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Episode Synopsis
Community organizers contend with increasingly sophisticated “A.I.” spam, while the jury is still out regarding the legality and morality of LLM training on authors’ content.
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Adam Johnson
Django pushes back on generative software slop
https://fosstodon.org/@nessita/114749992891235952
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19594
https://socket.dev/blog/django-joins-curl-in-pushing-back-on-ai-slop-security-reports
Will generative spam overwhelm forums and the Fediverse?
Dark forest theory of the Internet
Judge Rules Training AI on Authors’ Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not
Thompson Reuters wins case against competitor who illegally scraped its works to train AI
Amazon licenses content from NYT on which to train its generative software
Cloudflare AI Labyrinth
Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
LoFi Radio
Medieval LoFi Radio
Synthwave LoFi Radio
Adam Johnson
Django pushes back on generative software slop
https://fosstodon.org/@nessita/114749992891235952
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19594
https://socket.dev/blog/django-joins-curl-in-pushing-back-on-ai-slop-security-reports
Will generative spam overwhelm forums and the Fediverse?
Dark forest theory of the Internet
Judge Rules Training AI on Authors’ Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not
Thompson Reuters wins case against competitor who illegally scraped its works to train AI
Amazon licenses content from NYT on which to train its generative software
Cloudflare AI Labyrinth
Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
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