Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
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CEO of @fairlytrained / Composer. Involuntary training data provider.
London, England
Joined August 2009
Today we’re releasing the vinyl of Is This What We Want?, the silent album from 1000+ musicians protesting the UK government’s plans on AI & copyright. Incredibly grateful to Paul McCartney for providing a new (silent) bonus track. And to the many UK musicians involved in the
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Hello my peers, Wanna fill out a constructive survey? Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are doing research to see how generative Al has (or has not) impacted your work and/or sentiments in the industry. Folks in creative fields, please consider filling this out 👇
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AI companies seeing 300TB of music "archived" publicly
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This is a great ad. Keep AI chatbots away from children.
Why talk to your kid when a bot can? This Christmas, sit back and let AI raise them:
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Six authors are suing Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI and Perplexity for what they call “a straightforward and deliberate act of theft that constitutes copyright infringement.” The lawsuits over AI training show no signs of abating. https://t.co/SWZNEH2Ocf
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@garrytan Perhaps you might want to try to understand why people hate AI so much, and to interrogate your underlying assumptions? And please abandon your ridiculous clichés like “AI is no replacement for creativity. It’s only an aid.” That insults our intelligence & makes us want to hurl.
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@AnastasiaP618 @mcuban Glad you asked! 1) LLMs are created by scraping all the art and writing off the internet without creator’s compensation or consent, allowing companies to make billions of stolen labor 2) This tech allows companies to then fire the very employees whose work they stole. It’s
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AI types like to say we shouldn’t ban kids from using AI chatbots as they need to learn how to use them. But this is a very weak argument IMO. Chatbots are easy to use by design. There is no steep learning curve. You ask them questions and they answer. How long did it take
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This is awesome. We don’t need kids anymore because of AI.
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Missouri voters are right - AI chatbots should be banned for minors.
New polling of likely voters in Missouri shows deep concerns about the effects of AI chatbots on minors, with large majorities favoring an outright ban on chatbot use for minors. We need better guardrails on this technology, before a growing concern becomes major backlash.
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When New York State banned phones in public schools from bell to bell this past September, the goal was undistracted learning. But within weeks of the Great Phone Lockup, teachers began to notice an incidental (and arguably even more compelling) benefit: The teens were talking to
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Why did it take so long? It was so obviously damaging. Yet it went on for years, half a generation of kids for whom school was full of phones.
When New York State banned phones in public schools from bell to bell this past September, the goal was undistracted learning. But within weeks of the Great Phone Lockup, teachers began to notice an incidental (and arguably even more compelling) benefit: The teens were talking to
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We are so back! The Messari Theses for 2026 is live and available for free. Jump into the full report now ⬇️
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One reason that media companies using AI feels like a bad decision is that media is so substitutable. Give someone a reason not to consume your movie, game, book etc. and they will just consume something else instead. Aside from bad reviews, there aren’t that many reasons that
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A man was incorrectly linked to the Brown University and MIT shootings by a prominent VC. It’s not the first time his public comments have been questioned. My latest for @FastCompany
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Online sleuthing is not, it turns out, among the noted VC's talents.
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For many people, there will be more value in rejecting generative AI than in adopting it. When adopting it leads to mediocre outputs, skills regression, over-reliance and backlash, rejection beats adoption. I think the AI world’s failure to recognise this is a major misstep.
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To be clear, there are lots of people they could select who will stand up for creatives’ rights. No reason I should have made the cut. I just hope they select one of those people, and it’s not just representatives from google etc. saying ‘er yes the responsible thing is actually
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I didn't make the cut for the government's Responsible AI Advisory Panel. I hope there are people selected who will stand up for creatives' rights, and it's not a rubber-stamping body that ignores the exploitation of creatives at the heart of many generative AI models.
Putting myself forward for the UK government digital service's Responsible AI Advisory Panel, which @FeryalClark announced today. Would love to help the UK government take a responsible approach to AI. Fingers crossed. If you're interested, you can apply here:
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Their positive posts outline all sorts of apparent benefits of AI: driving efficiency in government & business, cutting teachers' workloads, finding new cancer treatments, creating jobs, bringing in investment, better public services, scientific breakthroughs, economic growth,
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An analysis of X posts from the UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology suggests it is overwhelmingly pro-AI. I analysed the sentiment of every X post from @SciTechgovuk that mentioned "AI" this year. Of 122 posts, 110 (90.2%) were positive about AI, and only 7
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