“All watched over by llamas of loving grace” It’s been a busy few weeks in the AI and copyright beat, and while I’ve been following all of the developments ...

In a spectacular development in the AI wars, Disney and several studios have sued the AI image-generating company Midjourney for copyright infringement ...

So long and thanks for all the lawsuits! Most people who have been paying attention to the copyright and AI debate in Europe have been expecting that at ...

Is the future open? Something curious has been occurring in the world of digital rights. Openness, once one of the cornerstones of Internet culture, has ...

I was recently trying to buy a train ticket using a Web platform which shall remain nameless for obvious reasons. I have been using the site for years to ...

A common theme here at Llama Towers is to talk about our changing relationship with the Internet as a whole, and with social media specifically. I was both ...

I’m currently on sabbatical finishing a couple of papers, and I wanted to find a figure for a footnote. How many daily users are there for generative AI ...

If you were online between March 25 and March 26, your timeline may have been flooded with a barrage of AI-generated images, a large number of which would ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about cyberpunk recently for various reasons. Not only have I been re-reading some old classics such as Neuromancer and Snow ...

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about one of my favourite science fiction novels: ‘Snow Crash‘ by Neal Stephenson. “Snow Crash” envisions a future world ...