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The Suit Against Copilot and What it Means for Generative AI
Sherry TsengIn June 2021, Microsoft subsidiary Github unveiled Copilot—a cloud-based artificial intelligence tool that promises to “help you write code faster and with less work.” Copilot does this by suggesting source code and functions as developers type either code or natural language into its module. This way, users can code without knowing how to write in […]
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How to Interpret a Vending Machine: Smart Contracts and Contract Law
Gregory KlassDevelopments in contract law are often driven by new technologies of contracting. Early in the twentieth century, for example, businesses began including contract terms on preprinted purchase orders, confirmations, invoices, packing slips, and other forms. That practice generated the so-called battle of the forms, which gave rise to section 2-207 of the Uniform Commercial Code […]
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A Genealogy of Digital Platform Regulation
Elettra BiettiUntil recently, the internet was imagined as a decentralized, horizontal, and open space that would foster freedom and equality. Today, it is a collection of walled gardens, a hierarchical ecosystem ruled by a few gatekeepers who leverage access to data and infrastructural capability to enclose users and competitors in relations of dependency. Until recently, the […]