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
The last few weeks I have witnessed a number of interesting discussions breaking out on social media. A couple of weeks ago a US-based academic admitted using AI in some of his writing, which prompted a response from a prominent AI researcher. I’m not interested in commenting on the particulars Read more
If you have been online recently you may have seen a variation of a story that reads something like this: “The US Supreme Court declares that AI generated works aren’t copyrightable.” I won’t name and shame all of the places that have written variations of this headline, some which should Read more
A few months ago we were pondering a few things about the future of media here at Llama Towers. I speculated about a world where you could generate your own Star Wars trilogy based on the Timothy Zahn’s novels, fix the ending of Game of Thrones, or finish cancelled series Read more
Following the recent decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and last year’s Kneschke v LAION, we now have two German courts grappling with the applicability of the text and data mining exceptions to AI training. Despite arriving at different outcomes, LAION won, OpenAI lost, both decisions share something important: they confirm Read more
We’ve now had two recent decisions in the UK and Germany very close together that have dealt with AI and copyright. I won’t go in detail again on the rulings, you can read the previous posts discussing them here and here, but something arose in those cases that prompted me Read more