What Kevin Kelly thinks about neural networks

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Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.

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1. 7 Sept 2026

   Our readingA neural network's latent space is closer to an uncopyrightable syntax than to copyrightable expression.

   LLMs

   Their wordsThe latent spaces of an LLM are closer to something like a syntax which is not copyrightable.

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