Neil Turkewitz

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Yeah, it’s so tragic how many people don’t understand that making one’s creative works available to the public isn’t an abandonment of your rights to the work. Publicly available =/= public domain! The object of copyright is to encourage creators to share their works without losing their rights.

A very classy class!

Silicon Valley runs on erasure of consent. Consent is friction. Inefficient and not binary. It does not compute. It’s tech’s kryptonite.

I love that it comes with a “translate” option!

“I fear that using AI regularly alters a person’s instincts & habits of mind & heart. When you’ve gotten used to foregoing all the little frictions of thought, all the pleasures & annoyances of grappling, then even the ethical imagination can seem like the sort of thing you may as well streamline.”

You don't have to use AI stop it right now

I love this essay.

Don’t you know? People who get themselves killed are losers.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

How to Fix Section 230: Thoughts on Professor Citron’s Recent Paper by Neil Turkewitz

From the pen of my dear friend & source of constant inspiration—@daniellecitron.bsky.social

“The reasonable steps approach is valuable precisely because it’s flexible. As technology & content moderation practices evolve, so, too, will the reasonableness & efficacy of certain policies & practices.”

I agree completely with @bruceboyden.bsky.social here. The response of law to technology shouldn’t necessarily be technological. The object of law/legal interpretation should be to find the through line that connects disparate technological developments to a single moral standard & duty of care.

We shouldn’t be so concerned that Mullin doesn’t have a bachelor’s degree

Plenty of smart, successful people never went to college

We should be concerned that Mullin is unqualified, particularly stupid and ridiculously arrogant-a dangerous combination which is unfortunately very common among MAGA

Did you see Jack Dorsey’s ridiculous comments about why he fired 40% of his staff at Block? GRRRRR!

AI and copyright – in a welcome move, UK legislators reject tech vendor claims, warn of existential danger to Britain’s creative sectors But will the Prime Minister take the recommendations of a major report on board when pushing through AI policy?

UK Lords Report, as per @diginomica.com

“widespread unlicensed use of protected works, coupled with limited transparency from AI developers about how their models have been trained, leaves rightsholders unsure about whether their content has been used, & unable to enforce their rights when it has.”

He says “I'm most upset that it fragmented the conversation across ideological lines, versus one protocol being able to host everything. Maybe that desire was just way too IDEALISTIC.”

I have better words—“self-serving” & “ill-considered.” By failing to address harassment, he undermined speech.

Jack says “I don't want to be a company that dies from irrelevance,” in defense of telling almost half his workforce that THEY ARE IRRELEVANT.

I’m not sure there’s anyone out there more insufferable. There may be folks more explicitly evil, but the nexus of zen & heartlessness is incomprehensible.

good morning 🌞

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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- AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such

The House of Lords has been absolutely consistent on this, and they are totally right. Will the government listen?

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Thanks Marielza! As @ednewtonrex.bsky.social mentioned in his thread, the House of Lords has been consistently excellent on seeing through the Silicon Valley hype and rejecting what is effectively a wealth transfer from UK creators to US tech companies. Let’s hope that the government sees the light.

Long enough to do the fandango.

Don’t forget to breathe.

“Might is right” has never been so on point in every respect. The fusion of techno fascism & Christian nationalism is astonishing. Small wonder that the Kennedy Center and intimations of Avalon are so profoundly troubling to the President.

He’s not even the second least sharpest tool in the shed.

“Competence option” is unnecessarily generous. In fact, with this Administration, competence would be a disqualification. Of course, this remains a hypothetical question.

I don’t know—Tuberville gives him a run for the money in that department.

“He competed in mixed martial arts (MMA)—which is like wrestling but for people who killed bugs with a magnifying glass as children.”

“Defending human authorship isn’t nostalgia.
It is a form of cultural resistance.”

Exactly! Strip mining of our souls to produce derivative content paste removed from truth, emotion or meaning is not a future to which we should aspire. It’s a world in which colors are replaced with gray. Only gray.

Incredible, eh?

Uraeus (2017-2018), by Anselm Kiefer
Rockefeller Center, NYC

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