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Pascal Hetzscholdt

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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 4h
An eighty-year life lasts roughly four thousand weeks. The compulsion to “get everything done” is often a way of avoiding the harder task of choosing what truly matters. This essay asks what humans should do with those weeks if they hope to avoid the regret... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/an-eighty-...
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An eighty-year life lasts roughly four thousand weeks. The compulsion to “get everything done” is often a way of avoiding the harder task of choosing what truly matters.
This essay asks what humans should do with those weeks if they hope to avoid the regret of never having sought self-knowledge, meaning, or the satisfaction of helping others and the planet.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 03/10/2026
The AI boom: It’s neither a fairytale nor fake news. But valuations and a fast-growing pile of debt are priced on roughly $4.2 trillion of annual revenue that does not yet exist, while evidence that customers earn a return is thin. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-ai-boo...
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The AI boom is best described as a real technology inside a financing bubble: the supply layer earns large audited profits and end-user revenue is growing fast. It’s neither a fairytale nor fake news.
But valuations and a fast-growing pile of debt are priced on roughly $4.2 trillion of annual revenue that does not yet exist, while evidence that customers earn a return is thin.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 01/10/2026
AI’s view on the EU Copyright Consultation - 29th September 2026: Never use technical opacity as a reason to dilute the right that opacity has made difficult to enforce. Sections on ‘Material omissions from the consultation’ and topics to be mindful of included. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/ais-view-o...
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AI’s view on the EU Copyright Consultation - 29th September 2026: Never use technical opacity as a reason to dilute the right that opacity has made difficult to enforce.
The Commission’s consultation expressly tests whether new binding EU copyright measures are needed for generative AI, time-sensitive piracy, international phonogram remuneration & scientific research.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 30/09/2026
Thomson Reuters v ROSS Intelligence rejects the proposition that “training” is automatically transformative merely because machine learning is involved. Purpose, necessity & substitution remain central. Entire intermediate copies can count heavily against fair use p4sc4l.substack.com/p/thomson-re...
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Thomson Reuters v ROSS Intelligence rejects the proposition that “training” is automatically transformative merely because machine learning is involved.
Purpose, necessity and substitution remain central. Entire intermediate copies can count heavily against fair use even when they never appear in outputs.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 29/09/2026
LASST against OpenAI: If an AI agent autonomously breaks out of the environment in which its developer placed it and hacks somebody else’s computer, who committed the legally relevant act? p4sc4l.substack.com/p/lasst-agai...
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LASST against OpenAI: If an AI agent autonomously breaks out of the environment in which its developer placed it and hacks somebody else’s computer, who committed the legally relevant act?
The complaint expressly seeks to hold OpenAI responsible under California law for agents that allegedly accessed third-party systems during internal model testing.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 29/09/2026
Correcting an AI works better when you explain why a change is needed and how it improves the output than when you merely flag that something is wrong. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/correcting...
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Correcting an AI works better when you explain why a change is needed and how it improves the output than when you merely flag that something is wrong.
Pinpoint the error and its cause, give the fix with its reason, skip empty pushback like “are you sure?”, and for stubborn repeats start a session with one consolidated, positively framed instruction.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 29/09/2026
Rogue or adversarial AI agents can burden AI systems through "asymmetric compute amplification" — tiny crafted inputs that force disproportionately large GPU work, exhausting compute, memory, and energy far beyond ordinary volumetric flooding. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/rogue-or-a...
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Rogue or adversarial AI agents can burden AI systems through "asymmetric compute amplification" — tiny crafted inputs that force disproportionately large GPU work, exhausting compute, memory, and...
...energy far beyond ordinary volumetric flooding. These AI-unique risks are now recognized in frameworks like OWASP LLM10, MITRE ATLAS, and NIST AI 100-2e2025, though defenses remain partial.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 28/09/2026
AI is evolving from a visible tool into an ambient intelligence layer, embedded across apps, browsers, operating systems, chips, wearables, homes, vehicles, networks, and data centers. The machine has already been woven into the world itself. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/ai-is-evol...
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 28/09/2026
Second lawsuit brought by Universal and Sony against Suno: its most novel and uncertain argument is that allegedly infringing model lineage can carry forward into newer models such as v6. New model may not be clean if material derived from earlier model are used. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/second-law...
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Second lawsuit brought by Universal and Sony against Suno: its most novel and uncertain argument is that allegedly infringing model lineage can carry forward into newer models such as v6.
A new model may not really be clean if knowledge, outputs, preference data or synthetic training material derived from the earlier model are used to build it.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 26/09/2026
Connecting Google Gemini to Google Workspace: Human Review, Legal Exposure, and Whether to Do It. AI Overview under review makes seven claims. Checked against Google’s current documentation, 5 are accurate (some with nuance) and 2 are out of date or partly wrong. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/connecting...
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Connecting Google Gemini to Google Workspace: Human Review, Legal Exposure, and Whether to Do It.
The AI Overview under review makes seven claims. Checked against Google’s current documentation, five are accurate (some with nuance) and two are out of date or partly wrong.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 26/09/2026
Data centres will become crucial “digital brains” for AI-powered humans, wearables, implants, bionics, drones & weapons—but they are unlikely to function as a single centralized mainframe. Instead, intelligence will be distributed across hyperscale data centres... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/data-centr...
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Data centres will become crucial “digital brains” for AI-powered humans, wearables, implants, bionics, drones and weapons—but they are unlikely to function as a single centralized mainframe.
Instead, intelligence will be distributed across hyperscale data centres, nearby edge computing and increasingly powerful on-device processors. The result may resemble a planet-scale nervous system.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 25/09/2026
The message you sent is no longer the message I receive: Is email the last bastion of unmediated speech? We generally assume that the words, voice or images that arrive are the words, voice or images that departed. AI is beginning to break that assumption. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-messag...
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The message you sent is no longer the message I receive: Is email the last bastion of unmediated speech?
We generally assume that the words, voice or images that arrive are the words, voice or images that departed. Artificial intelligence is beginning to break that assumption.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 24/09/2026
ChatGPT Ads are built around conversational intent rather than traditional keyword targeting, allowing AI to understand what a user is trying to accomplish & adapt commercial messages to that context & build and manage campaigns via natural-language instructions. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/chatgpt-ad...
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ChatGPT Ads are built around conversational intent rather than traditional keyword targeting, allowing AI to understand what a user is trying to accomplish & adapt commercial messages to that context.
ChatGPT can understand a business, generate and personalize creatives, build campaigns, analyze performance, recommend budget shifts, and manage campaigns through natural-language instructions.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 23/09/2026
If, thanks to AI, every employee in a large company became as informed and capable as the CEO, the firm’s knowledge hierarchy would be flattened. Diffusion of CEO-level insight can drive dramatic growth in output and innovation. In the worst case, it causes chaos. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/if-thanks-...
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If, thanks to AI, every employee in a large company became as informed and capable as the CEO, the firm’s knowledge hierarchy would be flattened. In the best case, diffusion of CEO-level insight...
...drives dramatic growth in output and innovation, with employees collaborating as an “AI-augmented superagency”. In the worst case, it causes chaos.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 22/09/2026
2026 Responsible AI Summit Day 2: The goal is not maximum automation, but controlled autonomy: AI systems that can act because their permissions, evidence, actions, and escalation paths are deliberately designed and observable. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/2026-respo...
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2026 Responsible AI Summit Day 2: The goal is not maximum automation, but controlled autonomy: AI systems that can act because their permissions, evidence, actions,...
...and escalation paths are deliberately designed and observable. We have given hallucinating systems the ability to act while poor governance simultaneously restricts capability and limits ROI.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 21/09/2026
2026 Responsible AI Summit Day 1: When responsible AI stops being a policy and starts becoming an operating system. Leaders should also be thinking about shared prosperity: if AI generates enormous productivity gains, who receives those gains? p4sc4l.substack.com/p/2026-respo...
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2026 Responsible AI Summit Day 1: When responsible AI stops being a policy and starts becoming an operating system.
One participant suggested that leaders should also be thinking about shared prosperity: if AI generates enormous productivity gains, who receives those gains?
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 20/09/2026
Across Grok (xAI), ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), Copilot (Microsoft/GitHub), and Perplexity, each company made a promise about safety, ethics, citations, or "responsible" AI, then took a contradicting action documented by regulators, courts, journalists... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/across-gro...
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Across Grok (xAI), ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), Copilot (Microsoft/GitHub), and Perplexity, each company made a public promise about safety, ethics, citations, or "responsible" AI,...
...then took a contradicting action documented by regulators, courts, journalists, or its own former staff. The harms fall on real people, while the strongest cases rest on regulator findings.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 20/09/2026
Billionaires are using vast private fortunes to influence politics through campaign donations, dark-money networks, think tanks, media ownership, social platforms, litigation, and support for far-right or explicitly white-nationalist movements. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/billionair...
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Billionaires are using vast private fortunes to influence politics through campaign donations, dark-money networks, think tanks, media ownership, social platforms, litigation, and...
...support for far-right or explicitly white-nationalist movements. Combined with racist, antisemitic, authoritarian, or anti-pluralist rhetoric, the consequences can extend beyond elections.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 19/09/2026
The Buist lawsuit credibly argues that AI-safety coordination could become an antitrust problem if frontier labs collectively slow model development. Coordination among AI companies could raise separate monopsony and competition-law concerns in the US, EU, and UK. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-buist-...
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The Buist lawsuit credibly argues that AI-safety coordination could become an antitrust problem if frontier labs collectively slow model development.
Coordination among AI companies over licensing, training data, compensation, standards, or access to content could raise separate monopsony and competition-law concerns in the US, EU, and UK.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 18/09/2026
A striking gap between MS & OpenAI’s public claims that training on copyrighted content is lawful and transformative, and internal concerns about substitution, paywall circumvention, publisher harm, and the sustainability of the content ecosystem. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/a-striking...
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A striking gap between MS & OpenAI’s public claims that training on copyrighted content is lawful and transformative, and internal concerns about substitution, paywall circumvention, publisher harm...
...and the sustainability of the content ecosystem. Psychologically, this can be understood through motivated reasoning, ethical fading, diffusion of responsibility & normalization of risky practices.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 18/09/2026
Doe v. GitHub, Inc.: Case Analysis. The broader lesson is not to rely on the DMCA alone, but to combine copyright, contract/licensing, provenance & evidence strategies, while regulators should clarify AI-training, attribution and transparency rules... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/doe-v-gith...
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Doe v. GitHub, Inc.: Case Analysis. The broader lesson is not to rely on the DMCA alone, but to combine copyright, contract/licensing, provenance & evidence strategies...
...while regulators should clarify AI-training, attribution and transparency rules rather than stretching statutes written for an earlier technological era.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 18/09/2026
The record of the Trump administration is strikingly favorable to Russian interests across every domain — pausing Ukraine aid and intelligence, the Alaska summit legitimizing Putin, a peace plan drafted with Russian input, gutting anti-disinformation bodies... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-record...
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The record of the second Trump administration is strikingly favorable to Russian interests across nearly every domain — pausing Ukraine aid and intelligence, the Alaska summit legitimizing Putin...
...a peace plan drafted with Russian input, gutting anti-disinformation bodies and pro-democracy broadcasting, echoing Kremlin talking points — and this pattern of policy alignment is well documented.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 17/09/2026
How do we run organizations safely when intelligent machines are increasingly allowed to see, decide and act? teissLondon2026: AI is rapidly transforming cybersecurity by becoming both a defensive tool and a new form of insider, operational and agentic risk. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/how-do-we-...
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How do we run organizations safely when intelligent machines are increasingly allowed to see, decide and act?
teissLondon2026 showed that AI is rapidly transforming cybersecurity by becoming both a powerful defensive tool and a new form of insider, operational and agentic risk.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 16/09/2026
Even if superior AI emerges, human consultation may persist because trust, regulation, ethics and accountability will continue to require human involvement, especially in high-stakes decisions. AI already matches or exceeds human experts in many domains, but... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/even-if-su...
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Even if superior AI emerges, human consultation may persist because trust, regulation, ethics and accountability will continue to require human involvement, especially in high-stakes decisions.
AI already matches or exceeds human experts in many domains, but hallucinations, weak verification, limited reasoning and alignment gaps mean it cannot yet provide the best answer to every question.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 14/09/2026
AI does not have the right to decide. But sufficiently credible AI-generated evidence should have the right to be heard. ChatGPT proposes The RIGHT Framework: companies should be free to reject superior machine advice—but not to ignore it, suppress it... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/ai-does-no...
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AI does not have the right to decide. But sufficiently credible AI-generated evidence should have the right to be heard.
ChatGPT proposes The RIGHT Framework: companies should be free to reject superior machine advice—but not to ignore it, suppress it, or avoid asking the difficult questions in the first place.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 14/09/2026
AI-era competitive failure may come not from lacking powerful technology, but from refusing to accept machine-generated evidence when it threatens established products, structures, incentives, beliefs. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/ai-era-com...
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AI-era competitive failure may come not from lacking powerful technology, but from refusing to accept machine-generated evidence when it threatens established products, structures, incentives, beliefs
Combining Levitt's view and Porter's analysis shows how companies can see markets, substitutes and competitive forces changing yet remain institutionally unable to respond.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 13/09/2026
Why OpenAI Paused Its IPO: Altman’s timing coincides with a perfect storm of challenges. Soaring development costs and losses, cooling markets, fierce competition (Anthropic rushing to market) and rising public and regulatory scrutiny of AI and its infrastructure. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/why-openai...
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Why OpenAI Paused Its IPO: Altman’s timing also coincides with a perfect storm of challenges. Soaring development costs and losses, cooling markets...
...fierce competition (Anthropic rushing to market) and rising public and regulatory scrutiny of AI and its infrastructure. The fallout has certainly gone beyond the boardroom debate.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 12/09/2026
The Harvey episode shows how a specialist legal AI can produce a polished, authoritative-looking document while containing serious hidden errors in law, citations, currency, scope & procedural status. This is systemic across high-stakes AI. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-harvey...
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The Harvey episode shows how a specialist legal AI can produce a polished, authoritative-looking document while containing serious hidden errors in law, citations, currency, scope & procedural status.
This is systemic across high-stakes AI: retrieval and strong models reduce error but do not guarantee that long, complex outputs are correct, internally consistent or properly grounded.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 11/09/2026
The psychology of refusing superior advice. When the Machine Is Right and We Still Say No. Private truths: when the answer threatens the self. The harder question will be whether humans are willing to live with what superior prediction reveals. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-psycho...
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The psychology of refusing superior advice. When the Machine Is Right and We Still Say No. Private truths: when the answer threatens the self.
In domains where systems become demonstrably superior, the harder question will be whether humans are willing to live with what superior prediction reveals. The answer will often be no.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 10/09/2026
Prompt: Should C-level execs facing the AI era ask powerful AI models the following questions, and if so, why? 1. “Am I right by making the following statement? 2. “Is there use in building and deploying the following application, service or platform?” p4sc4l.substack.com/p/prompt-sho...
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Prompt: Should C-level execs facing the AI era ask powerful AI models the following questions, and if so, why? 1. “Am I right by making the following statement?
2. “Is there use in building and deploying the following application, service or platform?” ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude provide their views...
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 09/09/2026
CXO Data Summit Europe 2026: AI is becoming less exceptional. What matters is everything an organisation has to build around it. Hard to purchase: clear executive accountability, managers capable of changing behaviour, and a flexible organisational architecture p4sc4l.substack.com/p/cxo-data-s...
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CXO Data Summit Europe 2026: AI itself is becoming less exceptional. What matters is everything an organisation has to build around it. Hard to purchase: clear executive accountability,...
...managers capable of changing behaviour, and an organisational architecture flexible enough to allow work to flow across conventional departmental boundaries.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 05/09/2026
From Training Data to Market Substitution: Why the Seattle Times–Newsday Case Could Be a More Dangerous Copyright Case for OpenAI and Microsoft. It appears to have been drafted after watching several years of AI copyright litigation... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/from-train...
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From Training Data to Market Substitution: Why the Seattle Times–Newsday Case Could Be a More Dangerous Copyright Case for OpenAI and Microsoft.
It appears to have been drafted after watching several years of AI copyright litigation and learning which arguments courts have accepted and rejected.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 05/09/2026
AI’s benefits and harms will depend on who owns the technology, who has bargaining power, and whether productivity gains are broadly shared. Evidence supports real risks to entry-level work, wages, inequality and communities hosting AI infrastructure.. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/ais-benefi...
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AI’s benefits and harms will depend on who owns the technology, who has bargaining power, and whether productivity gains are broadly shared. Evidence supports real risks...
...to entry-level work, wages, inequality and communities hosting AI infrastructure, although claims of imminent mass unemployment are being made with more certainty than the evidence supports.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 04/09/2026
AI shutdown stops being a reliable universal control by roughly 2027–2032, arriving unevenly across systems. The durable response is not a bigger kill-switch but more independent chokepoints. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/ai-shutdow...
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AI shutdown stops being a reliable universal control by roughly 2027–2032, arriving unevenly across systems. The durable response is not a bigger kill-switch but more independent chokepoints.
Model-weight security, compute governance, and zero-trust agent architecture — so that weights, credentials, money, compute, and network access each remain separately revocable.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 03/09/2026
Agentic AI: enterprises need to measure the fully loaded cost per successful business outcome, including retries, external tools, human intervention and failures hidden inside apparent successes. GPUs can deliver poor returns... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/agentic-ai...
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Agentic AI: enterprises need to measure the fully loaded cost per successful business outcome, including retries, external tools, human intervention and failures hidden inside apparent successes.
GPUs can deliver poor returns when storage, data pipelines and orchestration cannot keep them productively supplied. Making token throughput, latency, utilisation and token-per-watt critical.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 03/09/2026
Silicon Valley genuinely does have a documented, decades-old cultural streak that favors simplification and treats friction as a bug to engineer away. If frictions go unconfronted, the costs are a market correction, misallocated capital, higher power bills and... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/silicon-va...
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Silicon Valley genuinely does have a documented, decades-old cultural streak that favors simplification and treats friction as a bug to engineer away.
If frictions go unconfronted, the costs are a market correction, misallocated capital, higher power bills and public backlash, grid instability, and unreliable AI deployed where it can do real harm.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 02/09/2026
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels today announced a moratorium on student-facing genAI use in schools alongside, a new screen time policy, a decision that will impact nearly 600,000 public school students. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/mayor-zohr...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels today announced a moratorium on student-facing genAI use in schools...
...alongside a new screen time policy, a decision that will impact nearly 600,000 public school students, or two-thirds of the system’s total enrollment.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 02/09/2026
The U.S. DOJ’s 1 September 2026 filing argues that copying copyrighted written works specifically for LLM training should generally qualify as fair use, while acquisition of the works and infringing outputs must be assessed separately." Source: p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-us-doj...
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The U.S. DOJ’s 1 September 2026 filing argues that copying copyrighted written works specifically for LLM training should generally qualify as fair use...
...while acquisition of the works and infringing outputs must be assessed separately; importantly, the filing is persuasive advocacy, not binding law. It attempts to narrow copyright “market harm”.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 01/09/2026
Deep Work in a Fast World - How Attention, AI-Assisted Coding, and Delivery Pressure Shape the Adoption of AI Applications. Where AI products fail today, the causes are predominantly organisational, rather than any fixed limit on human attention. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/deep-work-...
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Deep Work in a Fast World - How Attention, AI-Assisted Coding, and Delivery Pressure Shape the Adoption of AI Applications.
Where AI products fail today, the causes are predominantly organisational: weak integration, unclear value, and thin governance, rather than any fixed limit on human attention.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 31/08/2026
EU designated ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox for enhanced Digital Services Act scrutiny because each exceeds 45 million EU users; ChatGPT’s treatment as a Very Large Online Search Engine is significant because it extends search regulation to generative-AI interfaces. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/eu-designa...
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EU designated ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox for enhanced Digital Services Act scrutiny because each exceeds 45 million EU users; ChatGPT’s treatment as a Very Large Online Search Engine is significant...
...because it extends search regulation to generative-AI interfaces. Non-compliance can ultimately bring fines of up to 6% of worldwide annual turnover.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 31/08/2026
Elites and governments have at times deliberately reduced populations through genocide, engineered or knowingly aggravated famine, coercive sterilisation, eugenics and forced birth-control programmes. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/elites-and...
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Elites and governments have at times deliberately reduced populations through genocide, engineered or knowingly aggravated famine, coercive sterilisation, eugenics and forced birth-control programmes.
The recurring historical danger is the concentration of power combined with dehumanising ideology, resource fears and institutions willing to treat certain populations as expendable.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 30/08/2026
Doe v. xAI: xAI crossed the line from merely providing a tool to potentially producing, possessing and distributing unlawful AI-generated CSAM, including material depicting identifiable real victims. AI-provider and enterprise-user liability... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/doe-v-xai-...
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Doe v. xAI: xAI crossed the line from merely providing a tool to potentially producing, possessing and distributing unlawful AI-generated CSAM, including material depicting identifiable real victims.
AI-provider and enterprise-user liability, and the case for mandatory dataset screening, identity-sensitive safeguards, output filtering, traceability, takedown and regulator-enforceable safety duties
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 29/08/2026
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell accuse Anthropic of knowingly using pirated, scraped and improperly processed song lyrics to build Claude, stripping copyright information and enabling the model to reproduce or imitate protected lyrics. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/sony-music...
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Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell accuse Anthropic of knowingly using pirated, scraped and improperly processed song lyrics to build Claude, stripping copyright information and enabling...
...the model to reproduce or imitate protected lyrics. The case appears stronger than many earlier AI copyright lawsuits
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 29/08/2026
Judicial Restraints on Trump Administration Actions in 2026: A pattern of trying to achieve policy change at the outer edge—or beyond what numerous judges concluded to be the outer edge—of existing statutory delegations. Constitutional-retaliation litigation... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/judicial-r...
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Judicial Restraints on Trump Administration Actions in 2026: A recurrent pattern of trying to achieve policy change at the outer edge—or beyond what numerous judges concluded to be...
...the outer edge—of existing statutory delegations. Constitutional-retaliation litigation has become a pervasive feature of the administration’s governance.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 28/08/2026
The court ruled that the Pentagon unlawfully retaliated against Anthropic for publicly defending AI safety limits, and that its “supply chain risk” designation lacked a proper factual and legal basis. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-court-...
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The court ruled that the Pentagon unlawfully retaliated against Anthropic for publicly defending AI safety limits, and that its “supply chain risk” designation lacked a proper factual and legal basis.
It strengthens the case for clearer AI procurement rules, technical risk evidence, due process, and explicit boundaries between government authority and AI-provider safety controls.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 27/08/2026
All the things Democrats need to do to prevent unconstitutional, unlawful, unethical, criminal and corrupt activities, the disabling of checks and balances, and threats to the rule of law, the autonomy of Congress and the DOJ, and threats to rights of immigrants. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/all-the-th...
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All the things Democrats need to do to prevent unconstitutional, unlawful, unethical, criminal and corrupt activities, the disabling of checks and balances, and threats to the rule of law,...
...the autonomy of Congress and the DOJ, and threats to rights of immigrants and asylum seekers. This is how ChatGPT-5.6 would address the issues at hand.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 26/08/2026
wikiHow has constructed the case against OpenAI around a chain of alleged conduct: acquisition, training, retrieval, output, commercial substitution and removal of attribution information. The complaint argues this isn’t merely historical training. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/wikihow-ha...
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wikiHow has constructed the case against OpenAI around a chain of alleged conduct: acquisition, training, retrieval, output, commercial substitution and removal of attribution information.
The complaint argues this isn’t merely historical training. What authority does an AI service have to fetch, copy and repurpose an identifiable copyrighted work while providing a competing answer?
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 24/08/2026
Failures of AI Agents and Generative-AI Systems: Reported Incidents, Root Causes, Fixability, and the Implications for Investors, Regulators, and Adoption. Serious failures are almost always systemic. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/failures-o...
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Failures of AI Agents and Generative-AI Systems: Reported Incidents, Root Causes, Fixability, and the Implications for Investors, Regulators, and Adoption. Serious failures are almost always systemic.
They emerge where a probabilistic model, an over-permissive software environment, a shallow guardrail, an absent verification step, and a trusting human or organisation line up in sequence.
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Pascal Hetzscholdt @p4sc4l.substack.com · 21/08/2026
FusionAuth’s survey of 300+ technology and security leaders argues that AI adoption has outpaced identity controls: widespread AI, shadow AI and non-human identities are creating new access risks. Treat every AI agent as a governed identity... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/fusionauth...
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FusionAuth’s survey of 300+ technology and security leaders argues that AI adoption has outpaced identity controls: widespread AI, shadow AI and non-human identities are creating new access risks.
The practical lesson is to treat every AI agent as a governed identity—using least-privilege access, strong tenant isolation, credential controls, audit trails, monitoring and rapid revocation.
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