Elon’s Crumbling Empire and Generative A.I. Goes to Court
Elon’s Crumbling Empire and Generative A.I. Goes to Court
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Hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton
Produced by Davis Land
Edited by Shreeya Sinha and Paula Szuchman
Engineered by Alyssa Moxley
Original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop and Marion Lozano
Nearly three months into Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, things are in a “shambolic” state. Is the rest of Elon’s empire also in trouble? Then, an artist fighting generative A.I. sets the stage for a legal clash.
Also, what goes wrong when A.I. becomes a reporter.
On today’s episode:
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Sarah Andersen, a cartoonist and the illustrator of a semi-autobiographical comic strip, “Sarah’s Scribbles.”
Additional reading:
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A look inside Elon Musk’s first 90 days as chief executive of Twitter.
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The artist Sarah Andersen on finding her art in the databases behind text-to-image A.I. platforms.
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Three artists, including Ms. Andersen, filed a class-action lawsuit against the creators of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and DreamUp.
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CNET’s A.I.-written articles contained errors.
Credits
“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Davis Land. The show is edited by Shreeya Sinha and Paula Szuchman. Engineering by Alyssa Moxley and original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop and Marion Lozano. Fact-checking by Caitlin Love.
Special thanks to Hanna Ingber, Nell Gallogly, Kate LoPresti and Jeffrey Miranda.
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