New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science

Copyright Office gets this right...

in refusing to grant copyright registration to an AI creation.  I suspect this one to be litigated for a while, since the person who has been trying to get protection for the picture has declared limiting copyright to human authors as something that would be unconstitutional (I also think it would be pretty entertaining to watch somebody try to float that argument in front of the current Supreme Court).  A good article on why this sort of thing is going to be a problem, and an interesting way of parsing law's traditional 'mental state' requirement, is here.

AI Colonialism

First read this piece by Abeba Birhane, who warns about neocolonial exploitation of people in Africa by AI and big tech.

Then read this detailed account of content moderation for Facebook in Kenya and abuse of the workers involved.