So, Canadian "bad boy" fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has done as he said he would and sued Google, over its "AI" search summary labelling him a sex offender. It apparently drew that fact from news coverage of a different person of the same name. A suit for defamation seems fair to me.

I think that @lauren is right, and that lawsuits like this, and large settlements or jury awards that go along with them, are the only thing that will even possibly change Google's trajectory on including these garbage LLM-invented search summary answers. They don't listen to criticism, they don't listen to complaints from their victims, they don't address ethical issues - but shareholders ultimately have the power to hold them, and the C-suite executives making the decisions, to account for the bushels of money going out the door in response to their BS-machine's workings.

I'm not generally a big fan of "lawsuit as lottery ticket", but with the LLM snake-oil salesmen (of all companies), I think it's the best approach possible in the circumstances, at least without strong European-style regulation (which isn't going to happen in North America any time soon).

#AI #LLM #AshleyMcIsaac #fiddler #defamation #lawsuit #damages

enjoying this new Radiant Others episode with Anna Lowenstein, a great #klezmer violinist from the UK. we've chatted a bit over the years but never met so it's great to hear her and what she's about.
https://radiant-others-a.blubrry.net/anna-lowenstein/

#JewishMusic #Violinist #MusicInterview #London #Fiddler

Du brauchst etwas #Musik zum #Feierabend oder für eine einfache und gemütliche Zeit?

Dann gönn dir etwas Musik von Harald Haugaard:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mOxs6nrNRmhEVzdNAdQ8OjYBNTqY3ZE3Q&playnext=1&index=1

#HaraldHaugaard #Fiddler #Violine #Folk #NordishFolk #goodTime #relax #music

J'ai toujours peur, en ouvrant Tradzone, qu'il y ait de nouveau messages dans la rubrique "Décès".
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Pour celleux qui ne connaissaient pas, Dave Shepherd était le violoniste de Blowzabella.

En particulier compositeur des tubes de #balFolk "The Origin of the World" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D9tl-c1yAw
Transcription : https://thesession.org/tunes/8237

et "The Rose of Raby" (hommage à Cécile Neville 1415–1495) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb460hMHqrE
Transcription : https://thesession.org/tunes/7885

#violon #violoniste #fiddle #fiddler #RIP

Niccolò Paganini: 24 Caprices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPVUfcQe9og

Violin: Alexander Markov

#classicalmusic #paganini #fiddler

Niccolò Paganini: Complete music for solo violin, part 1/2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2mTmi9tUag

Violin: Stefan Milenkovich

#music #classicalmusic #violin #fiddler

Robert Boedigheimer presents 'Make the Web Faster' July 24th at Nebraska.Code().

https://nebraskacode.amegala.com/

#webdevelopment #WebPerformance #sitescalability #sitereliability #webpagetestorg #fiddler #lighthouse #WebFaster #webdesign #webdeveloper #TechnologyConference #Nebraska #TechConf #TechCommunity #softwaredevelopment #lincolnnebraska