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With GPT-5, Meta’s Llama 4, and Elon Musk’s Grok 4 showing only modest improvements despite massive scale-ups, the diminishing returns of this strategy are now visible.
As Marcus notes, governments have let AI firms operate with minimal regulation. That tolerance may evaporate quickly if the harms continue unchecked.
At a fundamental cognitive level, we are predisposed to resonate more deeply with the pain of "us" than with the pain of "them." By framing out-groups as dangerous, threatening, or competitive...
...political actors can manipulate these innate cognitive biases, widening the empathy gap and making prejudice, discrimination, and violence seem more psychologically acceptable to the in-group.
These insights—derived from over a billion anonymized interactions—offer an unprecedented glimpse into the behaviors, preferences, and patterns that shape AI adoption.
70% of ChatGPT consumer usage is for non-work purposes. This is not driven by new users, but by existing users shifting toward personal use, suggesting long-term integration of LLMs into daily life.
This case—Disney et al. v. MiniMax—is likely to become a landmark precedent in defining the permissible boundaries of generative AI.
If MiniMax loses, the case will serve as a playbook; if it wins or settles quietly, it will still fuel a policy debate on AI, copyright, and the limits of creative autonomy in machine-generated media.
Music Labels v. Internet Archive: Copyright owners can successfully challenge digitization initiatives, even those with cultural or nonprofit goals, when proper licensing is not secured.
Nonprofits and digital platforms must assess their copyright exposure before launching digitization or access projects, obtaining explicit licenses or engaging in collective licensing agreements.
The IAB Europe initiative is laudable and necessary. It balances pragmatism with vision—offering publishers a toolkit for economic survival in a landscape where AI could subsume all value upstream.
But success is not guaranteed. Without enforcement, bad actors will bypass the system. Without platform buy-in, the best API remains an unused endpoint.
GPT-4o: Research Solutions' Article Galaxy offers a replicable blueprint: one where ethical access meets commercial scalability and where the quest for knowledge is never at odds with the rule of law.
The model here is not "scrape first, apologize later." It’s "license first, innovate responsibly."
Germany’s draft law implementing the EU AI Act offers a robust framework but leaves several grey zones unaddressed regarding content governance, copyright, and the rights of creative professionals.
Scholarly publishers and rights holders should respond decisively to the consultation, urging policymakers to close these gaps—before AI systems become too embedded to regulate retroactively.
RSL marks a significant inflection point in the relationship between content creators and AI companies. This essay analyzes the mechanics and significance of RSL...
...assesses its suitability across content types and licensing models, explores its limitations, and offers a view on whether it signals a new era for AI-era content licensing.
Google allegedly conditions participation in traditional search ranking on PMC’s unwilling consent to have content used in AI Overviews—a form of coercion via monopoly power.
6.7 million URLs from PMC are indexed by Google, providing massive training and grounding material for AI without any license. Ultimately, this case signals a pivot point in AI-content relations.
GPT-4o: The Trump-linked GREAT Trust plan to redevelop Gaza into a utopia of smart cities — by displacing the native population and rewarding them with cryptocurrency and rent subsidies...
...is a dystopian blueprint that exploits trauma, cloaks economic interests in techno-optimism, and violates ethical and legal standards.