tldr: the issue is that damaging open source is enormously damaging to safety and security. This has been true of much of computer security, but it's doubly so for AI, and doubly important. Since AI is potentially dangerous, we shouldn't make it a rivalrous source of power.
POLICY
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Lessig’s AI Policy Competence Questioned by Expert Critics
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The issue is that @lessig is very very new to AI and doesn't understand it at all. He understands many things extremely well and has often had extremely good policy recommendations about those things. But on AI he's not competent, but for some reason has strong opinions anyway.
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Executive Email Hacking Case: Trading Fraud Charges Filed
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guessing this guy could have made more money selling these draft earnings call scripts he got by hacking into executives' inboxes instead of placing trades and keeping the files to himself https://
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GPL and Open Source Law: East Coast vs West Coast Code Philosophy
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He taught my open source law class at Stanford and was my advisor for a paper I wrote on the GPL. I wonder if this comes down to his distinction between east coast vs west coast "code".
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AI Legal Cases: Saveri Handles Major US Class-Action Suits
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I didn't look carefully which tweet you replied to. The one for the criminal case in Europe is not them, no. Saveri is handling almost all class-actions suits in the U.S.
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American AI giants restrict latest advancements in Europe due to regulation
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OpenAI, Meta, Apple—all these American giants have announced that their latest AI advancements will not be available in Europe. We're talking in particular about the pressure from European regulation and the instability tied to technological issues on the Old Continent. But
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Power Politics and Economic Forces Shaping AI’s Future
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Power, people & politics – central forces behind OpenAI’s news from this week. My @ftweekend lunch w/Signal’s mer__edith addresses these exact themes: the economic forces that shape AI’s impact, power of workers & the need for alternative models of tech.
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AI Training Data Regulation and Legal Compliance Issues
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They are subject to that regulation by virtue of having trained on people's data, so simply withholding the models/services is extortion.
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EU Compliance Gaps in Big Tech Regulation Debate
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It has nothing to do with homogeneity within EU nations, but compliance at the top-level that's unambiguously completely missing. What specific regulations? (To me it seems you're regurgitating the argument of Big Tech without having thought about it.)
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US Tech Monopolies Exploit EU Regulation Gaps for Profit
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"AI not available in the EU" is not a sign of regulation problems. It simply reflects of U.S.-style capitalist Trusts extorting — as they always do — people out of their rights for profit (e.g. privacy rights, property rights, publicity rights). 135 years later, still the same: