AI is doing to publishers what Uber did to taxi companies. Books and journalism may increasingly be controlled by Silicon Valley. See my latest piece in The Atlantic for details.

Style imitation isn't copyright infringement, but it's potentially disastrous for artists and studios. Can anything stop AI companies from doing it? I wrote about it for The Atlantic.

If AI chatbots are getting better, why can't tech companies measure their progress? I wrote about a serious problem with the industry's benchmark testing.

Dialogue from more than 139,000 movies and TV shows is being used to train generative AI. I wrote about it for The Atlantic and built a search tool for screenwriters, directors, and actors to find their work.

RT @risj_oxford: A ground-breaking investigation by @AnnieGilbertson and @_alexreisner for @proof__news found that subtitles from 173,536 @….

RT @jedgarlopez: So the BEST LLMs write functional code — the thing they are apparently best at — less than 50% of the time?????!!. And thi….

RT @jedgarlopez: Wow, @NintendoAmerica -- guardians of actual creativity -- has more spine that every hollywood studio.

Is generative AI a good thing for our culture? Does it help spread knowledge or does it impede creativity and collaboration? These are central questions in the ongoing lawsuits against AI companies, which I just wrote about for @TheAtlantic.

A behavior called "memorization" is causing legal problems for generative AI. I wrote about it for @TheAtlantic.

RT @helendewitt: @IneluctableQuak @_alexreisner @TheAtlantic @NewDirections @fsgbooks Good heavens. I hope this doesn't encourage prolifera….

New pieces in my series for @TheAtlantic on AI training data: and

Great response from @MargaretAtwood to my piece in @TheAtlantic. ". they could at least buy me a coffee."

I did some hacking and wrote a piece for @TheAtlantic about the complex realities of AI training data.