Huge win for platform workers' rights here. Essentially, platforms (Uber/Ola) cannot hide behind "trade secret" arguments and must disclose how automated decision making is used to determine pay and allocation of work. Also establishes that personal data is being used to profile, manage and robo-fire workers:

https://www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/historic-digital-rights-win-for-wie-and-the-adcu-over-uber-and-ola-at-amsterdam-court-of-appeal

I realize the Hachette v. Internet Archive case is complicated -- but I'm absolutely on the side of publicly accessible knowledge, esp in emergency situations.

Another take-away for me is: academic journals really need to move away from Wiley. If individual authors want to publish books with HarperCollins (NewsCorp!!🤢), Penguin Random House (Bertelsmann), Hachette (Lagardère), and rapacious Wiley, fine -- but journals obligate 1000s of authors, editors, reviewers to feed these machines

OpenAI touted GPT-4's scores on professional exams and other standardized tests. But they may have tested on the training data: we found slam-dunk evidence that GPT-4 memorizes coding problems that it's seen. Besides, exams don't tell us about real-world utility: It’s not like a lawyer’s job is to answer bar exam questions all day.

The latest in the AI Snake Oil book blog by @sayashk and me: "GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question" https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/gpt-4-and-professional-benchmarks