David Gerardtoday's (unreleased, likely ~spring 2024) legal opinion article: AI models are likely uncopyrightable (no human hand) and too easy to reverse-engineer for trade secrets to work. So the VC billions are going into stuff they can't own. Which is the funniest possible result.
acb@davidgerard They’re unownable and dangerous for anything that’s more than a novelty, but they do an excellent job of flooding the zone with Augean quantities of bullshit, which may be convenient for those who don’t like democratic culture being viable. In other words, maybe it’s not about the blanket but the smallpox?
🐻 John@acb @davidgerard "It's not about the blanket, it's about the smallpox" is a hell of a turn of phrase