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Jacob Kastrenakes
Jacob Kastrenakes
People are already taking advantage of Steamboat Willie entering the public domain.

So far, I’ve seen:

• A couple wholesale reuploads to YouTube (one has more than 200,000 views as of this writing)

• An AI generator trained on 1928 Mickey Mouse

• Whatever this horror game is...

Jacob Kastrenakes
Jacob Kastrenakes
“Always a bad idea,”

writes US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, discussing lawyers who used AI and then cited non-existent cases.

Mostly, though, he seems pretty optimistic about how AI could make the courts and legal research more accessible:

I predict that human judges will be around for a while. But with equal confidence I predict that judicial work—particularly at the trial level—will be significantly affected by AI.

Jacob Kastrenakes
Jacob Kastrenakes
MrBeast to Elon: X is not a good video platform for creators.

Musk keeps asking creators to post their videos to X. Turns out there’s a very obvious reason why they’re not.

Jacob Kastrenakes
Jacob Kastrenakes
Meta’s dropping the price on the Quest 2.

It’s been on sale for $250 for the last two months, and now Meta is making that sale price permanent — that means you can get two of them for the price of a single (albeit much better) Quest 3. Accessories are seeing a price cut, too.