Commentary
Weekly notes engaging with recent developments in scholarship, public discourse, and practice.
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Zoom and Theoretical Privacy
The mainstream adoption of video conferencing technologies suggests a theoretical privacy crisis.
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On the Folly of SEO
In writing to be found, are we losing the things that make our writing worth finding?
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Unforgettable
AI technology is making the right to be forgotten obsolete, leaving us prisoners of our own pasts.
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A Generated Life
Skyrim, Starfield, and the risks of AI-generated content displacing human craftsmanship.
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Altman’s Moat
When Sam Altman calls for regulating AI, he is trying to build a regulatory moat, greatly raising the barriers to entry to the AI market.
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Quiet War
There may not be a coordinated AI attack on humanity. But there is a gradual shift of power.
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Project Panama and Respect for Culture
An AI model is a statistical representation of human knowledge. Building such a model on disrespect for books and authors is distasteful.
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A Lawyer, an AI, and a Monkey
A lawyer, an AI, and a monkey walk into a bar…but AI copyright is no joke.
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Anthropic is Reading Asimov
Anthropic has released a very long document they call Claude’s Constitution. I read it so you don’t have to.
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Decoding Disruption
Disruption is the misguided notion, in my view, that for the new to grow, the old must die.
