So, if all four factors of “fair use” favor the record companies, why would there be bad news for copyright holders here? Because in his ruling, Judge Bibas made a point of stressing that his ruling does not apply to generative AI – which is the kind of AI that’s being sued over by the record companies and other rights holders.
“It is undisputed that Ross’s AI is not generative AI (AI that writes new content itself). Rather, when a user enters a legal question, Ross spits back relevant judicial opinions that have already been written,” the judge wrote.
“Because the AI landscape is changing rapidly, I note for readers that only non-generative AI is before me today.”
However, companies like Anthropic, Suno, and Udio use generative AI. This means the AI creates something new, if not necessarily entirely original. And that means the courts in the cases brought against generative AI could assess fair use differently from how it was assessed in the Thomson Reuters case.
Oregon cities need cash to fund their efforts, and taxes aren't cutting it. So they're resorting to fees. Which is like a sales tax. They're already collecting too much. They need to work on cutting expenses. We need DOGE in Oregon.
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A list of cognitive biases. All the ways your brain tricks you when you try to be reasonable.
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Why fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees. Being a PhD means years of living in near poverty. Hoping to get that big break, when your experiments go favorably. Then you make the lecture tours, and after that, the world forgets about you again. Back to more grant writing. While the world passes you by.
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Small cell lung cancer grows so fast. Where does it find all that energy? It turns out that it has its own energy supply. There's a unique dependency on oxidative phosphorylation in neuroendocrine cells, and cancer cell-intrinsic electrical activity. But it may be possible to shut it off, which would be great.
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Creepy. Larry Ellison wants to create a giant database with information on all Americans, including DNA information. I'm not comfortable with this. Very dystopian. Larry's getting crazier as he gets older.
Aaryan Shukla is a 14 year old Indian kid who has been breaking records for being a human calculator. He practices for 3 to 4 hours daily to keep his skills sharp. Well, whatever floats your boat, I guess.
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OHSU researchers discover a test that can be used as an early warning test for pancreatic cancer. Great! The next step would be clinical trials to make sure that it's worthwhile. And that the predictive value positive and negative values are acceptable.
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Race to the bottom. Oregon wants to make it so that you don't have to have a high school degree to get licensing board certification. The bar is so low to get a HS diploma, why do you have to lower the bar again? This diversity effort really makes it dangerous for Oregonians. Why even have a licensing board then? Milton Friedman was right.
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City of Portland still throws good money after bad. What good is having a James Beard Market when so few people feel safe going downtown. Just wait for the next anti-Trump protest, and all that glass will need to be replaced.
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Oregonian Editor in Chief Theresa Bottomly will retire in August. Maybe we'll have a real paper again, instead of that waste of newsprint that serves as advertising litter. Willamette Week as done a much better job at journalism, and for local coverage, I find myself at the website of KPTV, KGW and KOIN.
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More on that AI copyright law from yesterday. Now it appears that the judgment does not apply to GenAI. So you can't train your AI model on data that is someone's IP, but if it comes out of a GenAI, then it's too late to complain?