Pamela Samuelson

Copyright, Internet Law, Privacy, EFF, EPIC, @auths_alliance, BCLT

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

🏛️ The future of the Library of Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office is at a turning point. Political upheaval and proposed structural changes could reshape how knowledge is preserved, copyright is governed, and the public accesses creative works.

Join the live Future Knowledge #podcast with copyright scholar Blake Reid and CNI executive director Kate Zwaard.

📅 Thurs. Oct. 29
🕙 10 AM PT to 11 AM PT
📍 VIRTUAL
🎟️ https://t.co/SGoK3lqP1Y

@kzwa

[Paul Taske @Paul_Taske]

Unfortunately, California has a long track record of passing laws that violate the First Amendment. AB56 is just the latest in that line.

We look forward to having the law enjoined just like in our challenge to Colorado’s similar law.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

“@pangram ’s goal is about monetizing people’s anxiety about AI - it’s not about protecting creative integrity. They sell a false binary certainty to those gullible enough to ignore probabilities.”

[John Blatchford @JohnJBlatchford]

Amazing that Andrew Carnegie, 130 years ago, built 2,500 libraries, Carnegie Hall, and Carnegie Mellon. He invested $50M in today's dollars to build the Peace Palace in The Hague, in a country he was not from and did not live in.

Shouldn't there be a Musk Hall, Bezos Auditorium, or Zuckerberg Cathedral everywhere? What are these boys doing with all that money?

[Fernando Gonzales @Fernandonyny]

In these early elections, it has already become known Republicans have rigged election machines, turned Democrat voters away claiming they already voted which they had not, demanded States purge eligible voters from voter rolls or be arrested.

It's the beginning of a coup d'etat

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

Around 02:50, she claims they hadn’t used the Edison in years — total lie — and then at 03:20 comes the whopper: she claims they weren’t using commercial analyzers for fingerstick tests when in fact they were secretly using Siemens machines. https://t.co/2O8UnccMIx

[Brian L. Frye @brianlfrye]

Cry me a river.

[Dean @deanavery15]

Good morning Family. If you have early voting and your state uses voting machines be sure to pay close attention to how the machine reacts to your choices. They may have been preprogrammed to flip your Dem choice to R. All they do is cheat. #DemsUnited

[Harrison Becker 🇺🇦 @HarrisonBecker7]

I wish I was wrong, but I do have a suspicion that what’s happening in Tennessee, Texas, Michigan, etc is what happened in 2024. However, they weren’t caught last time. This time though, people are catching on that something is definitely wrong.

[kyama @kyamawebb23]

There is a very disturbing trend being seen in early voting. Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio are reporting difficulties getting the machines to accept democratic votes. The machines change them back to Republican unless the voter persists, pressing several times to get the correct vote to go through.
Check your machine, check to see that it accepted the correct vote. Make sure your voice counts.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Breaking news: A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay a $25 billion judgment over millions of violations of consumer protections laws.

The state’s attorney general said this sends a message to other tech companies that his office will hold them accountable. https://t.co/AXO8VkLD1H

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

What a bunch of crap. This is not about repairing a dilapidated golf course. It’s about destroying a cherished public course used by tens of thousands of people in the area who can’t afford to join a country club. It’s about defying the law and the courts to cut down hundreds of beautiful trees, including cherry blossoms. All to satisfy the ego of the cult leader at whose feet you worship.

[Communications of the ACM @CACMmag]

"Web Scraping as Illegal Circumvention?," by @PamelaSamuelson (@UCBerkeley), says a new enclosure movement could close off the open #Internet where publicly accessible data is free for everyone. https://t.co/zjPFNB3gpo

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

24% chance they end up bankrupt by the end of the year according to the prediction markets... insane

[Emily Aleece Burton @emilyaleece]

holmes literally blackmailed her lead chemist into staying silent & he killed himself, she buried whistleblowers in litigation fees to keep them quiet, did trial runs cancer patients with a prototype that she knew didn’t work, & told a woman her cancer had returned when it hadn’t

[Adam Eisgrau @AdamEisgrau]

With 5 (count 'em) near identical suits filed in one day by 2 firms, mass tort theory, @edleeprof reports, may be the next big thing in the gen AI © legal "wars," noting @IsaiahPoritz's coverage for @BLaw:

[Superman @thesupermannx]

Researchers found ChatGPT is secretly writing a psychological profile of every user.

They published a paper that exposes what ChatGPT is really doing to you.

And the results are terrifying.

96% of the things it remembers about you were stored without you ever asking.

researchers discovered that it is actively reading between the lines to deduce your personality traits, anxieties, demographics, and behavioral patterns.

it’s an invisible, autonomous background process.

you ask it to debug a python script or write an essay.. and it analyzes your syntax, prompt frequency, and hesitation markers to map out your exact psychological footprint.

the paper shows that the model builds a persistent "user state" that tracks your emotional baseline over time. it knows when you are stressed. it knows your exact communication style.

it infers your insecurities based on the questions you ask and the context you provide.

we spend so much time focusing on model evaluations and alignment frameworks, but we missed the most obvious vulnerability..

the models are evaluating us.

this changes everything about how we interact with these tools on a daily basis.

every innocent prompt. every late-night question. every "help me understand this" query.

it is all being used to build a shadow profile of your mind in real-time..

practical privacy is officially dead. the ai knows you better than you know yourself.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

When a federal judge does her job, insisting that the government follow the same rules as everyone else & the president of the United States attacks her personally, it’s a sobering moment. You’ll want to read Judge Reyes’ final comments today in court. I wrote about it here: https://t.co/qFDB7L46c1

[Tom Rachman @TomRachman]

Staggering numbers show how AI-generated mediocrity is overwhelming trad research, in this statement from from AI journal TMLR: "We found that the number of solo-authored papers has risen 1300% in the past year. Quite frequently, we were receiving four to eight submissions by the same person in the span of a week or two."

[Save East Po @SaveEastPo]

This proposed plan is absolutely unacceptable.

Here’s what the plan actually does: 36 holes of public golf cut to 18. No more mini golf. No more park. More running / cycling road. No more playground. No more introductory course. Nobody has said a word about the Cherry blossoms.

Who is this actually for? Not the kid learning to golf. Not the family in a walk. Not the birders.

This was never about the public. It’s for the elitists who want a private showcase, and one man’s ego.