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There was a fish in the percolator
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“In the absence of any human involvement in the creation of the work, the clear and straightforward answer is the one given by the Register: No,” Howell wrote. U.S. copyright law, she underscored, “protects only works of human creation”

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AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says In Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause
A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
August 19, 2023 at 3:16 AM
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It is WILD how quickly this shit took over the Internet. I see it on Twitter all the time and search engines turn up tons of it. I guess in hindsight it couldn’t have been any other way once the technology existed but still, like what is anybody actually going to do about this now?
August 8, 2023 at 1:28 AM
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I was a grad student in the 90s when centrists were saying that we needed to engage with Charles Murray's Harlan Crow-funded pseudo-scientific racism. Now I'm in my 50s and centrists are saying we should engage with Richard Hanania's Harlan Crow-funded pseudo-scientific racism.
August 6, 2023 at 4:49 PM