In a spectacular development in the AI wars, Disney and several studios have sued the AI image-generating company Midjourney for copyright infringement (complaint here). To say that this has generated…
Most people who have been paying attention to the copyright and AI debate in Europe have been expecting that at some point the Court of Justice of the European Union…
Something curious has been occurring in the world of digital rights. Openness, once one of the cornerstones of Internet culture, has lost its shine. There used to be a time…
I was recently trying to buy a train ticket using a Web platform which shall remain nameless for obvious reasons. I have been using the site for years to buy…
A common theme here at Llama Towers is to talk about our changing relationship with the Internet as a whole, and with social media specifically. I was both an early…
I’m currently on sabbatical finishing a couple of papers, and I wanted to find a figure for a footnote. How many daily users are there for generative AI apps? Simple…
On the 20th of October 2024, this blog turned 20 years old. I’ve been both dreading and looking forward to this milestone. On the one hand, this is probably one…
My social media timeline has started filling up with angry reactions to the news that several academic publishers have been licensing academic works to AI companies for training purposes without…
People involved in the Internet Regulation area have a recurring joke that the field is like being stuck in some form of digital Groundhog Day, in which we are re-living…
It’s been an interesting couple of years here in Llama Towers. While AI has long been a subject of interest to this blog, it’s undeniable that the subject has exploded…
If you’re at all interested in artificial intelligence, and if you’re reading this I suspect that you may be, you will probably already be aware about the dispute between OpenAI…
Something interesting is happening in the creative industries. Granted, there is always something interesting happening, although it usually involves excessive displays of wealth, or the rivalry of musical artists. However,…
It’s been a while since we talked about NFTs here at Llama Towers, this is mostly because not a lot has been happening, but it is also due to most…
There’s growing controversy online about the use of the word “delve” as an easy detector of whether a text has been written by an AI. I have to admit that…
I have to admit that I have always been a realist, yet, when it comes to technology, I tend to side with the enthusiastic optimists. For many years, I shared…