Adi Robertson
Senior Editor, Tech & Policy
Senior Editor, Tech & Policy
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Why is the founder of Creative Commons pushing to let AIs patent inventions?
If you follow intellectual property policy, you may have seen the somewhat surprising news that longtime IP reformist Larry Lessig has come out in favor of letting AIs be awarded patents. Patent expert Matthew Lane makes an opposing case:
We are already seeing this flood of content from AI text and art generators, and it should be pretty easy to train an AI model on a body of research and ask it to spit out patent applications. If those applications could be filed with little human intervention, then well-resourced patent filers could quickly and easily crowd out entire fields.
You can find some excellent context from Mike Masnick at Techdirt, too.
No, AI should not be an inventor
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Behold, the Cyberthreatarator.
Forget Fancy Bear, what about Tomb Dinosaur or Sequential Louse? Give your hacking group a name with Sophos threat researcher Sean Gallagher’s handy generator.
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Dark and Darker gets curiouser and curiouser.
The Dark and Darker saga — a remarkably intense fight over whether an indie developer team stole ideas from their former employer in Korea — has reached the US court system with a lawsuit. As you might spot below, the allegations tread a fine line between actual intellectual property theft and simply copying ideas... so I hope a judge is ready to look at lots of video game concept art.
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Supreme Court stops the clock on an abortion pill rollback for five more days.
It’s been a long week after Texas and Washington issued conflicting rulings on the abortion-facilitating pill mifepristone, and the Supreme Court is offering a brief time-out while it considers the next move.
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Abortion is under threat — and so is posting about it.
Wired has a good story about Texas’s attempt to make ISPs block abortion-related speech — something we’ve covered in the past.
“We’ve seen over and over in different contexts that platforms are vulnerable to censorship pressure because they’re afraid of being sued,” says Pinsof. “So it’s easier to take stuff down than it is to potentially open yourself up to liability.”
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AI-generated Wes Anderson’s Lord of the Rings is a real horrorshow.
Remember the surreal beauty of Alejandro Jorodowsky’s Tron? Well, imagine the exact opposite of that. Complete with a step-by-step production guide from Vox’s Rebecca Jennings.
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The new Amnesia game’s getting a one-week delay, so you can play more Zelda before the horrors.
If you were worried about making time for Frictional’s new semi-open World War I survival horror game four days after the new Zelda installment... and two weeks after Redfall... and about three weeks after Star Wars Jedi: Survivor... then congratulations! The game has been moved back one week from May 16th to May 23rd. Now you’ve got lots of time to wrap all that up first.