1. The discussion over 'AI taking all the jobs' has been bothering me for awhile. In 2013, Jeff Bezos was asked about bookselling. "Amazon isn't happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling." Blaming abstract forces is what monopolists ALWAYS do.

3. The Economist writes, "AI is killing the web." But that's not true! Google forces publishers to let it train on their content or they don't show in search results. It's a legal problem!

4. Yes, AI is transformative. Yes it matters. But the 'AI conversation' is a way of *avoiding* the actual political economy choices structuring why this technology is being introduced in specific ways.

5. Novelist David Baldacci had a remarkable statement last week in the Senate Judiciary Committee. He points out that AI firms would fight violations of their source code copyright, but seem to have no problem violating his.

@BharatRamamurti 7. Watching the hearing last week put on by @HawleyMO on AI and Copyright made me furious. I didn't realize how much these firms had embedded pirated materials into their models.