The Authors Guild published best practices for publishers on Oct. 13 saying no publisher, agent or other person should rely solely on an AI detector to…
Our take An AI detector gives a guess with a confidence score, and a writer's career shouldn't hang on a guess. The Guild's ask is modest: written rules, disclosure, and consent before a manuscript goes into someone else's system. Publishers that want honesty from authors can start by offering it.
The Japan Actors Union, a cooperative of actors and voice actors, released guidelines on Oct. 15 requiring prior consent, with the purpose disclosed…
Our take Consent at every step, pay for every use: Japan's performers have written down what AI developers should have asked first. Guidelines are a floor, not a law, and the government is right to look at closing that gap so a performer's voice stops being free raw material.
Western Resource Advocates, a nonprofit renewable energy advocate and one of 23 intervenors in APS's pending rate case, told 12News that the Arizona…
Our take APS and regulators say growth pays for growth; WRA says the math doesn't. Its figure is an advocate's estimate and deserves scrutiny. So does a utility that calls the alternative too complex. The bill should follow the load, not the households.
A study published Oct. 2 by AlgorithmWatch, the Umweltinstitut München and the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research projects that…
Our take Efficiency rules are the cheapest power plant Germany has. Loosening them mid-boom trades a lighter compliance load for more gas burned and higher bills passed down the line. And per-site disclosure is the point: a sector can't be held to numbers it is allowed to hide.
The Center for Democracy & Technology published a report Oct. 15 on how Anthropic, Google, Meta, Midjourney, OpenAI, Stability AI and xAI address…
Our take A safeguard nobody tests is a promise, not a protection. The cost of that gap falls on people whose faces end up in someone else's prompt. A shared testing standard, as CDT urges, should come before the next model ships, not after the next victim.