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SCOTUS weighs in on public officials’ use of social media
In a unanimous decision, the US Supreme Court has decided that a public official’s use of social media can constitute state action, such that then those officials can be subject to First Amendment and other constitutional challenges for deleting or blocking other users’ comments about those officials.
The case is Lin ... (full story)
News outlets sue OpenAI for violating copyright laws
Just to catch up on things:
OpenAI owns and operates ChatGPT.
ChatGPT is “trained” on a claimed trillion data points organized into data sets that are vacuumed up throughout the internet.
Lots of that stuff that’s vacuumed up is copyrighted. ChatGPT don’t care about your stinkin’ copyrights. ... (full story)
Paxton AI wants to be your legal AI
What this (legal) world needs is a portable, personal, iterative legal AI chatbot that brings the power of something like ChatGPT4 into a small law office.
That’s what Paxton (https://www.paxton.ai/), a 2024 Startup Alley winner, wants to be.
And maybe it will be one day. They are working hard on the engineering side t ... (full story)
USPTO’s new AI-assisted invention guidelines
After years of creating its AI guidelines ad hoc from decision to decision, the United State Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued guidelines on patenting AI-generated/assisted inventions. And the guidelines are a little less extreme than a lot of people probably thought they were going to be.
Welcome to the world, the ... (full story)
Pay your taxes when you sell Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency may be some brave new world to most people, replete with it’s own rebellion rules and not understandable to eh normal masses. But not to the Internal Revenue Service. To the IRS, if you buy Bitcoin and sell it at a profit, it is just simple capital gains. And you gotta pay taxes on capital gains.
The IRS has ... (full story)