James Grimmelmann

How AI is challenging the idea of human creativity

I'm quoted.

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Nippon Life Insurance Company of America on March 4 accused ChatGPT maker OpenAI of practicing law without a US license and helping a former disability claimant breach a settlement and flood a federal court docket with meritless filings reut.rs/4ldVzzS

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

How is the First Amendment a bar to a law allowing listeners to sue for the actual damages they suffer when a chatbot issues advice that would be regulated professional speech if a human gave it. Talk me through the chain of reasoning that doesn’t also take down malpractice liability for bad advice.

there should be a pokeball emoji

Generative AI: Not Even Once

Thanks to @garbageday.email I've been enjoying the emerging video genre of people ripping 'smart' glasses off of wearers' faces.

Much agree with this thread. My two principles are

1) Is this complicity or contagion? (3d.laboratorium.net/2025-10-29-c...)

2) Is the goal to maintain one's own moral standards, or to push someone else to do better?

Actual cases are hard, but these questions help me think through them clearly.

The real generational divide is between those who know about the Church of the SubGenius and those who do not

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

Bad content drives out good.

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Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead. A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him.

The spiraling shape will make you go insane.

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How AI-Generated Influencers Exploit Celebrities to Sell Synthetic Nudes AI personas posted fabricated photos with celebrities like The Rock, John Cena, and Cristiano Ronaldo to build followings on Instagram. Then they earned money with synthetic explicit content on Fanvue...

Bad content drives out good.

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This reads as quite a damning indictment of your field

This is fucked up and also an interesting question about right of publicity.

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

Tish James to NYU Langone on cessation of gender affirming care: Stop obeying in advance. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

Lion of N-Judah

Harry Jaffa cakes

love the colours on this badge, they’re staying 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

it's 2026 and the cool S is still not in unicode

I wish I knew the right combination of words to convince people who don't yet realize it that knowing and being friends with lots of trans people makes your life immeasurably better. I know we're dealing with fear and bigotry here tho so; right words would likely have to be some kind of magic spell.

If you live in Massachusetts, you’re required to.

Bad content drives out good.

🎶 And February was so long that it lasted into March 🎶

A Kardashian Type II civilization is able to convert all of its sun's available energy into social-media content.

Like all of antitrust, it's absurdly complicated, but a first cut is that (a)State AGs have explicit standing to sue to enforce federal antitrust laws, 15 USC § 15c(a)(1), and
(b) state antitrust laws are not preempted by federal ones, California v. ARC America Corp., 490 U.S. 93 (1989).

The reductio ad absurdum of an absolutist view of the First Amendment.

Nice job grabbing $2.8 billion in free money.

Cover of "Theory of Recursive Functions and Effective Computability" by Hartley Rogers, Jr.

Read theory.