AI Reading List

Daily curated list of news, articles, and other interesting posts related to AI.

2025-10-26

• AI Pullback Has Officially Started (www.planetearthandbeyond.co)

  Interesting look at growing skepticism and disappointment with AI, highlighting new research showing that AI tools often fail to deliver real productivity gains and may even slow users down. The piece notes declining adoption rates, rising cancellation of corporate AI initiatives, and a shift toward recognizing the current limitations of AI technology.

• The FSF considers large language models (lwn.net)

  The Free Software Foundation is actively investigating how large language models impact free software licensing and compliance, recognizing challenges in copyright, attribution, and permissive license compatibility. The discussion highlights uncertainty around copyrightability of LLM-generated code, risks of proprietary training data, and the need for more metadata when accepting such code into open-source projects.

• Books by People – Defending Organic Literature in an AI World (booksbypeople.org)

  Overview of a certification initiative that helps publishers prove their books are human-authored, aiming to protect creative integrity as AI-generated literature becomes more common. The program provides guidelines, verification, and support to uphold the value and credibility of human writing in publishing.