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Australia is planning some of the world's toughest AI regulations • Water usage will be limited • AI data centers will be required to become net producers of energy • AI companies can't train on Australian creators' work without their permission • Proposals expected to be introduced in 2027

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

wish people would stop calling proportional representation a change to the system, it's an upgrade

As we all said, Labour didn't win in '24: the Tories lost. People consistently voted for whoever would beat the Tory candidate and Labour were the overall beneficiaries. When there's an actual alternative, we see how colossally unpopular Starmer's fash-curious management consultants truly are.

So the candidate who left school at 16 with no A-Levels and who's spent her whole adult life vocational, manual jobs beat the ivory tower academic turned cushy media pundit, but you can be sure we'll still get plenty more casual description of the latter as "white working class".

Every one of our governments around the world who have committed to vastly expanding data centre construction funding has probably contributed to this insane economic partition in who can afford to buy computation.

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books ProblemMeta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.www.theatlantic.com

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

A reminder of the ever growing list of Indie Publishers on Bluesky Add it to your feeds to see what they’re up to Give me a shout if you want added bsky.app/profile/did:...

People often ask me why I’m outspoken about trans rights. I’m not trans so “why do you care?”
 I care because what the government is doing to trans people is wrong. I care because we are being conditioned to accept atrocities. 🧵

Most people are unaware of the fact. I was, until saw the sign on the doors! Private equity companies have bought many of the country’s ERs. www.npr.org/sections/hea...

ERs staffed by private equity firms aim to cut costs by hiring fewer doctorsIncreasingly, private equity firms shape staffing decisions at hospital emergency rooms, research shows. One apparent effect: Hiring fewer doctors and more health care practitioners who earn far less.www.npr.org

The percentage of children’s books with a racially minoritised main character has halved since 2022. A third of primary school children in the UK are Black and brown. The publishing industry needs to do so much better. It’s failing this generation of readers. Full report at clpe.org.uk

CLPE Reflecting Realities - Survey of Ethnic Representation within UK Children’s Literature (November 2024) | Centre for Literacy in Primary EducationThe 7th annual Reflecting Realities Survey of Ethnic Representation within UK Children’s Literature, funded by the Arts Council England, shows that 17% of chi...clpe.org.uk

Faber has a new children's literature award for unpublished manuscripts #UKKidLit #UKKidLitNews www.faber.co.uk/journal/fabe...

Faber launches Action! Prize | Journal, News | FaberFaber launches the Action! Prize in direct response to research from the National Literacy Trust that reveals children’s reading enjoyment is at its lowest level in almost two decades, and that the pr...www.faber.co.uk

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Start of a new Starter Pack, this time for literary events. If you are one or know of one on Bluesky, please let me know. 💙📚 #BookSky go.bsky.app/PHw99bS

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