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dominicyoung.bsky.social
CEO of axate.com Building a better future for media by turning users into customers. Also talking about AI thanks to my past life as an IP director and defender...
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Many bots and crawlers don’t identify themselves when they access sites. Some of them go to great lengths to avoid detection. I’m interested to hear some reasons why this behaviour is legitimate and reasonable and/or reasons why identifying themselves would be problematic…

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

It's time for publishers to declare independence from Google. pressgazette.co.uk/comment-anal...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

By my reckoning, Meta's liability for the use of the LibGen database might range from about $4.6bn to $15.75tn. My workings below. As well as being huge numbers and a massive range, the story of these numbers also shows the way forward for AI companies and creators. 🧵 1/22

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Why is copyright back on the front pages again? Because it’s fuelling a multi-billion industry without permission or payment. I wrote about it for The Idler www.idler.co.uk/article/ai-w...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Some quotes from Peter Kyle on @therestpolitics.bsky.social interview just now, explaining his approach to copyright and AI. Perhaps some fact-checking would be in order? Posted without (immediate) comment from me... listen at podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/... (start at about 57m)

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

it would be "impossible to train today's leading AI models without using copyrighted materials” is the worst argument for relaxing copyright. No other industry gets their raw materials forcibly appropriated for them by law. AI’s dependency on copyright is the best argument for strengthening it

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment