Amazon loses its case against Perplexity: the user is always responsible for what an AI does

A US court has attributed responsibility for access carried out via Perplexity’s AI assistant to the user, but has not ruled on a key issue: the liability of those who design software capable of operating on third-party infrastructure against the owner’s will by Andrea Monti – Originally published in Italian by Italian Tech – La Repubblica
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Social media and ‘addiction’: the Los Angeles ruling raises more questions than it answers

To attribute responsibility for individual behaviour tout-court to product design can profoundly alter the boundary between technological neutrality and active intervention in users’ decision-making processes, with effects that may extend far beyond the individual court case by Andrea Monti Continue reading “Social media and ‘addiction’: the Los Angeles ruling raises more questions than it answers”

The agreement between Trump and Xi on TikTok: China remains in the American joint venture

The US president’s executive order ends the battle over the platform’s future. But between exemptions, Chinese quotas and political controls, doubts remain about the real scope of the decision by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by La Repubblica – Italian Tech Continue reading “The agreement between Trump and Xi on TikTok: China remains in the American joint venture”