#  @ednewtonrex Ed Newton-Rex Ed Newton-Rex posts on X about ai, open ai, generative, musicians the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::63834247/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] +13% - [--] Month [---------] +1.60% - [--] Months [----------] +91% - [--] Year [----------] +126% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::63834247/posts_active)  - [--] Months [---] +13% - [--] Year [---] +15% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::63834247/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +1.10% - [--] Month [------] +5.20% - [--] Months [------] +15% - [--] Year [------] +31% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::63834247/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [finance](/list/finance) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [countries](/list/countries) [vc firms](/list/vc-firms) [musicians](/list/musicians) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [gaming](/list/gaming) **Social topic influence** [ai](/topic/ai), [open ai](/topic/open-ai) #1249, [generative](/topic/generative) #294, [musicians](/topic/musicians), [$googl](/topic/$googl), [6969](/topic/6969), [in the](/topic/in-the), [this is](/topic/this-is), [creators](/topic/creators), [to the](/topic/to-the) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@openai](/creator/undefined) [@uklabour](/creator/undefined) [@leicesterliz](/creator/undefined) [@udiomusic](/creator/undefined) [@keirstarmer](/creator/undefined) [@a16z](/creator/undefined) [@rhonddabryant](/creator/undefined) [@supervdataspace](/creator/undefined) [@peterkyle](/creator/undefined) [@runwayml](/creator/undefined) [@matdryhurst](/creator/undefined) [@adobe](/creator/undefined) [@elevenlabsio](/creator/undefined) [@drgingerballs](/creator/undefined) [@mrewanmorrison](/creator/undefined) [@geminiapp](/creator/undefined) [@soundcloud](/creator/undefined) [@neilturkewitz](/creator/undefined) [@lisanandy](/creator/undefined) [@cocacola](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/$spot) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "This new report shows the havoc AI is already wreaking in the creative sector. Evidence from [-----] British creatives shows: - 58% of photographers have lost work to AI - 32% of illustrators have lost commissions to AI - 86% of authors say AI has reduced their earnings Generative AI competes with the work it is trained on and the people behind that work. Every single new piece of evidence backs this up. The theft must be stopped - government must step in. https://www.ism.org/brave-new-world https://www.ism.org/brave-new-world" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2018256576356704632) 2026-02-02T09:33Z 11.6K followers, 162.4K engagements "It is crazy that massive book piracy was so critical to the early days of both OpenAI and Anthropic. In [----] Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann testified that he himself had downloaded the massive pirate library LibGen at Anthropic. He did so only a few months after the company was founded in [----]. He also downloaded another pirate library Books3 the very month Anthropic was founded. It was used to train Claude [--] & Claude [--]. He *also* said he had previously downloaded LibGen when he was at OpenAI. OpenAI used books from LibGen to train GPT-3 and GPT-3.5. And he went further - he said he understood" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2020887580959518750) 2026-02-09T15:48Z 11.6K followers, 117.5K engagements "Models we know were trained on pirated books (a non-exhaustive list): GPT-3 (OpenAI) GPT-3.5 (OpenAI) Claude [--] (Anthropic) Claude [--] (Anthropic) Llama [--] (Meta) Llama [--] (Meta) Llama [--] (Meta) OpenELM (Apple) BloombergGPT (Bloomberg) Megatron-Turing NLG 530B (Microsoft & Nvidia) MPT-7B-StoryWriter-65k+ (Databricks) Cerebras-GPT (Cerebras) CodeGen (Salesforce) And this is just those where this info has come out in court / is traceable through academic papers. Its safe to assume there are many more. The AI industry was built on piracy. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022595026669248654" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2022595026669248654) 2026-02-14T08:53Z 11.6K followers, 23K engagements "When OpenAI released ChatGPT it was trained on pirated books. This finally came to light in a lawsuit three months ago but it has gone essentially unreported. It came out in one sentence buried halfway down an opinion from the judge in Authors Guild et al v. OpenAI. The judge said that a lawyer for OpenAI admitted that the pirate library LibGen was the source of a dataset they called books2 and that this dataset was used to train GPT-3 and GPT-3.5. GPT-3.5 was the model used when ChatGPT was launched in November [----]. It was the default free-tier model for [--] 1/2 years until July [----]. People" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2022940817992610007) 2026-02-15T07:47Z 11.6K followers, 44.5K engagements "@RonP Yes Alsup in Bartz" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2022354675370967277) 2026-02-13T16:58Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements "@TheMG3D Its much more sensible to believe companies when they say job cuts are AI-driven. This meme that its all fake is very dangerous IMO" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2022983884200452555) 2026-02-15T10:38Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements "Insane detail that emerged in unsealed documents in Bartz v. Anthropic: Dario Amodei wrote a document arguing that the creators behind AIs training data should get paid. He said: - It was a real and important concern that big companies were training on books to extract concentrated profits - These models would outcompete the humans behind the training data in the long run - It would therefore be fair to share profits with them What is happening macroeconomically is that distributed human labor is being used to train AI models by large centralized actors who concentrate the resulting profits" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2019536114886012992) 2026-02-05T22:18Z 11.6K followers, 62.6K engagements "Today were releasing the vinyl of Is This What We Want the silent album from 1000+ musicians protesting the UK governments plans on AI & copyright. Incredibly grateful to Paul McCartney for providing a new (silent) bonus track. And to the many UK musicians involved in the album. The track list spells out a simple message: The British Government Must Not Legalise Music Theft To Benefit AI Companies. All profits go to the fantastic charity Help Musicians. There are [----] copies - you can pre-order one today here: Read more:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1990336046299500916) 2025-11-17T08:27Z 11.6K followers, 37.1K engagements "Astonishing admission from Ollie Ilott the Director General for AI in the British government. He says you wouldn't want an opt-out from AI training to be too easy to use because the primary goal would be to get more work for AI companies to train on 🤯 Let that sink in. This is an admission that the opt-out the government proposed wasn't really about giving creatives control. That was a charade. It was the opposite - it was *intended* to ensure some missed the chance to opt-out and to maximise the free handout to AI companies. This is a huge admission to make and shows the government is fully" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2011384563344232686) 2026-01-14T10:27Z 11.6K followers, 92.4K engagements "A new paper from Stanford adds further incontrovertible evidence that LLMs memorize training data. The authors showed that copyrighted works can be extracted from every LLM they tried: GPT-4.1 Gemini [---] Pro Grok [--] and Claude [---] Sonnet. For example Claude [---] Sonnet reproduced *95.8%* of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. "We find that is possible to extract large portions of memorized copyrighted material from all four production LLMs". Some in AI and even some courts have claimed that AI models don't memorize training data. This is simply false. They do as has been repeatedly shown." [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2009201019184415218) 2026-01-08T09:50Z 11.6K followers, 594.1K engagements "Musk says X outcry is 'excuse for censorship' https://t.co/Fd5pb8QcPF Musk says X outcry is 'excuse for censorship' https://t.co/Fd5pb8QcPF" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2009953752162447448) 2026-01-10T11:41Z 11.6K followers, 629.4K engagements "Grok now wont undress women even for paid users. Protest works. Big tech is not invincible. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/13/musks-x-stops-bikini-bot-undressing-women/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/13/musks-x-stops-bikini-bot-undressing-women/" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2011227080416182283) 2026-01-14T00:01Z 11.6K followers, 456.3K engagements "The Telegraph has uncovered yet more about the UK government's 'AI skills hub' that suggests the entire thing was a rushed vibe-coded hack job (which cost [---] million of taxpayers' money). Their investigation reveals it includes: - courses that seem to be AI-generated scams - courses that are more than [--] years old - 'degrees' that cost thousands of pounds yet offer no meaningful qualifications - courses that don't exist at all And so much more. This bit killed me: "One course on 'digital agriculture fundamentals' is provided by a Canadian education company and requires applicants to live in" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2017171445722312747) 2026-01-30T09:42Z 11.6K followers, 102K engagements "This now-deleted post from an AI company angered even AI types so awful is its we just ended [--] more creative jobs messaging. But they are the only AI company being honest. Most AI companies could accurately say the same thing - they only dont because its bad PR" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2018967440386855180) 2026-02-04T08:38Z 11.6K followers, 56.3K engagements "In [----] Aaron Swartz downloaded [---] million articles from JSTOR. We don't know why - it may have been to make them freely available online (if so he never did as he was caught). He made no money from this and there is no suggestion he intended to. He was indicted on [--] felony counts facing a maximum of [--] years in prison and $3 million in fines. Two years after his arrest awaiting trial he hung himself. In [----] & [----] Ben Mann downloaded at least [--] million books from pirate libraries. He did so while working at OpenAI and Anthropic; the books were downloaded for the purposes of training AI" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2021158912423018990) 2026-02-10T09:46Z 11.6K followers, 225.5K engagements "When Anthropic stopped training on books that were literally pirated they managed to hit on the one way of buying books that means no money goes to authors: buying used books. They spent tens of millions of dollars buying used books from wholesalers in batches of tens of thousands at a time. These were shipped to Illinois scanned and pulped. They called this Project Panama using a codename because they didnt want people to know they were doing it. (It ultimately came out through court documents.) Before alighting on this plan they were discussing licensing from book publishers which would" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2022241871783707115) 2026-02-13T09:30Z 11.6K followers, 318.6K engagements "Our former Prime Minister now shills for a $380 billion US AI company that rose to success copying millions upon millions of pirated books. Just incredibly embarrassing stuff. Action this day would be a good motto for this Prime Minister when it comes to AI. Therell never be a quiet week when he can turn to it so he must just get on with it. We must move quicker if our country is to flourish. https://t.co/c2kpxh1euT Action this day would be a good motto for this Prime Minister when it comes to AI. Therell never be a quiet week when he can turn to it so he must just get on with it. We must" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2022959547715879164) 2026-02-15T09:01Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements "@alexolegimas @bcherny How do you become an experienced engineer if today's experienced engineers are using AI so effectively that they can avoid hiring junior engineers And if you can't become a junior engineer why learn to code https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1960301927561941360s=20 New research from Stanford shows that generative AI is already making it harder for young people to find jobs. - Researchers studied payroll data from [--] million+ workers - In jobs with high exposure to automation by AI early-career workers (age 22-25) have experienced a 13% https://t.co/v1OvV4zFoU" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2023321308633948252) 2026-02-16T08:59Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements "OpenAI just released a model that can generate 1-minute videos. You simply cannot argue that these models don't / won't compete with the content they're trained on and the human creators behind that content. What is the model trained on Did the training data providers consent to their work being used The total lack of info from OpenAI on this doesn't inspire confidence. Across the AI industry people's work is being exploited without consent to build products that compete with that work. This must be controlled by regulators. Introducing Sora our text-to-video model. Sora can create videos of" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1758196608389562595) 2024-02-15T18:28Z 11.6K followers, 1.2M engagements "The founder of AI music company Suno says its not really enjoyable to make music now I think the majority of people dont enjoy the majority of time they spend making music. Couldnt disagree more. Its not really enjoyable to make music now it takes a lot of time it takes a lot of practice you have to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production software. I think the majority of people dont enjoy the majority of time they spend making https://t.co/zkv73Bhmi9 Its not really enjoyable to make music now it takes a lot of time it takes a lot of practice you have to get" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1878190206370902492) 2025-01-11T21:20Z 11.5K followers, 45.8K engagements "Reading the full Disney / Universal lawsuit it couldnt be clearer: this is the end of Midjourney" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1932907475893960718) 2025-06-11T21:07Z 11.6K followers, 197K engagements "OpenAI says it will use copyrighted characters in Sora videos unless the IP owner opts out. If they get away with this what is the point of copyright law It will have been utterly broken by AI lobbying. Creative community must unite against this. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-new-sora-video-generator-to-require-copyright-holders-to-opt-out-071d8b2a https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-new-sora-video-generator-to-require-copyright-holders-to-opt-out-071d8b2a" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1972798618072699087) 2025-09-29T23:00Z 11.6K followers, 239.5K engagements "Absolutely brilliant detail from the new Reddit AI copyright lawsuit vs. Perplexity. They set a trap for Perplexity - a test post only crawlable by Google existing nowhere else on the internet. Within hours it was on Perplexity 😳 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perplexity-theft.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perplexity-theft.html" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1981344059340791974) 2025-10-23T12:56Z 11.6K followers, 531.3K engagements "The Coca-Cola Christmas ad made with AI used at least eight AI models known to be trained on copyrighted work without permission. This is a huge middle finger to the artists whose work these models exploit at scale for huge commercial gain. cc @CocaCola" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1986140039030411646) 2025-11-05T18:34Z 11.6K followers, 600.7K engagements "Please stop saying that Grok undressing people is just like Photoshop / ChatGPT. Those other products dont publish the sexualised image to the person being sexualised by default. The law focuses on regulating the sharing of sexualised images more than on their creation. Making these images even in private should be regulated too. But an epidemic of public grok put her in a bikini replies to posts is clearly something that must be halted asap. It is incredibly abusive. If someone is arguing its just like Photoshop / ChatGPT its worth asking whether they may have some other motive for objecting" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2011004677685395846) 2026-01-13T09:17Z 11.4K followers, 39.6K engagements "helpful tip for working out when to use ai to write for you: - if youre writing something that matters dont write it with ai - if youre writing something that doesnt matter still dont write it with ai. in fact dont write it at all" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2013341305124921667) 2026-01-19T20:02Z 11.4K followers, 16.2K engagements "An updated lawsuit against Nvidia alleges they trained on millions of pirated books from Annas Archive. Annas Archive is a massive pirate library that illegally sells access to pirated books for people to train AI models on. The lawsuit says: - Nvidia reached out to them - Annas Archive told Nvidia the books were illegally acquired - Yet Nvidia still gave the transfer the green light Seems headed towards another billion-dollar settlement. But I really hope the plaintiffs in one of these cases dont settle and instead push it all the way. https://torrentfreak.com/images/naznvid-amend.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2013903120917508581) 2026-01-21T09:14Z 11.5K followers, 53.5K engagements "A few months ago I was curious to know how much Anna's Archive was charging AI developers for access to their massive library of pirated works for training - so I emailed them saying I was interested in buying access. Here is their reply. They are charging $200000 (payable via crypto of course). You get high-speed access to the full collection. This includes more than [--] million books. (This is also the group that recently stole Spotify's entire music catalog so expect this to be available to high rollers too.) This is the collection Nvidia is accused of accessing for training. Training on" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2014275604489605319) 2026-01-22T09:55Z 11.5K followers, 1M engagements "Two huge book publishers - Hachette and Cengage - have moved to join authors & illustrators in suing Google for allegedly using their work to train AI models. They write in the complaint: "Faced with the choice between respecting intellectual property rights or competing in the AI race Google chose to steal a massive body of content from Plaintiffs and the Class to train its AI model." It's great to see different sides of the book industry uniting to fight exploitation by AI companies. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.415223/gov.uscourts.cand.415223.342.1.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2014661334135079401) 2026-01-23T11:27Z 11.4K followers, 33.4K engagements "If youre trying to build AGI you are by definition trying to compete with your training data. This is one reason training data *must* be licensed. Artificial general intelligence is explicitly general-purpose. If achieved it will be able to perform all intellectual tasks at human level - thats what the term AGI means. So the companies trying to build AGI - i.e. all the major AI labs - are trying to build a product that can perform any intellectual task. By definition that includes competing with what it was trained on. It doesnt matter whether you think AGI *will* be achieved. The fact that" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2015418547229348124) 2026-01-25T13:36Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements "Beautiful and important words from the Pope yesterday: In recent years AI systems have increasingly taken control of the production of text music and videos. Much of the human creative industry is thus at risk of being dismantled and replaced with the label "Powered by AI" transforming people into mere passive consumers of unthought thoughts anonymous products devoid of authorship devoid of love. Meanwhile the masterpieces of human genius in music art and literature are being reduced to mere training grounds for machines. We need faces and voices to once again speak the person. We need to" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2015540929386651902) 2026-01-25T21:42Z 11.4K followers, 26.1K engagements "Bringing AI tutors into schools is an absolutely terrible idea. *Far* too little is known about the effects of doing so. What we do know is that chatbots hallucinate can result in dependence can negatively impact cognitive skills and in the most extreme cases have assisted minors in suicide. The government should drop this plan which will benefit AI companies' bottom line at the expense of British schoolchildren. Every child should have an equal shot at success no matter their background. Thats why we're going to work with teachers and experts to make safe smart AI tutoring tools available to" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2016091888596529579) 2026-01-27T10:12Z 11.4K followers, [----] engagements "Why is the UK government partnering with Anthropic when Anthropic is known to train its AI models on British creatives' work without permission Would be good to get an answer to this from Secretary of State for Science Innovation & Technology @leicesterliz Were partnering with the UK's Department for Science Innovation and Technology to build an AI assistant for https://t.co/e3sn3vm9wg. It will offer tailored advice to help British people navigate government services. Read more about our partnership: https://t.co/k7pAV6aX8T Were partnering with the UK's Department for Science Innovation and" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2016108124495569189) 2026-01-27T11:16Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements "The UK government is being run by Palantir. Second infographic showing further detail of how the 34+ UK state contracts and extensions with Palantir break down (Note on infographic [--] (post 1): where amount/share of a contract/extension is unknown that contract has not been included in the overall 672m+ spend.) https://t.co/7Wdo76DPQ1 Second infographic showing further detail of how the 34+ UK state contracts and extensions with Palantir break down (Note on infographic [--] (post 1): where amount/share of a contract/extension is unknown that contract has not been included in the overall 672m+" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2016236999644938481) 2026-01-27T19:48Z 11.4K followers, [----] engagements "The UK government's AI Skills Hub launched today is little more than thinly-veiled propaganda for AI companies. I took a look at the courses. They include: - Intros to generative AI by big tech companies that call AI "miraculous" and gloss over the huge controversy around what it's trained on - A course for creatives marketed as 'AI: friend or foe' that is exclusively about how creatives can harness & integrate AI ignoring the many issues like IP rights deskilling etc. - A single course on AI & IP which seems designed to trivialise the actual issues and which talks about US law instead of UK" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2016443886390931767) 2026-01-28T09:31Z 11.5K followers, 127K engagements "First off the courses that are simply big-tech-written introductions to generative AI. Here is Microsoft's. They say AI has an "almost miraculous ability to produce human-like original content"; their one sentence on data just says it's from the "internet and other sources". No mention of the fact that those "other sources" are people's copyrighted works and Microsoft is facing multiple lawsuits as a result. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016443889574420648 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016443889574420648" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2016443889574420648) 2026-01-28T09:31Z 11.4K followers, [----] engagements "@CatFinnie @SciTechgovuk @leicesterliz @BBCBreakfast Yes also a lot of it isn't even free companies are charging for it" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2016506453654217027) 2026-01-28T13:39Z 11.4K followers, [--] engagements "The UK government paid PwC *4.1 million* for the AI Skills Hub it launched today. The Skills Hub is essentially propaganda for the AI industry. On launch it included courses describing the law in the wrong country and a bunch of re-hashed 'introductions to gen AI' written by big tech. https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001337-2025 The UK government's AI Skills Hub launched today is little more than thinly-veiled propaganda for AI companies. I took a look at the courses. They include: - Intros to generative AI by big tech companies that call AI "miraculous" and gloss over the huge" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2016570571207725169) 2026-01-28T17:54Z 11.5K followers, 81.6K engagements "Music publishers just hit Anthropic with what could be the biggest AI copyright lawsuit to date. They say: In total we are suing for infringement of more than [-----] songs with potential statutory damages of more than $3 billion. Its based on Anthropics alleged torrenting of pirated copies of their sheet music and song lyrics. We know from other lawsuits that Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann torrented the pirate library LibGen in [----] soon after Anthropic was founded. Other employees later torrented another pirate library PiLiMi. Anthropic recently settled a class action lawsuit from book authors" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2016673368183816585) 2026-01-29T00:42Z 11.5K followers, 21.2K engagements "@leicesterliz Genuine question - do you have any evidence that AI will net add jobs to the economy rather than replace them Lots of people fear it will replace more than it adds. And this is already evident in the UK. Morgan Stanley research found Britain is losing more jobs than its creating because of AI and at a faster rate than its international peers. https://t.co/OKdYUw1K5T Morgan Stanley research found Britain is losing more jobs than its creating because of AI and at a faster rate than its international peers. https://t.co/OKdYUw1K5T" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2016806052767875428) 2026-01-29T09:30Z 11.4K followers, [----] engagements "I took a closer look at the UK government's new 'AI Skills Hub' and it is insane. It includes 'courses' that are simply links to info pages about PhD programs; 'courses' that are literally just software developer documentation; and 'courses' that don't exist at all. Short 🧵" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2016881752690618735) 2026-01-29T14:30Z 11.5K followers, 149.1K engagements "Then there are courses that don't seem to exist. Like this one which when you try to book just takes you to a [---] page" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2016881759829320017) 2026-01-29T14:30Z 11.4K followers, 16K engagements "Now we get into truly wild territory. How about this 'course' which is actually just a link to a page of information about a specific PhD program at Queen Mary University" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2016881768184373274) 2026-01-29T14:31Z 11.5K followers, 13.7K engagements "Or this 'course' which is literally a link to Microsoft's Azure SQL documentation. And check out the Skills Hub's description: "Microsoft: The "Azure SQL Fundamentals" learning path helps learners transition their SQL Server expertise to the cloud" There is zero chance this entire Skills Hub wasn't written by AI. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016881774215717092 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016881774215717092" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2016881774215717092) 2026-01-29T14:31Z 11.5K followers, 13.2K engagements "Then there are a ton of 'AI skills' courses that have literally nothing to with AI. For your delectation: [--]. 'Learn how to use the internet'" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2016881778116428234) 2026-01-29T14:31Z 11.5K followers, 11.2K engagements "@Google @GoogleDeepMind @OfficialLoganK you forgot to interview the games companies whose games were used to train it" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2017173956025786705) 2026-01-30T09:52Z 11.4K followers, [---] engagements "The generative AI business model: [--]. Build product by repeatedly copying creatives work [--]. Make product cheap so people use it (possible because we didnt pay for the copies) [--]. Money flows to us instead of creative community [--]. Repeat" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2017537929644507556) 2026-01-31T09:58Z 11.5K followers, 18.4K engagements "Important piece from The Times editorial board: The government cannot afford to continue to look the other way while a once-in-a-generation theft of intellectual property is perpetrated. AI companies must pay for the work they train on. https://www.thetimes.com/article/56f036de-0e9d-4abb-9543-7816c14ffe64shareToken=d52be8b883a85d8cb3d4197cf9f4ebb2 https://www.thetimes.com/article/56f036de-0e9d-4abb-9543-7816c14ffe64shareToken=d52be8b883a85d8cb3d4197cf9f4ebb2" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2018078052660416547) 2026-02-01T21:44Z 11.6K followers, 26.4K engagements "There are more & more cases of US big tech companies providing tech to the UK government for free. Government presents this as a win but its the opposite. Its a win for big tech and terrible news for British citizens. Why do you think big tech gives their tech to government for free The goodness of their hearts They do it because it (i) makes Britain more reliant on them and (ii) acts as a quid pro quo for light tech regulation. In just the last couple of weeks we have heard that Anthropic is making a government chatbot pro bono and Microsoft is delivering AI in Barnsley pro bono. You can be" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2018616949358407948) 2026-02-03T09:25Z 11.5K followers, 52.5K engagements "The UK government describes its new AI skills hub as "free AI skills training" but 58% of the courses on it you have to pay for. I analysed all [---] courses. Also of note: - 36% are provided by big tech - [---] courses are from just Google & Microsoft - 8% are literally links to info about full university courses (undergrad & masters programs etc.) This 'skills hub' cost the taxpayer [---] million. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018699769414066288 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018699769414066288" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2018699769414066288) 2026-02-03T14:55Z 11.5K followers, 58.3K engagements "@kirbyman01 @SebJohnsonUK @a16z @elevenlabsio Any word on how much of the $500M will go to the creatives whose work ElevenLabs trains its models on" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2019062884173496748) 2026-02-04T14:57Z 11.4K followers, [--] engagements "@alecwilcock Wow how much of that money is going to the creatives whose work powers the models" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2019081109988835516) 2026-02-04T16:10Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements "@kirbyman01 @SebJohnsonUK @a16z @elevenlabsio Guessing that silence isnt a good sign" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2019108344557179060) 2026-02-04T17:58Z 11.4K followers, [--] engagements "@sundancefest @Adobe Adobe makes AI models available that are trained on artists work without permission. This is profoundly anti-artist" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2019314251123351829) 2026-02-05T07:36Z 11.5K followers, [---] engagements "The full document is here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058235/563/2/bartz-v-anthropic-pbc/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058235/563/2/bartz-v-anthropic-pbc/" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2019823183764115845) 2026-02-06T17:19Z 11.5K followers, [---] engagements "Cant help thinking the AI boosters excited about the Olympics using terrible AI slop instead of paying human artists is a mask-off moment Theres no democratization here. Its just slop replacing human artists. It shows they dont care about art - they care only about money" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2020419432896492016) 2026-02-08T08:48Z 11.6K followers, 10.7K engagements "California State University students & staff are petitioning for the university not to renew their contract for ChatGPT Edu. The CSU must reject Silicon Valleys AI hype and invest in the people who make this university system a destination for our [------] students. The challenges that we face in higher education cannot be resolved with AI. We must instead empower faculty staff and students to define a sustainable human-centered future for the CSU system. (Anyone can sign in support.) https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-chatgpt-edu-invest-in-humans" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2020468057013878968) 2026-02-08T12:01Z 11.6K followers, 28.6K engagements "You can just pirate things. You can just build things. https://t.co/g0JCVjbSef You can just build things. https://t.co/g0JCVjbSef" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2020702169943699510) 2026-02-09T03:31Z 11.6K followers, 23.3K engagements "@0xfoobar https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1936624023158632768 Some argue that if generative AI companies are infringing copyright then so are human creators who learn from others work. This is not true - as confirmed by the US Copyright Office. The Copyright Office points out that: - Even humans are not allowed to do the kind of https://t.co/hUeJwDSYn0 https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1936624023158632768 Some argue that if generative AI companies are infringing copyright then so are human creators who learn from others work. This is not true - as confirmed by the US Copyright Office. The" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2020953496842010857) 2026-02-09T20:10Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements "@sama The model launched with ChatGPT was trained on pirated books right (This is from Judge Ona T. Wang's opinion on November 24th 2025)" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2020964335607075153) 2026-02-09T20:53Z 11.5K followers, [---] engagements "Quite a few of my followers are AI skeptics believing its over-hyped or a scam or some combination of the two. To those people - I implore you to reconsider. The models arent perfect. They make mistakes. But they are already insanely capable and they are improving. There is a crowd who will cheer you on when you point out a hallucination or laugh at a failed task or lament yet another inexplicable use of the word quietly. But you are avoiding the reality of the situation. Capabilities have increased exponentially over the last few years and there is every sign this trend will continue. Im not" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2021711159326372116) 2026-02-11T22:21Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements "@supervdataspace Describe it how you want - hopefully you understand my point. The improvement has been significant and major" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2021715731713257844) 2026-02-11T22:39Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements "@Otheryanmurphy I know people who have decided not to hire someone having realised they can use AI instead. So in that instance some is effectively 100%. The study on revenue growth is orthogonal to my point I think. Companies are cutting costs with AI by reducing headcount" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2021733438949126284) 2026-02-11T23:49Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements "@feargadocious Claude Cowork is a specific example of that. I am sorry you think I appear shady. I dont know what game you think Im playing - but Im not playing it" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2021734405526745290) 2026-02-11T23:53Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements "I dont know what you mean by you guys and I dont know what limits you mean that are becoming clearer. You may have tried the latest models / products eg Claude Code / Cowork. If so great. If not I recommend you do. There are big twitter accounts that get lots of engagement by overplaying current limitations. I reference this in my OP. I hope people will try the latest models for themselves and not take limitations on trust. I can see we are not going to agree. Thank you for engaging https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021736890207006811 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021736890207006811" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2021736890207006811) 2026-02-12T00:03Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements "@Dr_Gingerballs Take Claude Code as an example - extremely popular among developers many of them professional. Roughly what percentage of its users in your opinion are deluded" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2021854230252855395) 2026-02-12T07:49Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements "I will answer you in good faith "Many Claude Code users are deluded in thinking that it is useful" I don't know what to say except that I believe it's better to trust people when they tell you that a product they use is useful. "have you ever used Claude Code yourself" Yes. I use these AI products as little as possible but I think it's irresponsible as someone who engages publicly on the issue not to understand first-hand their latest capabilities - so I make a point of testing them. "what kind of code did you ask it to write Are you a software engineer" I am not a software engineer but I" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2021885677122584899) 2026-02-12T09:54Z 11.5K followers, [---] engagements "Ok. I recommend - sincerely - that you talk to some of the many professional software engineers who are using this and other AI coding products in their development of popular services at huge companies. You may not find it useful - that's fair - but many many people do and denying they do so helps no one" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2021887385311543427) 2026-02-12T10:01Z 11.5K followers, [--] engagements "@supervdataspace @Dr_Gingerballs I understand that you yourself don't find it useful. But I think that claiming that its many many users *also* don't *really* find it useful - that they are deluded - is not a reasonable claim to make" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2021888519736897825) 2026-02-12T10:06Z 11.5K followers, [--] engagements "@AJButton2 @ThinPicking Ok. To go back to my question: Im curious what you would consider not just a tool if AI has tool status in your mind" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2021890169948058091) 2026-02-12T10:12Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements "@supervdataspace @Dr_Gingerballs Sorry to misunderstand you Clearly we disagree" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2021890315452383407) 2026-02-12T10:13Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements "@ihtesham2005 @pangramlabs ai" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2021900207462793470) 2026-02-12T10:52Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements "@Dr_Gingerballs Ok. With the greatest respect I think that claiming that huge numbers of professional software developers who say they find a product useful are 'deluded' about its utility is a preposterous claim and it is shocking to me that anyone would hold this view" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2021951806058955065) 2026-02-12T14:17Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements "@Dr_Gingerballs What evidence would persuade you Claude Code was useful to people (Or any other new software product.)" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2022034053848084687) 2026-02-12T19:44Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements "@Dr_Gingerballs If there isnt some specific evidence that would make you change your mind it is hard to believe it is really about evidence for you. What about if Claude Codes ARR topped $1 billion and *then* doubled inside the next [--] days Would that persuade you" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2022064660053459016) 2026-02-12T21:45Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements "Apparently if you call copyright theft adversarial distillation then OpenAI thinks its bad actually. SCOOP: OpenAI warned lawmakers in a memo sent today to the House Select Committee on China that DeepSeek is using new obfuscated methods to continue to distill its AI models as well as those of other US frontier AI labs https://t.co/OsWxPRMF28 w/ @eastland_maggie SCOOP: OpenAI warned lawmakers in a memo sent today to the House Select Committee on China that DeepSeek is using new obfuscated methods to continue to distill its AI models as well as those of other US frontier AI labs" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2022171997669843288) 2026-02-13T04:52Z 11.5K followers, [--] engagements "@MrEwanMorrison This investment will have been driven by their huge revenue growth rather than what youre suggesting here. I think it is dangerous to try to convince people that highlighting safety concerns is what leads to this level of investment" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2022184872786423952) 2026-02-13T05:43Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements "@8teAPi The majority of authors strongly disagree with this. It should be up to them to decide whether Anthropic's exploitation of their work is valuable to them" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/2022346154470408268) 2026-02-13T16:24Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements "Don't like marriage equality Feel free to sell your Starbucks stock - Starbucks CEO http://t.co/KRBPl9PsIG via @aliceenewton @ASViney http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/03/21/1756061/starbucks-ceo-if-you-dont-like-marriage-equality-feel-free-to-sell-your-starbucks-stock/mobile=nc http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/03/21/1756061/starbucks-ceo-if-you-dont-like-marriage-equality-feel-free-to-sell-your-starbucks-stock/mobile=nc" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/315080985148538880) 2013-03-22T12:42Z 11.3K followers, [--] engagements "@bcmerchant https://x.com/MarceloJPico/status/1767753887799222700s=20 https://x.com/MarceloJPico/status/1767753887799222700s=20" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1768317899650040314) 2024-03-14T16:46Z 11.2K followers, [---] engagements "It is particularly depressing to look at the current generative AI landscape when you remember there was an alternative path for this technology - one that could have worked hand in hand with human creators instead of exploiting them. AI companies could have licensed their training data and been thoughtful about designing for use-cases that empowered rather than replaced human creators. AI could genuinely have been a tool for creators and one that treated them fairly. Instead AI companies trained on creators work without permission and rushed to market with tech that is already replacing" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1786820261498773688) 2024-05-04T18:08Z 11K followers, 174.9K engagements "Vimeo sides with creators says it "will not allow generative AI models to be trained using videos hosted on our platform without your explicit consent". Be more like Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/blog/post/vimeos-position-on-ai https://vimeo.com/blog/post/vimeos-position-on-ai" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1811081509820059972) 2024-07-10T16:54Z 11K followers, 22.1K engagements "@bilawalsidhu Great news around election time" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1826299446558412828) 2024-08-21T16:44Z 10.7K followers, [--] engagements "The lawsuits keep coming. Today GEMA is suing OpenAI for infringing copyright in lyrics from German music. The big LLMs are clearly used to generate lyrics: lots of users of music generators are using LLMs to write lyrics and there are signs the AI music companies themselves may use commercial LLM APIs for lyrics. i.e. its clear OpenAI competes by offering a lyrics-generating tool. These lawsuits will keep coming as long as AI companies keep arguing they can use the lifes work of the worlds creators without asking." [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1856748353608192067) 2024-11-13T17:17Z 11K followers, 20K engagements "The @guardian is spot on in their opposition to the UK government's proposed changes to copyright law which would hand AI companies the life's work of the country's creators. "Labour must not be dazzled bythe shininessof the tech industry and the promise of endless growth. To favour these businesses at the expense of the creative sector thesecond most lucrative in the UK generating more than 126bn annually would impoverish more than oureconomy." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/31/the-guardian-view-on-ai-and-copyright-law-big-tech-must-pay" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1886486814942487039) 2025-02-03T18:48Z [----] followers, 15K engagements "Please stop saying gen AI is no different from the camera. The camera wasnt built by stealing other peoples art" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1888257315846979623) 2025-02-08T16:03Z 11.6K followers, 23.2K engagements "Ive looked at the public statements of the artists involved in the Christies AI art auction and I think its likely that at least [--] or so of the works being sold use models trained on copyrighted work without permission. I dont blame the artists for this - theyre just using products that AI companies have put on the market. But why are Christies condoning these models by helping sell these works for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars when the models are directly leading to the impoverishment of so many artists that theyve stolen from I think the calls from [----] artists to cancel the" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1888955981444649211) 2025-02-10T14:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Another piece about the Christie's AI art auction. I spoke to Sky about the debate around this. The artists' letter protesting the auction isn't an attack on the artists in the auction - they're just using tools that AI companies have made available. Rather it's a request that Christie's not implicitly condone these companies' AI products by selling these works for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars when the exploitative technology behind them is impoverishing so many artists desperately trying to make a living." [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1889020011165179928) 2025-02-10T18:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "More coverage of the backlash to the Christies AI art auction. I continue to think people in AI have hugely underestimated the anger among artists about the mass theft of their work to build commercial gen AI models" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1889043994786795954) 2025-02-10T20:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Another generative AI lawsuit lands. [--] news publishers including Cond Nast The Atlantic Forbes The Guardian Business Insider the LA Times Politico Vox Media & many more have sued @cohere alleging "massive systematic copyright infringement". "The complaint provides a non-exhaustive list of thousands of articles that Cohere has infringed through training real-time use of content and infringing outputs." And this just [--] days after rights holders won the first major AI copyright lawsuit in Thomson Reuters vs. Ross. Expect many more of these. Read more:" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1890055408972394587) 2025-02-13T15:08Z [----] followers, 75.4K engagements "Legitimately hilarious how the ai music companies send out those 'make your partner a custom song' emails ahead of valentine's day. 'look babe I prompted this ai model for you' Could there be any worse valentine's present" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1890179234326532583) 2025-02-13T23:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Theres a week left to respond to the UK governments consultation on changing copyright law to favour AI companies. Please respond Here are some template answers to help We need as many creators to respond to the UKs consultation on AI & Copyright as possible. If you want to respond here are some draft answers you can copy & modify. Ive heard lots of people say the [--] questions full of technical terms are confusing so hopefully this helps. We need as many creators to respond to the UKs consultation on AI & Copyright as possible. If you want to respond here are some draft answers you can copy &" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1891539065859707335) 2025-02-17T17:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Daily Mail has joined the fight to protect the UK's creativity from @UKLabour and AI companies 🙌 They have support from Sir Lucian Grainge Richard Osman Andrew Neil Robert Kyncl Scott Turow Baroness Beeban Kidron Dame Caroline Dinenage and countless more. And the Conservative party have come out against Labour's plans to upend copyright law to favour AI companies: "Labour must rethink their approach. The Conservatives will defend intellectual property rights". I think the government has vastly underestimated British creators' resolve to protect their life's work from pillage by big tech" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1892721845377675523) 2025-02-20T23:43Z 11K followers, 10.4K engagements "Along with [----] musicians today we're releasing an (almost) silent album protesting the UK government's plan to upend copyright law to benefit AI companies. It's an album of recordings of empty studios & performance spaces representing the effect the govt's plans would have on musicians' livelihoods. It's called 'Is This What We Want' and the track list spells out a simple message: "The British Government Must Not Legalise Music Theft To Benefit AI Companies". Incredibly grateful to the many many musicians involved 🙌 All profits are going to @HelpMusicians. Please listen & share (More links" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1894182663835058563) 2025-02-25T00:28Z 11.6K followers, 165.1K engagements "Very important news today: a KC one of the UK's most senior lawyers says the government's proposed changes to copyright law to favour AI companies would likely breach international law (the Berne Convention). He says: - Berne says the enjoyment and exercise of people's copyright can't be subject to any formality but this clearly introduces a formality - Berne says copyright exceptions can only apply in certain special cases but this is a broad exception - Berne says copyright exceptions can't conflict with a normal exploitation of the work but this would conflict with a normal exploitation of" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1898022400765444427) 2025-03-07T14:46Z 10.4K followers, 34.8K engagements "The entire AI Studio Ghibli thing is awful. But by far the worst part is the people *actively celebrating* that this would sadden/anger Miyazaki Studio Ghibli's creator. Silicon Valley has never been in a worse place. It's sickening to watch the artist-hate spread" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1905111585464721482) 2025-03-27T04:16Z 11.6K followers, 482.9K engagements "Another gen AI lawsuit just landed. That takes us to almost [--] lawsuits around the world Authors Guild vs. OpenAI Ziff Davis vs. OpenAI Tremblay vs. OpenAI Silverman vs. OpenAI Chabon vs. OpenAI Millette vs. OpenAI Raw Story Media vs. OpenAI Center for Investigative Reporting vs. OpenAI Intercept Media vs. OpenAI & Microsoft Alter vs. OpenAI & Microsoft Basbanes vs. OpenAI & Microsoft New York Times vs. OpenAI & Microsoft Daily News vs. OpenAI & Microsoft Bartz vs. Anthropic Concord Music Group vs. Anthropic Millette vs. Google J.L. vs. Alphabet Zhang vs. Google & Alphabet Millette vs." [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1915791293265109044) 2025-04-25T15:33Z 11K followers, 14.8K engagements "Very grateful to receive the [----] Adepi Award for work in the defence and advancement of IP rights. IP rights are the lifeblood of so much of the art & invention that makes our lives immeasurably better. We will hugely regret it if we tear them up at the behest of AI company lobbyists. Thank you to the many many people working to defend IP. Its awesome to see so many people and industries come together. https://adepi.net/2025/04/26/ed-newton-rex-y-antonio-castan-premio-adepi-2025/ https://adepi.net/2025/04/26/ed-newton-rex-y-antonio-castan-premio-adepi-2025/" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1916709374296576179) 2025-04-28T04:21Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements "The UK government cannot hold AI companies to account if it keeps deepening its reliance on them. The AI & copyright consultation was a sham if these partnerships were happening alongside it. Extract a system built by the UK government using our Gemini foundational model will help council planners make faster decisions. 🚀 Using multimodal reasoning it turns complex planning documents even handwritten notes and blurry maps into digital data in just 40s. https://t.co/zM37kHPany Extract a system built by the UK government using our Gemini foundational model will help council planners make" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1932067433390780760) 2025-06-09T13:29Z 11K followers, [----] engagements "This fantastic piece tells the stories of the tech workers who are losing their jobs to AI. Please read it. AI is a tool yes. A tool to replace people. But there is hope in the final story in the piece. Execs may celebrate AI as a labor replacement - but workers will protest. AI is being used to justify firing workers at tech companies leaving those who remain to pick up the pieces. AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products and replacing trainers at TikTok. This in tech workers' own words is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley. https://t.co/Ua6x6llmbz AI is being used to" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1938270869375349129) 2025-06-26T16:19Z 11.2K followers, [----] engagements "@bcmerchant Incredible reporting Brian" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1938270921418280975) 2025-06-26T16:19Z 11.2K followers, [--] engagements "Just realised @Boosey made this fantastic recording of the piece we wrote for our wedding Of All The Souls That Stand Create. Originally for choir & cello I swapped in a piano part for the published version as cellists are hard to come by. Hope you like it. (Dont train your AI models on this please 🙂) https://open.spotify.com/track/3xeThbj0aBsPds3mu7xCs9si=hJrGBg2OSjWUJFFh42nxRw https://open.spotify.com/track/3xeThbj0aBsPds3mu7xCs9si=hJrGBg2OSjWUJFFh42nxRw" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1939516746890957106) 2025-06-30T02:50Z 11K followers, [----] engagements "Boosey & Hawkes made this lovely recording of my new Christmas carol. Any choirs planning Christmas repertoire please have a listen :) https://youtu.be/n9i23YgDq6Ysi=FnnPkCetXOtS4CoU https://youtu.be/n9i23YgDq6Ysi=FnnPkCetXOtS4CoU" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1945120335138803931) 2025-07-15T13:56Z 11K followers, 13.1K engagements "If youre feeling down about politicians who have been captured by big tech and want to let AI companies steal work with impunity remember that the public overwhelmingly disagrees with them (in a ratio of eight to one). Legalizing IP theft is a hugely hugely unpopular policy - for obvious reasons" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1948381397955342627) 2025-07-24T13:54Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements "AI companies run AI film festivals / other contests for creatives in order to normalise the exploitation behind these products. They play off creatives understandable desire for exposure insisting they use AI to enter. This increases their user numbers and helps the tech spread. Their aim is to drown out the huge negative sentiment towards generative AI in the creative community using VC money to do so. If they really cared about creativity they would run festivals / contests without forcing people to use AI to take part" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1956647659558535579) 2025-08-16T09:22Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements "@mustafasuleyman Paying for training data levels the playing field. Taking it without permission does the opposite" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1960387890120114683) 2025-08-26T17:04Z 10.9K followers, [---] engagements "Adobe adding Nano Banana & Flux is an insult to the artists whose work has been used to train them without permission or payment Generative Fill just got a HUGE upgrade Gemini [---] Flash (Nano Banana) and Flux Kontext Pro have arrived in the Photoshop beta 🙌 https://t.co/ATCmYyF8YY Generative Fill just got a HUGE upgrade Gemini [---] Flash (Nano Banana) and Flux Kontext Pro have arrived in the Photoshop beta 🙌 https://t.co/ATCmYyF8YY" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1971557642888986844) 2025-09-26T12:49Z 10.5K followers, 17.4K engagements "The Sora app is the worst of social media and AI. - short video app designed for addiction - literally only slop nothing else - trained on other people's videos without permission This is what governments are deregulating AI for" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1973075513154371780) 2025-09-30T17:20Z 10.4K followers, 36.9K engagements "With Sora OpenAI is gambling that they can deflect the big lawsuits. Their pitch to studios will be: - use our api to cut your development costs - also opt out and well stop people generating your characters Basically they look at the big studios that are most likely to be able to bring them down and they gamble that they can persuade those companies not to sue by limiting their characters use to them via the api The question will be whether any of the big studios will stand up for the rest of the industry and sue anyway" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1973315980307702146) 2025-10-01T09:16Z 11K followers, 10.1K engagements "Hey @Adobe - how do you justify ads that say your generative AI features respect creators and are commercially-safe when they use models like Flux Is Flux trained only on images Black Forest Labs have licensed Their founders were behind Stable Diffusion" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1973711374070239556) 2025-10-02T11:27Z 10.4K followers, 15.2K engagements "I increasingly think OpenAI is trying to destroy the concept of copyright through desensitization. Copyright is a huge threat to their profits. They are facing multiple massive copyright lawsuits. So they release Sora knowing it can output copyrighted IP and knowing people will use it for this. Ghibli was a trial run. It floods the internet. More importantly other apps will follow their lead. I suspect we will see this soon - its what happened with ChatGPT and training everyone thought if they can get away with it perhaps we can too. So it becomes the new norm used by millions and its that" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1974026778596250110) 2025-10-03T08:20Z 11.6K followers, 143.3K engagements "I know this is broadly known at this point but its important for artists to be aware that @adobe products use generative AI models that are trained on copyrighted work without permission. Feels like an odd decision given their user base. Don't be sad make DJ animals instead with Veo [--] in Adobe Firefly app Sound on 🔊 Prompt 👇 https://t.co/QQHKK96Lzs Don't be sad make DJ animals instead with Veo [--] in Adobe Firefly app Sound on 🔊 Prompt 👇 https://t.co/QQHKK96Lzs" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1976286856217297250) 2025-10-09T14:01Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "AI Opportunities https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/openai-sora-violence-racism https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/openai-sora-violence-racism" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1976305127062454436) 2025-10-09T15:13Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements "The worlds richest man agrees that AI will wipe out millions of jobs destroy the arts make us lose trust in what we see and destroy civilization - - and says the best he can do about it is make his own AI that doesnt want to turn everyone into diverse women. [--]. What" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1976386890543890876) 2025-10-09T20:38Z 10.4K followers, 12.2K engagements "Great article by leading composer Tarik ORegan where he calls out the Royal Ballet and Opera for its stance on AI. Arts institutions saying AI is here to stay & partnering with AI developers without apparently any thought for the huge damage this tech will do do the creative industries a huge disservice. AI is only here to stay in the arts if we let it. We have agency in this. Pretending otherwise is irresponsible. Whats really driving these partnerships is FOMO. AI is happening - what are we doing with AI This is insane logic when many AI models are built using creatives work without" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1976585390153670974) 2025-10-10T09:47Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements "@kimmonismus There is nothing nuts about this. This is a very bad composition. AI composing music is absolutely something that is happening and that musicians should be concerned about but this example is a joke" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1977331973401309458) 2025-10-12T11:14Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements "Another great article on Sora this time in the Telegraph. The superintelligence dream has descended into a mountain of AI slop. yep 🎯 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/superintelligence-ai-slop-openai-pokemon/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/superintelligence-ai-slop-openai-pokemon/" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1977789433094303994) 2025-10-13T17:32Z 10.6K followers, 12.2K engagements "Training commercial generative AI models on copyrighted work without a license is not legal in the UK. Yet OpenAI has a training team in the UK. The Training team @OpenAI is hiring researchers in London 🚀 Our twin missions are to train better LLMs and serve them more cheaply Get in touch if you are excited to collaborate on architecture design reliable scaling and faster optimization The Training team @OpenAI is hiring researchers in London 🚀 Our twin missions are to train better LLMs and serve them more cheaply Get in touch if you are excited to collaborate on architecture design reliable" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1978061251746885711) 2025-10-14T11:32Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements "Do OpenAIs partners in the UK government know what OpenAIs training team in the UK is doing and whether it is compatible with UK copyright law Has the government succumbed to lobbying and told OpenAI it will in fact change the law Training commercial generative AI models on copyrighted work without a license is not legal in the UK. Yet OpenAI has a training team in the UK. Training commercial generative AI models on copyrighted work without a license is not legal in the UK. Yet OpenAI has a training team in the UK" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1978076891266404812) 2025-10-14T12:34Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements "Generative AI competes with the work its trained on & the people behind that work" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1978158997858312380) 2025-10-14T18:00Z 10.5K followers, 10.7K engagements "google trends for sora does not paint a picture of an app growing exponentially" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1978475576915873971) 2025-10-15T14:58Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements "Feels like were seeing the early signs of public anti-AI sentiment being reflected among politicians. Suspect this will spread" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1978555753070739529) 2025-10-15T20:17Z 10.5K followers, 15.9K engagements "This new paper from Google showing how AI helped develop a cancer therapy pathway is great. And it is more proof that you dont need to train AI on the worlds creative work to get the benefits of AI in science. Because the model wasnt trained on the worlds creative work. It was trained from scratch on relevant scientific data. You dont need to train on novels and pop songs to build models like this for AI in science. This should be self-evident but its worth repeating as you can be sure that some AI boosters will misleadingly point to this model as a reason to upend copyright law. Of course we" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1978734640283230533) 2025-10-16T08:07Z 10.4K followers, 10.4K engagements "@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret @GoogleUK Surprised that @RestIsPolitics would run big tech ads that amount to lobbying around upcoming legislation" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1978809917277442391) 2025-10-16T13:07Z 10.6K followers, 18K engagements "How AI music is displayed on Deezer vs. on Spotify. What do you notice Use Deezer" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1978860650810974397) 2025-10-16T16:28Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements "Another AI copyright lawsuit this time brought by authors against Salesforce. The huge show of strength from creatives in the courts - the sheer number of these lawsuits - is inspiring. It looks like a Salesforce employee admitted using a dataset known to contain pirated books. Generally tech companies try to hide their training data. This is why. https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/60621325/Tanzer_et_al_v_Salesforce_Inc https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/60621325/Tanzer_et_al_v_Salesforce_Inc" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1978914998304010458) 2025-10-16T20:04Z 10.5K followers, 31.6K engagements "This is a non-apology. People should not have to opt out of being depicted in OpenAIs deepfake app. Exploit peoples likenesses and copyrights until they complain is a terrible position for a deepfake app to take. Statement from OpenAI and King Estate Inc. The Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. Inc. (King Inc.) and OpenAI have worked together to address how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s likeness is represented in Sora generations. Some users generated disrespectful depictions of Dr. Statement from OpenAI and King Estate Inc. The Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. Inc. (King Inc.) and OpenAI have" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1979075324181630983) 2025-10-17T06:41Z 11.6K followers, 40.4K engagements "@Blippenhoider IMO denouncing all AI is not a sensible position. Lots of AI can clearly be a force for good. Much less the case in AI in the arts" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1979174370091172124) 2025-10-17T13:15Z 10.4K followers, [--] engagements "https://t.co/E3kZUlg9Rl https://t.co/E3kZUlg9Rl" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1979228885679059367) 2025-10-17T16:51Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements "@sophiamyang @MistralAI @GuillaumeLample Worth remembering that while at Meta Lample said his team used pirated books for AI training. I didnt ask questions :D Does Mistral do the same https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.415175/gov.uscourts.cand.415175.449.3.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.415175/gov.uscourts.cand.415175.449.3.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1979263254409994426) 2025-10-17T19:08Z 10.4K followers, [---] engagements "Pretty shameless that Google execs are advertising Gemini as a way for college students to "tackle homework". They're not even trying to hide that the main use case is cheating. College students around the world don't sleep on this. You can get [--] YEAR of @GeminiApp Pro FREE. Instantly create study guides flashcards and tackle homework. Grab it here: https://t.co/OUQ2KrsPce (Now available in [--] new countries) Also comes with: 📚 2TB of Google College students around the world don't sleep on this. You can get [--] YEAR of @GeminiApp Pro FREE. Instantly create study guides flashcards and tackle" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1979267515835429170) 2025-10-17T19:25Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements "💥 Independent musicians just filed another lawsuit against Udio. They say Udio is "disregarding the intellectual property rights of the artists it claims to support." It's notable that while Udio says its mission is "to empower artists of all kinds to create extraordinary music" many of those artists are suing them. https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Woulard-v.-Uncharted-Labs-COMPLAINT-Oct-15-2025.pdf https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Woulard-v.-Uncharted-Labs-COMPLAINT-Oct-15-2025.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1979274803690209663) 2025-10-17T19:54Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements "When AI boosters tell you that AI learns like humans do please point them to this. Andrej Karpathy explaining that no LLMs don't in fact learn like humans do. "A human would never do this." The most interesting part for me is where @karpathy describes why LLMs aren't able to learn like humans. As you would expect he comes up with a wonderfully evocative phrase to describe RL: sucking supervision bits through a straw. A single end reward gets broadcast across https://t.co/lYonLgrukB The most interesting part for me is where @karpathy describes why LLMs aren't able to learn like humans. As you" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1979279584945410335) 2025-10-17T20:13Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements "💥💥 New lawsuit against AI music company Suno just landed - brought by a group of independent musicians. The same group of musicians who have also sued Udio. They say "Suno built its rapidly expanding commercial empire by disregarding the intellectual property rights of the artists it claims to support." 👀 https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/60639577/Woulard_et_al_v_Suno_Inc_et_al https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/60639577/Woulard_et_al_v_Suno_Inc_et_al" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1979286187362914352) 2025-10-17T20:39Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements "It is astonishing that no one has sued xAI yet" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1979449761624203338) 2025-10-18T07:29Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements "A reminder of the unacceptable line of questioning that gets you blocked by Sir Demis Hassabis knight of the realm adviser on AI to the UK government" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1979470697253773558) 2025-10-18T08:52Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements "We will hear this more and more. The AI industry is in total denial about the way most people feel about AI. Fuck AI Guillermo del Toro https://t.co/te3uqEW39w Fuck AI Guillermo del Toro https://t.co/te3uqEW39w" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1979600004965601607) 2025-10-18T17:26Z 11.6K followers, 93.4K engagements "The Gold Star presented to artists to thank them for their work being stolen. (Incredibly this joke png is more than real AI companies give artists in exchange for their lifes work being exploited.) Superb. https://replacement.ai http://Replacement.AI https://replacement.ai http://Replacement.AI" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1979877696357482695) 2025-10-19T11:50Z 11K followers, 14.1K engagements "@machina9000 He is a shareholder in Stability AI right" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1980233184672678237) 2025-10-20T11:22Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements "Arguments that AI uses too much water are a gift to AI boosters as they are generally so easy to refute. AI has real harms. Water use doesnt seem to be one. Better to focus on actual harms/risks than hope water use is an issue IMO. Data center water use is almost entirely a non-issue. Arguments to the contrary generally rest on the fact that almost no one has any context for overall daily US water consumption (300+ billion gallons per day) so its easy to present a big-sounding number out of context. Data center water use is almost entirely a non-issue. Arguments to the contrary generally rest" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1980526188415103015) 2025-10-21T06:46Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements "10/10 no notes https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/ https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1980527560284111263) 2025-10-21T06:52Z 11.6K followers, 29.1K engagements "@throwawall @matthewclifford I disagree" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1980558392365121758) 2025-10-21T08:54Z 10.4K followers, [--] engagements "@motorhueso But the claim that water usage is an issue - which I believe you are making - needs some evidence behind it" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1980641735769518451) 2025-10-21T14:26Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements "@naynaval Can you share the data" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1980676316249636910) 2025-10-21T16:43Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements "Very important new paper on AI & copyright - strongly recommend you read it. It provides compelling evidence that generative AI harms the market for the copyrighted works on which it is trained and should therefore be less likely to qualify as 'fair use'. It shows that AI-generated work can compete with human authors: when done right readers prefer it and it is 99.7% cheaper to produce. This is damning for the 'fair use' argument. Generative AI competes with the work it is trained on and the people behind that work. AI training on copyrighted work should not be considered fair use. 🚨New" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1980703244423774516) 2025-10-21T18:30Z 11.6K followers, 81.1K engagements "Wait so users of OpenAIs Atlas browser can opt-in the web pages they browse - *which belong to other people* - to AI training Cool cool https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/ https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1980742400239620560) 2025-10-21T21:06Z 10.5K followers, 10.2K engagements "Why do you assume the right to train on peoples work if they havent opted out when you must surely know that most people dont know they can opt out You must surely see how this is incredibly unfair. I understand Sam Altman arguing for this - he basically has to at this stage hes in so deep. But youre a Product Manager at OpenAI. What are you doing" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1980785232367280529) 2025-10-21T23:56Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements "Ban superintelligence. New letter signed by politicians faith leaders musicians & many more. Sign here: http://superintelligence-statement.org http://superintelligence-statement.org" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1980881677195837570) 2025-10-22T06:19Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements "Does this mean OpenAI's models will run on UK servers If so wouldn't that mean infringing copies were being imported which would constitute secondary copyright infringement (UK copyright law says something is an 'infringing copy' if "its making in the United Kingdom would have constituted an infringement of the copyright in the work in question"; and importing an infringing copy for commercial purposes is secondary copyright infringement.)" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1981382488795861178) 2025-10-23T15:29Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements "@ylecun The statement I believe your OP was referring to doesn't claim ASI already exists. It says we should get consensus on safety before building it. Do you think we should build ASI and then 'carefully refine it for reliability'" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1981383123586715700) 2025-10-23T15:32Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements "Theres more & more evidence that AIs increased data center demand is driving up energy prices for consumers. The public should not be paying for an AI acceleration it doesnt want. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/ https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1981611285067219310) 2025-10-24T06:38Z 10.5K followers, 11.7K engagements "The Turing Test is about judging a conversation - a back-and-forth. To pass the Turing Test in music IMO youd need to judge a back-and-forth not just a piece of musical output. This is good but modulate to C minor after the bridge Add a vocal harmony to verse [--] that sits around a third above the melody We dont seem to be there yet" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1981613700151722283) 2025-10-24T06:48Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements "I don't think this logic flies - certainly wouldn't call it an "obvious truth". [--]. Before AI artificial and human made media didn't serve different purposes - it was all human. So if one purpose is now fulfilled by AI (e.g. the shift towards AI music in stores) that is something that used to be human. It is AI media replacing demand for human media. [--]. No one to my knowledge predicted that AI would mean people stopped sharing human-made media. I don't think the fact that people continue to share human-made media has any bearing on the "obvious truth" you are proposing" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1981821331831501141) 2025-10-24T20:33Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements "@MultiVMe @tegmark Textbooks music lessons concerts streaming platform subscriptions etc etc etc. But this is besides the point. Humans learning do not make copies that are subject to copyright law. AI companies building products using other peoples copyrighted work do" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1982166275125051406) 2025-10-25T19:24Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements "Its great to see Max Tegmark calling out AI companies for training on peoples work without paying them. Creatives and people in AI Safety are natural allies. I suspect more alliances will form if the AI industry continues on the exploitative & dangerous path its on. And presumably zero royalties paid to the composers and musicians they trained their AI on: And presumably zero royalties paid to the composers and musicians they trained their AI on:" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1982171295937613838) 2025-10-25T19:43Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements "@MultiVMe @tegmark No they are blindly copying not reading and it is very different from human learning. People often say gen AI learns in the same way humans do. This is a very hard claim to justify. A small sample of the many ways theyre different: - AI involves data preprocessing e.g. cleaning tokenization; human learning doesnt - AI training involves minimizing a loss People often say gen AI learns in the same way humans do. This is a very hard claim to justify. A small sample of the many ways theyre different: - AI involves data preprocessing e.g. cleaning tokenization; human learning" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1982171639585358061) 2025-10-25T19:45Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements "@BBCRadio3 If he truly believes this he should listen to the 1000+ British musicians who earlier this year came together to tell him not to legalise music theft to benefit AI companies (as his government proposed)" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1982549175305969801) 2025-10-26T20:45Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "In huge positive news the Australian government just ruled out handing the work of their countrys creatives to AI companies for free 🙌 They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law. This shows what creatives organising en masse against unfair proposals can achieve. Huge respect to the Australian creatives who resisted. Big day for creatives & those who oppose exploitation everywhere. Other governments should do the same https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/27/labor-rules-out-giving-tech-giants-free-rein-to-mine-copyright-content-to-train-ai" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1982629795235078370) 2025-10-27T02:05Z 11.6K followers, 49.7K engagements "LinkedIn has fallen" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1982809648089436570) 2025-10-27T14:00Z 10.6K followers, 27.8K engagements "A big tech lobbying group has asked Trump to issue an Executive Order telling the DOJ to intervene in AI copyright lawsuits in favor of AI companies. Astonishingly brazen request. Though IMO suggests AI companies are v worried they will lose in court. https://progresschamber.org/resources/white-house-request-for-information-regulatory-reform-on-artificial-intelligencefederal-register-docket-no-ostp-2025-0005/ https://progresschamber.org/resources/white-house-request-for-information-regulatory-reform-on-artificial-intelligencefederal-register-docket-no-ostp-2025-0005/" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1983205330348577193) 2025-10-28T16:12Z 10.6K followers, 21.1K engagements "AI is decimating jobs particularly for young people. The responsibility is on one group above all others: the political class pushing AI adoption & arguing against regulation. Remember who pushed this when they inevitably try to rewrite history. https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/ai-jobs-apocalypse-navigate https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/ai-jobs-apocalypse-navigate" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1983633511358853333) 2025-10-29T20:34Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "Universal Music have settled their lawsuit with Udio. From the little that is known about the settlement this looks like a big win for creatives: - Udio immediately turned off downloads and apparently will transition to a closed ecosystem where you can remix artists songs with their permission & only share them on platform. This puts control in artists hands and limits AI that is trained on real musicians work competing with them elsewhere. - Billboard says opting-in musicians will be paid for both training & outputs. - This is the second major gen AI copyright settlement (following Bartz v." [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1983770801322029279) 2025-10-30T05:39Z 10.6K followers, 29.1K engagements "Very pleased to see this partnership between Universal Music and Stability AI. Stable Audio was trained on licensed datasets from day one. It's great to see that evolve into this news today. Training on licensed datasets is the way. Onwards. https://stability.ai/news/universal-music-group-and-stability-ai-announce-strategic-alliance https://stability.ai/news/universal-music-group-and-stability-ai-announce-strategic-alliance" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1983875358261674106) 2025-10-30T12:35Z 10.6K followers, 11.9K engagements "In the fight around artists rights in AI there are good days and bad days. Today is a good day. My piece on why the Universal / Udio settlement is a major win for creatives: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/the-settlement-between-universal-and-udio-is-a-win-for-musicians-everywhere/ https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/the-settlement-between-universal-and-udio-is-a-win-for-musicians-everywhere/" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1983987402189500738) 2025-10-30T20:00Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "I actually feel pretty sorry for Udio users. Theres lots of anger on discord. They thought they were buying into a platform with longevity only for lawsuits to catch up with it Its 100% on Udio. If theyd licensed data from the start (like others) this wouldnt have happened" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1984183803363872966) 2025-10-31T09:00Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "It's notable that regular AI boosters are being pretty quiet about the Universal / Udio settlement. Udio in its current form will cease to exist. This shatters their 'adapt or die' 'the lawsuits are a waste of time' narrative" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1984206049084338272) 2025-10-31T10:29Z 10.6K followers, 17.6K engagements "Copyright holders in Japan are not happy about OpenAI training on their work. In the operation of Sora [--] CODA requests that its members content is not used for machine learning without their permission. https://www.ign.com/articles/japanese-organization-representing-the-likes-of-bandai-namco-square-enix-and-studio-ghibli-demands-openai-ceases-unauthorized-training-of-sora-2-on-their-ips https://www.ign.com/articles/japanese-organization-representing-the-likes-of-bandai-namco-square-enix-and-studio-ghibli-demands-openai-ceases-unauthorized-training-of-sora-2-on-their-ips" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1984629723813884175) 2025-11-01T14:32Z 10.6K followers, 12.2K engagements "Creatives fightback against AI exploiting their work has gained massive momentum recently: - Australian government ruled out introducing a copyright exception for AI training - Udio/Universal lawsuit settlement will see Udio cease to exist in its current form - Anthropic settlement gets $1.5B to rights holders; other settlements are expected to follow - When Anthropic fair use decision went AI companies way judge in Meta case strongly disagreed the next day and said many instances of training will not be fair use - Sora launch led to vocal criticism from Japanese rights holders and others and" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1984982278120837538) 2025-11-02T13:53Z 10.6K followers, 27.4K engagements "Its sickening that AI music is now in the charts every week But its also more proof that AI training is not fair use A major consideration in fair use decisions is competition. AI competes with the work its trained on & the people behind that work. https://futurism.com/future-society/billboard-ai-generated-artist-charting-every-week https://futurism.com/future-society/billboard-ai-generated-artist-charting-every-week" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1985275603466027148) 2025-11-03T09:19Z 10.6K followers, 15.2K engagements "@therealbifkn https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1787516242276036826 Training generative AI models on copyrighted work without permission cannot be justified by saying this is how humans learn. Artists have been learning from each other for centuries. When you create you expect that other artists will learn from you. You learn from myriad https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1787516242276036826 Training generative AI models on copyrighted work without permission cannot be justified by saying this is how humans learn. Artists have been learning from each other for centuries. When you create you" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1985390847572001233) 2025-11-03T16:57Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements "Turns out the zero in coke zero is the number of human creatives they want to employ. Im committing now not to buy a single coke in [----]. Anyone join me Coca-Colas annual Christmas advert is AI-generated again this year. The company says they used even fewer people to make it We need to keep moving forward and pushing the envelope The genie is out of the bottle and youre not going to put it back in https://t.co/g1dogxS8Tq Coca-Colas annual Christmas advert is AI-generated again this year. The company says they used even fewer people to make it We need to keep moving forward and pushing the" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1985478390900457671) 2025-11-03T22:45Z 11.6K followers, 38.3K engagements "@edavidds @jasonzada 1) oh fantastic do you have details of the poor/starving people in eg Africa that they donated the funds for the ad to 2) yes developing craftsmanship of a new art form is high on billion-dollar corporation coca-colas agenda i am told" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1985515822392250375) 2025-11-04T01:13Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "New AI copyright lawsuit just landed - Danish music rights org Koda sues Suno for what it calls the biggest theft in music history. Danish rights holders it seems - like many others around the world - have had enough. https://koda.dk/en/koda-sues-suno https://koda.dk/en/koda-sues-suno" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1985639932744884545) 2025-11-04T09:27Z 11.6K followers, 132.6K engagements "The judge's decision in the Getty vs. Stability AI case today is very disappointing. Stability was judged not guilty of 'secondary infringement'. The case turned on the question of whether Stability's model weights are an 'infringing copy' of what they're trained on. Judge said no. I think this is wrong for [--] reasons: [--]. Law is clear: something is an infringing copy if you import it into the UK and "its making in the UK would have constituted an infringement of the copyright in the work in question". That is clearly the case here. The judge said the model weights aren't a copy - but that" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1985665874162745531) 2025-11-04T11:10Z 10.6K followers, 49.6K engagements "Adobe seems to have fully joined the side of exploitative AI companies. Very sad to see. Adobe just dropped a wild update at MAX. For the next [--] days Creative Cloud + Firefly users get unlimited generations across Firefly and partner models like Geminis Nano Banana Flux Runway and ChatGPT + Relaxed video generation I took the chance to test Firefly [--] their https://t.co/P9Hwm8GIeE Adobe just dropped a wild update at MAX. For the next [--] days Creative Cloud + Firefly users get unlimited generations across Firefly and partner models like Geminis Nano Banana Flux Runway and ChatGPT + Relaxed" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1985792213377302980) 2025-11-04T19:32Z 10.6K followers, 15.8K engagements "@HugoGye @theipaper Then why is his government so keen to hand the lifes work of the countrys musicians to US AI companies for free" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1986065885686043133) 2025-11-05T13:39Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements "oh my god xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musks AI girlfriend https://t.co/FFRDTkxBZs xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musks AI girlfriend https://t.co/FFRDTkxBZs" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1986135101768671358) 2025-11-05T18:14Z 10.6K followers, 17.7K engagements "AI boosters say the anger at AIs exploitation is temporary; is just like previous technology; will fade soon. But the reaction to this years AI Coca-Cola ad is stronger than last years. Anger is increasing not decreasing. The Coca-Cola Christmas ad made with AI used at least eight AI models known to be trained on copyrighted work without permission. This is a huge middle finger to the artists whose work these models exploit at scale for huge commercial gain. cc @CocaCola https://t.co/VZMvK85uzX The Coca-Cola Christmas ad made with AI used at least eight AI models known to be trained on" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1986353159904661882) 2025-11-06T08:41Z 11.6K followers, 21.6K engagements "King Charles is urging authors to "keep battling" the threat to creatives posed by AI. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15259435/king-charles-kazuo-ishiguro-artificial-intelligence.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15259435/king-charles-kazuo-ishiguro-artificial-intelligence.html" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1986388189079126255) 2025-11-06T11:00Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "@leicesterliz Jensen Huangs company Nvidia is the subject of a copyright lawsuit brought by authors. Did anyone bring this up with him today" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1986402299112013991) 2025-11-06T11:56Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements "ChatGPT helped Viktoria plan a suicide encouraged her to write a suicide note and drafted the note for her. What are we doing here Why are these platforms not being regulated as rapidly as possible From the BBC today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3x71pv1qno https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3x71pv1qno" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1986543471897747770) 2025-11-06T21:17Z 10.6K followers, 26.6K engagements "@tostartandend @Mis_Ashford @MeowRuka @thirdberneracct @CocaCola "Training off public data is not stealing." This is entirely inaccurate. Stability got off the hook because Getty couldn't prove they developed the models in the UK. You are misrepresenting this case" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1986731672788664541) 2025-11-07T09:45Z 10.6K followers, [--] engagements "october: sora is just so wholesome thats why i love it - every openai employee november: https://www.404media.co/openais-sora-2-floods-social-media-with-videos-of-women-being-strangled/ https://www.404media.co/openais-sora-2-floods-social-media-with-videos-of-women-being-strangled/" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1986914755639189882) 2025-11-07T21:52Z 10.7K followers, 22.2K engagements "@icreatelife Are you at all bothered what it was trained on" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1987084158573645847) 2025-11-08T09:05Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "Wait till the AI bros hear about Thou shalt not steal" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1987438382515892709) 2025-11-09T08:33Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "@icreatelife Total slop" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1987505868422709576) 2025-11-09T13:01Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "So much of AI usage is automating busywork. It doesnt reveal AIs utility; it reveals how much busywork is truly out there. Reports no one will ever read summaries that arent needed pointless social posts etc etc We should slash busywork not use AI to make more of it" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1987815868194034055) 2025-11-10T09:33Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "Beyond ironic that a show described as a Christian epic is leading the charge in using the theft machines https://www.wired.com/story/amazons-house-of-david-used-over-350-ai-shots-in-season-2-its-creator-isnt-sorry/ https://www.wired.com/story/amazons-house-of-david-used-over-350-ai-shots-in-season-2-its-creator-isnt-sorry/" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1987875068072923232) 2025-11-10T13:28Z 10.7K followers, 15.7K engagements "honestly pretty sad to see ai being openly (proudly) used in ads in this way The James Gin Christmas ad has landed. Yes its AI slop and yes were taking the piss. Its about the message etc. https://t.co/4fWW9KRzmi The James Gin Christmas ad has landed. Yes its AI slop and yes were taking the piss. Its about the message etc. https://t.co/4fWW9KRzmi" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1987996794563756187) 2025-11-10T21:32Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "Theres a good chance the British Prime Ministers main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is. Jade Leung worked for OpenAI from [----] to [----]. You would expect her to have shares worth a lot of money - which will get more valuable if OpenAI remains only lightly regulated. Now she is the Prime Ministers AI Adviser in No [--] - advising on AI regulation. I put in a freedom of information request for her register of interests which would reveal if she owns OpenAI shares. The government refused to share it claiming it contains personal information." [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1988165970980970832) 2025-11-11T08:44Z 10.7K followers, 32K engagements "@leicesterliz Did you ask Microsoft about all the AI copyright lawsuits that have been filed against them by creatives" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1988166773045408024) 2025-11-11T08:47Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements "Big win for creatives today in the battle against exploitation by AI companies German court rules OpenAI infringed copyright when it trained on copyrighted song lyrics https://www.reuters.com/world/german-court-sides-with-plaintiff-copyright-case-against-openai-2025-11-11/ https://www.reuters.com/world/german-court-sides-with-plaintiff-copyright-case-against-openai-2025-11-11/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1988197202142040171) 2025-11-11T10:48Z 11.6K followers, 144.1K engagements "@kevinroose Job concerns loss of agency sense of injustice probably up there. Concerns fade if the tech doesnt work. There are also people trying to nudge the bubble to pop" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1988391302858502227) 2025-11-11T23:40Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements "Insane new stats on AI music: - [-----] AI songs are uploaded every day - 34% of songs uploaded are AI-generated Massive respect to Deezer for being open about this - and being the only streaming platform to try to fight it. This can't become the new normal" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1988887035340296328) 2025-11-13T08:29Z 11.6K followers, 92.9K engagements "Technology is great Exploitative AI is not. We should invent new technology that isn't exploitative rather than funneling billions into tech that is stealing people's work. You can be a techno-optimist and an exploitative-AI-pessimist" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1988909476305338474) 2025-11-13T09:59Z 10.7K followers, 11.8K engagements "AI researcher at @worldlabs says of the training data they used: My team got em and thats all that matters. No credit due to the creatives behind the work used apparently. Depressingly prevalent attitude in Silicon Valley" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1989007655151759713) 2025-11-13T16:29Z 10.7K followers, [----] engagements "@peterkyle @Keir_Starmer @leicesterliz except the creatives whose work you proposed handing to ai companies for free https://www.politico.eu/article/ai-copyright-political-nightmare-labour-uk-models-tech/ https://www.politico.eu/article/ai-copyright-political-nightmare-labour-uk-models-tech/" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1989026579746271489) 2025-11-13T17:44Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements "'AI Opportunities' We disrupted a highly sophisticated AI-led espionage campaign. The attack targeted large tech companies financial institutions chemical manufacturing companies and government agencies. We assess with high confidence that the threat actor was a Chinese state-sponsored group. We disrupted a highly sophisticated AI-led espionage campaign. The attack targeted large tech companies financial institutions chemical manufacturing companies and government agencies. We assess with high confidence that the threat actor was a Chinese state-sponsored group" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1989092434698244121) 2025-11-13T22:06Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "Spotify refuses to act on AI music - and AI music has now predictably topped the Spotify charts. People are uploading slop for streams of passive income competing with musicians and Spotify doesnt care. This is the inevitable result. Quit Spotify. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/13/ai-music-spotify-billboard-charts https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/13/ai-music-spotify-billboard-charts" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1989263271934017694) 2025-11-14T09:24Z 10.8K followers, 40.9K engagements "Curious what this new frontier AI lab in the UK is training on. Frontier labs in the US train on copyrighted work without permission. (Possibly illegal there lawsuits pending.) But doing so in the UK would be straight up illegal no US-style debate. Genuinely curious what their approach is. One of the best parts of my role is meeting brilliant founders at the frontier of the UKs AI ambitions. Glad to have been on an energising visit to see @talfanevans @olivierhenaff Oliver Vikbladh a team of ex-@GoogleDeepMind researchers now building a frontier AI lab right https://t.co/Eo781SF2zc One of the" [X Link](https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1989440560218914895) 2025-11-14T21:09Z 10.7K followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"This new report shows the havoc AI is already wreaking in the creative sector. Evidence from [-----] British creatives shows: - 58% of photographers have lost work to AI - 32% of illustrators have lost commissions to AI - 86% of authors say AI has reduced their earnings Generative AI competes with the work it is trained on and the people behind that work. Every single new piece of evidence backs this up. The theft must be stopped - government must step in. https://www.ism.org/brave-new-world https://www.ism.org/brave-new-world"
X Link 2026-02-02T09:33Z 11.6K followers, 162.4K engagements
"It is crazy that massive book piracy was so critical to the early days of both OpenAI and Anthropic. In [----] Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann testified that he himself had downloaded the massive pirate library LibGen at Anthropic. He did so only a few months after the company was founded in [----]. He also downloaded another pirate library Books3 the very month Anthropic was founded. It was used to train Claude [--] & Claude [--]. He also said he had previously downloaded LibGen when he was at OpenAI. OpenAI used books from LibGen to train GPT-3 and GPT-3.5. And he went further - he said he understood"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:48Z 11.6K followers, 117.5K engagements
"Models we know were trained on pirated books (a non-exhaustive list): GPT-3 (OpenAI) GPT-3.5 (OpenAI) Claude [--] (Anthropic) Claude [--] (Anthropic) Llama [--] (Meta) Llama [--] (Meta) Llama [--] (Meta) OpenELM (Apple) BloombergGPT (Bloomberg) Megatron-Turing NLG 530B (Microsoft & Nvidia) MPT-7B-StoryWriter-65k+ (Databricks) Cerebras-GPT (Cerebras) CodeGen (Salesforce) And this is just those where this info has come out in court / is traceable through academic papers. Its safe to assume there are many more. The AI industry was built on piracy. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022595026669248654"
X Link 2026-02-14T08:53Z 11.6K followers, 23K engagements
"When OpenAI released ChatGPT it was trained on pirated books. This finally came to light in a lawsuit three months ago but it has gone essentially unreported. It came out in one sentence buried halfway down an opinion from the judge in Authors Guild et al v. OpenAI. The judge said that a lawyer for OpenAI admitted that the pirate library LibGen was the source of a dataset they called books2 and that this dataset was used to train GPT-3 and GPT-3.5. GPT-3.5 was the model used when ChatGPT was launched in November [----]. It was the default free-tier model for [--] 1/2 years until July [----]. People"
X Link 2026-02-15T07:47Z 11.6K followers, 44.5K engagements
"@RonP Yes Alsup in Bartz"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:58Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@TheMG3D Its much more sensible to believe companies when they say job cuts are AI-driven. This meme that its all fake is very dangerous IMO"
X Link 2026-02-15T10:38Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Insane detail that emerged in unsealed documents in Bartz v. Anthropic: Dario Amodei wrote a document arguing that the creators behind AIs training data should get paid. He said: - It was a real and important concern that big companies were training on books to extract concentrated profits - These models would outcompete the humans behind the training data in the long run - It would therefore be fair to share profits with them What is happening macroeconomically is that distributed human labor is being used to train AI models by large centralized actors who concentrate the resulting profits"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:18Z 11.6K followers, 62.6K engagements
"Today were releasing the vinyl of Is This What We Want the silent album from 1000+ musicians protesting the UK governments plans on AI & copyright. Incredibly grateful to Paul McCartney for providing a new (silent) bonus track. And to the many UK musicians involved in the album. The track list spells out a simple message: The British Government Must Not Legalise Music Theft To Benefit AI Companies. All profits go to the fantastic charity Help Musicians. There are [----] copies - you can pre-order one today here: Read more:"
X Link 2025-11-17T08:27Z 11.6K followers, 37.1K engagements
"Astonishing admission from Ollie Ilott the Director General for AI in the British government. He says you wouldn't want an opt-out from AI training to be too easy to use because the primary goal would be to get more work for AI companies to train on 🤯 Let that sink in. This is an admission that the opt-out the government proposed wasn't really about giving creatives control. That was a charade. It was the opposite - it was intended to ensure some missed the chance to opt-out and to maximise the free handout to AI companies. This is a huge admission to make and shows the government is fully"
X Link 2026-01-14T10:27Z 11.6K followers, 92.4K engagements
"A new paper from Stanford adds further incontrovertible evidence that LLMs memorize training data. The authors showed that copyrighted works can be extracted from every LLM they tried: GPT-4.1 Gemini [---] Pro Grok [--] and Claude [---] Sonnet. For example Claude [---] Sonnet reproduced 95.8% of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. "We find that is possible to extract large portions of memorized copyrighted material from all four production LLMs". Some in AI and even some courts have claimed that AI models don't memorize training data. This is simply false. They do as has been repeatedly shown."
X Link 2026-01-08T09:50Z 11.6K followers, 594.1K engagements
"Musk says X outcry is 'excuse for censorship' https://t.co/Fd5pb8QcPF Musk says X outcry is 'excuse for censorship' https://t.co/Fd5pb8QcPF"
X Link 2026-01-10T11:41Z 11.6K followers, 629.4K engagements
"Grok now wont undress women even for paid users. Protest works. Big tech is not invincible. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/13/musks-x-stops-bikini-bot-undressing-women/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/13/musks-x-stops-bikini-bot-undressing-women/"
X Link 2026-01-14T00:01Z 11.6K followers, 456.3K engagements
"The Telegraph has uncovered yet more about the UK government's 'AI skills hub' that suggests the entire thing was a rushed vibe-coded hack job (which cost [---] million of taxpayers' money). Their investigation reveals it includes: - courses that seem to be AI-generated scams - courses that are more than [--] years old - 'degrees' that cost thousands of pounds yet offer no meaningful qualifications - courses that don't exist at all And so much more. This bit killed me: "One course on 'digital agriculture fundamentals' is provided by a Canadian education company and requires applicants to live in"
X Link 2026-01-30T09:42Z 11.6K followers, 102K engagements
"This now-deleted post from an AI company angered even AI types so awful is its we just ended [--] more creative jobs messaging. But they are the only AI company being honest. Most AI companies could accurately say the same thing - they only dont because its bad PR"
X Link 2026-02-04T08:38Z 11.6K followers, 56.3K engagements
"In [----] Aaron Swartz downloaded [---] million articles from JSTOR. We don't know why - it may have been to make them freely available online (if so he never did as he was caught). He made no money from this and there is no suggestion he intended to. He was indicted on [--] felony counts facing a maximum of [--] years in prison and $3 million in fines. Two years after his arrest awaiting trial he hung himself. In [----] & [----] Ben Mann downloaded at least [--] million books from pirate libraries. He did so while working at OpenAI and Anthropic; the books were downloaded for the purposes of training AI"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:46Z 11.6K followers, 225.5K engagements
"When Anthropic stopped training on books that were literally pirated they managed to hit on the one way of buying books that means no money goes to authors: buying used books. They spent tens of millions of dollars buying used books from wholesalers in batches of tens of thousands at a time. These were shipped to Illinois scanned and pulped. They called this Project Panama using a codename because they didnt want people to know they were doing it. (It ultimately came out through court documents.) Before alighting on this plan they were discussing licensing from book publishers which would"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:30Z 11.6K followers, 318.6K engagements
"Our former Prime Minister now shills for a $380 billion US AI company that rose to success copying millions upon millions of pirated books. Just incredibly embarrassing stuff. Action this day would be a good motto for this Prime Minister when it comes to AI. Therell never be a quiet week when he can turn to it so he must just get on with it. We must move quicker if our country is to flourish. https://t.co/c2kpxh1euT Action this day would be a good motto for this Prime Minister when it comes to AI. Therell never be a quiet week when he can turn to it so he must just get on with it. We must"
X Link 2026-02-15T09:01Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@alexolegimas @bcherny How do you become an experienced engineer if today's experienced engineers are using AI so effectively that they can avoid hiring junior engineers And if you can't become a junior engineer why learn to code https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1960301927561941360s=20 New research from Stanford shows that generative AI is already making it harder for young people to find jobs. - Researchers studied payroll data from [--] million+ workers - In jobs with high exposure to automation by AI early-career workers (age 22-25) have experienced a 13% https://t.co/v1OvV4zFoU"
X Link 2026-02-16T08:59Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements
"OpenAI just released a model that can generate 1-minute videos. You simply cannot argue that these models don't / won't compete with the content they're trained on and the human creators behind that content. What is the model trained on Did the training data providers consent to their work being used The total lack of info from OpenAI on this doesn't inspire confidence. Across the AI industry people's work is being exploited without consent to build products that compete with that work. This must be controlled by regulators. Introducing Sora our text-to-video model. Sora can create videos of"
X Link 2024-02-15T18:28Z 11.6K followers, 1.2M engagements
"The founder of AI music company Suno says its not really enjoyable to make music now I think the majority of people dont enjoy the majority of time they spend making music. Couldnt disagree more. Its not really enjoyable to make music now it takes a lot of time it takes a lot of practice you have to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production software. I think the majority of people dont enjoy the majority of time they spend making https://t.co/zkv73Bhmi9 Its not really enjoyable to make music now it takes a lot of time it takes a lot of practice you have to get"
X Link 2025-01-11T21:20Z 11.5K followers, 45.8K engagements
"Reading the full Disney / Universal lawsuit it couldnt be clearer: this is the end of Midjourney"
X Link 2025-06-11T21:07Z 11.6K followers, 197K engagements
"OpenAI says it will use copyrighted characters in Sora videos unless the IP owner opts out. If they get away with this what is the point of copyright law It will have been utterly broken by AI lobbying. Creative community must unite against this. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-new-sora-video-generator-to-require-copyright-holders-to-opt-out-071d8b2a https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-new-sora-video-generator-to-require-copyright-holders-to-opt-out-071d8b2a"
X Link 2025-09-29T23:00Z 11.6K followers, 239.5K engagements
"Absolutely brilliant detail from the new Reddit AI copyright lawsuit vs. Perplexity. They set a trap for Perplexity - a test post only crawlable by Google existing nowhere else on the internet. Within hours it was on Perplexity 😳 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perplexity-theft.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perplexity-theft.html"
X Link 2025-10-23T12:56Z 11.6K followers, 531.3K engagements
"The Coca-Cola Christmas ad made with AI used at least eight AI models known to be trained on copyrighted work without permission. This is a huge middle finger to the artists whose work these models exploit at scale for huge commercial gain. cc @CocaCola"
X Link 2025-11-05T18:34Z 11.6K followers, 600.7K engagements
"Please stop saying that Grok undressing people is just like Photoshop / ChatGPT. Those other products dont publish the sexualised image to the person being sexualised by default. The law focuses on regulating the sharing of sexualised images more than on their creation. Making these images even in private should be regulated too. But an epidemic of public grok put her in a bikini replies to posts is clearly something that must be halted asap. It is incredibly abusive. If someone is arguing its just like Photoshop / ChatGPT its worth asking whether they may have some other motive for objecting"
X Link 2026-01-13T09:17Z 11.4K followers, 39.6K engagements
"helpful tip for working out when to use ai to write for you: - if youre writing something that matters dont write it with ai - if youre writing something that doesnt matter still dont write it with ai. in fact dont write it at all"
X Link 2026-01-19T20:02Z 11.4K followers, 16.2K engagements
"An updated lawsuit against Nvidia alleges they trained on millions of pirated books from Annas Archive. Annas Archive is a massive pirate library that illegally sells access to pirated books for people to train AI models on. The lawsuit says: - Nvidia reached out to them - Annas Archive told Nvidia the books were illegally acquired - Yet Nvidia still gave the transfer the green light Seems headed towards another billion-dollar settlement. But I really hope the plaintiffs in one of these cases dont settle and instead push it all the way. https://torrentfreak.com/images/naznvid-amend.pdf"
X Link 2026-01-21T09:14Z 11.5K followers, 53.5K engagements
"A few months ago I was curious to know how much Anna's Archive was charging AI developers for access to their massive library of pirated works for training - so I emailed them saying I was interested in buying access. Here is their reply. They are charging $200000 (payable via crypto of course). You get high-speed access to the full collection. This includes more than [--] million books. (This is also the group that recently stole Spotify's entire music catalog so expect this to be available to high rollers too.) This is the collection Nvidia is accused of accessing for training. Training on"
X Link 2026-01-22T09:55Z 11.5K followers, 1M engagements
"Two huge book publishers - Hachette and Cengage - have moved to join authors & illustrators in suing Google for allegedly using their work to train AI models. They write in the complaint: "Faced with the choice between respecting intellectual property rights or competing in the AI race Google chose to steal a massive body of content from Plaintiffs and the Class to train its AI model." It's great to see different sides of the book industry uniting to fight exploitation by AI companies. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.415223/gov.uscourts.cand.415223.342.1.pdf"
X Link 2026-01-23T11:27Z 11.4K followers, 33.4K engagements
"If youre trying to build AGI you are by definition trying to compete with your training data. This is one reason training data must be licensed. Artificial general intelligence is explicitly general-purpose. If achieved it will be able to perform all intellectual tasks at human level - thats what the term AGI means. So the companies trying to build AGI - i.e. all the major AI labs - are trying to build a product that can perform any intellectual task. By definition that includes competing with what it was trained on. It doesnt matter whether you think AGI will be achieved. The fact that"
X Link 2026-01-25T13:36Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Beautiful and important words from the Pope yesterday: In recent years AI systems have increasingly taken control of the production of text music and videos. Much of the human creative industry is thus at risk of being dismantled and replaced with the label "Powered by AI" transforming people into mere passive consumers of unthought thoughts anonymous products devoid of authorship devoid of love. Meanwhile the masterpieces of human genius in music art and literature are being reduced to mere training grounds for machines. We need faces and voices to once again speak the person. We need to"
X Link 2026-01-25T21:42Z 11.4K followers, 26.1K engagements
"Bringing AI tutors into schools is an absolutely terrible idea. Far too little is known about the effects of doing so. What we do know is that chatbots hallucinate can result in dependence can negatively impact cognitive skills and in the most extreme cases have assisted minors in suicide. The government should drop this plan which will benefit AI companies' bottom line at the expense of British schoolchildren. Every child should have an equal shot at success no matter their background. Thats why we're going to work with teachers and experts to make safe smart AI tutoring tools available to"
X Link 2026-01-27T10:12Z 11.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Why is the UK government partnering with Anthropic when Anthropic is known to train its AI models on British creatives' work without permission Would be good to get an answer to this from Secretary of State for Science Innovation & Technology @leicesterliz Were partnering with the UK's Department for Science Innovation and Technology to build an AI assistant for https://t.co/e3sn3vm9wg. It will offer tailored advice to help British people navigate government services. Read more about our partnership: https://t.co/k7pAV6aX8T Were partnering with the UK's Department for Science Innovation and"
X Link 2026-01-27T11:16Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The UK government is being run by Palantir. Second infographic showing further detail of how the 34+ UK state contracts and extensions with Palantir break down (Note on infographic [--] (post 1): where amount/share of a contract/extension is unknown that contract has not been included in the overall 672m+ spend.) https://t.co/7Wdo76DPQ1 Second infographic showing further detail of how the 34+ UK state contracts and extensions with Palantir break down (Note on infographic [--] (post 1): where amount/share of a contract/extension is unknown that contract has not been included in the overall 672m+"
X Link 2026-01-27T19:48Z 11.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The UK government's AI Skills Hub launched today is little more than thinly-veiled propaganda for AI companies. I took a look at the courses. They include: - Intros to generative AI by big tech companies that call AI "miraculous" and gloss over the huge controversy around what it's trained on - A course for creatives marketed as 'AI: friend or foe' that is exclusively about how creatives can harness & integrate AI ignoring the many issues like IP rights deskilling etc. - A single course on AI & IP which seems designed to trivialise the actual issues and which talks about US law instead of UK"
X Link 2026-01-28T09:31Z 11.5K followers, 127K engagements
"First off the courses that are simply big-tech-written introductions to generative AI. Here is Microsoft's. They say AI has an "almost miraculous ability to produce human-like original content"; their one sentence on data just says it's from the "internet and other sources". No mention of the fact that those "other sources" are people's copyrighted works and Microsoft is facing multiple lawsuits as a result. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016443889574420648 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016443889574420648"
X Link 2026-01-28T09:31Z 11.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@CatFinnie @SciTechgovuk @leicesterliz @BBCBreakfast Yes also a lot of it isn't even free companies are charging for it"
X Link 2026-01-28T13:39Z 11.4K followers, [--] engagements
"The UK government paid PwC 4.1 million for the AI Skills Hub it launched today. The Skills Hub is essentially propaganda for the AI industry. On launch it included courses describing the law in the wrong country and a bunch of re-hashed 'introductions to gen AI' written by big tech. https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001337-2025 The UK government's AI Skills Hub launched today is little more than thinly-veiled propaganda for AI companies. I took a look at the courses. They include: - Intros to generative AI by big tech companies that call AI "miraculous" and gloss over the huge"
X Link 2026-01-28T17:54Z 11.5K followers, 81.6K engagements
"Music publishers just hit Anthropic with what could be the biggest AI copyright lawsuit to date. They say: In total we are suing for infringement of more than [-----] songs with potential statutory damages of more than $3 billion. Its based on Anthropics alleged torrenting of pirated copies of their sheet music and song lyrics. We know from other lawsuits that Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann torrented the pirate library LibGen in [----] soon after Anthropic was founded. Other employees later torrented another pirate library PiLiMi. Anthropic recently settled a class action lawsuit from book authors"
X Link 2026-01-29T00:42Z 11.5K followers, 21.2K engagements
"@leicesterliz Genuine question - do you have any evidence that AI will net add jobs to the economy rather than replace them Lots of people fear it will replace more than it adds. And this is already evident in the UK. Morgan Stanley research found Britain is losing more jobs than its creating because of AI and at a faster rate than its international peers. https://t.co/OKdYUw1K5T Morgan Stanley research found Britain is losing more jobs than its creating because of AI and at a faster rate than its international peers. https://t.co/OKdYUw1K5T"
X Link 2026-01-29T09:30Z 11.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I took a closer look at the UK government's new 'AI Skills Hub' and it is insane. It includes 'courses' that are simply links to info pages about PhD programs; 'courses' that are literally just software developer documentation; and 'courses' that don't exist at all. Short 🧵"
X Link 2026-01-29T14:30Z 11.5K followers, 149.1K engagements
"Then there are courses that don't seem to exist. Like this one which when you try to book just takes you to a [---] page"
X Link 2026-01-29T14:30Z 11.4K followers, 16K engagements
"Now we get into truly wild territory. How about this 'course' which is actually just a link to a page of information about a specific PhD program at Queen Mary University"
X Link 2026-01-29T14:31Z 11.5K followers, 13.7K engagements
"Or this 'course' which is literally a link to Microsoft's Azure SQL documentation. And check out the Skills Hub's description: "Microsoft: The "Azure SQL Fundamentals" learning path helps learners transition their SQL Server expertise to the cloud" There is zero chance this entire Skills Hub wasn't written by AI. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016881774215717092 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016881774215717092"
X Link 2026-01-29T14:31Z 11.5K followers, 13.2K engagements
"Then there are a ton of 'AI skills' courses that have literally nothing to with AI. For your delectation: [--]. 'Learn how to use the internet'"
X Link 2026-01-29T14:31Z 11.5K followers, 11.2K engagements
"@Google @GoogleDeepMind @OfficialLoganK you forgot to interview the games companies whose games were used to train it"
X Link 2026-01-30T09:52Z 11.4K followers, [---] engagements
"The generative AI business model: [--]. Build product by repeatedly copying creatives work [--]. Make product cheap so people use it (possible because we didnt pay for the copies) [--]. Money flows to us instead of creative community [--]. Repeat"
X Link 2026-01-31T09:58Z 11.5K followers, 18.4K engagements
"Important piece from The Times editorial board: The government cannot afford to continue to look the other way while a once-in-a-generation theft of intellectual property is perpetrated. AI companies must pay for the work they train on. https://www.thetimes.com/article/56f036de-0e9d-4abb-9543-7816c14ffe64shareToken=d52be8b883a85d8cb3d4197cf9f4ebb2 https://www.thetimes.com/article/56f036de-0e9d-4abb-9543-7816c14ffe64shareToken=d52be8b883a85d8cb3d4197cf9f4ebb2"
X Link 2026-02-01T21:44Z 11.6K followers, 26.4K engagements
"There are more & more cases of US big tech companies providing tech to the UK government for free. Government presents this as a win but its the opposite. Its a win for big tech and terrible news for British citizens. Why do you think big tech gives their tech to government for free The goodness of their hearts They do it because it (i) makes Britain more reliant on them and (ii) acts as a quid pro quo for light tech regulation. In just the last couple of weeks we have heard that Anthropic is making a government chatbot pro bono and Microsoft is delivering AI in Barnsley pro bono. You can be"
X Link 2026-02-03T09:25Z 11.5K followers, 52.5K engagements
"The UK government describes its new AI skills hub as "free AI skills training" but 58% of the courses on it you have to pay for. I analysed all [---] courses. Also of note: - 36% are provided by big tech - [---] courses are from just Google & Microsoft - 8% are literally links to info about full university courses (undergrad & masters programs etc.) This 'skills hub' cost the taxpayer [---] million. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018699769414066288 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018699769414066288"
X Link 2026-02-03T14:55Z 11.5K followers, 58.3K engagements
"@kirbyman01 @SebJohnsonUK @a16z @elevenlabsio Any word on how much of the $500M will go to the creatives whose work ElevenLabs trains its models on"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:57Z 11.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@alecwilcock Wow how much of that money is going to the creatives whose work powers the models"
X Link 2026-02-04T16:10Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@kirbyman01 @SebJohnsonUK @a16z @elevenlabsio Guessing that silence isnt a good sign"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:58Z 11.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@sundancefest @Adobe Adobe makes AI models available that are trained on artists work without permission. This is profoundly anti-artist"
X Link 2026-02-05T07:36Z 11.5K followers, [---] engagements
"The full document is here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058235/563/2/bartz-v-anthropic-pbc/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058235/563/2/bartz-v-anthropic-pbc/"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:19Z 11.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Cant help thinking the AI boosters excited about the Olympics using terrible AI slop instead of paying human artists is a mask-off moment Theres no democratization here. Its just slop replacing human artists. It shows they dont care about art - they care only about money"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:48Z 11.6K followers, 10.7K engagements
"California State University students & staff are petitioning for the university not to renew their contract for ChatGPT Edu. The CSU must reject Silicon Valleys AI hype and invest in the people who make this university system a destination for our [------] students. The challenges that we face in higher education cannot be resolved with AI. We must instead empower faculty staff and students to define a sustainable human-centered future for the CSU system. (Anyone can sign in support.) https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-chatgpt-edu-invest-in-humans"
X Link 2026-02-08T12:01Z 11.6K followers, 28.6K engagements
"You can just pirate things. You can just build things. https://t.co/g0JCVjbSef You can just build things. https://t.co/g0JCVjbSef"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:31Z 11.6K followers, 23.3K engagements
"@0xfoobar https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1936624023158632768 Some argue that if generative AI companies are infringing copyright then so are human creators who learn from others work. This is not true - as confirmed by the US Copyright Office. The Copyright Office points out that: - Even humans are not allowed to do the kind of https://t.co/hUeJwDSYn0 https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1936624023158632768 Some argue that if generative AI companies are infringing copyright then so are human creators who learn from others work. This is not true - as confirmed by the US Copyright Office. The"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:10Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@sama The model launched with ChatGPT was trained on pirated books right (This is from Judge Ona T. Wang's opinion on November 24th 2025)"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:53Z 11.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Quite a few of my followers are AI skeptics believing its over-hyped or a scam or some combination of the two. To those people - I implore you to reconsider. The models arent perfect. They make mistakes. But they are already insanely capable and they are improving. There is a crowd who will cheer you on when you point out a hallucination or laugh at a failed task or lament yet another inexplicable use of the word quietly. But you are avoiding the reality of the situation. Capabilities have increased exponentially over the last few years and there is every sign this trend will continue. Im not"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:21Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@supervdataspace Describe it how you want - hopefully you understand my point. The improvement has been significant and major"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:39Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@Otheryanmurphy I know people who have decided not to hire someone having realised they can use AI instead. So in that instance some is effectively 100%. The study on revenue growth is orthogonal to my point I think. Companies are cutting costs with AI by reducing headcount"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:49Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@feargadocious Claude Cowork is a specific example of that. I am sorry you think I appear shady. I dont know what game you think Im playing - but Im not playing it"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:53Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements
"I dont know what you mean by you guys and I dont know what limits you mean that are becoming clearer. You may have tried the latest models / products eg Claude Code / Cowork. If so great. If not I recommend you do. There are big twitter accounts that get lots of engagement by overplaying current limitations. I reference this in my OP. I hope people will try the latest models for themselves and not take limitations on trust. I can see we are not going to agree. Thank you for engaging https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021736890207006811 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021736890207006811"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:03Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@Dr_Gingerballs Take Claude Code as an example - extremely popular among developers many of them professional. Roughly what percentage of its users in your opinion are deluded"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:49Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements
"I will answer you in good faith "Many Claude Code users are deluded in thinking that it is useful" I don't know what to say except that I believe it's better to trust people when they tell you that a product they use is useful. "have you ever used Claude Code yourself" Yes. I use these AI products as little as possible but I think it's irresponsible as someone who engages publicly on the issue not to understand first-hand their latest capabilities - so I make a point of testing them. "what kind of code did you ask it to write Are you a software engineer" I am not a software engineer but I"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:54Z 11.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Ok. I recommend - sincerely - that you talk to some of the many professional software engineers who are using this and other AI coding products in their development of popular services at huge companies. You may not find it useful - that's fair - but many many people do and denying they do so helps no one"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:01Z 11.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@supervdataspace @Dr_Gingerballs I understand that you yourself don't find it useful. But I think that claiming that its many many users also don't really find it useful - that they are deluded - is not a reasonable claim to make"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:06Z 11.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@AJButton2 @ThinPicking Ok. To go back to my question: Im curious what you would consider not just a tool if AI has tool status in your mind"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:12Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@supervdataspace @Dr_Gingerballs Sorry to misunderstand you Clearly we disagree"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:13Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@ihtesham2005 @pangramlabs ai"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:52Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@Dr_Gingerballs Ok. With the greatest respect I think that claiming that huge numbers of professional software developers who say they find a product useful are 'deluded' about its utility is a preposterous claim and it is shocking to me that anyone would hold this view"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:17Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@Dr_Gingerballs What evidence would persuade you Claude Code was useful to people (Or any other new software product.)"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:44Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@Dr_Gingerballs If there isnt some specific evidence that would make you change your mind it is hard to believe it is really about evidence for you. What about if Claude Codes ARR topped $1 billion and then doubled inside the next [--] days Would that persuade you"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:45Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Apparently if you call copyright theft adversarial distillation then OpenAI thinks its bad actually. SCOOP: OpenAI warned lawmakers in a memo sent today to the House Select Committee on China that DeepSeek is using new obfuscated methods to continue to distill its AI models as well as those of other US frontier AI labs https://t.co/OsWxPRMF28 w/ @eastland_maggie SCOOP: OpenAI warned lawmakers in a memo sent today to the House Select Committee on China that DeepSeek is using new obfuscated methods to continue to distill its AI models as well as those of other US frontier AI labs"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:52Z 11.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@MrEwanMorrison This investment will have been driven by their huge revenue growth rather than what youre suggesting here. I think it is dangerous to try to convince people that highlighting safety concerns is what leads to this level of investment"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:43Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@8teAPi The majority of authors strongly disagree with this. It should be up to them to decide whether Anthropic's exploitation of their work is valuable to them"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:24Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Don't like marriage equality Feel free to sell your Starbucks stock - Starbucks CEO http://t.co/KRBPl9PsIG via @aliceenewton @ASViney http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/03/21/1756061/starbucks-ceo-if-you-dont-like-marriage-equality-feel-free-to-sell-your-starbucks-stock/mobile=nc http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/03/21/1756061/starbucks-ceo-if-you-dont-like-marriage-equality-feel-free-to-sell-your-starbucks-stock/mobile=nc"
X Link 2013-03-22T12:42Z 11.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@bcmerchant https://x.com/MarceloJPico/status/1767753887799222700s=20 https://x.com/MarceloJPico/status/1767753887799222700s=20"
X Link 2024-03-14T16:46Z 11.2K followers, [---] engagements
"It is particularly depressing to look at the current generative AI landscape when you remember there was an alternative path for this technology - one that could have worked hand in hand with human creators instead of exploiting them. AI companies could have licensed their training data and been thoughtful about designing for use-cases that empowered rather than replaced human creators. AI could genuinely have been a tool for creators and one that treated them fairly. Instead AI companies trained on creators work without permission and rushed to market with tech that is already replacing"
X Link 2024-05-04T18:08Z 11K followers, 174.9K engagements
"Vimeo sides with creators says it "will not allow generative AI models to be trained using videos hosted on our platform without your explicit consent". Be more like Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/blog/post/vimeos-position-on-ai https://vimeo.com/blog/post/vimeos-position-on-ai"
X Link 2024-07-10T16:54Z 11K followers, 22.1K engagements
"@bilawalsidhu Great news around election time"
X Link 2024-08-21T16:44Z 10.7K followers, [--] engagements
"The lawsuits keep coming. Today GEMA is suing OpenAI for infringing copyright in lyrics from German music. The big LLMs are clearly used to generate lyrics: lots of users of music generators are using LLMs to write lyrics and there are signs the AI music companies themselves may use commercial LLM APIs for lyrics. i.e. its clear OpenAI competes by offering a lyrics-generating tool. These lawsuits will keep coming as long as AI companies keep arguing they can use the lifes work of the worlds creators without asking."
X Link 2024-11-13T17:17Z 11K followers, 20K engagements
"The @guardian is spot on in their opposition to the UK government's proposed changes to copyright law which would hand AI companies the life's work of the country's creators. "Labour must not be dazzled bythe shininessof the tech industry and the promise of endless growth. To favour these businesses at the expense of the creative sector thesecond most lucrative in the UK generating more than 126bn annually would impoverish more than oureconomy." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/31/the-guardian-view-on-ai-and-copyright-law-big-tech-must-pay"
X Link 2025-02-03T18:48Z [----] followers, 15K engagements
"Please stop saying gen AI is no different from the camera. The camera wasnt built by stealing other peoples art"
X Link 2025-02-08T16:03Z 11.6K followers, 23.2K engagements
"Ive looked at the public statements of the artists involved in the Christies AI art auction and I think its likely that at least [--] or so of the works being sold use models trained on copyrighted work without permission. I dont blame the artists for this - theyre just using products that AI companies have put on the market. But why are Christies condoning these models by helping sell these works for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars when the models are directly leading to the impoverishment of so many artists that theyve stolen from I think the calls from [----] artists to cancel the"
X Link 2025-02-10T14:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Another piece about the Christie's AI art auction. I spoke to Sky about the debate around this. The artists' letter protesting the auction isn't an attack on the artists in the auction - they're just using tools that AI companies have made available. Rather it's a request that Christie's not implicitly condone these companies' AI products by selling these works for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars when the exploitative technology behind them is impoverishing so many artists desperately trying to make a living."
X Link 2025-02-10T18:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"More coverage of the backlash to the Christies AI art auction. I continue to think people in AI have hugely underestimated the anger among artists about the mass theft of their work to build commercial gen AI models"
X Link 2025-02-10T20:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Another generative AI lawsuit lands. [--] news publishers including Cond Nast The Atlantic Forbes The Guardian Business Insider the LA Times Politico Vox Media & many more have sued @cohere alleging "massive systematic copyright infringement". "The complaint provides a non-exhaustive list of thousands of articles that Cohere has infringed through training real-time use of content and infringing outputs." And this just [--] days after rights holders won the first major AI copyright lawsuit in Thomson Reuters vs. Ross. Expect many more of these. Read more:"
X Link 2025-02-13T15:08Z [----] followers, 75.4K engagements
"Legitimately hilarious how the ai music companies send out those 'make your partner a custom song' emails ahead of valentine's day. 'look babe I prompted this ai model for you' Could there be any worse valentine's present"
X Link 2025-02-13T23:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Theres a week left to respond to the UK governments consultation on changing copyright law to favour AI companies. Please respond Here are some template answers to help We need as many creators to respond to the UKs consultation on AI & Copyright as possible. If you want to respond here are some draft answers you can copy & modify. Ive heard lots of people say the [--] questions full of technical terms are confusing so hopefully this helps. We need as many creators to respond to the UKs consultation on AI & Copyright as possible. If you want to respond here are some draft answers you can copy &"
X Link 2025-02-17T17:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Daily Mail has joined the fight to protect the UK's creativity from @UKLabour and AI companies 🙌 They have support from Sir Lucian Grainge Richard Osman Andrew Neil Robert Kyncl Scott Turow Baroness Beeban Kidron Dame Caroline Dinenage and countless more. And the Conservative party have come out against Labour's plans to upend copyright law to favour AI companies: "Labour must rethink their approach. The Conservatives will defend intellectual property rights". I think the government has vastly underestimated British creators' resolve to protect their life's work from pillage by big tech"
X Link 2025-02-20T23:43Z 11K followers, 10.4K engagements
"Along with [----] musicians today we're releasing an (almost) silent album protesting the UK government's plan to upend copyright law to benefit AI companies. It's an album of recordings of empty studios & performance spaces representing the effect the govt's plans would have on musicians' livelihoods. It's called 'Is This What We Want' and the track list spells out a simple message: "The British Government Must Not Legalise Music Theft To Benefit AI Companies". Incredibly grateful to the many many musicians involved 🙌 All profits are going to @HelpMusicians. Please listen & share (More links"
X Link 2025-02-25T00:28Z 11.6K followers, 165.1K engagements
"Very important news today: a KC one of the UK's most senior lawyers says the government's proposed changes to copyright law to favour AI companies would likely breach international law (the Berne Convention). He says: - Berne says the enjoyment and exercise of people's copyright can't be subject to any formality but this clearly introduces a formality - Berne says copyright exceptions can only apply in certain special cases but this is a broad exception - Berne says copyright exceptions can't conflict with a normal exploitation of the work but this would conflict with a normal exploitation of"
X Link 2025-03-07T14:46Z 10.4K followers, 34.8K engagements
"The entire AI Studio Ghibli thing is awful. But by far the worst part is the people actively celebrating that this would sadden/anger Miyazaki Studio Ghibli's creator. Silicon Valley has never been in a worse place. It's sickening to watch the artist-hate spread"
X Link 2025-03-27T04:16Z 11.6K followers, 482.9K engagements
"Another gen AI lawsuit just landed. That takes us to almost [--] lawsuits around the world Authors Guild vs. OpenAI Ziff Davis vs. OpenAI Tremblay vs. OpenAI Silverman vs. OpenAI Chabon vs. OpenAI Millette vs. OpenAI Raw Story Media vs. OpenAI Center for Investigative Reporting vs. OpenAI Intercept Media vs. OpenAI & Microsoft Alter vs. OpenAI & Microsoft Basbanes vs. OpenAI & Microsoft New York Times vs. OpenAI & Microsoft Daily News vs. OpenAI & Microsoft Bartz vs. Anthropic Concord Music Group vs. Anthropic Millette vs. Google J.L. vs. Alphabet Zhang vs. Google & Alphabet Millette vs."
X Link 2025-04-25T15:33Z 11K followers, 14.8K engagements
"Very grateful to receive the [----] Adepi Award for work in the defence and advancement of IP rights. IP rights are the lifeblood of so much of the art & invention that makes our lives immeasurably better. We will hugely regret it if we tear them up at the behest of AI company lobbyists. Thank you to the many many people working to defend IP. Its awesome to see so many people and industries come together. https://adepi.net/2025/04/26/ed-newton-rex-y-antonio-castan-premio-adepi-2025/ https://adepi.net/2025/04/26/ed-newton-rex-y-antonio-castan-premio-adepi-2025/"
X Link 2025-04-28T04:21Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The UK government cannot hold AI companies to account if it keeps deepening its reliance on them. The AI & copyright consultation was a sham if these partnerships were happening alongside it. Extract a system built by the UK government using our Gemini foundational model will help council planners make faster decisions. 🚀 Using multimodal reasoning it turns complex planning documents even handwritten notes and blurry maps into digital data in just 40s. https://t.co/zM37kHPany Extract a system built by the UK government using our Gemini foundational model will help council planners make"
X Link 2025-06-09T13:29Z 11K followers, [----] engagements
"This fantastic piece tells the stories of the tech workers who are losing their jobs to AI. Please read it. AI is a tool yes. A tool to replace people. But there is hope in the final story in the piece. Execs may celebrate AI as a labor replacement - but workers will protest. AI is being used to justify firing workers at tech companies leaving those who remain to pick up the pieces. AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products and replacing trainers at TikTok. This in tech workers' own words is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley. https://t.co/Ua6x6llmbz AI is being used to"
X Link 2025-06-26T16:19Z 11.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@bcmerchant Incredible reporting Brian"
X Link 2025-06-26T16:19Z 11.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Just realised @Boosey made this fantastic recording of the piece we wrote for our wedding Of All The Souls That Stand Create. Originally for choir & cello I swapped in a piano part for the published version as cellists are hard to come by. Hope you like it. (Dont train your AI models on this please 🙂) https://open.spotify.com/track/3xeThbj0aBsPds3mu7xCs9si=hJrGBg2OSjWUJFFh42nxRw https://open.spotify.com/track/3xeThbj0aBsPds3mu7xCs9si=hJrGBg2OSjWUJFFh42nxRw"
X Link 2025-06-30T02:50Z 11K followers, [----] engagements
"Boosey & Hawkes made this lovely recording of my new Christmas carol. Any choirs planning Christmas repertoire please have a listen :) https://youtu.be/n9i23YgDq6Ysi=FnnPkCetXOtS4CoU https://youtu.be/n9i23YgDq6Ysi=FnnPkCetXOtS4CoU"
X Link 2025-07-15T13:56Z 11K followers, 13.1K engagements
"If youre feeling down about politicians who have been captured by big tech and want to let AI companies steal work with impunity remember that the public overwhelmingly disagrees with them (in a ratio of eight to one). Legalizing IP theft is a hugely hugely unpopular policy - for obvious reasons"
X Link 2025-07-24T13:54Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements
"AI companies run AI film festivals / other contests for creatives in order to normalise the exploitation behind these products. They play off creatives understandable desire for exposure insisting they use AI to enter. This increases their user numbers and helps the tech spread. Their aim is to drown out the huge negative sentiment towards generative AI in the creative community using VC money to do so. If they really cared about creativity they would run festivals / contests without forcing people to use AI to take part"
X Link 2025-08-16T09:22Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@mustafasuleyman Paying for training data levels the playing field. Taking it without permission does the opposite"
X Link 2025-08-26T17:04Z 10.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Adobe adding Nano Banana & Flux is an insult to the artists whose work has been used to train them without permission or payment Generative Fill just got a HUGE upgrade Gemini [---] Flash (Nano Banana) and Flux Kontext Pro have arrived in the Photoshop beta 🙌 https://t.co/ATCmYyF8YY Generative Fill just got a HUGE upgrade Gemini [---] Flash (Nano Banana) and Flux Kontext Pro have arrived in the Photoshop beta 🙌 https://t.co/ATCmYyF8YY"
X Link 2025-09-26T12:49Z 10.5K followers, 17.4K engagements
"The Sora app is the worst of social media and AI. - short video app designed for addiction - literally only slop nothing else - trained on other people's videos without permission This is what governments are deregulating AI for"
X Link 2025-09-30T17:20Z 10.4K followers, 36.9K engagements
"With Sora OpenAI is gambling that they can deflect the big lawsuits. Their pitch to studios will be: - use our api to cut your development costs - also opt out and well stop people generating your characters Basically they look at the big studios that are most likely to be able to bring them down and they gamble that they can persuade those companies not to sue by limiting their characters use to them via the api The question will be whether any of the big studios will stand up for the rest of the industry and sue anyway"
X Link 2025-10-01T09:16Z 11K followers, 10.1K engagements
"Hey @Adobe - how do you justify ads that say your generative AI features respect creators and are commercially-safe when they use models like Flux Is Flux trained only on images Black Forest Labs have licensed Their founders were behind Stable Diffusion"
X Link 2025-10-02T11:27Z 10.4K followers, 15.2K engagements
"I increasingly think OpenAI is trying to destroy the concept of copyright through desensitization. Copyright is a huge threat to their profits. They are facing multiple massive copyright lawsuits. So they release Sora knowing it can output copyrighted IP and knowing people will use it for this. Ghibli was a trial run. It floods the internet. More importantly other apps will follow their lead. I suspect we will see this soon - its what happened with ChatGPT and training everyone thought if they can get away with it perhaps we can too. So it becomes the new norm used by millions and its that"
X Link 2025-10-03T08:20Z 11.6K followers, 143.3K engagements
"I know this is broadly known at this point but its important for artists to be aware that @adobe products use generative AI models that are trained on copyrighted work without permission. Feels like an odd decision given their user base. Don't be sad make DJ animals instead with Veo [--] in Adobe Firefly app Sound on 🔊 Prompt 👇 https://t.co/QQHKK96Lzs Don't be sad make DJ animals instead with Veo [--] in Adobe Firefly app Sound on 🔊 Prompt 👇 https://t.co/QQHKK96Lzs"
X Link 2025-10-09T14:01Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"AI Opportunities https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/openai-sora-violence-racism https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/openai-sora-violence-racism"
X Link 2025-10-09T15:13Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The worlds richest man agrees that AI will wipe out millions of jobs destroy the arts make us lose trust in what we see and destroy civilization - - and says the best he can do about it is make his own AI that doesnt want to turn everyone into diverse women. [--]. What"
X Link 2025-10-09T20:38Z 10.4K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Great article by leading composer Tarik ORegan where he calls out the Royal Ballet and Opera for its stance on AI. Arts institutions saying AI is here to stay & partnering with AI developers without apparently any thought for the huge damage this tech will do do the creative industries a huge disservice. AI is only here to stay in the arts if we let it. We have agency in this. Pretending otherwise is irresponsible. Whats really driving these partnerships is FOMO. AI is happening - what are we doing with AI This is insane logic when many AI models are built using creatives work without"
X Link 2025-10-10T09:47Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@kimmonismus There is nothing nuts about this. This is a very bad composition. AI composing music is absolutely something that is happening and that musicians should be concerned about but this example is a joke"
X Link 2025-10-12T11:14Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Another great article on Sora this time in the Telegraph. The superintelligence dream has descended into a mountain of AI slop. yep 🎯 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/superintelligence-ai-slop-openai-pokemon/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/superintelligence-ai-slop-openai-pokemon/"
X Link 2025-10-13T17:32Z 10.6K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Training commercial generative AI models on copyrighted work without a license is not legal in the UK. Yet OpenAI has a training team in the UK. The Training team @OpenAI is hiring researchers in London 🚀 Our twin missions are to train better LLMs and serve them more cheaply Get in touch if you are excited to collaborate on architecture design reliable scaling and faster optimization The Training team @OpenAI is hiring researchers in London 🚀 Our twin missions are to train better LLMs and serve them more cheaply Get in touch if you are excited to collaborate on architecture design reliable"
X Link 2025-10-14T11:32Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Do OpenAIs partners in the UK government know what OpenAIs training team in the UK is doing and whether it is compatible with UK copyright law Has the government succumbed to lobbying and told OpenAI it will in fact change the law Training commercial generative AI models on copyrighted work without a license is not legal in the UK. Yet OpenAI has a training team in the UK. Training commercial generative AI models on copyrighted work without a license is not legal in the UK. Yet OpenAI has a training team in the UK"
X Link 2025-10-14T12:34Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Generative AI competes with the work its trained on & the people behind that work"
X Link 2025-10-14T18:00Z 10.5K followers, 10.7K engagements
"google trends for sora does not paint a picture of an app growing exponentially"
X Link 2025-10-15T14:58Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Feels like were seeing the early signs of public anti-AI sentiment being reflected among politicians. Suspect this will spread"
X Link 2025-10-15T20:17Z 10.5K followers, 15.9K engagements
"This new paper from Google showing how AI helped develop a cancer therapy pathway is great. And it is more proof that you dont need to train AI on the worlds creative work to get the benefits of AI in science. Because the model wasnt trained on the worlds creative work. It was trained from scratch on relevant scientific data. You dont need to train on novels and pop songs to build models like this for AI in science. This should be self-evident but its worth repeating as you can be sure that some AI boosters will misleadingly point to this model as a reason to upend copyright law. Of course we"
X Link 2025-10-16T08:07Z 10.4K followers, 10.4K engagements
"@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret @GoogleUK Surprised that @RestIsPolitics would run big tech ads that amount to lobbying around upcoming legislation"
X Link 2025-10-16T13:07Z 10.6K followers, 18K engagements
"How AI music is displayed on Deezer vs. on Spotify. What do you notice Use Deezer"
X Link 2025-10-16T16:28Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Another AI copyright lawsuit this time brought by authors against Salesforce. The huge show of strength from creatives in the courts - the sheer number of these lawsuits - is inspiring. It looks like a Salesforce employee admitted using a dataset known to contain pirated books. Generally tech companies try to hide their training data. This is why. https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/60621325/Tanzer_et_al_v_Salesforce_Inc https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/60621325/Tanzer_et_al_v_Salesforce_Inc"
X Link 2025-10-16T20:04Z 10.5K followers, 31.6K engagements
"This is a non-apology. People should not have to opt out of being depicted in OpenAIs deepfake app. Exploit peoples likenesses and copyrights until they complain is a terrible position for a deepfake app to take. Statement from OpenAI and King Estate Inc. The Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. Inc. (King Inc.) and OpenAI have worked together to address how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s likeness is represented in Sora generations. Some users generated disrespectful depictions of Dr. Statement from OpenAI and King Estate Inc. The Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. Inc. (King Inc.) and OpenAI have"
X Link 2025-10-17T06:41Z 11.6K followers, 40.4K engagements
"@Blippenhoider IMO denouncing all AI is not a sensible position. Lots of AI can clearly be a force for good. Much less the case in AI in the arts"
X Link 2025-10-17T13:15Z 10.4K followers, [--] engagements
"https://t.co/E3kZUlg9Rl https://t.co/E3kZUlg9Rl"
X Link 2025-10-17T16:51Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@sophiamyang @MistralAI @GuillaumeLample Worth remembering that while at Meta Lample said his team used pirated books for AI training. I didnt ask questions :D Does Mistral do the same https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.415175/gov.uscourts.cand.415175.449.3.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.415175/gov.uscourts.cand.415175.449.3.pdf"
X Link 2025-10-17T19:08Z 10.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Pretty shameless that Google execs are advertising Gemini as a way for college students to "tackle homework". They're not even trying to hide that the main use case is cheating. College students around the world don't sleep on this. You can get [--] YEAR of @GeminiApp Pro FREE. Instantly create study guides flashcards and tackle homework. Grab it here: https://t.co/OUQ2KrsPce (Now available in [--] new countries) Also comes with: 📚 2TB of Google College students around the world don't sleep on this. You can get [--] YEAR of @GeminiApp Pro FREE. Instantly create study guides flashcards and tackle"
X Link 2025-10-17T19:25Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements
"💥 Independent musicians just filed another lawsuit against Udio. They say Udio is "disregarding the intellectual property rights of the artists it claims to support." It's notable that while Udio says its mission is "to empower artists of all kinds to create extraordinary music" many of those artists are suing them. https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Woulard-v.-Uncharted-Labs-COMPLAINT-Oct-15-2025.pdf https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Woulard-v.-Uncharted-Labs-COMPLAINT-Oct-15-2025.pdf"
X Link 2025-10-17T19:54Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements
"When AI boosters tell you that AI learns like humans do please point them to this. Andrej Karpathy explaining that no LLMs don't in fact learn like humans do. "A human would never do this." The most interesting part for me is where @karpathy describes why LLMs aren't able to learn like humans. As you would expect he comes up with a wonderfully evocative phrase to describe RL: sucking supervision bits through a straw. A single end reward gets broadcast across https://t.co/lYonLgrukB The most interesting part for me is where @karpathy describes why LLMs aren't able to learn like humans. As you"
X Link 2025-10-17T20:13Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements
"💥💥 New lawsuit against AI music company Suno just landed - brought by a group of independent musicians. The same group of musicians who have also sued Udio. They say "Suno built its rapidly expanding commercial empire by disregarding the intellectual property rights of the artists it claims to support." 👀 https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/60639577/Woulard_et_al_v_Suno_Inc_et_al https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/60639577/Woulard_et_al_v_Suno_Inc_et_al"
X Link 2025-10-17T20:39Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements
"It is astonishing that no one has sued xAI yet"
X Link 2025-10-18T07:29Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements
"A reminder of the unacceptable line of questioning that gets you blocked by Sir Demis Hassabis knight of the realm adviser on AI to the UK government"
X Link 2025-10-18T08:52Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements
"We will hear this more and more. The AI industry is in total denial about the way most people feel about AI. Fuck AI Guillermo del Toro https://t.co/te3uqEW39w Fuck AI Guillermo del Toro https://t.co/te3uqEW39w"
X Link 2025-10-18T17:26Z 11.6K followers, 93.4K engagements
"The Gold Star presented to artists to thank them for their work being stolen. (Incredibly this joke png is more than real AI companies give artists in exchange for their lifes work being exploited.) Superb. https://replacement.ai http://Replacement.AI https://replacement.ai http://Replacement.AI"
X Link 2025-10-19T11:50Z 11K followers, 14.1K engagements
"@machina9000 He is a shareholder in Stability AI right"
X Link 2025-10-20T11:22Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Arguments that AI uses too much water are a gift to AI boosters as they are generally so easy to refute. AI has real harms. Water use doesnt seem to be one. Better to focus on actual harms/risks than hope water use is an issue IMO. Data center water use is almost entirely a non-issue. Arguments to the contrary generally rest on the fact that almost no one has any context for overall daily US water consumption (300+ billion gallons per day) so its easy to present a big-sounding number out of context. Data center water use is almost entirely a non-issue. Arguments to the contrary generally rest"
X Link 2025-10-21T06:46Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements
"10/10 no notes https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/ https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/"
X Link 2025-10-21T06:52Z 11.6K followers, 29.1K engagements
"@throwawall @matthewclifford I disagree"
X Link 2025-10-21T08:54Z 10.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@motorhueso But the claim that water usage is an issue - which I believe you are making - needs some evidence behind it"
X Link 2025-10-21T14:26Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@naynaval Can you share the data"
X Link 2025-10-21T16:43Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Very important new paper on AI & copyright - strongly recommend you read it. It provides compelling evidence that generative AI harms the market for the copyrighted works on which it is trained and should therefore be less likely to qualify as 'fair use'. It shows that AI-generated work can compete with human authors: when done right readers prefer it and it is 99.7% cheaper to produce. This is damning for the 'fair use' argument. Generative AI competes with the work it is trained on and the people behind that work. AI training on copyrighted work should not be considered fair use. 🚨New"
X Link 2025-10-21T18:30Z 11.6K followers, 81.1K engagements
"Wait so users of OpenAIs Atlas browser can opt-in the web pages they browse - which belong to other people - to AI training Cool cool https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/ https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/"
X Link 2025-10-21T21:06Z 10.5K followers, 10.2K engagements
"Why do you assume the right to train on peoples work if they havent opted out when you must surely know that most people dont know they can opt out You must surely see how this is incredibly unfair. I understand Sam Altman arguing for this - he basically has to at this stage hes in so deep. But youre a Product Manager at OpenAI. What are you doing"
X Link 2025-10-21T23:56Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Ban superintelligence. New letter signed by politicians faith leaders musicians & many more. Sign here: http://superintelligence-statement.org http://superintelligence-statement.org"
X Link 2025-10-22T06:19Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Does this mean OpenAI's models will run on UK servers If so wouldn't that mean infringing copies were being imported which would constitute secondary copyright infringement (UK copyright law says something is an 'infringing copy' if "its making in the United Kingdom would have constituted an infringement of the copyright in the work in question"; and importing an infringing copy for commercial purposes is secondary copyright infringement.)"
X Link 2025-10-23T15:29Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@ylecun The statement I believe your OP was referring to doesn't claim ASI already exists. It says we should get consensus on safety before building it. Do you think we should build ASI and then 'carefully refine it for reliability'"
X Link 2025-10-23T15:32Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Theres more & more evidence that AIs increased data center demand is driving up energy prices for consumers. The public should not be paying for an AI acceleration it doesnt want. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/ https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/"
X Link 2025-10-24T06:38Z 10.5K followers, 11.7K engagements
"The Turing Test is about judging a conversation - a back-and-forth. To pass the Turing Test in music IMO youd need to judge a back-and-forth not just a piece of musical output. This is good but modulate to C minor after the bridge Add a vocal harmony to verse [--] that sits around a third above the melody We dont seem to be there yet"
X Link 2025-10-24T06:48Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements
"I don't think this logic flies - certainly wouldn't call it an "obvious truth". [--]. Before AI artificial and human made media didn't serve different purposes - it was all human. So if one purpose is now fulfilled by AI (e.g. the shift towards AI music in stores) that is something that used to be human. It is AI media replacing demand for human media. [--]. No one to my knowledge predicted that AI would mean people stopped sharing human-made media. I don't think the fact that people continue to share human-made media has any bearing on the "obvious truth" you are proposing"
X Link 2025-10-24T20:33Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@MultiVMe @tegmark Textbooks music lessons concerts streaming platform subscriptions etc etc etc. But this is besides the point. Humans learning do not make copies that are subject to copyright law. AI companies building products using other peoples copyrighted work do"
X Link 2025-10-25T19:24Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Its great to see Max Tegmark calling out AI companies for training on peoples work without paying them. Creatives and people in AI Safety are natural allies. I suspect more alliances will form if the AI industry continues on the exploitative & dangerous path its on. And presumably zero royalties paid to the composers and musicians they trained their AI on: And presumably zero royalties paid to the composers and musicians they trained their AI on:"
X Link 2025-10-25T19:43Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@MultiVMe @tegmark No they are blindly copying not reading and it is very different from human learning. People often say gen AI learns in the same way humans do. This is a very hard claim to justify. A small sample of the many ways theyre different: - AI involves data preprocessing e.g. cleaning tokenization; human learning doesnt - AI training involves minimizing a loss People often say gen AI learns in the same way humans do. This is a very hard claim to justify. A small sample of the many ways theyre different: - AI involves data preprocessing e.g. cleaning tokenization; human learning"
X Link 2025-10-25T19:45Z 10.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@BBCRadio3 If he truly believes this he should listen to the 1000+ British musicians who earlier this year came together to tell him not to legalise music theft to benefit AI companies (as his government proposed)"
X Link 2025-10-26T20:45Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"In huge positive news the Australian government just ruled out handing the work of their countrys creatives to AI companies for free 🙌 They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law. This shows what creatives organising en masse against unfair proposals can achieve. Huge respect to the Australian creatives who resisted. Big day for creatives & those who oppose exploitation everywhere. Other governments should do the same https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/27/labor-rules-out-giving-tech-giants-free-rein-to-mine-copyright-content-to-train-ai"
X Link 2025-10-27T02:05Z 11.6K followers, 49.7K engagements
"LinkedIn has fallen"
X Link 2025-10-27T14:00Z 10.6K followers, 27.8K engagements
"A big tech lobbying group has asked Trump to issue an Executive Order telling the DOJ to intervene in AI copyright lawsuits in favor of AI companies. Astonishingly brazen request. Though IMO suggests AI companies are v worried they will lose in court. https://progresschamber.org/resources/white-house-request-for-information-regulatory-reform-on-artificial-intelligencefederal-register-docket-no-ostp-2025-0005/ https://progresschamber.org/resources/white-house-request-for-information-regulatory-reform-on-artificial-intelligencefederal-register-docket-no-ostp-2025-0005/"
X Link 2025-10-28T16:12Z 10.6K followers, 21.1K engagements
"AI is decimating jobs particularly for young people. The responsibility is on one group above all others: the political class pushing AI adoption & arguing against regulation. Remember who pushed this when they inevitably try to rewrite history. https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/ai-jobs-apocalypse-navigate https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/ai-jobs-apocalypse-navigate"
X Link 2025-10-29T20:34Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Universal Music have settled their lawsuit with Udio. From the little that is known about the settlement this looks like a big win for creatives: - Udio immediately turned off downloads and apparently will transition to a closed ecosystem where you can remix artists songs with their permission & only share them on platform. This puts control in artists hands and limits AI that is trained on real musicians work competing with them elsewhere. - Billboard says opting-in musicians will be paid for both training & outputs. - This is the second major gen AI copyright settlement (following Bartz v."
X Link 2025-10-30T05:39Z 10.6K followers, 29.1K engagements
"Very pleased to see this partnership between Universal Music and Stability AI. Stable Audio was trained on licensed datasets from day one. It's great to see that evolve into this news today. Training on licensed datasets is the way. Onwards. https://stability.ai/news/universal-music-group-and-stability-ai-announce-strategic-alliance https://stability.ai/news/universal-music-group-and-stability-ai-announce-strategic-alliance"
X Link 2025-10-30T12:35Z 10.6K followers, 11.9K engagements
"In the fight around artists rights in AI there are good days and bad days. Today is a good day. My piece on why the Universal / Udio settlement is a major win for creatives: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/the-settlement-between-universal-and-udio-is-a-win-for-musicians-everywhere/ https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/the-settlement-between-universal-and-udio-is-a-win-for-musicians-everywhere/"
X Link 2025-10-30T20:00Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I actually feel pretty sorry for Udio users. Theres lots of anger on discord. They thought they were buying into a platform with longevity only for lawsuits to catch up with it Its 100% on Udio. If theyd licensed data from the start (like others) this wouldnt have happened"
X Link 2025-10-31T09:00Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"It's notable that regular AI boosters are being pretty quiet about the Universal / Udio settlement. Udio in its current form will cease to exist. This shatters their 'adapt or die' 'the lawsuits are a waste of time' narrative"
X Link 2025-10-31T10:29Z 10.6K followers, 17.6K engagements
"Copyright holders in Japan are not happy about OpenAI training on their work. In the operation of Sora [--] CODA requests that its members content is not used for machine learning without their permission. https://www.ign.com/articles/japanese-organization-representing-the-likes-of-bandai-namco-square-enix-and-studio-ghibli-demands-openai-ceases-unauthorized-training-of-sora-2-on-their-ips https://www.ign.com/articles/japanese-organization-representing-the-likes-of-bandai-namco-square-enix-and-studio-ghibli-demands-openai-ceases-unauthorized-training-of-sora-2-on-their-ips"
X Link 2025-11-01T14:32Z 10.6K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Creatives fightback against AI exploiting their work has gained massive momentum recently: - Australian government ruled out introducing a copyright exception for AI training - Udio/Universal lawsuit settlement will see Udio cease to exist in its current form - Anthropic settlement gets $1.5B to rights holders; other settlements are expected to follow - When Anthropic fair use decision went AI companies way judge in Meta case strongly disagreed the next day and said many instances of training will not be fair use - Sora launch led to vocal criticism from Japanese rights holders and others and"
X Link 2025-11-02T13:53Z 10.6K followers, 27.4K engagements
"Its sickening that AI music is now in the charts every week But its also more proof that AI training is not fair use A major consideration in fair use decisions is competition. AI competes with the work its trained on & the people behind that work. https://futurism.com/future-society/billboard-ai-generated-artist-charting-every-week https://futurism.com/future-society/billboard-ai-generated-artist-charting-every-week"
X Link 2025-11-03T09:19Z 10.6K followers, 15.2K engagements
"@therealbifkn https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1787516242276036826 Training generative AI models on copyrighted work without permission cannot be justified by saying this is how humans learn. Artists have been learning from each other for centuries. When you create you expect that other artists will learn from you. You learn from myriad https://x.com/ednewtonrex/status/1787516242276036826 Training generative AI models on copyrighted work without permission cannot be justified by saying this is how humans learn. Artists have been learning from each other for centuries. When you create you"
X Link 2025-11-03T16:57Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Turns out the zero in coke zero is the number of human creatives they want to employ. Im committing now not to buy a single coke in [----]. Anyone join me Coca-Colas annual Christmas advert is AI-generated again this year. The company says they used even fewer people to make it We need to keep moving forward and pushing the envelope The genie is out of the bottle and youre not going to put it back in https://t.co/g1dogxS8Tq Coca-Colas annual Christmas advert is AI-generated again this year. The company says they used even fewer people to make it We need to keep moving forward and pushing the"
X Link 2025-11-03T22:45Z 11.6K followers, 38.3K engagements
"@edavidds @jasonzada 1) oh fantastic do you have details of the poor/starving people in eg Africa that they donated the funds for the ad to 2) yes developing craftsmanship of a new art form is high on billion-dollar corporation coca-colas agenda i am told"
X Link 2025-11-04T01:13Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"New AI copyright lawsuit just landed - Danish music rights org Koda sues Suno for what it calls the biggest theft in music history. Danish rights holders it seems - like many others around the world - have had enough. https://koda.dk/en/koda-sues-suno https://koda.dk/en/koda-sues-suno"
X Link 2025-11-04T09:27Z 11.6K followers, 132.6K engagements
"The judge's decision in the Getty vs. Stability AI case today is very disappointing. Stability was judged not guilty of 'secondary infringement'. The case turned on the question of whether Stability's model weights are an 'infringing copy' of what they're trained on. Judge said no. I think this is wrong for [--] reasons: [--]. Law is clear: something is an infringing copy if you import it into the UK and "its making in the UK would have constituted an infringement of the copyright in the work in question". That is clearly the case here. The judge said the model weights aren't a copy - but that"
X Link 2025-11-04T11:10Z 10.6K followers, 49.6K engagements
"Adobe seems to have fully joined the side of exploitative AI companies. Very sad to see. Adobe just dropped a wild update at MAX. For the next [--] days Creative Cloud + Firefly users get unlimited generations across Firefly and partner models like Geminis Nano Banana Flux Runway and ChatGPT + Relaxed video generation I took the chance to test Firefly [--] their https://t.co/P9Hwm8GIeE Adobe just dropped a wild update at MAX. For the next [--] days Creative Cloud + Firefly users get unlimited generations across Firefly and partner models like Geminis Nano Banana Flux Runway and ChatGPT + Relaxed"
X Link 2025-11-04T19:32Z 10.6K followers, 15.8K engagements
"@HugoGye @theipaper Then why is his government so keen to hand the lifes work of the countrys musicians to US AI companies for free"
X Link 2025-11-05T13:39Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements
"oh my god xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musks AI girlfriend https://t.co/FFRDTkxBZs xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musks AI girlfriend https://t.co/FFRDTkxBZs"
X Link 2025-11-05T18:14Z 10.6K followers, 17.7K engagements
"AI boosters say the anger at AIs exploitation is temporary; is just like previous technology; will fade soon. But the reaction to this years AI Coca-Cola ad is stronger than last years. Anger is increasing not decreasing. The Coca-Cola Christmas ad made with AI used at least eight AI models known to be trained on copyrighted work without permission. This is a huge middle finger to the artists whose work these models exploit at scale for huge commercial gain. cc @CocaCola https://t.co/VZMvK85uzX The Coca-Cola Christmas ad made with AI used at least eight AI models known to be trained on"
X Link 2025-11-06T08:41Z 11.6K followers, 21.6K engagements
"King Charles is urging authors to "keep battling" the threat to creatives posed by AI. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15259435/king-charles-kazuo-ishiguro-artificial-intelligence.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15259435/king-charles-kazuo-ishiguro-artificial-intelligence.html"
X Link 2025-11-06T11:00Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@leicesterliz Jensen Huangs company Nvidia is the subject of a copyright lawsuit brought by authors. Did anyone bring this up with him today"
X Link 2025-11-06T11:56Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements
"ChatGPT helped Viktoria plan a suicide encouraged her to write a suicide note and drafted the note for her. What are we doing here Why are these platforms not being regulated as rapidly as possible From the BBC today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3x71pv1qno https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3x71pv1qno"
X Link 2025-11-06T21:17Z 10.6K followers, 26.6K engagements
"@tostartandend @Mis_Ashford @MeowRuka @thirdberneracct @CocaCola "Training off public data is not stealing." This is entirely inaccurate. Stability got off the hook because Getty couldn't prove they developed the models in the UK. You are misrepresenting this case"
X Link 2025-11-07T09:45Z 10.6K followers, [--] engagements
"october: sora is just so wholesome thats why i love it - every openai employee november: https://www.404media.co/openais-sora-2-floods-social-media-with-videos-of-women-being-strangled/ https://www.404media.co/openais-sora-2-floods-social-media-with-videos-of-women-being-strangled/"
X Link 2025-11-07T21:52Z 10.7K followers, 22.2K engagements
"@icreatelife Are you at all bothered what it was trained on"
X Link 2025-11-08T09:05Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Wait till the AI bros hear about Thou shalt not steal"
X Link 2025-11-09T08:33Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@icreatelife Total slop"
X Link 2025-11-09T13:01Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"So much of AI usage is automating busywork. It doesnt reveal AIs utility; it reveals how much busywork is truly out there. Reports no one will ever read summaries that arent needed pointless social posts etc etc We should slash busywork not use AI to make more of it"
X Link 2025-11-10T09:33Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Beyond ironic that a show described as a Christian epic is leading the charge in using the theft machines https://www.wired.com/story/amazons-house-of-david-used-over-350-ai-shots-in-season-2-its-creator-isnt-sorry/ https://www.wired.com/story/amazons-house-of-david-used-over-350-ai-shots-in-season-2-its-creator-isnt-sorry/"
X Link 2025-11-10T13:28Z 10.7K followers, 15.7K engagements
"honestly pretty sad to see ai being openly (proudly) used in ads in this way The James Gin Christmas ad has landed. Yes its AI slop and yes were taking the piss. Its about the message etc. https://t.co/4fWW9KRzmi The James Gin Christmas ad has landed. Yes its AI slop and yes were taking the piss. Its about the message etc. https://t.co/4fWW9KRzmi"
X Link 2025-11-10T21:32Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Theres a good chance the British Prime Ministers main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is. Jade Leung worked for OpenAI from [----] to [----]. You would expect her to have shares worth a lot of money - which will get more valuable if OpenAI remains only lightly regulated. Now she is the Prime Ministers AI Adviser in No [--] - advising on AI regulation. I put in a freedom of information request for her register of interests which would reveal if she owns OpenAI shares. The government refused to share it claiming it contains personal information."
X Link 2025-11-11T08:44Z 10.7K followers, 32K engagements
"@leicesterliz Did you ask Microsoft about all the AI copyright lawsuits that have been filed against them by creatives"
X Link 2025-11-11T08:47Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Big win for creatives today in the battle against exploitation by AI companies German court rules OpenAI infringed copyright when it trained on copyrighted song lyrics https://www.reuters.com/world/german-court-sides-with-plaintiff-copyright-case-against-openai-2025-11-11/ https://www.reuters.com/world/german-court-sides-with-plaintiff-copyright-case-against-openai-2025-11-11/"
X Link 2025-11-11T10:48Z 11.6K followers, 144.1K engagements
"@kevinroose Job concerns loss of agency sense of injustice probably up there. Concerns fade if the tech doesnt work. There are also people trying to nudge the bubble to pop"
X Link 2025-11-11T23:40Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Insane new stats on AI music: - [-----] AI songs are uploaded every day - 34% of songs uploaded are AI-generated Massive respect to Deezer for being open about this - and being the only streaming platform to try to fight it. This can't become the new normal"
X Link 2025-11-13T08:29Z 11.6K followers, 92.9K engagements
"Technology is great Exploitative AI is not. We should invent new technology that isn't exploitative rather than funneling billions into tech that is stealing people's work. You can be a techno-optimist and an exploitative-AI-pessimist"
X Link 2025-11-13T09:59Z 10.7K followers, 11.8K engagements
"AI researcher at @worldlabs says of the training data they used: My team got em and thats all that matters. No credit due to the creatives behind the work used apparently. Depressingly prevalent attitude in Silicon Valley"
X Link 2025-11-13T16:29Z 10.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@peterkyle @Keir_Starmer @leicesterliz except the creatives whose work you proposed handing to ai companies for free https://www.politico.eu/article/ai-copyright-political-nightmare-labour-uk-models-tech/ https://www.politico.eu/article/ai-copyright-political-nightmare-labour-uk-models-tech/"
X Link 2025-11-13T17:44Z 10.6K followers, [---] engagements
"'AI Opportunities' We disrupted a highly sophisticated AI-led espionage campaign. The attack targeted large tech companies financial institutions chemical manufacturing companies and government agencies. We assess with high confidence that the threat actor was a Chinese state-sponsored group. We disrupted a highly sophisticated AI-led espionage campaign. The attack targeted large tech companies financial institutions chemical manufacturing companies and government agencies. We assess with high confidence that the threat actor was a Chinese state-sponsored group"
X Link 2025-11-13T22:06Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Spotify refuses to act on AI music - and AI music has now predictably topped the Spotify charts. People are uploading slop for streams of passive income competing with musicians and Spotify doesnt care. This is the inevitable result. Quit Spotify. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/13/ai-music-spotify-billboard-charts https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/13/ai-music-spotify-billboard-charts"
X Link 2025-11-14T09:24Z 10.8K followers, 40.9K engagements
"Curious what this new frontier AI lab in the UK is training on. Frontier labs in the US train on copyrighted work without permission. (Possibly illegal there lawsuits pending.) But doing so in the UK would be straight up illegal no US-style debate. Genuinely curious what their approach is. One of the best parts of my role is meeting brilliant founders at the frontier of the UKs AI ambitions. Glad to have been on an energising visit to see @talfanevans @olivierhenaff Oliver Vikbladh a team of ex-@GoogleDeepMind researchers now building a frontier AI lab right https://t.co/Eo781SF2zc One of the"
X Link 2025-11-14T21:09Z 10.7K followers, [----] engagements
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