Claude is showing some resistance to being tested on memorization. claude.ai/share/603385...

A new NBER working paper by Stella Jia and Abhishek Nagaraj makes some stunning claims about the effects of pirated book corpora on large-language-model (LLM) performance. I have my doubts. matthewsag.com/piracy-proxi... #AI #Copyright #books3

This is what @United says after holding you on the tarmac for 2 1/2 hours.

Stuck at O’Hare waiting hours for united to let us off the plane. I’m beginning to question my life choices.

Always nice to be cited followed by "But that can't be right."

Hard case for midjourney

Very excited for the Fourth Annual Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence next week! matthewsag.com/emory-law-ai...

Glad to see at least some of my works made it into LibGen, makes me wonder what the best way is to opt into AI training? #Fairuse The article by Alex Reisner in the Atlantic is worth reading: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I'll be speaking at the Country Radio Seminar 2025, sponsored by the Country Radio Broadcasters, in Nashville, TN, February 21, 2025.

@nytimes.com is telling me cancel my @theathletic.bsky.social subscription (or never see the connections bot)

On April 27, 2025, I will be running the London Marathon to raise money for pancreatic cancer research.
To donate, please go to 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/matthew-sag (if you prefer to donate in your own country, let me know and I'll match with a donation to Pancreatic Cancer UK)

Had a great time at the Music and AI workshop at Brown. Learnt a lot about functional music datasets and why ML jazz improv might be hard to get right

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,240,094!