Andres Guadamuz
@technollama.bsky.social
Law and technology academic. Posts about copyright law, internet regulation, AI, llamas, pandas, and cats. Rare dual Tico-British citizen.
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I've now spent enough time on LinkedIn that I'm starting to see a pattern. I was too used to Twitter and Bluesky discourse, where people were sometimes wrong, but on retrospect they were mostly honest. On LinkedIn your average user isn't just clueless, they're just stupid, no other word fits.
Oh god...
I keep promising myself that I'm not going to argue with idiots online, but I'm travelling to Paris today and a bit bored, so I ended up giving in and replied to a guy on LinkedIn.
Forgive me, algorithm, for I have sinned.
Forgive me, algorithm, for I have sinned.
Alas, I don't have a face for TikTok 😱
The persistence of memorization
We've now had two recent decisions in the UK and Germany very close together that have dealt with AI and copyright. I won't go in detail again on the rulings, you can read the previous posts discussing them here and here, but something arose in those cases that prompted me to write this blog post, and it is the question of memorization, which was dealt with quite differently by each court.
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The persistence of memorization
We've now had two recent decisions in the UK and Germany very close together that have dealt with AI and copyright. I won't go in detail again on the rulings, you can read the previous posts discussing them here and here, but something arose in those cases that…
We've now had two recent decisions in the UK and Germany very close together that have dealt with AI and copyright. I won't go in detail again on the rulings, you can read the previous posts discussing them here and here, but something arose in those cases that…
I need to look up the sources, but this chart has been thoroughly debunked, it's human slop.
I sometimes wonder if I would have more reach if I was writing for one of the big popular IP blogs instead of continuing with my own small corner of the Web.
I'm surprised they didn't correct you with "acktshually, it's GNU/Linux".
Eejits playing tough guy online, flexing imaginary muscles in front of their mirrors, endlessly snarling at imagined slights, perennially angry at the other tribe.
Oh no! Not a plagiarising machine! Why wasn't I told about this before?
This place is lost, it can't grow, it has reached the limits of its always-online leftie anglophone technophobe core demographic.
I was hearing on a podcast that this is a pretty bad flu season, having gotten my yearly Fresher's covid, this one felt different, wiped me out for weeks.
It used to be flu season, but now it's covid and flu season, got mine a month ago.
I keep hearing people coughing in public, trains are filled with people covering their noses with handkerchiefs. It's evident that we're in the middle of a flu and covid wave.
Pretty sure I have.
Some people take it to mean "white person", but that's never how we used it, at least in my circles in Costa Rica, it just means "person from the US", it also includes anyone of dark skin or latinos from the US.
For us it's a word that avoids the use of the hated "americano"and the inaccurate "norteamericano". I never found that it mattered who used it. I've heard that it started as pejorative, but now it's not.
The Lord of the Rings (all 3).
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
The Force Awakens
The Princess Bride
Superman II
The Matrix
Princess Mononoke
Back to the Future
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Donnie Darko
Highlander
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
The Force Awakens
The Princess Bride
Superman II
The Matrix
Princess Mononoke
Back to the Future
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Donnie Darko
Highlander
Why use "USian" when gringo is right there as a valid alternative.
Victory for GEMA in Germany against OpenAI
The Munich Regional Court has handed down its much-awaited decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and it is… a lot, and right on the back of the Getty Images High Court ruling. On the surface, this looks like a clear defeat for OpenAI: the court found copyright infringement in the model and in the outputs, granted injunctive relief, ordered disclosure, and paved the way for damages to be decided at a later date.
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Victory for GEMA in Germany against OpenAI
The Munich Regional Court has handed down its much-awaited decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and it is… a lot, and right on the back of the Getty Images High Court ruling. On the surface, this looks like a clear defeat for OpenAI: the court found copyright…
The Munich Regional Court has handed down its much-awaited decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and it is… a lot, and right on the back of the Getty Images High Court ruling. On the surface, this looks like a clear defeat for OpenAI: the court found copyright…
One of my favourite nano banana prompts is "a behind the scenes photo of how this image was created".
Oh, I've read every version of my name. Andreas Gaudamus is quite a popular version.
Pro-Tip: when asking if I can be your PhD supervisor, at least get the university where I work right.
I have a 5pm class today, which means I can't do anything else all day.
I'm surprised you trust the station staff. Personally I just slaughter the first available pigeon to read its entrails. Better results.
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
This one is breaking my mind. I’m trying to make sense of someone who knows ‘open source’ well enough to think it means they can use literary characters for free, yet has never encountered the fae as a basic bit of folklore.
And when did 'open source' replace 'public domain'?
And when did 'open source' replace 'public domain'?
Reposted by Andrés Guadamuz, Mary Burke
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
Costa Rica failed to qualify for the world cup. Looks like I'll be supporting Ireland and Scotland this year.
It's snowing. It's November. What is this new devilry?