In surely unrelated news, the Tony Blair Institute was given $200m by the owner of Oracle, a major AI player. - ThreadSky

bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social • 8 days ago

In surely unrelated news, the Tony Blair Institute was given $200m by the owner of Oracle, a major AI player.

The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today.

Some very brief highlights:

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Comments

richienb.bsky.social•8 days ago

His sone Euan also runs a tech/training company

juneussell.bsky.social•8 days ago

How very dare he!

stephencoxauthor.bsky.social•8 days ago

Dodgy Dossier #2

agaland2dogs.bsky.social•8 days ago

😶

clawful1.bsky.social•8 days ago

Will this money go towards the 100k iraqis he killed?

woodythepriest.bsky.social•8 days ago

Start with anything he has written

jollygoodwheeze.bsky.social•8 days ago

Surely not? Teflon Tony strikes again.

yelobeli.bsky.social•8 days ago

Chicken and egg. Was the Tony Blair Institute “bought and owned”? Or did Oracle choose to support an organisation that was already perceived to be well disposed to big tech an AI?

bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social•8 days ago

In other surely unrelated news, Ed's AI-critical post on Bluesky (where he has 3.8k followers) gets vastly more reach than the same post on MuskAI-owned X (where he has 9.3k followers).

jamessteel2008.bsky.social•8 days ago

Of course they were, I always preferred Gordon.

mrfw17thc.bsky.social•8 days ago

One of a few political institutions and figures who are very, very close to the AI wave and have no business advising on copyright or its impact on creatives.