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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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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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@wendyxu.bsky.social omg they did it www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button 404media.co
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  • LinkedIn added a 'seems like AI slop' option to the three-dot menu on posts; selecting it hides the post from the user's feed.
  • Chief product officer Hari Srinivasan said user flags will feed classifiers LinkedIn is 'ramping up' to detect slop and low-quality content.
  • Detection service Pangram estimated 41 percent of long-form and 30 percent of short-form LinkedIn posts are likely AI-generated.
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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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I had to row while a guy at the gym blasted his little podcast about how close we are to AI becoming smarter than humans and we’re both unharmed 🙏

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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.)

View on Bluesky · ♥ 3 ↻ 0 ↩ 1 · 58d ago

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.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 3 ↻ 0 ↩ 1 · 75d ago

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 🙏

View on Bluesky · ♥ 2 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 47d ago

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!!

View on Bluesky · ♥ 2 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 83d ago

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

View on Bluesky · ♥ 1 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 87d ago
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