{"id":17839,"date":"2025-02-22T16:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T15:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/creative-industries-are-among-the-uks-crown-jewels-and-ai-is-out-to-steal-them-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T16:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T15:37:36","slug":"creative-industries-are-among-the-uks-crown-jewels-and-ai-is-out-to-steal-them-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/creative-industries-are-among-the-uks-crown-jewels-and-ai-is-out-to-steal-them-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative industries are among the UK\u2019s crown jewels \u2013 and AI is out to steal them | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tech firms\u2019 efforts to change copyright laws and gain free access to intellectual property is patently wrong<\/p>\n

There are decades when nothing happens (as Lenin is \u2013 wrongly \u2013 supposed to have said) and weeks when decades happen. We\u2019ve just lived through a few weeks like that. We\u2019ve known for decades that some American tech companies were problematic for democracy because they were fragmenting the public sphere and fostering polarisation. They were a worrying nuisance, to be sure, but not central to the polity.<\/p>\n

And then, suddenly, those corporations were inextricably bound into government, and their narrow sectional interests became the national interest of the US. Which means that any foreign government with ideas about regulating, say, hate speech on X, may have to deal with the intemperate wrath of Donald Trump or the more coherent abuse of JD Vance.<\/p>\n

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\nThe tech firms\u2019 efforts to change copyright laws and gain free access to intellectual property is patently wrong
\nThere are decades when nothing happens (as Lenin is \u2013 wrongly \u2013 supposed to have said) and weeks when decades happen. We\u2019ve just lived through a few weeks like that. We\u2019ve known for decades that some American tech companies were problematic for democracy because they were fragmenting the public sphere and fostering polarisation. They were a worrying nuisance, to be sure, but not central to the polity.
\nAnd then, suddenly, those corporations were inextricably bound into government, and their narrow sectional interests became the national interest of the US. Which means that any foreign government with ideas about regulating, say, hate speech on X, may have to deal with the intemperate wrath of Donald Trump or the more coherent abuse of JD Vance. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tech firms\u2019 efforts to change copyright laws and gain free access to intellectual property is patently wrong There are decades when nothing happens (as Lenin is \u2013 wrongly \u2013 supposed to have said) and weeks when decades happen. We\u2019ve just lived through a few weeks like that. We\u2019ve known for decades that some American …<\/p>\n

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