Andres Guadamuz
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Law and technology academic. "Known for discussing technology, law, and digital rights with a hint of humor and thought-provoking insights", ChatGPT. 🇨🇷 🇬🇧
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Mother and Child by Picasso. $4.13 million.
Punk
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$5.5 million.
We're living in the stupidest timeline.
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And the icing on the cake: Microsoft owns a trademark for X. So Musk has destroyed a loved and strong brand, for potential years of litigation, and potentially no brand.
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Cyber-security is easy. Just find the person wearing a ski mask in front of a laptop
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@annascottpiano
Healing Monk wearing chain mail? No wonder the spell failed. Not enough mana.
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Who had "chocolate snow" in their 2020 bingo card?
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New thread on the X font as there are too many moving parts and I want to put everything in one place. So initially many people, myself included, thought that this was just a licensed font called Special Alphabets 4 by Monotype. Looks the same, Twitter left, Monotype right.
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News article: "Vaccinating the world against COVID is off to a slow start. These firms think A.I. and blockchain could help".
Me:
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Tempted to use this as my standard Zoom/Teams background.
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Another reason why trusting automated systems to police copyright is a bad idea.
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@maosbot
Continuously getting gaslit that this is not a real thing is perhaps the worst part of it. I was so much more active and healthy beforehand, yesterday I collapsed at work, like someone flipped a switch and I couldn't stand.
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When anyone tries to sell you an IoT device, just remember that the Battlestar Galactica was the only ship to survive the Cylon attack because it was not networked to the rest of the fleet.
Checkmate machines.
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Fascinating tale of "stolen" NFTs. Trader has 3 NFTs removed from his wallet. Community and platform enforcement ensues. What is the value of an NFT you can't trade in a platform? Interesting that platform centralisation emerges as the winner here.
UPDATE!
@opensea
@rarible
@NftTrader
all have done the RIGHT THING. They all banned my stolen apes from being sold on their sites. No one wants to buy a stolen car, yet alone STOLEN ART! Attention hackers you better start negotiating with me if you want any mor eth. Or none.
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I know this is over-shared, but I couldn't resist after seeing Ayn Rand trending.
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Well, this is big. Microsoft adds DALL-E capability to Office.
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I couldn't resist. Here's are the types of Cyberlaw paper:
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Coming out of Twitter retirement to post this development in the artist case against StabilityAI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt. The judge has dismissed most of the claims.
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So I was checking a story on covid-19, and this picture showed up. Could it be? It looks like Discracted BF's girlfriend with a mask. It looks like her, but it's so difficult to tell with a mask. I had to find out...
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So this isn't a copyright question, but a more interesting issue about whether the new logo can't be protected as a trademark, and from what I'm reading from trademark experts, there's skepticism that this is distinctive enough.
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Artist Kris Kashtanova has had an AI-generated work registered by the US Copyright Office. I don't think that it's the first AI generated work to be registered, but it appears to be the first one that specifically admitted it in the registration. This is from Instagram:
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I have a folder compilation of my favourite memes and jokes of the year. This is the early frontrunner.
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But the twist is that the font is also a unicode character: 𝕏 (U+1D54F), which means you can pretty much copy and paste it and it shows on your browser just like that. Seems like the same font, right?
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And to add to the messy situation, there are already plenty of X companies and apps, here's just one.
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For non-technical person like me, gaining some understanding how AI operates has been vital. First the diffusion models, but I'm fascinated by the language models, how does the AI know what a llama is? That's CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training).
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@JimMFelton
I'd say "this government couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery", but that's wrong. They'd try to organise it, give up, then they'd pay a mate with no experience who would sub-contract to another mate, then there'd be no beer, and the brewery would catch fire.
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@TwitterSupport
Sorry, this is ridiculous. Utterly unacceptable, this site is quickly reaching a point of no return.
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Web3 speak: "We're building a community!"
Translation: "We have a Discord server."
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@MasonCrossBooks
@Asher_Wolf
Future prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in the making
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@MerriamWebster
'Chunche', is a Costa Rican slang that means thing, but it's more than that. It's that thing you cannot remember the name for, the thing for which there is no name yet, the thing that has multiple uses, an old car, a kitchen utensil, a person.
It's the Swiss army knife of words
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Meta also owns an X mark, this one is in the relevant class (including social media). Zuckerberg doesn't have to fight Musk, just get his lawyers to do it.
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"Calculating Empires" is the most amazing visualisation I've ever seen, a work of art at every level, spent minutes scrolling and there appears to be no end.
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@TheAncientWorld
Hello, I'm a Babylonean Prinse, your address was given to me by a fortuneteller. I write to ask for your help in a transfer of funds, since I am prohibited to perform this transaction myself by the Code of Hamurabi...
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“Cloud” means someone else’s computer.
“AI” means a tweaked algorithm.
“Blockchain” means a slow, expensive database.
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@alitodepenci
@HerbiePopnecka
@TheSpiceDAO
That's not important, Jodorowsky had to acquire rights to try to make his adaptation. Buying the book gives no rights.
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Correction: Justin Bieber spent $1.3 million on a link to an image that he doesn't own.
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Next time, get everyone outside disguised as apes
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Schrödinger, I have made my calculations and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
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People haven't been paying attention to the issue of the detection of AI outputs, this is really important. If we can't accurately detect AI use, then how will any human-only requirement be met in all walks of life? Academia, copyright, etc.
OpenAI quietly shut down their AI classifier
As I mentioned before, this product is not feasible or possible to create - with skilled operators GPT’s output cannot be distinguished from human output, and in many cases is better than the human output alone
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Is there a German word for the feeling of immense joy at witnessing the crash of someone else's stock price?
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Already seeing quite a lot of misunderstanding of Font IP Law on Twitter (sorry, refuse to call it X). So the new logo is using a commercial font called Special Alphabets 4 by Monotype.
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Email: "Hi, we're about to launch a blockchain project that will bring connectivity to millions in developing countries.."
Me:
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In the land of the blind, the man without the VR set is king.
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@northnthat
@IanDunt
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As a Latin American, I'm sick and tired of the European left blaming everything on the almighty CIA; it's lazy, condescending, and insulting. We have political complexities that transcend the Cold War. We're also capable of making a hash of things on our own.
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Working on my AI copyright infringement class, I've had to completely rebuild it from scratch. Last year: "it's all theoretical". This year: "these are all the people getting sued".
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Finally managed to read the latest case against OpenAI. I've been expecting this one, everything else has been just a prologue, this is likely to be the one that sets precedent one way or another.
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Artists asking for stronger copyright protection is like turkeys voting for Christmas.
it's fascinating to me how selling fanart has become taken for granted, and some artists seem to be unaware that the market exists entirely on the whim of studios choosing not to enforce their rights
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Coming this Winter... Brexit!
From the people who brought you the A-Level debacle and the worst coronavirus response in Europe.
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We must declare a moratorium on LinkeIn until we fully understand what's happening.
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I've found my first verified ChatGPT essay while marking. Ironically, it's on copyright originality.
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@ContrarianJolly
When Netflix showed up most people stopped pirating, but now piracy is back again due to all of the subscription services.
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Copyright is a path to the dark side. Copyright leads to fear. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Disney has started to remove Baby Yoda GIFs across the internet due to fear of copyright issues.
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Latest in the Jodorowsky's Dune saga. The DAO failed to negotiate rights with the rightsholders, and will now develop an entirely independent animated series.
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For the sake of clarity, all of these can be true:
1. PewDiePie's original video was a joke
2. It's ok to criticise a stupid joke
3. Satire is not an excuse
4. MSM doesn't get the Internet
5. White supremacists have hijacked PewDiePie as both an anti-MSM and racist meme
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Self-isolation. Or as we introverts call it, Friday night.
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The speed of the AI revolution proves the emptiness of Web3 hype and claims of being early. We've been hearing that blockchain technology is early for at least 11 years.
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Very good criticism.
"Keep in mind when reading comments, that people promoting blockchain and pyramid schemes in general have everything to win on gaining followers, whereas opponents have no monetary reasons to speak out about this."
I wrote an article about why blockchain tech adds no value to games (or to anything else).
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Hi, I'd Like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn
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This is a worrying development in the US courts. The erosion of exceptions and limitations that protect libraries and archives must be stopped. Copyright maximalism won't rest until there are no libraries left.
Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries & the communities we serve.
But it’s not over—we will keep fighting for the traditional right of libraries to own, lend, and preserve books. Learn more & take action👇
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First attempt at using DALL-E to extend a work of art, in this case Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich.
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@nexta_tv
I saw this phenomenon myself during an earthquake in Costa Rica, many other people have described it to me during others. It's quite common and seems to be related to electricity discharges caused by plate friction.
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I'm old enough to remember when the Internet was global.
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@potato_man_
@ThePlugInTheWal
@FlatEarthOrg
@essediafoilouco
@AstroAnnimal
So do I. The Earth is round.
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Administered, private, permissioned blockchain. In other words, a private database.
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@SethGreen
@morebuttertv
@DarkWing84
The art was not stolen because the NFT is not the art, the NFT is some metadata with a link to some art, not the art itself. You didn't buy any IP, at best you got a licence to use someone's art, and the licence is dependent on the possession of a token.
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Twitter's financial situation must be worse than imagined. This feels like an unstoppable downward spiral.
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Too busy to write a blog post, so here are a few thoughts on the Getty Images legal action against StabilityAI. 🧵
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One of the value propositions of an NFT is that its ownership is on the blockchain, backed by math, trustless, decentralised, censorship resistant. This is big because it establishes platforms as the central regulatory choke-point. The NFT has value as long as it can be traded.
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Once more, a white supremacist mentions Pewdiepie in his "manifesto". The origin and evolution of this phenomenon forms part of the self-referential nature of extreme right-wing content, and is another attempt to bait mainstream media while committing atrocities [Thread]
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@theochino
@davidgerard
@AnalogyBitcoin
@vgcerf
@Ocasio2018
Nobody said anything like that about the internet. Honestly, trust us, we were there, the Internet was evidently groundbreaking since day one.
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