This post originally appeared on the Engelberg Center blog

This week Prusa Research, once one of the most prominent commercial members of the open source hardware community, announced its latest 3D printer. The printer is decidedly not open source.

Last summer I submitted a request that the Copyright Office renew an existing rule that allows users to break DRM that prevents them from using materials of their choice in 3D printers. As of October 28th, that rule has been renewed for another three years.

Licensing deals between AI companies and large publishers may be bad for pretty much everyone, especially everyone who does not directly receive a check from them.

It feels like any time I have a conversation about attributing data used to train AI models, the completely understandable impulse to want attribution starts to break when confronted with some practical implementation questions.