It has been a fascinating week in the world of artificial intelligence. The subject has broken containment, and it seems like everyone is talking about it. I was listening to a football podcast and the hosts started talking about AI killing everyone. It would be fair to say that AI Read more
While a lot of the attention in the AI and copyright space has gone to the hundreds of ongoing cases in the US, courts around the world have been tackling the question of copyright infringement already, with several landmark decisions taking place in Germany. We’ve had the LAION saga, but Read more
One of my favourite science fiction novels is ‘Rainbows End‘ by Vernor Vinge. The year is 2025 (yes, seriously), and the world is a mixture of the familiar and the bizarre. Advances in medicine allow older people to become mobile and youthful again, but these newly young old people are Read more
A fascinating ruling from the High Court of Delhi in India regarding the very high-profile case of ANI Media v OpenAI (decision here). Asian News International (ANI) is one of India’s largest news agencies, which supplies text and video syndication to broadcasters and publishers across South Asia. They sued OpenAI Read more
A few days ago there was an interesting post by Andrew Curran that got a lot of responses which was discussing why AI in science fiction often does not have the capabilities that AI already has in reality. I thoroughly agree with that take, but I think that there is Read more
For years I was not really interested in the subject of AI consciousness, it was one of those subjects that I equated with unreasonableness at the extremes of the debate, but in which I did not have any strong opinions. This has been changing recently as the capabilities of AI Read more
Even by the standards of AI development, where each month often feels like a year, this has been quite the week. Back in April, Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos, a frontier model that was supposed to be exceptionally capable of finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities, which led the company to delay Read more
I haven’t really written about machine consciousness, super-intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI) before; I never felt the need, and some of the questions on AI consciousness are entirely outside of my area of expertise. I have always assumed that some sort of AI consciousness would be achieved in the Read more
If you were paying attention to music news last month, you may have come across a curious story, unnerving even depending on your priors. An AI-generated artist called IngaRose climbed to the top of the iTunes music charts after becoming viral in TikTok videos. Having listened to it, I’m perhaps Read more
Regular readers will know that I have been interested in the pastiche exception for a while now, mostly because it has always struck me as the most underused exceptions under modern copyright law in Europe and the UK. Perhaps it is not surprising that parody gets all the attention, caricature Read more