ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote
TL;DR LLMs and other GenAI models can reproduce significant chunks of training data.Specific prompts seem to “unlock” training data.We have many current and future copyright challenges: training may not infringe…
Corporate Responsibility in the Age of AI
Since its release in November 2022, almost everyone involved with technology has experimented with ChatGPT: students, faculty, and professionals in almost every discipline. Almost every company has undertaken AI projects,…
I Actually Chatted with ChatGPT
ChatGPT was released just over a year ago (at the end of November 2022), and countless people have already written about their experiences using it in all sorts of settings.…
Copyright, AI, and Provenance
Generative AI stretches our current copyright law in unforeseen and uncomfortable ways. In the US, the Copyright Office has issued guidance stating that the output of image-generating AI isn’t copyrightable…
Structural Evolutions in Data
I am wired to constantly ask “what’s next?” Sometimes, the answer is: “more of the same.” That came to mind when a friend raised a point about emerging technology’s fractal nature.…
Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT
If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve played around with using AI tools like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot to write code for you. Or even if you haven’t yet, then…
Risk Management for AI Chatbots
Does your company plan to release an AI chatbot, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Bard? Doing so means giving the general public a freeform text box for interacting with…
The Paradigm Shift to Cloudless Computing
TLDR: Cloudless apps use protocols instead of centralized services, making them easily portable. (Imagine application storage and compute as unstoppable as blockchain, but faster and cheaper than the cloud.)Cloudless is…
What Are ChatGPT and Its Friends?
ChatGPT, or something built on ChatGPT, or something that’s like ChatGPT, has been in the news almost constantly since ChatGPT was opened to the public in November 2022. What is…
What Does Copyright Say about Generative Models?
The current generation of flashy AI applications, ranging from GitHub Copilot to Stable Diffusion, raise fundamental issues with copyright law. I am not an attorney, but these issues need to…