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As we understand things, punitive damages could be large. As mentioned before, sources have recently reported that Midjourney may have deliberately created an immense list of artists on which to train, perhaps without licensing or compensation. Given how close the current software seems to come to source materials, it’s not hard to envision a class action lawsuit.
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem
Gary Marcus
Today the FBI-run center is chewing on National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), Trump’s sweeping policy directive that formally directs the national security state to root out left-wing political violence by monitoring so-called indicators of violence, like “anti-Christianity,” “anti-capitalism” and “anti-Americanism,” as [I’ve reported](https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs).
Though the text of NSPM-7 is public, the Threat Screening Center’s watchlisting process is a black hole. Even the criteria for how people end up on it is secret.
Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7
Ken Klippenstein
Facebook is a company that was founded to nonconsensually rate the fuckability of Harvard undergrads, and it only got worse after that.
An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse
Cory Doctorow
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