Andres Guadamuz

Open source and commons ideals are more important than ever If you asked me to name the topic I'd class as my core academic specialisation, you'd probably guess artificial intelligence, and you'd be wrong, or at least premature, that one came later. The real answer is openness…

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Copyright implications of super-intelligence I haven't really written about machine consciousness, super-intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI) before; I never felt the need, and some of the questions on AI consciousness are entirely outside of my area of exper…

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Fable and the impending AI Cold War Even by the standards of AI development, where each month often feels like a year, this has been quite the week. Back in April, Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos, a frontier model that was supposed to be exceptionally capable of finding and e…

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Why AI slop is taking over the world? If you were paying attention to music news last month, you may have come across a curious story, unnerving even depending on your priors. An AI-generated artist called IngaRose climbed to the top of the iTunes music charts after becoming v…

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Who said peer-review isn't fun? I just reviewed a paper on AI and copyright that spends a third of the article discussing an entirely inexistent UK copyright case (DeepMind v UKIPO 2023), and that illustrates Naruto v Slater with this image, which was taken a 2021 Prezi student presentation.

Hey guys, don't worry about AI solving an Erdős problem, at least you can all rest assured that the output cannot be copyrighted.

I like diversifying my blog writing, and yet I feel like I've spent too much time on AI in recent years with a fun foray into blockchain and copyright. However, it is difficult to write about much else at the moment, whenever I write a non-AI blog post, the readership numbers drop considerably.

I've heard from other journal editors that submissions are up... and that a substantial number are clearly AI, which tracks with my experience. The number of submissions is straining our review process, I find myself desk-rejecting a large number of articles, but I don't reject AI use outright.

So I receive a PhD proposal, fully AI-generated, but the author is not a native speaker so I give it the benefit of the doubt and read it. Bland, not very imaginative, par for course. Then I get to the references, and there are many hallucinated ones, including one supposedly by me.

There's a paper on artificial intelligence and copyright written by a person with a rather funny last name, and I always smile whenever it's cited in an essay by a student. Yes, I never grew up.