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    #419: Oh...Canada.

    July 6th, 2023 · 71 minutes

    Canada is the latest country to decide that somebody should be on the hook for the news industry’s financial issues, and it might as well be Google. Meanwhile, Google urges its AI models to both learn more and forget more.

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    Links and Show Notes

    Google says it will start blocking Canadian news stories in response to new law : NPR
    Our approach to news regulation
    ‘We must think beyond the memes’: Google’s Richard Gingras on the future of news in our societies - WAN-IFRA
    Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI
    Announcing the first Machine Unlearning Challenge – Google Research Blog
    Opinion | The Alt-Right Manipulated My Comic. Then A.I. Claimed It. - The New York Times
    Sarah's Scribbles