Aren’t they in league with the “purple people beaters” of the SEIU?
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Probably, SEIU controls CA
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Facial recognition:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ourtownreno/comments/1ox59t5/victim_of_black_mirror_scenario_settles_with/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70963595/killinger-v-jager/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72280821/jason-killinger-v-united-parcel-service-inc/
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Peppermill in Reno has single deck blackjack
And porn shall lead the way:
Meanwhile in India:
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These chuckleheads can sue all they want but AI is comin’ anyhow. Same goes for the other copyright suits, which aren’t really AI, such as Anna’s Archive. I am fed up with IP law generally and copyright law in particular.
The tipping point for me was when I couldn’t download my own publications — that is, until I found out about Sci-Hub. Almost without exception, research reported in scientific journals is paid for by public funds, most often by US taxpayers. The current cost of turning a manuscript into an online publication is trivial, yet these pirates such as Springer and Taylor & Francis try to extract $25 to $50 just to read one article. The ‘nonprofit’ professional society publishers aren’t much better. A pox on both their houses.
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In torts class in law school, I heard the refrain “for every wrong there is a remedy”. My classmates thought my approach was more accurate: “for every act there is a tort”. The prof was, of course, chagrined. My version surely better describes the ethos and behavior of American lawyers.
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Amy Wax has a law and medical degree too, very select group!
Medical school was not challenging enough so you decided to pursue JD also lol
Edit: your prof lives in a bubble
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The truth is that back then, I believed that the route to self-esteem (the esteem of others in actuality) was through one’s outward and visible accomplishments. I believed that if I only accomplish enough (if I have enough credentials) the world will believe I am a worthy person and tell me that I am; I was incapable of believing I was worthy. Whether that was nature or nurture, I still don’t know, but it was the nature of my psychic economy back then and I wasted a great deal of effort trying to get the world at large to app[rove of me. That is the real reason I have so many letters after my name (and private, instrument, multi-engine and commercial pilot’s licenses). None of it worked, BTW. I finally came to believe I’m a decent person through 12-step recovery from addiction 35 years ago. I saw myself “in the mirror” of other flawed and fallen individuals I loved and thought were worthwhile human beings despite their glaring flaws and fallen-ness. What I initially thought was the worst thing to ever happen to me (being an addict and facing “suggestions” I go to a 6 month rehab - turned out to be the best! Honest real truth behind my “accomplishments”.
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Medical degree, pilot’s licenses – most definitely a skilled hard-working individual worthy of respect. Said individual also has a JD? – So what? We have to forgive that, because we all make mistakes. 
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Yes, I escaped with my mind and reason intact. I graduated in 1988 with a JD, passed the PA bar, and continued to work in anesthesia. Even back then, the bar was headed to woke at warp speed. I also learned (too late) that law firms consult medical experts on an ad hoc basis; it’s cheaper than hiring them. My legal knowledge allowed me to serve on ethics committees and helped make me a credible expert witness.
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AI vigilantism?
Maybe externally orchestrated:
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https://www.npr.org/2026/07/27/nx-s1-5904606/anthropic-vs-bartz-ai-copyright-lawsuit-pros-cons
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058235/bartz-v-anthropic-pbc/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70991505/bartz-et-al-v-anthropic-pbc/
The author said the hard cash reaffirms that piracy is a crime. But he has mixed feelings about the last 2-plus years he’s spent fighting Anthropic. “A lot of travel, a lot of discussion about what to do and how to proceed and a lot of jobs passed up,” he said. “I’m much poorer for this settlement, ironically.”
Good. I’m glad this grifter didn’t make out like a bandit. Copyright law is so broken than any setback for these guys is a benefit for humanity. The legal theory that the plaintiffs propounded was, essentially, that Anthropic’s AI learned something by reading his books, therefore he’s entitled to compensation above the price of the book. By that reasoning, any human who reads also owes this greedy chucklehead a lot more money — more than the book’s purchase price — because they got something out of his book.
And, by the way, he made plenty of dough from his book when it was adapted for a Netflix movie. Let’s not forget that the whole idea of protecting intellectual property is, to quote the Urtext, “To promote the progress of science and useful arts…” Well, that’s exactly what’s going on when AI is trained on such sources, same as when a human reads a book and learns something.
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