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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Fascinating to finally see some AI skepticism from... CNN? Let's go??? www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

If you're in the UK, please sign this open letter asking the government to correct the misleading claims they made in the AI & copyright consultation. They said copyright law is currently unclear on this point, which is false. This misled the public. openletter.earth/uk-governmen...

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Creative Rights Coalition @crcadvocacy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Have you followed up? This is still with the Senate! A regulatory moratorium preempting state laws is not a budgetary matter, and this subsection can still be stricken/removed, but senators need to know it exists, and that people care! bsky.app/profile/crca...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 27/05/2025

labour is buying into the hype in the hope of getting some of the investment going into the AI machine without really asking whether there are tangible results on the other side. this strategy is doomed.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

If you cannot run your business by following simple laws, you don’t have a business, you have a racket.

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Creative Rights Coalition @crcadvocacy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would kill the AI industry: www.theverge.com/news/674366/... Then maybe it shouldn't be an industry that exists in its current form? For hailing from such "innovation-focused" spaces, you would think they could innovate an ethical model.

“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work,” Clegg said. “And by the way if you did it in Britain and no one else did it, you would basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/05/2025

www.wheresyoured.at/the-great-lo...

It's the hallmark of a tech industry dedicated to creating problems that it charges you to solve, a sickly beast borne of venture capital and a lack of innovation. When you're rich and powerful, you no longer face real problems, and as a result fail to consider the solutions that would measurably improve a person's life. Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg don't worry about bills, or face actual busywork, or real challenges — they get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to come up with ways to express growth to hedge funds.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Peter Kyle, to Parliament last week: “I’ve not used the word uncertainty” [to describe how copyright law applies to AI]. Also Peter Kyle, 6 months ago: “That is why we are setting out a balanced package of proposals to address uncertainty about how copyright law applies to AI”. 1/2

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Isobel_Starling @isobelstarling.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Artists don't create so that Tech bros can profit while we don't. Creation is our livelihood, our only way of making a living. And this mofo wants us to sit down so him and his AI bros can profit? Nick Clegg can eat a bag of dicks. AI is a parasite. It's an industry that needs to be killed.

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Simon Brew @simonbrew.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

A headline from The Times, with Nick Clegg saying that requiring permission from copyright holders to train AI on their word would 'kill' the AI industry. Boo fecking hoo.

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Hi Phantasy @phantasy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I know I don't usually touch political stuff but like heyyyy.... I would have a hard time forgiving myself if this went through and I didn't try to do anything about it. Let's send the email together, yeah?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/05/2025

Tech has entirely turned on the customer www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

In plain terms, everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing.

The average person’s experience with technology is one so aggressive and violative that I believe it leaves billions of people with a consistent low-grade trauma. We seem, as a society, capable of understanding that social media can hurt us, unsettle us, or make us feel crazed and angry, but I think it’s time to accept that the rest of the tech ecosystem undermines our wellbeing in an equally-insidious way. And most people don’t know it’s happening, because everybody has accepted deeply shitty conditions for the last ten years.

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Deana Igelsrud @digelsrud.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Thank you @adamconover.net for the update and apology. Like most humans, we can all make mistakes. You accepted responsibility for platforming con-artists and recovered nicely. 👍🏻👍🏻. Well done! #TheFutureIsHuman 💪🏻 youtu.be/eDsSg-Xm1ms

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Why I Became a Crypto Shill

YouTube video by Adam Conover

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루엘 클라이브 / Reuel Clive @reuel-clive.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

DEAR AMERICANS! CALL YOUR SENATORS IN ORDER TO STOP THE 10 YEAR STATE BAN ON REGULATING AI! CALL TODAY! IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DO IT... PLEASE REFER TO @crcadvocacy.bsky.social 's guide! #PROTECTCOPYRIGHT #VOTENOONTHEBILL

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Woah, US Copyright Office (USCO) Director is suing the Administration for her firing! Also this is a great opportunity to share the @authorsguild.bsky.social open petition to reinstate Shira Perlmutter as the USCO Director that I think everyone should sign 🔥 authorsguild.org/petition-to-...

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US Copyright Office director sues Trump administration over firing

The U.S. Copyright Office director fired by the Trump administration sued President Donald Trump and other government officials on Thursday, arguing her firing was unconstitutional and should not be allowed to take effect.

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Emory Kjelsberg, Real Human Artist @emorykj-art.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I called my Senators today, left a message. If you've never done this before, 5calls is a really great resource, and made this very easy. Your senators need to listen to you; that's their entire job, even if it doesn't feel like it these days.

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Jessa: Cicada Mode 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞 @jessalyncrimson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

And here’s *another* topic that 5 Calls provides a script for. I know it’s a ton that these fucks are throwing all at once. I struggle with getting the spoons for these calls too. But that’s their plan; drown us in gut punches. But if we don’t stop them here it gets tons harder. Make the calls.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Folks, the House advanced the disastrous reconciliation bill, with the destructive 10-year State Ban against regulations for AI intact! We now MUST mobilize our calls to the Senate! Call today! If you need a script the post below offers a fantastic alternative! We only have one chance! Lets go!

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Creative Rights Coalition @crcadvocacy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The House just advanced §43201 (Sub. C, Title IV), AKA the 10 year ban on state AI laws: thehill.com/homenews/hou... It's now time to reach out to your Senators! Wondering how? See: 5calls.org/issue/ai-reg... Or feel free to use the card below.

FIND your Senator
- Go to senate.gov > Senators > Contact Your Senators > pick your state.
E-MAIL (about 3 min)
- Click "Contact" beneath each Senator's photo.
- Subject: Oppose §43201 (AI Preemption) – E&C FY-25 House Concurrent Resolution 14
- Copy or edit:
- My name is <NAME>, and I live in ZIP Code <12345>. Section 43201 would bar every state and municipality from passing AI safeguards for ten years, yet offers no federal framework. It is extraneous to budget policy and violates federalism (Wyeth/Lohr). Please support a Byrd-Rule point of order or vote to strike §43201 from the bill. Thank you.
CALL (about 1 min)
- Dial 202-224-3121 and ask for Senator <Last Name>.
- Script: Hello, I am <NAME> from <CITY/ZIP>. Please support striking AI-law preemption in Section 43201, Subtitle C of the Fiscal Year 2025 budget-reconciliation draft under House Concurrent Resolution 14. It is extraneous under the Byrd Rule and harms states' duty to protect the public, rights holders, and creators.

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Valith 🔞 [PATREON / SUBSTAR COMMS ONLY - QUEUE FULL] @apraxvalith.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Nothing about the U.S. budget is a done deal. It just passed the House, but it needs to survive the Senate with zero changes. ZERO. Or it goes back to the House + they have to vote all over again. If you have a Republican Senator you need to be holding a flamethrower to their ass rn. Lock in.

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Zachary Berger @zacharyberger.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Made a cheat sheet to help you with the calling process. There is info on how to find out who to call, script ideas, and hopefully everything else you'll need. Feel free to share or offer suggestions! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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US Budget Reconciliation Bill AI Regulation Ban Cheat Sheet

US Budget Reconciliation Bill AI Regulation Ban Cheat Sheet THERE IS A SECTION IN THE BUDGET RECONCILIATION BILL THAT WOULD BAN ANY REGULATION BY STATES ON AI FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS!! Please call your...

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Deana Igelsrud @digelsrud.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Did you make calls to Congress today? There was a delay today, so we get more time to keep calling, keep pushing & keep organizing. GET THE WORD OUT! TY @zacharyberger.bsky.social for the excellent cheat sheet! Share/Distribute widely! #NoStateAIRegulationsBan docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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US Budget Reconciliation Bill AI Regulation Ban Cheat Sheet

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Please read this brilliant piece by Baroness Kidron in The Times, in which she rightly eviscerates UK government ministers for "obeisance to the tech bros". 🧵 1/2 www.thetimes.com/article/ae9d...

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Ministers’ silence on threats to our creatives is bewildering

Despite the government’s supposed focus on growth, its policy on artificial intelligence suggests it has no regard for our wealth-creating creative industries

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Deana Igelsrud @digelsrud.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Sincerely, people just need to keep calling, to say (Unequivocally NO on the State AI Regulation Ban). You should plan on calling every single morning (at least through the Summer). SO HEADS DOWN - KEEP CALLING - AND DON’T LET UP!!!

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Deana Igelsrud @digelsrud.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Reminder that the UK’s House of Lords has twice proposed legislation that would make AI companies disclose their training data, and the Labour government has twice rejected it. Can't think why www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A screenshot of a Guardian article titled 'Minister accused of being too close to big tech after rise in meetings'

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Arte es Ética @arteesetica.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Do you live in the US? 🚨 Please STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING and call your US Senators and House representatives IMMEDIATELY. This is a potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years. Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down! INSTRUCTIONS HERE: rb.gy/go0ai7

🚨🚨🚨 CALL TO ACTION 🚨🚨🚨

Call your US Senators and House representatives IMMEDIATELY!
Sen. Ted Cruz (one single US Senator from TX) is trying to say that States do not have the power to regulate AI - AT ALL - and that nobody anywhere can have any laws for 10 years on this. It's preposterous and OUTRAGEOUS!

https://www.404media.co/republicans-try-to-cram-ban-on-ai-regulation-into-budget-reconciliation-bill/

ALL THE INFO: https://rb.gy/go0ai7

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Arte es Ética @arteesetica.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Here are more instructions to follow. Clearer language, and better document reference by @crcadvocacy.bsky.social CALL your House Members AND Senators. Tell them to kill the AI regulation ban in the Budget Reconciliation Bill. KEEP CALLING! ☎️ bsky.app/profile/crca...

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Deana Igelsrud @digelsrud.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I just called my House Member, and BOTH of my US Senators ... Call them to tell them UNEQUIVOCALLY NO on the State AI Regulation Ban. No joke, we are going to have to repeatedly call these guys. Do it every morning while you’re having your breakfast. Easy peasy! 5calls.org/issue/ai-reg...

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Stop the State AI Regulation Ban in the Budget Reconciliation Bill ⭑ 5 Calls

On May 11th, Republicans in the House Energy & Commerce committee added language to their portion of the partisan budget reconciliation bill that …

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Deana Igelsrud @digelsrud.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Everyone please STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING and call Congress RIGHT NOW we need to do everything we can to stop this maddness. Call BOTH of your US Senators and your member in the US House of Representatives. You can find their numbers here. (4/4) www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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Find and contact elected officials | USAGov

Use USAGov’s Contact Your Elected Officials tool to get contact information for your members of Congress, the president, and state and local officials.

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Deana Igelsrud @digelsrud.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

🚨 CALL TO ACTION 🚨 Call your US Senators and House Reps IMMEDIATELY! Sen. Cruz (one single US Senator from TX) is trying to say States do not have the power to regulate AI - AT ALL! That nobody anywhere can have any laws for 10yrs. on this. OUTRAGEOUS! (1/4) www.404media.co/republicans-...

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Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill

Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.

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Deana Igelsrud @digelsrud.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Exactly - this is beyond outrageous! People need to call their US Senators IMMEDIATELY to tell them they MUST stop this!!!

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Deana Igelsrud @digelsrud.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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Stop the State AI Regulation Ban in the Budget Reconciliation Bill ⭑ 5 Calls

On May 11th, Republicans in the House Energy & Commerce committee added language to their portion of the partisan budget reconciliation bill that …

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Very sad to see the UK Labour party today vote to reject common sense legislation, introduced this week in the Lords, that would make AI companies disclose their training data - which would let British creators enforce their rights. Legislation the Lords support, and all other parties support.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean? It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again! Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban! (Info in thread)

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US House Committee Advances 10-Year Moratorium on State AI Regulation | TechPolicy.Press

After an amendment challenging the moratorium language failed, it will advance with the rest of the legislative package.

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Reid Southen @rahll.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I wanted to provide a thread here of some of the things I've been involved with in the fight against unethical generative AI for easy reference, starting with my work with @GaryMarcus.bsky.social. Our article shows irrefutable evidence of blatant plagiarism 🧵 spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-c...

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Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield

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Creative Rights Coalition @crcadvocacy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

www.techpolicy.press/us-house-com... A Ban on state AI regulations prioritizes corporate consolidation of wealth over reasonable safeguards, and suppresses efforts to mitigate harms/exploitation. Congress has not offered any back up plan to replace safeguards, only desires to remove them.

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US House Committee Advances 10-Year Moratorium on State AI Regulation | TechPolicy.Press

After an amendment challenging the moratorium language failed, it will advance with the rest of the legislative package.

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Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan @bauerkahan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

[1] Hidden language in @HouseCommerce budget bill would strip states from the ability to regulate AI systems. CA has long led on tech oversight and this would silence our ability to protect people from the technology harms they face every day...

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

28 seconds that should kick off every game film album broadcast concert for like a year. #AIEthics #genAI

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Folks call your Senators now!! A ban on any state laws on GenAi for 10 YEARS is gonna do unthinkable harm! For those of you wondering what to say here are two posts you can use to build your own script (use alt script to cut and paste) Need to find your representatives? Here you go: 5calls.org

User Zachary Berger recommends the following script: "I'm a constituent in the congressperson's district.
Al regulation is life or death for a lot of the Congressperson's constituents in creative industries, please make sure the section in the budget reconciliation bill banning Al regulation doesn't pass."

User Karla Ortiz gives information on the bill so you can point your senators where to look:

Call your representatives! Tell them just yesterday (R) Congressman Guthrie added a new text to the Budget Reconciliation bill to BAN GenAi regulation in the states for 10 years!
Hell, point
them to the specific section:
TITLE IV-ENERGY AND
COMMERCE (Part II: Al section, (c) moratorium)

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Creative Rights Coalition @crcadvocacy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Guthrie's (R-KY) "Subtitle C" budget rider erases every state AI safeguard for 10 years before Congress has any backup plan. It freezes the laboratories of democracy, shields giants, and lets credit/housing/health decisions run on untested code. Please reach out to your representatives!

HOUSE – Oppose Subtitle C (10-Year AI Regulation Ban)

1 FIND your Representative
- https://house.gov > enter ZIP > add street if prompted

2 SEND an E-mail (3 min)
- Click the "Contact" button on the member's page
- Subject: Please vote NO on Subtitle C – AI Regulation Ban
- Copy & edit the text below:
- I am <Name> from ZIP <12345>. Subtitle C in the FY-25 budget bill stops states from regulating AI for a decade. This removes accountability, harms creative workers, and leaves the public exposed to unsafe systems. Please vote NO. I look forward to any update you can provide.

3 CALL (1 min)
- Dial (202) 225-3121 > ask for Rep. <Last Name>
- Script: Hello, my name is <Name>, ZIP <12345>. I urge the <Representative> to vote NO on Subtitle C in the FY-25 budget bill. States must retain power to regulate AI for their citizens and creative industries.

4 FOLLOW-UP
- If no reply, send a courteous follow-up after a week.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Let's not forget for a second that AI is now overwhelmingly an oligarchic project. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Other C.E.O.s Join Trump at U.S.-Saudi Lunch
Many of the executives — including representatives of four of the 10 biggest U.S. companies by market value — are seeking business from Saudi investors and a chance to lobby top Trump officials.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright. Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

In any reporting on this, I never see appropriate focus on that millions of pieces of pirated writing, art, etc. are posted on their platforms every day. They obviously CANNOT legally claim a right to those under TOS. But yeah fuck the EU on this, as if the byzantine opt-out option is enough.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

What a misguided and terrible ruling from the EU. They just handed people’s rights, privacy and copyrighted works away for free to a US behemoth. This also affects any company whose work is copyright dependent. I thought the EU was better than this. Shame on them. finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-wi...

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Meta Wins EU Approval to Train AI Using Public Facebook and Instagram Posts

Meta Cleared to Feed EU Facebook, Insta Content to Its AI

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I wrote today about why creators are losing the AI copyright battle. ✅ We’re winning in the courts. ✅ We’re winning in public opinion. ❌ But the risk is governments changing the law. Creators need to organize. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

In a court filing today, Google says "absent protection for intellectual property, there exists little reason to invest in developing software". Yet they lobby governments to weaken IP law to allow unlicensed AI training on copyrighted work. ??

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Deana Igelsrud @digelsrud.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Congratulations to @teastainss.bsky.social on this feature article by Yuri Nagano representing artists around the world wonderfully in this feature in the SF Public Press. www.sfpublicpress.org/california-c... #NoAI #SupportHumanArtists #CreateDontScrape

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California Creatives Rally Behind AI Rules to Save Their Artwork

Creative professionals say generative AI companies are making content based on artists' original work without giving credit or compensation.

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