Adi Robertson

In today’s digital landscape, corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and malicious cyber attacks are threatening public access to our shared cultural history. The rise of streaming platforms and temporary licensing agreements means that sound recordings, books, films, and other cultural artifacts that used to be owned in physical form, are now at risk — in digital form — of disappearing from public view without ever being archived.

KUSK Law partner Don McGowan ... told Game Developer that there’s nothing illegal about keeping these purchases a secret, but that it is “fucking weird.”

A live demonstration of Google’s Vertex AI was given in which it pretended to be an “expert archivist” and was asked questions about the John F. Kennedy assassination. ... These questions included “Who killed Kennedy?” and “What was the CIA’s involvement in the assassination of Kennedy?”