Hidde de Vries writes in »How to avoid that your post about AI helps the hype« for hidde.blog The term “artificial intelligence” was coined as a way to make a branch of scientific research more attractive to potential funders. A lot of the tech we see today is neither artificial nor intelligent. It’s powerful and impressive technology, sure, but it’s machines. ...
Matthew Prince writes in »Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!« for cloudflare.com That changes today, July 1, what we’re calling Content Independence Day. Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world’s leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content. That content is the fuel that powers AI engines, and so it’s only fair that content creators are compensated directly for it. ...