In practical effect, this would be a device to transform ICE’s #obstruction into not just a violation of #state #law, but also of a #federal-court order.
#Criminal #liability by its nature comes too late to stop harms from happening. #States such as #Minnesota should also look to #CivilLaw as a basis for stopping baleful & unlawful #ICE tactics. This also requires some creative thinking—taking a legal tool designed for other purposes & fitting it to our new reality.
Whoa Nelly! Watch this space!!!!
Trail set to begin in LA on Tues will test Big Tech's immunity from liability for allegedly causing harm to users. “This is the first time families have ever had their right to a day in court,”
Meta and YouTube are named as defendants and will face trial. TikTok and Snap were also named as defendants, but they have both settled. Additional similar lawsuits are pending at both he state and federal levels. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/social-media-youth-addiction-trial-00747653 #SocialMedia #Meta #YouTube #Snap #Tiktok #Liability #Section230 #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #Addiction #Depression #Lawsuit #Trial
#liability : the state of being liable
- French: responsabilité
- German: die Haftung
- Italian: responsabilità
- Portuguese: responsabilidade
- Spanish: responsabilidad
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Rand Paul Only Wants Google To Be The Arbiter Of Truth When The Videos Are About Him
A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
INCORPORATION, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order that they may be no longer responsible for its actions. A, B and C are a corporation. A robs, B steals and C (it is necessary that there be one gentleman in the concern) cheats. It is a plundering, thieving, swindling corporation. But A, B and C, who have jointly determined and severally executed every crime of the corporation, are blameless. It is wrong to mention them by name when censuring their acts as a corporation, but right when praising.Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Incorporation,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1885-10-03)
More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/81536…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #accountability #bigbusiness #blame #business #corporation #crime #criminality #incorporation #irresponsibility #legalfiction #liability #unaccountability
INCORPORATION, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order that they may be no longer responsible for its actions. A, B and C are a corporation. A robs, B steals and C (it is necessary that there be one gentleman in the concern)…
"Code is a liability (not an asset). Tech bosses don't understand this. They think AI is great because it produces 10,000 times more code than a programmer, but that just means it's producing 10,000 times more liabilities.
#Code is a #liability. Code’s capabilities are #assets. The goal of a tech shop is to have code whose capabilities generate more revenue than the costs associated with keeping that code running.
…that's the thing: any nontrivial code has to interact with the outside world, and the outside world isn't static, it's dynamic. The outside world busts through the assumptions made by software authors all the time and every time it does, the software needs to be fixed." @pluralistic
AI vs. CopyRight Holders - Battle gets New Data
The big AI companies have argued all along that their LLMs do not store copyrighted works in memory, but rather, just “learn” from their training data like a human mind.
Hold on a minute, researchers now say!
Peeps at Stanford and Yale have uncovered evidence that AI models are copying copyrighted data, not just “learning” from it. Four prominent LLMs, GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok 3, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet were deemed to be very capable at reproducing “substantial amounts of copyrighted text can be extracted from open-weight models”, aka whole books.
These reports could undermine the industry’s argument that LLMs learn from these texts instead of storing information and recalling it later, potentially creating a big legal liability for AI companies with the possibility of copyright-infringement judgments in the billions of dollars. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-industry-recall-copyright-books
#AI #Copyright #Courts #OpenAI #Google #Anthropic #xAI #AITraining #LLMs #Lawsuit #Liability
So if my #rant on how garbage #discord and other messengers like it didn't convince you guys to "#DropAndRun away from discord", then consider the fact of legal #liability as a user.
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