Newsletter, January 27

RIP Sam Moore

Artificial Intelligence Bubble

Why top tech analyst Gene Munster says investors have 2 years before the tech bubble bursts (Market Insider Jennifer Sor)

The AI bubble is looking worse than the dot-com bubble. Here’s why. (MorningstarJeffrey Funk and Gary Smith

Prediction: The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Bubble Will Burst in 2025. Here’s Why. (Motley Fool/Sean Williams)

AI-focused ETFs spread risk as fears grow of bubble (Financial Times/Chris Flood)

AI’s Trust Problem (Harvard Business Review/Bhaskar Chakravorti)

 Artificial Intelligence: Train Brain Drain

The coin-operated policy laundry is back with the leader of the anti-artist pack: Lawrence Lessig on copyright, generative AI and the right to train (Walled Culture/Glyn Moody)
Writers! Do You Know your Drafts on MS Word are being Scooped by Microsoft to Build its AI Algorithm? But You Can Stop This From Happening (Read On). (Hugh Stephens Blog)

Artificial Intelligence: Godwin’s Law

Law Students: Do not EVER speak publicly of “firing” a client: ‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer [Mark Lemley] on Why He Fired the Company (Wired/Kate Knibbs)

Big Tech’s Misapprehensions About the AI Appropriation Invasion: Artist Rights are Not “Regulation” (MusicTechSolutions/Chris Castle) “Since the AI lawyers are fascinated by Nazi metaphors, let me give you one myself: Internet piracy is to Guernica what AI is to Warsaw.”

Copyright

Is the WEF’s Rights of Nature Campaign a Backdoor for Google to Sue Copyright Owners on AI? (MusicTechPolicy/Chris Castle)

Copyright, AI, and Great Power Competition (Foundation for American Innovation/Joshua Levine and Tim Hwang)

Creators react with fury, dismay and suspicion and want ‘uncertainty’ narrative to end (Charting GenAI/Graham Lovelace)

Books (Remember them?)
The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property by Jonathan M. Barnett 

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando de Soto