Watermarks that spy on users are no mere watermarks

Since their arrival, generative AI models and their trainers have demonstrated their ability to download any online content for model training. For content owners and creators, few tools can prevent their content from being fed into a generative AI model against their will. Opt-out lists have been disregarded by model trainers in the past, and can be easily ignored with zero consequences. They are unverifiable and unenforceable, and those who violate opt-out lists and do-not-scrape directives can not be identified with high confidence.

"Thе Commodore РЕТ offers you а safe passage through the primeval swamр of computerization," says the ad copy accompanying this uncredited illustration in a June 1981 issue of Personal Computer World:...

Ghost in the Machine reveals the problematic history of artificial intelligence and the consequences it imposes on our communities and environment.

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A blog post of my talk at Chinatown JS Sept 2026.

usually free mondays, thursdays, and fridays 7am to 12pm, mondays 6pm to midnight, tuesdays, thursdays, and fridays 4pm to midnight, and weekends 7am to midnight.

Every system has fields. Fields for identity, behavior, memory, ownership. They resemble empty boxes, but they are not empty. Someone decided what may enter.…

A set of critical links for anyone interested in getting started with AT Protocol and exploring the landscape

Wrapping up my time as a GSoC contributor.

Join us on Saturday, Aug 22nd at the Recurse Center in Brooklyn to learn, hack, and build with the AT Protocol!