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Funny, not funny. I asked Perplexity to give me a line by line breakdown of the lyrics to ⁦@kendricklamar⁩ song, then pointed out ⁦@UMG⁩ copyrights

@WillowVoiceAI terrific congratulations what will it take for you guys to respond to customer support? I’ve been a pro user for months and now I’m having problems, but I cannot get you people to respond.

We’ve reached a huge milestone for Willow today. Our newest model outperforms most competitors in zero-edit voice dictation by 2x, placing us ahead of OpenAI, Apple, Dragon, and Deepgram. The average person edits their voice transcription 3-4 times before sending. Now, Willow users can just hit send. If you haven’t used Willow Voice, try it and see how far you get without touching your keyboard. 👇

@WisprFlow can you guys please get back to me on the problems? I’m having with your app. I don’t really wanna post publicly nor give you a shitty review. I’ve sent you several emails. My email address is jd@modernfeed.com

Two huge book publishers - Hachette and Cengage - have moved to join authors & illustrators in suing Google for allegedly using their work to train AI models. They write in the complaint: "Faced with the choice between respecting intellectual property rights or competing in the AI race, Google chose to steal a massive body of content from Plaintiffs and the Class to train its AI model." It's great to see different sides of the book industry uniting to fight exploitation by AI companies. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

@pkafka @Lucas_Shaw People need to take a deep breath.Not done till its done and def not done! Wait till orange wrecking ball gets his say. This is round2…just getting started.

🚨first Channels emergency pod, for obvious reasons, with the obvious guest (⁦@Lucas_Shaw⁩ obvs) 🚨 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cha…

@Lucas_Shaw Chill pill time.We don’t know and won’t know until its done and it ain’t done till its done & soo far from the finish line.People freaking but so mismanaged, such a mess.Zas such a disaster.What did they expect?Scared shitless but whoTF knows…

The town, with video. Terrifying.

@NewsHour @MattBelloni Never. Getting. Done…yet. Orange menace has not yet brought his wrecking ball…you just wait. Big question is what happens to WBD in the two years to close this baby?

Netflix has struck a nearly $83 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros., beating out Paramount and Comcast after a bidding war. If finalized, it would unite the world’s largest streamer with one of Hollywood’s oldest studios. The move raises big questions about the future of theatrical releases and serious concerns about market concentration. @GeoffRBennett speaks to @MattBelloni for more.

@MattBelloni @craighorlbeck @Lucas_Shaw Simmer down! Sure, u gave it wacky 10% or so chance of happening, (‘twas dumb) but it’s not done & likely not gonna get done - this is just the 2nd inning (1st were the offers). ?s of what’s gonna happen with this or that, hbo? OY! 🤫 How’d we get here? Zac’s fucked up mgmt duh…

New pod: Netflix. Warners. $72 billion. What in the name of Ted Sarandos just happened!? It’s a deal so big @craighorlbeck gave the title 3 exclamation points!!! With a very special Friday appearance by @Lucas_Shaw. Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/5Nw8YF…

Steve Bannon & other US conservatives just called for the government not to make AI training fair use. “It is absurd to suggest that licensing copyrighted content is a financial hindrance to a $20 trillion industry spending hundreds of billions of dollars per year.” cdn.prod.website-files.com/65a5dbf7ffda03…

Narrator: Anthropic downloaded 7 million books that they knew were pirated.

Genuinely emotional reading this. $1.5 billion to authors, in the biggest copyright settlement in history. Big tech is not above the law. This is just the start. nytimes.com/2025/09/29/opi…

Anthropic settling this AI copyright lawsuit is a sign of the dam starting to burst. There are lots more lawsuits still going on, and almost certainly more to come. We’ll see more settlements or outright victories for creators soon. independent.co.uk/tech/anthropic…

This is big. Judge rules these authors can bring a class action lawsuit against Anthropic for their use of pirated books. Anthropic may have used up to 7 million pirated books, which means potentially billions of dollars in damages. reuters.com/legal/governme…

“Let’s just grab all the books we can for AI training, what could go wro-” chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/07/17/ant…

Elton John’s message yesterday to the UK government on AI training: “We will not back down and we will not go away quietly. This is just the beginning.” billboard.com/pro/elton-john…

If true, this is fantastic news. The government’s proposal on AI & copyright was hugely unfair to creators - it looks like they may have recognized that. theguardian.com/technology/202…

@ednewtonrex Well deserved Ed!

Very grateful to receive the 2025 Adepi Award for work in the defence and advancement of IP rights. IP rights are the lifeblood of so much of the art & invention that makes our lives immeasurably better. We will hugely regret it if we tear them up at the behest of AI company lobbyists. Thank you to the many, many people working to defend IP. It’s awesome to see so many people and industries come together. adepi.net/2025/04/26/ed-…

The judge has rejected a bunch of OpenAI’s arguments for dismissing parts of various copyright lawsuits. His key decisions: - OpenAI *can* be sued for conduct from >3 years before the lawsuits were filed, since they haven’t proved that the plaintiffs should have known about the infringement by then - OpenAI may be liable for infringing activity of their users, since it’s reasonable to think they knew about it (it was widely publicized), and the existence of non-infringing uses doesn’t necessarily get OpenAI off the hook Worth reading the whole thing, and final decisions won’t come until later, but it’s great news that the judge rejected these motions to dismiss. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Coincidence this dropped on day1 @LondonBookFair nahhhh: OpenAI says it has trained an AI that’s ‘really good’ at creative writing techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/ope… via @techcrunch

@SuperTightWoody @McDonalds @Soulplusmind @MrPhelps2 Yo!!! 🐔 🐓Go woody go

First music placement of 2025 🍔🍔🍔 @McDonalds @Soulplusmind @MrPhelps2