Tag: law
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XR News for 2024-04-23
People expected big changes after the release of the Apple Vision Pro, and some are visibly disappointed. Apple tends to have a big effect on the mainstream, lots of people seem to think that they invented the smartphone, when the iPhone came out I was using my third smartphone. XR technology has been commercially available…
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Corrections to the cultural heritage images licensing regime
Last year a mandatory fee regime was introduced for images of publicly-owned cultural heritage artifacts. This is morally wrong, but it is also impractical. A new regulation came out in March modifying the rules and introducing exemptions. Wikimedia Italia wrote about it on their Arkivia blog. Academic works and news are now exempted from the…
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AI Linkpost – 2024-02-06
Local AI Apple open-sourced this interesting local AI for instruction-based image editing. https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile https://github.com/apple/ml-ferret General AI news https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/17/24041518/generative-ai-copyright-violation-fair-training-label-certification: Nonprofit group Fairly Trained plans to certify AI models that ask permission to use copyrighted material. https://moritzgiessmann.de/blog/posts/using-ai-for-accessibility/ https://www.theuxda.com/blog/ux-case-study-ai-powered-spatial-banking-for-apple-vision-pro https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/01/what-do-threads-mastodon-and-hospital-records-have-in-common/ Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home: Hacker News Thread Mixtral 8x7B: A…
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Some AI news, and EU regulation
This ended up being a pretty weird post, juxtaposing technical releases and legal developments, we don’t know if we really managed to give it a coherent shape, but this is very much the complex space in which the future of digital humanities, and indeed the future of everything we do, is being shaped. There are…
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The Italian Court of Audit recommends Open Access for cultural works
As reported by Wikimedia Italia, the Italian Court of Audit (Corte dei Conti) recently released a lengthy (220 pages!) report (source) on the activities of the Italian Ministry for Culture, touching on the PND (Piano Nazionale di Digitalizzazione) and on specific pricing guidelines released in April (D. M. 161, 11 aprile 2023). Ideologically we are…