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The New York Times Gift Article includes dozens of images: “…Mr. Trump has posted A.I.-generated images or videos at least 62 times on his Truth Social account since late 2022, according to a review by The New York Times of his posts to the social network. The fake imagery has included blistering attacks on his …
Solove, Daniel J. and Hartzog, Woodrow, The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy (July 03, 2024). 113 California Law Review 1521 (2025), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4884485 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4884485 Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on massive quantities of data, often gathered by “scraping”—the automated extraction of large amounts of data from the internet. A …
(Oct. 19, 2025) – “We added Woulard v. Uncharted Labs d/b/a Udio, a case filed by independent music artists against the music generator company Uncharted Labs. This is the 3rd lawsuit against Uncharted Labs in the United States (others filed by UMG Recordings and Justice). DOWNLOAD PDF OF MAP WITH CLICKABLE LINKS TO EACH DOCKET
Can generative AI create good data visualisations? – Nicola Rennie: “This blog post compares the performance of ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini when presented with a generic request to visualise a dataset. Nicola Rennie October 8, 2025. “Generative AI tools have been around for a little while now, and they’re mostly advertised as being able …
AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers Approved by the ACRL Board of Directors, October 2025 PDF Version Knowledge & Understanding Analysis & Evaluation Use & Application Notes In July 2024, the ACRL AI Competencies for Library Workers Task Force was created to develop comprehensive AI competencies for library workers that align with the evolving needs …
Ethan Mollick: “Every few months I write an opinionated guide to how to use AI¹, but now I write it in a world where about 10% of humanity uses AI weekly. The vast majority of that use involves free AI tools, which is often fine… except when it isn’t. OpenAI recently released a breakdown of …
Vice: “About a year ago, AI began outpacing human writers on the internet. For every one article written by a real-life, blood-bag of a meat puppet, slightly more than one was written by a machine. Don’t get all twisted up about “slightly more than one” article; it’s fractions, my friends. The news was broken when …
Wired – no paywall: “Fake video walk-throughs, a magically expanding loft, and stair hallucinations are just some of the new AI-generated features house hunters are coming across As you’re hunting through real estate listings for a new home in Franklin, Tennessee, you come across a vertical video showing off expansive rooms featuring a four-poster bed, …
TechCrunch: “Following backlash over an increase in “AI slop” taking over users’ feeds, Pinterest on Thursday added new tools that let users limit how much AI-generated content they see on the platform. Users can now personalize their feeds to restrict generative AI imagery in select categories, and the company said it will make its existing …
TechSpot: “Comet browser by Perplexity is the AI browser that acts as a personal assistant. Automate tasks, research the web, organize your email, and more with Comet. Comet uses Perplexity’s search engine, optimized for fast and accurate answers. Perplexity search gives you the choice to navigate the web and check sources for original facts. Unlike …
AI in Finance an Banking October 15, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to …
Pivot to AI – It can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong: “Some AI papers have a finding so good you just want to quote it everywhere. But many turn out to be trash. They’ve got bad statistics, they’ve got bad methodology, they’re really sales pieces, or they just don’t prove their …
