#genai
If your books have been stolen by Meta to train their GenAI machine, The Authors Guild has concrete steps for you to take today; also important to know that if your work was stolen, you are automatically part of the Kadrey v Meta class action in California:
ETA: I am told this only applies to U.S. authors/U.S. copyright holders.
@romancelandia @bookstodon #Romancelandia #IndieAuthors #GenAI #Meta #IPTheft #AuthorsGuild
https://authorsguild.org/news/meta-libgen-ai-training-book-heist-what-authors-need-to-know/
Starting to think I should be looking at the UK spooks' job websites again. They might end up being the only employers who haven't bought into the #GenAI cult.
@romancelandia @bookstodon #Romancelandia #IndieAuthors
You can now search to find out which of your books, short stories, articles, etc. have been stolen by Meta/Facebook.
Most authors I know have had *their entire backlist* stolen.
Divest from Facebook/Instagram/Treads.
#GenAI #Theft #Zuckerberg #Meta
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
Golem | Mit chinesischer KI: Anime-Studio will komplett KI-generierte Serie herausbringen
https://www.golem.de/news/mit-chinesischer-ki-anime-studio-will-komplett-ki-generierte-serie-herausbringen-2503-194426.html
IT Boltwise | Anime-Serie komplett von KI generiert: Ein Blick in die Zukunft der Animation
https://www.it-boltwise.de/anime-serie-komplett-von-ki-generiert-ein-blick-in-die-zukunft-der-animation.html
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Got a website?
Feel like helping make unauthorized LLM scrapers choke on an infinite sea of garbage, potentially making their models collapse?
...Then take a look at:
https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
PS Do make sure to read the warnings, boost and have fun! 
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Thanks to @dlatchx for reminding me where to find this!
Mask up Holy actual shit. New Scientist magazine used FOI legislation to obtain ChatGPT input from and output to a UK Cabinet minister, who used the chatbot as a source of policy advice. Bloody hell.
h/t @bullivant
cc @RightToKnow @kenfoxe @faduda @dublininquirer
Teaching writing isn’t about bullet points and business reports—it’s about persona, ideas, and the eternal fight against chaos. https://www.byteseu.com/830108/ #ChatGPT #GenAI #writing
@molly0xfff on AI vs. scraping vs. copyright protection vs. openness. Very thoughtful (as usual) and worth reading.
Also included, this gem (together with other thoughts about sustainable business models):
«Many AI “visionaries” seem perfectly content to promise that artificial superintelligence is just around the corner, but claim that attribution is somehow a permanently unsolvable problem.»
#AI #GenAI #LLM #CreativeCommons #Sharing
https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/
Beyond the Hype: Is architecture for AI even necessary?
https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/03/13/beyond-the-hype-is-architecture-for-ai-even-necessary.html
Do we trust the Government on NHS Reform when they're talking like this?
We know AI is a hustle, why don't these Very Serious People?
Are they naive or crooked?
Imagine being a Government minister and asking a mindless machine a question like "why aren't Small to Medium businesses taking up AI?"
Because Peter, they haven't found a business use for it, that's why. It's a toy looking for a serious purpose outside of Fascism
AI, GenAI, AGI 
Google Introduces Gemma 3 Open-Source Efficient AI Models for Various Platforms
#AI #OpenSourceAI #GoogleAI #Google #Alphabet #Gemma3 #GenAI #EdgeComputing #AIModels #GenAI
Tiedoksi, että Pinterest käyttää kuviasi generatiivisen tekoälyn treenaamiseen. Tämä on vähintäänkin mielenkiintoista, sillä Pinterestin koko perusidea pohjautuu siihen, ettei tekijänoikeuksista välitetä lainkaan. Minunkin ottamia kuvia on siellä läjäpäin, enkä minä ole niitä sinne laittanut.
Pinterest tarjoaa asetuksista mahdollisuuden kytkeä tämän GenAI-roska pois päältä. Kuinka hyvin he sitä tottelevat, niin sitä en tiedä. Luonnollisesti asetus on oletuksena päällä, kuten ajankuvaan kuuluu.
Settings -> Your Privacy Rights -> GenAI
Yesterday, someone described to me a future in which most literature was AI-generated, and real books were "artisan".
I'm still trying to find all the words to explain why that wouldn't be okay.
The now-famous "why should I read something you couldn't be bothered to write?" line lands, yes. But deeper than that, writing is an essential part of thinking and imagination.
And human thought and imagination must never be outsourced or replaced.
A Moscow-based disinformation network has infiltrated Western AI tools worldwide, flooding them with pro-Kremlin propaganda, according to a new study.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/ai-chatbots-infected-russian-propaganda
The tech industry wants us to think generative AI is mostly upsides, but there are a bunch of harms they don’t want us to talk about.
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