"The court found that making a reproduction of content that is available on the public web (and not behind a paywall) can be considered to be a legitimate use in accordance to [the text and data mining exception in the EU]."

https://www.technollama.co.uk/can-a-dutch-case-about-rss-teach-us-anything-about-ai-copyright

#EU #Law #TDM #RSS

A Google poll says pretty much all of Gen Z is using AI for work

https://qz.com/google-workspace-poll-ai-workplace-gen-z-millennials-1851707141

#AI #GenZ

Generative AI in the Context of Universities

https://medium.com/@peter.kahl.uk/generative-ai-in-the-context-of-universities-1eb81c451eaf

#AI #Academia

Crypto’s ‘Middle Child’ Ethereum Flounders as Rivals Gain Ground

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-29/crypto-s-middle-child-ethereum-flounders-as-rivals-gain-ground

#Ethereum #Bitcoin

Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/30/elon-musk-files-for-injunction-to-halt-openais-transition-to-a-for-profit/

#ElonMusk #OpenAI #AI

What about #Bitcoin ?

Instagram actively helping spread of self-harm among teenagers, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/30/instagram-actively-helping-to-spread-of-self-harm-among-teenagers-study-suggests

#Instagram #MentalHealth

Gambling.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/30/crypto-investors-trump-pump-bitcoin-dogecoin

#Crypto #Bitcoin

The AI boom in electricity demand: a multiply recycled myth

https://crookedtimber.org/2024/11/30/the-ai-boom-in-electricity-demand-a-multiply-recycled-myth/

#AI #Energy

What Does John Cage Have to Do with AI Authorship?

https://mostlyiphistory.com/2024/11/29/what-does-john-cage-have-to-do-with-ai-authorship/

#AI #Music #Copyright

EU project releases 7B model that speaks 24 European languages

https://the-decoder.com/eu-project-releases-7b-model-that-speaks-24-european-languages/

#EU #AI #LLM

Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl2829

#Misinformation #SocialMedia

Bluesky’s open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/27/blueskys-open-api-means-anyone-can-scrape-your-data-for-ai-training/

#Bluesky #AI #HuggingFace

Gen Z Is Super Weird

https://jacobin.com/2024/11/gen-z-internet-politics-fascism/

"Accelerationism seems to be pretty popular this season, but these aren’t really politics; they’re lowered expectations and shrinking dreams, the hope that maybe some sort of inevitable deus ex machina will get us out of this mess."

#GenZ #Politics #Postmodernism

Limits on foreign students are harming research, universities warn

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03807-2

#Academia #Research

Senate Bill Targets AI ‘Black Box’ Problem, Eyes Transparency in Use of Copyrighted Works

The TRAIN Act seeks to help artists identify unauthorized use of their copyrighted works in generative AI training models.

https://www.billboard.com/pro/senate-train-act-transparency-generative-ai-training-copyrighted-works/

#AI #TRAIN #Copyright

Zoom 2.0 relaunches as an AI-first company without video in its name

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/24305942/zoom-communications-rename-ai-first-company

#Zoom #AI

Elon Musk appears to confirm that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X, saying it is to stop "lazy linking"

https://www.techmeme.com/241125/p22#a241125p22

#ElonMusk #X #Twitter

"OpenAI is outsourcing the problem of AI in education to teachers and asking them to find a solution."

https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/how-does-openai-imagine-k-12-education/

#OpenAI #LLM #Education

World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/24/world-unable-cope-10-years-talks-un-global-treaty-to-end-plastic-waste

#Plastic #Waste