Le cauchemar de Lessig. If « Code Is Law », what da fuck is « Vibe Coding » ?
https://affordance.framasoft.org/2026/05/le-cauchemar-de-lessig-if-code-is-law-what-da-fuck-is-vibe-coding/

Arthur Mensch est Le PDG de Mistral AI, entreprise spécialisée dans l’IA et « licorne » française. Il vient d’être auditionné par l’assemblée nationale. Si vous vous intéressez au sujet, l’entretien est assez intéressant même s’il faut très souvent faire la part de ce qui relève de la réalité de cette firme (et qui peut être étendu à d’autres semblables) et la dimension très prégnante de l’opportunité de lobbying qui lui est ainsi offerte (mais c’est le jeu, il fait son taff, et il le fait plutôt très bien).

#ia #ia #lessig #vibe_coding

Top 5 reasons to hate the Facebook like button

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/top-5-reasons-to-hate-the-facebook-like-button

Striking contrast between the attitude toward parroting in current AI debates (#EmilyBender, #TimnitGebru et al.) and that of Lawrence #Lessig in relation to Creative Commons.

For Bender & co., parroting signals a lack of creativity and understanding:

‘an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms
it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic
information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning: a stochastic parrot.'

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922

For Lessig, it’s a core feature of creative productivity. Writing about how, from Buster Keaton’s ‘Steamboat Bill, we got Steamboat Willie, and from Steamboat Willie, we got Mickey Mouse, and from Mickey Mouse, the Disney Corporation’, Lessig notes how Walt Disney ‘was always parroting the feature length mainstream films’.

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mlr/vol65/iss1/1/

#digital #parrot
#tech #ai
#ArtificialIntelligence #disney #creativecommons #creativity

Maine's Radical Solution To End Political #Corruption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96TmkRP6K2U

#politics #lessig #watergate #SuperPACs #elections

In their new book, 🔹How to Steal a Presidential Election, 🔹Lawrence #Lessig and Matthew #Seligman describe a troubling scenario.
A 2020 Supreme Court decision in a “faithless electors” case (#Chiafolo v. #Washington) held that
🥺state legislatures have the power to direct electors how to cast their votes.
That ruling, Lessig and Seligman argue, could be interpreted by Republican state legislatures as allowing them to pass a law
👉directing electors to vote for the candidate the legislature chooses, rather than based on the popular vote in the state.
“There are plenty of mechanisms to ensure that the election selects the right slate of electors
—recounts, contest proceedings and so on,” they write.
“But ♦️there are no protections against a state legislature simply ordering whichever electors are appointed to vote for the candidate that the legislature, and not the people of the state, choose♦️.”
In an interview with The Bulwark, Lessig said that an unintended consequence of the Electoral Count Reform Act (ECRA) enacted in 2022 was to shrink the window in which an attempted election subversion could be blocked.
Under the new law, no errors in the electoral vote can be corrected after electors vote on December 17, 2024. 💥If corrupt electors vote for someone other than their states’ popular vote winner, Congress will certify that result on January 6, 2025.💥
Republican-controlled legislatures in several key swing states
—Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin
—could throw the election.
“If they wanted to do it in the safest way possible, meaning in a way to guarantee that they were to succeed,” Lessig said, “they would do it immediately after the election, because the time frame for the Court to intervene would be so short, it’s not clear the Court would have time to intervene.”

https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/start-the-steal-trump-november-2024