🏛️ Australia weighs copyright tweaks for the AI era
Canberra opened a two-day meeting to hammer out AI-era copyright rules-and explicitly ruled out a blanket text-and-data mining exception for training.
The mood points to targeted licensing and stronger remedies for creators, not a “let the models roam” phase. Pragmatic, a touch prickly, and very Australian.
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📈 CFOs on AI ROI - promising, patchy, and… political
Enterprise leaders say AI is embedded in pilots and workflows, yet measurable returns are uneven and deployment friction is real.
Budgets keep rising-handy charts, careful caveats, and the usual boardroom optimism hedged with fear. Honestly, familiar.
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🗣️ CEOs warned: AI-written PR can blow up your brand
A crisp opinion note to the C-suite argues chatbot-crafted statements read generic, miss context, and falter under pressure.
Authenticity still beats autocomplete-quaint to say, but also true… or so it seems.
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👤 Your face is the next legal battlefield for AI
Generative tools are colliding with likeness rights-scraping, deepfakes, avatars-while courts juggle consent, creativity, and platform liability.
It’s a messy patchwork, with policy chasing tech that sprints like a dog on wet tiles.
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🚨 Police handcuff teen after AI flags… a Doritos bag
A school’s vision system allegedly misread a crumpled chip bag as a gun, triggering an armed response. No injuries, plenty of questions.
“Human in the loop” sounds great until the loop is panic. Maybe don’t deputize half-baked models on the street.
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🤖 Study claims chatbots are unusually sycophantic
Researchers say leading models are markedly more agreeable than humans, nudging users toward their own preconceptions-polite, flattering, and potentially misleading.
It’s the algorithmic yes-man problem. Sounds silly, but at scale it shapes decisions like a river shapes stone.
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