Meredith Rose

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Grumpy feminist lawyer. Writer with ADHD. Senior Policy Counsel, @publicknowledge.bsky.social . Copyright, tech, music, AI, fandom. I talk about stuff. Negate the gods -- raise rocks. She/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com

Apple quietly dropped a ton of detail about the Apple Watch’s new always-on don’t-call-it-transcription feature and it is FASCINATING. support.apple.com/en-us/148354

About Audio Intelligence features on Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 - Apple Support support.apple.com
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  • Apple's support page describes four "Audio Intelligence" features on the Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, including a Live Rewind that captures the previous 15 seconds of speech.
  • Siri Recap takes notes on the wearer's conversations across the day and generates Apple Intelligence summaries that auto-delete after 7 days unless saved.
  • Live Rewind and Siri Recap ship in beta later in 2026, English only, and require an iPhone 16, 17 or 18 series device.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social

Tons of peoples' Claude chats are exposed on Google. Cryptocurrency keys, API keys, login credentials, legal discussions, more. This happened with ChatGPT last year. And Claude too. There's clearly an ongoing issue with search engines indexing peoples' AI chats www.404media.co…

Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google 404media.co
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  • A missing noindex tag is the root cause, the same omission behind ChatGPT's 2025 indexing incident that exposed roughly 100,000 conversations.
  • A GitHub repository archived 11,241 exposed messages before Anthropic's fix, making the breach permanent regardless of platform-side remediation.
  • Anthropic's Google-side fix landed within hours, but Bing and Brave Search results persisted longer, exposing an uneven remediation window across search engines.
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@publicknowledge.bsky.social

"Whenever you get into the copyright realm, a lot of judges just decide it's all vibes." Senior Policy Counsel @mrose.ink breaks down Google and Reddit's uphill DMCA battles against @serpapi.com — and why the bigger risk is a broader "re-enclosure" of the open web. arstechnica…

“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win arstechnica.com
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  • Chief U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed Google's DMCA suit against SerpApi on July 20, 2026, ruling public search results are not copyrighted.
  • Google has 21 days to file an amended complaint, narrowed to Knowledge Panels where it says explicitly licensed media sits behind its SearchGuard anti-bot defense.
  • SerpApi faces a parallel October 2025 Reddit lawsuit alleging it supplied user comments to Perplexity for AI training, and has moved to dismiss.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com

I reposted this, but tacking itonto this thread as well bc I think it's useful context. Margaret was also a co-author of the Stochastic Parrots paper and recently offered some thoughts on which parts of the analogy hold up (and which have been widely misunderstood): medium.com…

medium.com
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  • Mitchell's essay argues the 'stochastic parrot' label applies to large language models, not to AI systems in general.
  • The 2021 paper, co-authored with Bender, Gebru, and McMillan-Major, was always framed around language models specifically.
  • She retains the phrase as a tool against what the piece calls 'anthropomorphic traps' where people reflexively humanize AI.
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social

Woody Allen wrote a short story in which a dude invented this tech... it didn't end well.

Audible's new features let you explore book worlds — and use AI to talk to characters | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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  • Audible on October 1 began beta-testing three AI features: Visual Explorer, Character Guide, and Interactive Stories that let listeners converse with characters.
  • The first interactive conversation launches with the Audible Original Dracula, where listeners speak with Renfield; a second follows November 5 tied to Exoplanet.
  • Character Guide shows who is speaking in real time with spoiler-free character cards and is live on Dracula, Orwell's 1984, and the forthcoming Exoplanet.
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Recent commentary

I think one of the biggest hurdles to Healthy Discourse re: AI is that the real groundbreaking uses (mostly in scientific and medical research) are largely invisible outside of specialist circles, and the most infuriating/scammiest ones (customer service chatbots, etc) are super visible to EVERYONE.

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People seem to be having a hard time deciding whether everything that comes out of AI developers is marketing, or evidence of cultish religious beliefs, and I posit to you: those are two motivations that have similar expressions.

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Just spent 45 minutes talking to my mom's book club about AI, what it can and cannot do, and what the policy landscape looks like, and let me tell you: those ladies are het up

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me: AI (which is just rebranded machine learning) can be, and is being, used for some really groundbreaking stuff, actually Average bluesky poster: booster scum

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I see people are yet again angry that AI was used to (checks notes) build code and manage bug tickets

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Woke up, talked with CBC Morning Live about AI and music, and am now sitting in the legal equivalent of a liminal space (jury lounge)

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