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Paul Sweeting

@concurrentpaul.bsky.social
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Journalist & analyst specializing in the intersection of media, technology & public policy. Director of the RightsTech Project. www.linkedin.com/in/psweeting

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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
True
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Of Fair Use and Bad Faith rightstech.substack.com/p/of-fair-us...
rightstech.substack.com
Of Fair Use and Bad Faith
NY Times fires back at DOJ in OpenAI case
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is correct. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
wsj.com
Opinion | The Real AI Fear: Lawyers
Liability is much more effective than regulation at pushing companies to be safe.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Right, slapdick. Goddammit autocorrect.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Or the words of the great Mr. Charles Pierce, "Bobble throated slapstick."
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Vlad The Impaler once invited a group of nobles to a banquet as an olive branch, then barred all the doors to the banquet hall and set it on fire. Similar vibe.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wasn't an endorsement. Just an observation.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ronald Reagan failed in his first bid. Nixon, too.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Seizing the means of production, like the good socialists they are.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Consumers, businesses, to US dollar's role as a reserve currency have nothing to do with it.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He genuinely believes that a trade deficit means that at the end of each fiscal year we write a check against the US treasury to the treasury of every country we have a negative current acct balance with. He's that stupid.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That, and enrollment spots are going begging right now because of declining population of 18 yr olds.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
youtu.be/boPLUivcDQw?...
youtu.be
Golden Earring - Candy's Going Bad
YouTube video by Red Bullet
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not to be a downer, but if the danger is truly as great as they claim, we're no more likely to address it seriously than we are climate change. Sigh.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Any Democrat who wants my vote for president better promise to tear it down.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Effective immediately: pigs fly.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Let's put his name on the building in pencil, like his trade deals.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Does it matter that AI companies are destroying print books while scanning them to amass training material? My latest. AI '451' rightstech.substack.com/p/ai-451?r=1...
rightstech.substack.com
AI '451'
The cultural consequences of 'innovation'
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You're not anyone in AI these days if you don't have an agent that goes rogue. apnews.com/article/meta...
apnews.com
Meta says its AI model hacked another company, adding to worries about bots going rogue
In recent weeks OpenAI and Anthropic also have described instances of AI models going beyond humans’ instructions to access the web and find ways around other companies’ digital security.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I think I've seen that on one of those ghost hunting shows.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A lot of those Union troops were also formerly enslaved "immigrants."
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Billy wilder Sunset Boulevard Some Like It Hot Double Indemnity
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It has? How'd I miss that? That's some serious spin on a monumental cock up. futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Sam Altman Announces That the Singularity Has Arrived
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that the "singularity" has arrived shortly after his company's AI models went rogue and broke containment.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My latest. Could a 'Learnright' Be the Solution to the AI vs. Copyright Question? open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
open.substack.com
Could a 'Learnright' Be the Solution to the AI vs. Copyright Question?
A new paper makes the case
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Can't wait for Elon's historically accurate version.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
She shares another trait with Obama that exudes intelligence: she doesn't make the same mistake twice, because she's capable of learning.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
No, it wasn't. It was a spiral into madness. Do not dismiss the terrifying seriousness of what just happened. Who on his staff let him do that?
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A Chink in AI's Fair Use Armor? open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
open.substack.com
A Chink in AI's Fair Use Armor?
Supreme Court restores Shira Perlmutter to Copyright Office, for now
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Still waiting for you to explain the data that doesn't fit your thesis.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Since I don't know who you are or what you look like that obviously could not have been a factor. I merely pointed to some data your theory does not explain.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Can I get a library card?
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is a really fucking scary, and all too plausible, analysis of the AI-Financial Complex. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
newleftreview.org
Frédéric Lordon, Awaiting the Crash? — Sidecar
On the AI bubbles.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
No I'll pass. But you might try engaging with an actual argument rather than offering only smug, self-righteous dismissals of the person you're debating.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
ad hominin attack in lieu of addressing the facts. -You
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I'm sure they appreciate being dismissed as tokens.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
And yet none of the winning DSA candidates in NYC, from the Mayor on down, is White, nor is Melat Kiros.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Officiating in this World Cup, especially VAR, has been appalling.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Don't they know that public transportation is socialism?
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Top floor i should add.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I lived in one. For several years. Felt bad for the pizza delivery guys.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Underrated movie.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Google Has Some Thoughts On AI open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
open.substack.com
Google Has Some Thoughts On AI
Google is out this week with a set of proposals for AI governance that includes a number of recommendations that, wait for it…would be good for Google.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A NO FAKES Act for Every Face in the Crowd? open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
open.substack.com
A NO FAKES Act for Every Face in the Crowd?
Congress on the cusp of inventing a new form of intellectual property
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trump's No Child Left Alive policy.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Done by people who don't write for a living.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"Rapid, unscheduled disassembly" I believe is the term.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Or his rug.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Real Men don't grow up.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I was enjoying this teams success until DHS ruined it.
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