understood why, last night there was a couple at the bar and you could follow their conversation over the music and the rest of the people. Is it a learned behaviour? Is it a defence mechanism to scare off predators?

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 5d
Me typing "This is just a gentle reminder..."
a cat is sitting on a couch with its paws on a laptop .
ALT: a cat is sitting on a couch with its paws on a laptop .
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 11d
I'm delighted that people still hold faith in the US legal system.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 11d
Has anyone else noticed that the date of the invasion coincides with the capture of Manuel Antonio Noriega? January 3, 1990.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 11d
I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying this is the excuse they'll use to claim criminal jurisdiction. They already did this with Manuel Noriega in 1990.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 11d
That's not accurate. The US will claim criminal jurisdiction using actions that have an effect in the US, likely drug trafficking, which is how they have justified their actions up until now.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 13d
Happy New Year.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 13d
Happy Public Domain Day to all who celebrate. Remember to leave Steamboat Willie a plate of biscuits and a free beer, so he’ll release your favourite works into the commons.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 15d
That was just before I fell back to sleep and dreamt that I was president, I wonder if it was all the cheese I ate last night, I was feeling grandiose 😀

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 15d
It's meant as a criticism of relying on copyright to regulate AI 😱

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 15d
Last night I dreamt that because of a weird legal loophole, I became both president of the United States and Costa Rica, and I was sworn in on a train in Spanish. Even stranger, I sounded like Manousos Oviedo from Pluribus.

What should be my first act? Invade all the in-between countries?

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 15d
Weirdly I wrote that at 3am when I couldn't sleep, maybe that makes me sound robotic?

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 15d
We’re living through a truly 21st-century technological revolution, but we’re still relying on legal frameworks rooted in the 18th century and repeatedly stretched to fit 19th- and 20th-century media.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 15d
The only booming creative industry at the moment is copyright lawyers.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 15d
Yo tengo que ir ahora al Auto, donde me apunto a la promoción? 😅

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 15d
Finally joined Letterboxed! letterboxd.com/anduin13/
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Andres uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 68 films watched. Favorites: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Star Wars (1977), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Mat...
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 15d
Those have dropped like a bomb in the family whatsapp groups, everyone loves them.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 16d
Visiting family and friends, I’ve been surprised by how much AI has escaped online discourse and permeated so many conversations this holiday season, and how overwhelmingly positive those conversations have been. I’ve also been surprised by how popular AI slop has become.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 16d
I often think about this masterpiece.
Dogs playing poker.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 17d
They have a VPN blocker, if you use one the content doesn't play, it's more common.
I always found the licence extremely cumbersome, one of those systems that makes sense only if you don't know any other.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 17d
Sorry, that's what I meant, don't own a car so I don't know what it's called :)

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 17d
This one I do because that is the way it was setup :)
I'm happy paying for taxes to cover for everything I don't use, but this is one of the stupidest taxes in the world, inefficient, privately enforced, and by separating it from general taxation they've made it entirely avoidable.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 17d
It's honestly an issue of cost more than principle. I pay taxes in the UK and council tax even if I'm not there half of the time, which is fine by me. But it is increasingly difficult to feel an obligation to pay this specific tax, particularly because I can't even access it half of the time.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 17d
I like the algorithm though, I've discovered some jewels thanks to it.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 17d
So half of the time I can't even watch if I wanted, even with a VPN, which adds to my annoyance.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 17d
There's also this, I spend half of my life abroad.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 17d
I know, but that's how it has been setup, it is separate taxation that works like a service tax.
Funny that I just made a throwaway comment that I was thinking of stopping paying the licence and got such a reaction, honestly the responses have moved me towards cancelling it right away 😱

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 17d
I still pay precisely because of those shows, but I just don't feel that I should continue. To me the big mistake was to separate public broadcasting as a separate tax policed by a private collecting system, so it makes it easier for those of us with no emotional attachment to consider it a service.