Charles Thomson

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Scraping websites and having AI summarize them, so that no one visits the websites, is theft. Training AI on videos, so that it can make new videos that compete with them, is theft. We are witnessing the largest theft of creative work in history.

Well. Another huge nail in the coffin for websites. What I want to know is, once all the websites can't afford to keep the lights on, where is the information going to come from? Google's AI summaries require the constant theft of fresh information written by human beings.

I cannot believe - in a crowded field - that the dying vapours of a Starmer leadership are going to be chanced on asking restless backbench MPs to RESTRICT JURY TRIAL for their constituents. Will those backbench MPs be able to resist giving Lammy and Starmer their true verdict?

As James Gray’s Paper Tiger is currently in premiere at Cannes, here’s a throwback to this legendary clip. It permanently changed my perspective on the movie industry.

Ofcom only employs around 1,500 people, so it is to be congratulated for moving so swiftly—a mere six months!—to see that there might have been a problem with allowing a known fantasist to spout nonsensical falsehoods about a number of subjects without correction or interruption. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/73…

ironically, Orson Welles gave one of the best criticisms against easy to generate ai slop

It’s just gutter racism. That’s what we saw in London today. And, to make a glaringly obvious point, if pro-Palestine protesters had pulled a stunt like this about Judaism the police would storm the stage and Starmer would call a Cobra meeting.

Actually, this photo is PROOF that gullible dimwits will believe a Shakira concert in Rio is London and it will be wildly shared and liked because Musk's X is designed to encourage and reward such lies and misinformation.

I’m sorry but if you’re under any impression that AI will uplift your ability to tell stories more than it negates your validity as a filmmaker I’m inclined to never pay attention to you ever again

I'm trying to imagine Muslim kids chanting something similar about the Jewish or Christian faiths at a rally in London. The Prevent folks, counter-terrorism police, the entire British media would be all over the story, asking why Muslims are so extreme & brainwashing their kids.

A rally addressed by Zack Polanski was disrupted by Reform supporters doing Nazi salutes Absolutely no media outrage about this whatsoever. Leftwing Jews Don't Count

Georgia ADA files brief in murder case, cites fake cases generated by AI. The trial court denied the defendant's motion for a new trial, and issued an order citing the fake cases! Then, in response to his appeal, the ADA cited even more fake, AI-hallucinated cases! Unbelievable.

Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are being sued by five publishers and author Scott Turow, who allege the tech company illegally copied millions of books, articles and other works to train Meta’s AI systems. “In their effort to win the AI ‘arms race’ and build a functional generative AI model, Defendants Meta and Zuckerberg followed their well-known motto: ‘move fast and break things,'” the plaintiffs say in their lawsuit. ”They first illegally torrented millions of copyrighted books and journal articles from notorious pirate sites and downloaded unauthorized web scrapes of virtually the entire internet. They then copied those stolen fruits many times over to train Meta’s multibillion-dollar generative AI system called Llama. In doing so, Defendants engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history.” variety.com/2026/digital/n…

Cf the outrage directed at Martin Rowson or Steve Bell

A sitting judge says: Sir Stephen Mitchell is correct when he says that the restriction of jury trials will fail to cut the staggering backlog of crown court cases (“Judges are being silenced on vandalism of curbing jury trials”, Apr 26). Joanna Korner KC The Hague, Netherlands

Barrister in Palestine Action trial facing contempt of court Rajiv Menon KC accused of defying judge’s orders to not inform jury of right to acquit on basis of conscience (We’re in the “it’s illegal to tell jurors their rights” phase of democratic rule) theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

Another significant evolution in Reform's style of politics. Its proposed internment camps will only be built in parts of the country that vote for its rivals. This is a new departure for UK politics: rejecting the idea of PM-for-all and instead a new partisan style.

Weird that even the police, in their tweet, though not in the full statement itself, are just airbrushing the fact that he’s being charged with three attempted murders, not two, the third person being a Muslim man he stabbed earlier in the day

An armed robber was jailed in 2024 for holding up the Apple Store in Lakeside with a metal pole. Released in 2025, he went back and did it two more times. Ahead of his latest sentence, he told the probation service: ‘I will do it again.’ echo-news.co.uk/news/26063175.…

A meddling father has been jailed for interfering with the jury in his son’s murder trial at Basildon Crown Court. His son, John Moore, had beaten a man to death with a hammer. He was eventually convicted of manslaughter. So both are now behind bars. echo-news.co.uk/news/26050976.…