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Neil Turkewitz

@neilturkewitz
78 posts
2026-03-06
“We believe new tools should expand creative freedom, not constrain it or replace the work of writers, directors, actors, & crews.” —Bela Bajaria, Netflix's chief content officer @netflix, that sounds great. Q—how is the AI trained? Any use of creative works without consent? 🤞🏽
2026-03-06 View on X
Variety

Netflix acquires InterPositive, a 16-person startup founded by Ben Affleck that builds AI models based on a production's dailies for later use in postproduction

In a rare acquisition, Netflix has bought InterPositive, a start-up founded by Ben Affleck that makes AI-powered tools for filmmakers.

2026-03-05
“We believe new tools should expand creative freedom, not constrain it or replace the work of writers, directors, actors, & crews.” —Bela Bajaria, Netflix's chief content officer @netflix, that sounds great. Q—how is the AI trained? Any use of creative works without consent? 🤞🏽
2026-03-05 View on X
Variety

Netflix acquires InterPositive, a 16-person startup founded by Ben Affleck that builds AI models based on a production's dailies for later use in postproduction

In a rare acquisition, Netflix has bought InterPositive, a start-up founded by Ben Affleck that makes AI-powered tools for filmmakers.

2026-01-27
@AnnahBackstrom ... Yes, great piece shining light on the unsavory practices of tech companies in training their AI models. One comment—while it's true that both Alsup & Chhabria ruled in favor of fair use, they were two quite different lower court decisions, & Chhabria left the door WIDE OPEN.
2026-01-27 View on X
Washington Post

US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to “destructively scan” up to 2M books with a hydraulic “cutting machine” led by an ex-Google exec

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet.

2026-01-23
“Artists, writers, and creators of all kinds are banding together with a simple message: Stealing our work is not innovation. It's not progress. It's theft - plain and simple.” ⁦@human_artistry⁩ https://www.stealingisntinnovation.com/
2026-01-23 View on X
The Verge

Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and 800+ creatives launch “Stealing Isn't Innovation” to protest unauthorized AI training, backed by RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, and others

2026-01-22
“Artists, writers, and creators of all kinds are banding together with a simple message: Stealing our work is not innovation. It's not progress. It's theft - plain and simple.” ⁦@human_artistry⁩ https://www.stealingisntinnovation.com/
2026-01-22 View on X
The Verge

Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and 800+ creatives launch “Stealing Isn't Innovation” to protest unauthorized AI training, backed by RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, and others

Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, George Saunders, and other creatives say that AI companies are …

2025-11-06
In skimming this article I thought I saw:  —  “You'll need the ring to access the future.”  My initial thought was: yeah, that tracks with tech bro hubris—even if a bit over-the-top.  —  as it turns out, it says:  —  “You'll need the ring to access the app, though Fahmi says that could change in the future.”
2025-11-06 View on X
Wired

Sandbar unveils Stream Ring, a $249+ AI-powered smart ring that transcribes audio notes into its app, available for preorder now and shipping in summer 2026

A new company called Sandbar has unveiled a smart wearable called Stream Ring, which uses a microphone to record your softly spoken thoughts.

2025-10-03
Hey @paramountplus, perhaps @OpenAI won't say what's in the training data, but this gives you a pretty good idea. @nitashatiku @Rahll @GaryMarcus @kortizart https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2025-10-03 View on X
CNBC

OpenAI's invite-only Sora app becomes the top free app in the US App Store three days after its launch, ahead of Gemini in second and ChatGPT in third

OpenAI now has two of the top three free apps in Apple's App Store, and its new video generation app Sora has snagged the coveted No. 1 spot.

Hey @paramountplus, perhaps @OpenAI won't say what's in the training data, but this gives you a pretty good idea. @nitashatiku @Rahll @GaryMarcus @kortizart https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2025-10-03 View on X
404 Media

OpenAI's Sora 2 generates copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips featuring SpongeBob, Pokémon, Mario, Rick and Morty, and Star Wars

From Dildo Ads to Furry CEOs Alex Mahadevan / Poynter : My journey into the artificial world of Sora 2 X: Paul Yacoubian / @paulyacoubian : Just found out if you try to delete your...

Reposting this from 2022. My, how far we have come in addressing the rot at the heart of generative AI, amirite? Now, consent & human dignity are the framework in which the AI industry operates.
2025-10-03 View on X
New York Times

Users express surprise, delight, and disgust with viral Sora clips, as some warn of IP theft and that Cameos could lead to new kinds of misinformation and scams

and terrifying. X: Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : Someone gave my psychotic stalker an invite to Sora and he's already making AI videos of me. Thankful that Sora has the option to...

Reposting this from 2022. My, how far we have come in addressing the rot at the heart of generative AI, amirite? Now, consent & human dignity are the framework in which the AI industry operates.
2025-10-03 View on X
CNBC

OpenAI's invite-only Sora app becomes the top free app in the US App Store three days after its launch, ahead of Gemini in second and ChatGPT in third

OpenAI now has two of the top three free apps in Apple's App Store, and its new video generation app Sora has snagged the coveted No. 1 spot.

2025-09-23
It's not that Silicon Valley changed—it's that Silicon Valley's view of freedom was always aligned with libertarianism, not progressivism. Levy suggests that Trump's “values violently clashed with the egalitarian impulses of the digital revolution.” I think that's plain wrong.
2025-09-23 View on X
Wired

Tech leaders embracing Trump for short-term gain may ultimately imperil their companies and is counter to Silicon Valley's idealistic roots

it's that Silicon Valley's view of freedom was always aligned with libertarianism, not progressivism. Levy suggests that Trump's “values violently clashed with the egalitarian impu...

2025-08-27
I'm personally hoping that part of the settlement will be acknowledgment by Anthropic that training AI models on copyright works without consent is not fair use.  I know it's unlikely, but a person can dream, no?
2025-08-27 View on X
Bloomberg Law

Filing: Anthropic reached a settlement in a copyright class action brought by authors whose works were included in two pirate databases Anthropic downloaded

Anthropic PBC reached a settlement with authors in a high-stakes copyright class action that threatened the AI company with potentially billions of dollars in damages.

2025-08-06
@nitashatiku @natolambert Reminder that “open” isn't a synonym for “ethical.” The issue, as with all AI models, is whether the training data is captured & used only with consent, and what steps have been taken to avoid harmful effects such as reification of bias or discriminatory practices.
2025-08-06 View on X
Wired

OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM

gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog : OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good...

@nitashatiku @natolambert Reminder that “open” isn't a synonym for “ethical.” The issue, as with all AI models, is whether the training data is captured & used only with consent, and what steps have been taken to avoid harmful effects such as reification of bias or discriminatory practices.
2025-08-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Amazon plans to make OpenAI's new gpt-oss open-weight models available on Bedrock and SageMaker, the first time it has offered OpenAI's models to AWS customers

Takeaways by Bloomberg AI  —  Hide … Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience.  Share your feedback

2025-07-06
This is a crazy story. People are using non visible embedded prompts within the text of articles with instructions to AI “reviewers.” A real pyramid of fraud. https://asia.nikkei.com/...
2025-07-06 View on X
Nikkei Asia

Investigation: preprint research papers on arXiv from 14 academic institutions in eight countries had hidden prompts telling AI tools to give positive reviews

Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review  —  TOKYO — Research papers …

2025-07-01
“The Senate killed a controversial effort to prevent US states from regulating AI, marking a loss for the Silicon Valley leaders & White House officials who pushed the measure.  Senators voted 99-1to strip the language out of Trump's tax legislation.”  —  99-1!!!  —  www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2025-07-01 View on X
Bloomberg

The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program

The Senate killed a controversial effort to prevent US states from regulating artificial intelligence, marking a loss …

2025-06-25
Actually, that's not apparently what the court ruled. I haven't read the decision, but according to the article: “Alsup also said, however, that Anthropic's storage of the authors' books in a ‘central library’ violated their copyrights & was not fair use.” So not so fast!
2025-06-25 View on X
ai fray

A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library for training LLMs was not

but it's still in trouble for stealing books Blake Brittain / Reuters : Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit Jason Koebler / 404 Media : Judge ...

2025-06-24
Actually, that's not apparently what the court ruled. I haven't read the decision, but according to the article: “Alsup also said, however, that Anthropic's storage of the authors' books in a ‘central library’ violated their copyrights & was not fair use.” So not so fast!
2025-06-24 View on X
ai fray

A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library used for training was not

Context: Last August, book authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson filed a copyright infringement class action …

2025-05-28
“Part of the reason Getty Images is pursuing legal action against Stability AI & not other firms is because such legal pursuits are “extraordinarily expensive.  Even for a company like Getty Images, we can't pursue all the infringements that happen in one week.  www.cnbc.com/2025/05/28/g...
2025-05-28 View on X
CNBC

Getty Images CEO Craig Peters says Getty is spending “millions and millions” on its Stability AI lawsuit in the UK and the US, accusing it of copying 12M images

Peters told CNBC in an interview that both Stability AI — the U.K.-based startup best known for its text … Bluesky: @neilturkewitz Bluesky: Neil Turkewitz / @neilturkewitz : “Part ...

2025-05-14
“It's not fair use under the copyright laws to take everyone's content & have the big tech platforms monetize it. That's the opposite of fair use. That's a copyright infringement.” —Mike Davis, President of the Article III project & a key Trump advisor https://www.theverge.com/...
2025-05-14 View on X
The Verge

President Trump's acting leaders for the Copyright Office are hostile to the tech industry and not the kind of people that generative AI proponents would want

What initially appeared to be a power play by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to take over the US Copyright Office …