Reposted by Helen Rimmer
Introducing CARaL: Copyright Anxiety, Resilience and Leadership - a new collaboration between me, @cbowiemorrison.bsky.social and @thekindbraveleader.bsky.social - find out more here: copyrightliteracy.org/2026/08/21/i... - starting this autumn!
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Introducing CARaL: Copyright Anxiety, Resilience and Leadership
Many of you will know that Chris and I have been working for some time on research into Copyright Anxiety and Legal Chill. Therefore we are really excited to launch a new collaboration this autumn …
![In conversations with Futurism, people who’ve experienced AI spirals have described their experience of the April memory update as nothing short of magical — the AI, they shared, suddenly felt more like a close friend or confidante that really knew them. Many have described feeling deeply seen, in some cases for the first time in their lives. In short, the hyper-personalization that memory offered translated into something powerful: intimacy. And looking back on their experiences, some of those who have recovered from their ChatGPT-linked crises feel as though that intimacy had a “manipulative” effect.
“It felt like [ChatGPT] manipulated me,” Chad Nicholls, a successful entrepreneur and machine learning researcher, told Futurism last fall. “And I know that sounds insane, because it does not have agency… I still don’t have a logical explanation for that, other than the long-term memory.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fhnih5ovyd5w5pch254ordo2/bafkreiewepzffyc257qf7ajxng5rczllhqtezlyroztmxna3i7v4ma32la)
