As a technologist, coder, and lawyer, few people are better equipped to discuss the legal and practical consequences of generative AI than Damien Riehl. He demonstrated this a couple years ago by generating, writing to disk, and then releasing every possible musical melody. Damien joins us to answer our many questions about generated content, copyright, dataset licensing/usage, and the future of knowledge work.

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Show Notes:

• Talk - Legal and Practical Consequences of Generative AI (LLMs like GPT, Bart, PaLM, LLaMA, Alpaca, Codex)
• Talk - Why All Melodies Should Be Free for Musicians to Use | Damien Riehl | TED

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