Bruce Barcott

1 month ago | techpolicy.press | Bruce Barcott

Bruce Barcott / Mar 4, 2025Bruce Barcott is the editorial director of the Transparency Coalition, a nonprofit group working to create AI safeguards for the greater good. Three of his nonfiction books have been pirated and used to train major AI systems. Around this time last year, news headlines and court documents were full of grand proclamations from AI tech corporations using pirated content to train their artificial intelligence models.

Jan 16, 2025 | techpolicy.press | Bruce Barcott

Bruce Barcott / Jan 16, 2025Bruce Barcott is Editorial Lead at Transparency Coalition.ai, a nonprofit group advocating for safety, transparency, and accountability in AI. In late 2023, the nation’s biggest music publishers filed a federal lawsuit against Anthropic, developer of the AI system Claude, alleging copyright infringement. In the suit, the publishers claimed Anthropic’s use of their music to train Claude amounted to an unlawful use of their intellectual property.

Sep 29, 2024 | transparencycoalition.ai | Bruce Barcott

Sept. 29, 2024 — In a landmark victory for AI transparency, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the California Training Data Transparency Act into law over the weekend. The Act, introduced earlier this year as AB 2013 by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks), will require developers of generative AI systems to post information about the data used to train their AI system on their websites.

Aug 28, 2024 | seattlemet.com | Bruce Barcott |Easy rambles |Craig Romano |Allison Williams

We love the North Cascades National Park for what it’s not: It’s not easy to get to, it’s not all that busy, and it’s not a simple park. The top part of the state’s Cascade spine is a patchwork of protected lands: a spread of national park here, a finger of national recreation land there, and a sliver of hydroelectric dams and powerhouses in the middle. The surrounding buffer of national forests and Canadian provincial parks makes for a large, wild chunk of the Pacific Northwest.

Jul 1, 2024 | techpolicy.press | Bruce Barcott

This article is co-published with Transparency Coalition.AI, a nonprofit organization advocating for ethical generative AI training data practices. As policymakers work to create safeguards around artificial intelligence, dozens of AI-related lawsuits are simultaneously working their way through state and federal courts.