Watermark My Words

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In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:

• Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images (The Verge)
• Claude-inspired copypasting (LinkedIn)
• Anthropic investors bet on $2tn valuation in record IPO (Financial Times)
• The Future is for Everyone (Meta)
• OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves start-up less than a year after joining (Financial Times)
• US court rules Meta, other tech firms must face thousands of lawsuits over social media addiction (Reuters)
• Ninth Circuit Rewrites Section 230 To Remove The Part That Actually Mattered (Techdirt)
• Otherwise Obectionable podcast (Techdirt)

And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:

• Breton calls for EU disinformation inquiry over Ceuta (Euractiv)
• Meta and TikTok agree to fact-check content on Spain border crossings after deadly rush (Reuters)
• Social media rumours spark biggest migration crisis between Morocco and Spain in years (Euronews)
• Thierry Breton: “Ceuta? La minaccia viene dall’algoritmo che guida gli arrivi” (La Stampa)

Our fun links this week are this typing website for tiny fingers and a museum for your favourite memes — and the thinking behind it.

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).