Notices by Annemarie Bridy 🍂🍁 (annemariebridy@mastodon.social), page 2

OK, everybody. Fair use is not “stealing,” but it’s also true that copying content from the open web is not at all necessarily fair use. (Copyright infringement is also not “stealing,” because idea-based property is non-rivalrous, but that’s a topic for another day.) AI is really scrambling people’s brains about the parameters of copyright law. #copyright #FairUse

Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/28/24188391/microsoft-ai-suleyman-social-contract-freeware

“The people sitting at the apex may not like the way they feel the organization is being run, but if they’re not bringing data to that point of view, it’s really hard to argue why people should be coming back to the workplace more frequently.”

Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds https://wapo.st/4btMo8Z

This development is a real shame, and a blow to nonprofit Internet researchers globally.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-fight-against-ai-comes-to-a-foundational-data-set/?utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_brand=wired&mbid=social_linkedin&utm_campaign=wired

Nope. He fully gets it but does not care. What I don’t get is why people don’t get that.

Elon Musk does not grasp EU fears about disinformation on X, official says https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/04/elon-musk-x-twitter-eu-hate-speech-disinformation-vera-jourova?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

It’s peony season again!