Perlmutter claims the White House is orchestrating an unprecedented and unconstitutional takeover of a legislative branch agency by installing senior DOJ officials atop both the Library of Congress and the Copyright Office. If allowed, she warns, the move would undermine the Office’s structural independence, compromise the confidentiality of congressional research and copyright deposits, and put congressionally mandated projects in peril—including its fourth and final report on copyright and artificial intelligence.
Source: Perlmutter’s Lawsuit Is About More Than Just Getting Her Job Back
For decades, Hollywood directors, including Stanley Kubrick, James Cameron and Alex Garland, have cast artificial intelligence as a villain that can turn into a killing machine. Now Google—a leading developer in AI technology —wants to move the cultural conversations away from technology as seen in “The Terminator,” “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Ex Machina.”
Google and OpenAI want to reposition chatbots as virtual assistants. If high switching costs are successfully introduced into the AI market, that will cement the position of a small number of dominant businesses. Today’s general-purpose AI market is highly concentrated: four applications account for around 95% of the market. This combination of concentration and lock-in is hugely troubling for the media.
Already this year, 26 laws governing various kinds of deepfakes have been enacted, following 80 in 2024 and 15 in 2023, according to the political database Ballotpedia. This month in Tennessee, sharing deepfake sexual images without permission became a felony that carries up to 15 years of prison time and as much as $10,000 in fines.
