Posts on AI

The Enjoyment Purpose

The enjoyment purpose. Do exceptions under the copyright laws of Japan & Singapore allow GenAI training? TLDR: Not really… The latest issue of the AI Copyright Newsletter

Feb 8, 2024 - 1 min read

Publishers, authors, has your book been used to train an AI model without your permission?

Here’s one place you can look. https://github.com/psmedia/Books3Info I’ve placed on GitHub a list of some 85,600 ISBNs extracted from the Books3 dataset that was used to train Facebook’s latest model, LLaMA, launched Feb 24th.

Mar 5, 2023 - 3 min read

The problem is not the power of the AI, it’s the power of our brains

My AI was making me angry. I had trained up a chatbot on the Character.ai website, in the personality and style of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Feb 26, 2023 - 5 min read

Good AIs copy, great AIs steal

untangling the copyright status of foundation models I presented this paper in mid-October 2022 to the annual conference of the Asian Pacific Copyright Association (the candid shot above is by Vincent Nghai; I’m the blur one!

Jan 7, 2023 - 31 min read

Foundation models and copyright

I’ve recently started a newsletter — imaginatively titled AI and Copyright, with the goal of tracking the shifting legal picture around the copyright status of the Foundation Models, including the Large Language Models (LLMs), and their cousins the image- (and video- and 3D-) generating models like DALL-E2.

Oct 30, 2022 - 3 min read

Singapore's national AI strategy takes aim at curriculum

Singapore has just announced its national AI strategy, comprising a series of ecosystem-strengthening moves, and major national projects in five key areas, one of which is right in the book publishing wheelhouse: education.

Dec 3, 2019 - 2 min read