4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
2 attributable expert contributions
· Mark Riedl, Amanda Tepski
“Court holds that Google cannot use DMCA to stop other companies from scraping their search results because search results are not copyrightable, they don't own the content they are serving up, and are not acting on behalf of those who might own the rights a…”
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4 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
“Court holds that Google cannot use DMCA to stop other companies from scraping their search results because search results are not copyrightable, they don't own the content they are serving up, and are not acting on behalf of those who might own the rights a…”
5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Karl Bode
“I don't think that you can (or should) write about this subject without heavily emphasizing the fact the people in charge of how this technology evolves enthusiastically supported fascists who dismantled much of the federal regulatory and public protection …”
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5 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
“I don't think that you can (or should) write about this subject without heavily emphasizing the fact the people in charge of how this technology evolves enthusiastically supported fascists who dismantled much of the federal regulatory and public protection …”
“Number of times Boxtown is mentioned in this essay: 0.”
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Hypervisible : Number of times Boxtown is mentioned in this essay: 0.
Alondra Nelson: Number of times Boxtown is mentioned in this essay: 0.
J. Nathan Matias: Number of cited experts in public health or the emissions from datacenters in the essay: 0
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State media influence LLM training paper
7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo
“"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...”
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7 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
Research & technical analysis
2 experts
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Researchers from Oregon, Purdue, UC San Diego, NYU and Princeton ran six experiments. The overarching finding: state control of media in many countries is already baked into the training data of widely used commercial models, and is shaping the answers thos…”
Policy & governance
1 expert
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...”
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VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Starting a conspiracy theory that the papal encyclical was actually trying to get ahead of and cement Catholicism as the official machine religion
René Walter: OMG www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New
AI field signal
Signal
7h ago
⚡ 4 h early
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Hypervisible
““The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court on behalf of xAI against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison argues that the statute ‘imposes an overbroad, content-based ban on free speech and the tools of visual expression.’””
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2 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
““The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court on behalf of xAI against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison argues that the statute ‘imposes an overbroad, content-based ban on free speech and the tools of visual expression.’””
Anthropic open-weights position statement
10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Dare Obasanjo
“Dario Amodei clarifies that Anthropic doesn’t want to ban open weight model. It instead wants 1. A ban on selling powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China. 2. A crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. 3. Mandatory safety testing of fr…”
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10 experts
4 communities
1 sources clustered
Policy & governance
1 expert
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“Dario Amodei clarifies that Anthropic doesn’t want to ban open weight model. It instead wants 1. A ban on selling powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China. 2. A crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. 3. Mandatory safety testing of fr…”
Building & implementation
1 expert
How teams are shipping and applying it.
“I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak deca…”
Research & technical analysis
1 expert
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Dario explains Anthropic’s position on open weights models It’s a lot of words to say that they’re still against powerful open weights models www.anthropic.com/news/positio...”
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Ted Underwood: I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company i…
Ted Underwood: (just, say, hypothetically?) There's also internal incoherence in making the first part of this all about moralized great-power competition and then saying that safety testing (incl for alignment r…
SE Gyges: he kisses jd vance's ass and fails to specify anything concerning his proposed evaluation regime that distinguishes it from a ban solid dario post 10/10
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New
AI field signal
Signal
6h ago
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· David Marx
“here's the text of the law. definitely ambiguous enough in scope that it applies to pre-text-to-image photoshop. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/202...”
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“here's the text of the law. definitely ambiguous enough in scope that it applies to pre-text-to-image photoshop. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/202...”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
“Get over yourselves. Authors have mixed feelings about the $1.5B Anthropic copyright infringement ruling www.npr.org/2026/07/27/n...”
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1 community
1 sources clustered
“Get over yourselves. Authors have mixed feelings about the $1.5B Anthropic copyright infringement ruling www.npr.org/2026/07/27/n...”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Social Media Lab
“"Trump administration to ban new Chinese robots and inverters, protecting US AI buildout." The stupidest part of the ban is the ban on connected power inverters, which enable renewable energy sources & batteries to connect to grids. This will hamper green …”
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1 expert
1 community
1 sources clustered
“"Trump administration to ban new Chinese robots and inverters, protecting US AI buildout." The stupidest part of the ban is the ban on connected power inverters, which enable renewable energy sources & batteries to connect to grids. This will hamper green …”
AI accountability global infrastructure essay
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Tech Policy Press
“AI's benefits are concentrated in a few companies and countries, but its footprint is distributed, argue Jamila Venturini and Marina Meira from Derechos Digitales. They call for a global infrastructure to hold the AI supply chain accountable.”
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1 community
1 sources clustered
“AI's benefits are concentrated in a few companies and countries, but its footprint is distributed, argue Jamila Venturini and Marina Meira from Derechos Digitales. They call for a global infrastructure to hold the AI supply chain accountable.”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Tim Duffy
“Here's a summary of current AI safety funding courtesy of the folks at Manifund. Pretty striking how large the shift from 2025 to 2026 is expected to be. manifund.substack.com/p/ai-safety-...”
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1 expert
1 community
1 sources clustered
“Here's a summary of current AI safety funding courtesy of the folks at Manifund. Pretty striking how large the shift from 2025 to 2026 is expected to be. manifund.substack.com/p/ai-safety-...”
10 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Justin Hendrix
“"The secrecy was agreed to by nearly everyone involved, from utility executives to the governor’s office to a local elected official who knew about the talks with Meta and sold 300 acres of his own property for the project."”
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10 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
Policy & governance
1 expert
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“"The secrecy was agreed to by nearly everyone involved, from utility executives to the governor’s office to a local elected official who knew about the talks with Meta and sold 300 acres of his own property for the project."”
Opportunity & adoption
1 expert
New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“This is some incredible in-the-room reporting from @elitan.bsky.social and Maureen Farrell on how Meta got its vast, six-square-mile data center cooking in Louisiana www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...”
New
AI field signal
Signal
16h ago
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Nick Diakopoulos
“Are your AI guidelines any good? New research published at @facct.bsky.social develops an assessment of quality: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/are-your-a...”
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1 expert
1 community
1 sources clustered
“Are your AI guidelines any good? New research published at @facct.bsky.social develops an assessment of quality: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/are-your-a...”
New
AI field signal
Signal
18h ago
2 experts are actively discussing the implications.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Andreas Kirsch
“Read the whole thing. One of the clearest AI governance papers in a while; the authors propose concrete rules, not vibes. By Tom Davidson, Lukas Finnveden & Rose Hadshar @forethought_org: Cards drafted with Claude, reviewed by me. www.forethought.org/resear…”
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1 expert
1 community
1 sources clustered
“Read the whole thing. One of the clearest AI governance papers in a while; the authors propose concrete rules, not vibes. By Tom Davidson, Lukas Finnveden & Rose Hadshar @forethought_org: Cards drafted with Claude, reviewed by me. www.forethought.org/resear…”
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Andreas Kirsch: Another happy read that we should ponder and reflect on: Forethought's "AI-Enabled Coups". It's a careful, refreshingly unhysterical paper on how a small group (or literally one person) could use a…
Andreas Kirsch: "Today, even dictators rely on others to maintain their power." Soldiers can refuse. Officials can leak. Workers can strike. Power is distributed because it must pass through people, but automation…
Andreas Kirsch: An important quote: > Once one generation of internal AI systems are secretly loyal, they can be instructed to make future generations secretly loyal, too. No further humans are required to acquies…
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New
AI field signal
Analysis
19h ago
BBC AI consciousness documentary
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
“Recent appearances: * AI is not inevitable (Betakit) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbiT... * A Conversation w/Lina Khan (Law & Economy Student Network) www.youtube.com/live/7Ak5LZl... * Will AI ever come alive, and what happens if it does? (BBC) www.youtube.com/w…”
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1 expert
1 community
1 sources clustered
“Recent appearances: * AI is not inevitable (Betakit) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbiT... * A Conversation w/Lina Khan (Law & Economy Student Network) www.youtube.com/live/7Ak5LZl... * Will AI ever come alive, and what happens if it does? (BBC) www.youtube.com/w…”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
“Recent appearances: * AI is not inevitable (Betakit) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbiT... * A Conversation w/Lina Khan (Law & Economy Student Network) www.youtube.com/live/7Ak5LZl... * Will AI ever come alive, and what happens if it does? (BBC) www.youtube.com/w…”
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1 expert
1 community
1 sources clustered
“Recent appearances: * AI is not inevitable (Betakit) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbiT... * A Conversation w/Lina Khan (Law & Economy Student Network) www.youtube.com/live/7Ak5LZl... * Will AI ever come alive, and what happens if it does? (BBC) www.youtube.com/w…”
Codeberg protects FLOSS commons from LLMs
7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
2 attributable expert contributions
· Michael Ekstrand, Jed Brown
“Codeberg updates ToU to disallow LLM training and many LLM-generated projects, and wrote a thorough explanation: blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o... Regardless of the merits of AI code generation, AI trainers have got to get their scraper bots under control a…”
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7 experts
4 communities
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
2 experts
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“I think this is a very bad move, and the people behind Codeberg should re-consider there stance. blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...”
Policy & governance
2 experts
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“Codeberg updates ToU to disallow LLM training and many LLM-generated projects, and wrote a thorough explanation: blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o... Regardless of the merits of AI code generation, AI trainers have got to get their scraper bots under control a…”
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Amy Hoy: this IS interesting, and it’s something i see a lot on subreddits for specific areas of interest (mac apps, note taking) as well as aspiring-entrepreneur ones lots of fancy-looking projects with ze…
Amy Hoy: i mean as somebody who coaches aspiring entrepreneurs, a lot of them spend way too much time on the idea or prototype and nothing on building a customer base but it usually takes more dedication an…
Amy Hoy: it’s the same old wantrepreneur failure pattern but with an acme rocket strapped to its ass
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Wikipedia AI content removal policy
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Jed Brown
“See also Wikipedia's presumptive policy of presumptive removal of contributions from known users.”
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2 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
“See also Wikipedia's presumptive policy of presumptive removal of contributions from known users.”
