Silicon Valley’s unlikely ally to defend generative AI
Anti-copyright activists fought the film and music industries. Now they’re fighting artists who want to stop generative AI.
Paris Marx
Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.
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