Sep 28, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 11 segments
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as we discuss another installment of the "my date with..." potluck, My Date with a Pair of Grey Sweatpants by Dakota Cockaday. WITS Smut…
So last week we had good news only.
What about this week?
No. Nope.
It's 2026.
What do you got for me? It's
I'm going to skip over the existential crisis of LLMs training themselves and alignment drift and the odds that it kills us all shooting up the more we careen forward with development and instead tell you about copyright law.
Oh, lovely.
Okay.
Yes.
In a huge blow to their defense that the LLM transforms all the news articles it's ingested and does not replace them, internal documents show employees trying to decide if it was, quote, the largest theft of labor in human history.
Whoops! It's not all about transformation.
That is an exact word that courts use to determine whether use of content counts as fair use.
Whether the new work causes market harm by becoming a substitute for the original
work.
Yikes.
Yikes
is
right.
It's yikes because, like...
When you have that whole, like, the call is coming from inside the house kind of thing, you know, like people that are seeing it are like, oh, no, what we're making is not good for humanity.
Literally.
That's a
So last week we had good news only.
What about this week?
No. Nope.
It's 2026.
What do you got for me? It's
I'm going to skip over the existential crisis of LLMs training themselves and alignment drift and the odds that it kills us all shooting up the more we careen forward with development and instead tell you about copyright law.
Oh, lovely.
Okay.
Yes.
In a huge blow to their defense that the LLM transforms all the news articles it's ingested and does not replace them, internal documents show employees trying to decide if it was, quote, the largest theft of labor in human history.
Whoops! It's not all about transformation.
That is an exact word that courts use to determine whether use of content counts as fair use.
Whether the new work causes market harm by becoming a substitute for the original
work.
Yikes.
Yikes
is
right.
It's yikes because, like...
When you have that whole, like, the call is coming from inside the house kind of thing, you know, like people that are seeing it are like, oh, no, what we're making is not good for humanity.
Literally.
That's a
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