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