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Amanda Tepski

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writing a book to help lawyers choose good technologies for their work (coming soon) teaching how intellectual property, cyberlaw, professional responsibility + privacy mess w technology @georgetownlaw.bsky.social art and more @ tepski.tech
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www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop 404media.co
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  • ISBNdb is brokering bulk purchases of printed books published before 2022, pitching them as training data structurally guaranteed to be free of AI-generated slop.
  • The service advertises strict NDAs on every engagement, conceding that 'AI company destroys two million books' is not a sympathetic headline.
  • Judge William Alsup already ruled that Anthropic's practice of buying, scanning, and destroying print books was 'clearly transformative' fair use.
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
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  • Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
  • The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
  • Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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I wish we could hold two truths at once: some uses of copyrighted works as AI training data may be fair use—getting this right has tremendous implications for other things we like, like reporting and scholarship and education—and it’s tough to name a corporation doing it that doesn’t suck.

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AI-generated slides bum me out. I put so my effort into beautiful slides, from illustrating people I cite or perfume bottles to collaborating with human designers, and I think people appreciate their content and aesthetics! (My colleagues can tell me if I’m wrong.)

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When lawyers claim that AI is as good as their firm’s first years, I’d humbly suggest that perhaps that is a (hiring) skill issue.

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Scholars often cite the Matthew Broderick classic War Games as the catalyst for the controversial Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. But the film is more pointedly about the role of humans in governing AI systems. In this essay I will

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I’ve been on the phone for an hour trying to fix errors generated by my insurance’s terrible AI tools. I was told I could submit my reimbursements by mail.

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It’s worth remembering that McCarthy & co. only got half their requested funding amount for their AI convening 🙏

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When people tout AI as an access to justice issue, I look up their work to see if they’ve been critical of the Wexis duopoly. You’ll be shocked what I’ve found over and over!!

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Can’t wait for the AI encyclical to drop. Antiqua et Nova started a conversation that I’m just dyin to have.

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