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In the Mood to Exclude: Revitalizing Trespass to Chattels in the Era of GenAI Scraping
David Atkinson
GenAI companies are strip-mining the web. Their scraping bots harvest content at an unprecedented scale, circumventing technical barriers to fuel billion-dollar models while creato…
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Open Shouldn't Mean Exempt: Open-Source Exceptionalism and Generative AI
David Atkinson
Open-source status should not shield generative artificial intelligence systems from ethical or legal accountability. Through a rigorous analysis of regulatory, legal, and policy f…