Is licensing authors’ work to train AI a Faustian bargain?
What is a reasonable price for becoming an active participant in one's own obsolescence?
Shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre: University of Winnipeg professor Peter Ives re-examines core principles in his new book, Rethinking Free Speech
Ives distinguishes between the absolutism of Immanuel Kant and the more pragmatic views of John Stuart Mill.
The X factor: Two new books chronicle the battles and betrayals at the heart of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
The story is also a tragedy of one man's hubris and outsized self-importance triumphing over the greater good.
U.S. judge dismisses part of class action suit against OpenAI; orders new deadline to amend the claim
Judge Martínez-Olguín left open the unfair competition allegation.
In The Storm of Progress, media and communications expert Wade Rowland posits a way to avoid the potentially existential crises confronting us
Rowland suggests we need to re-emphasize our human predilection for moral action and goodness.
The ACP, TWUC, and others lobby government to regulate copyright in the area of generative AI
Whether the consultation will have any effect is an open question.
Breaking up is hard to do: Cory Doctorow argues for the end of corporate concentration online in his new manifesto
What really exercises Doctorow is the monopolistic power Big Tech exerts in locking users into their services by means of exorbitant switching costs.
Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay file suit against OpenAI over alleged copyright violation
The suit would also have to prove that OpenAI's langauge models are indeed "infringing derivative works."
Burnaby, B.C., writer Logan Macnair’s new novel is a scabrous and frightening satire about far-right radicalization online
Troll is not a book liable to find a wide mainstream audience.
AI will revolutionize publishing, but not in the ways people think, says Thad McIlroy. That’s still not a good thing
Bleeding the humanity out of one of the most humanist endeavours remaining in our capitalist system – all in the name of soulless efficiency – is abhorrent.