Twin Violets

Who Will Own My Digital Twin?

Todd A. Carpenter | Scholarly Kitchen | 19th December 2024

If a company trains an AI model on an employee's output, can it continue to be used long after that person has resigned or died? "Companies are well positioned to continue to profit from the employee’s experience and intellectual contributions... The economic model in which the profits of intellectual labour are time-bound or even constrained is rapidly being transformed" (1,800 words)

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At Lady Violet’s

Hilary Spurling | Hudson Review | 8th November 2024

Zesty biographical essay about Violet Pakenham: writer, aristocrat and wife of Anthony Powell. She was a connoisseur of parties and the possessor of a profound talent for friendship. Closer examination proves her to have been no mere "social secretary and telephone receptionist", though. She acted as a "human index" to her husband's great work, the 12-volume A Dance to the Music of Time (4,300 words)

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