Stanford law professor Mark Lemley, a partner at Lex Lumina, is withdrawing from the Kadrey v. Meta case over Meta training its Llama LLM on copyrighted material. He’s “fired Meta as a client” beca…
What we see over and over is that generative AI is promoted by people who literally can’t tell good from bad. People who can’t write or read promote ChatGPT. People who don’t know a good image prom…
The UK government today announced its “AI Opportunities Action Plan” — a rough and buzzword-saturated sketch promising to spend billions on this magical new technology that will achieve unprecedent…
Salesforce is all in on AI “agents” — whatever that means. CEO Marc Benioff said in December: [Salesforce Ben] We’re not adding any more software engineers next year because we have increased the p…
Photographer Matthew Raifman took a photo of a seagull in flight. He liked the photo but wanted to clean up some circle highlights on the image. So he put it into Adobe Lightroom, marked the areas …
reminiscent of:
Ask HN: Are there any substantial examples of blockchain solving a real problem? (2020)
It's clear that they didn't stop uploads of the torrents. It hasn't been established in the documents we've seen so far that they actually had downloaders in turn. But they did clearly make the works available for upload.
The class action suit Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, running since 2023, alleges massive copyright violation by Facebook in developing its Llama LLM. [Case docket] Just hours before the discovery deadli…
oh dont' worry - they prop up the appearance not the usability. They look smoother but user input is still sampled at the slower rate, so the games aren't actually any more reactive.
it's basically a number crunching workstation
even the commenters get stuck into Sam Axon this time
ehh. even in the original text it rapidly decays into anything that annoys him is a hyperkludge. Successful things have problems that are only problems of success.
the new FB standards guy is a Heritage Foundation guy, he would be the precise vector
Apple rolled out its LLM-powered “Apple Intelligence” update to iPhone, iPad, and Macintosh computer users starting in October. One feature of Apple Intelligence is to summarize multiple push messa…
oh they know what's causing it lol
this is a fun followup as the gamers ask Jensen wtf https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/jensen-says-dlss-4-predicts-the-future-to-increase-framerates-without-introducing-latency
Nvidia is the one company making a fortune in the AI bubble and will be just fine when it pops. They make top-quality graphics processors that physically exist, not money-burning AI models. But CES…
Day 2: this episode contains the most accurate description of linux users ever
(half will rush to help you secure your stuff against evil, the other half have strong concerns about the age of consent)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-offline-ces-2025-day-2/id1730587238?i=1000683119002
just when you think you're at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, the rationalists take you lower
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 01/07/2025 · 1h 16m
Ed Zitron, Robert Evans, Edward Ongweso Jr. and Gare Davis turn CES into a British panel discussion show.
There are probably other links for it than Apple, I'm sure you can find them if that's an issue.
we could have written another 1000 words, there was so much dumb AI shit
It’s that time of year again, when Las Vegas fills with tech companies presenting mockups of vague promises at CES in the hope of a stock pump! This year’s theme is artificial intelligence — gratui…
At the direction of, and with financial support from, the GRU, CGE and its personnel used generative AI tools to quickly create disinformation that would be distributed across a massive network of websites designed to imitate legitimate news outlets to create false corroboration between the stories, as well as to obfuscate their Russian origin. CGE built a server that hosts the generative AI tools and associated AI-created content, in order to avoid foreign web-hosting services that would block their activity. The GRU provided CGE and a network of U.S.-based facilitators with financial support to: build and maintain its AI-support server; maintain a network of at least 100 websites used in its disinformation operations; and contribute to the rent cost of the apartment where the server is housed. Korovin played a key role in coordinating financial support from the GRU to his employees and U.S.-based facilitators.
that's news not socials, but we are seeing LLMs deployed by social media bot networks
Ed Zitron calculated from the publicly available numbers that OpenAI was spending $2.35 for every $1 of ChatGPT they sell
this sounds like an attempt to demand others disprove the assertion that they're losing money, in a discussion of an article about Sam saying they're losing money
the important point is for Sam not to make any statement that wouldn't qualify as forward-looking statements. This helps dodge the SEC busting them for lying to investors, like Theranos and FTX.
Amazon lost money so if OpenAI loses money it must be Amazon
OpenAI is a blast furnace fueled by investor cash. But Sam is totally going to replace all your employees this time, honest — with agents: [OpenAI] We are now confident we know how to build AGI as …
you know it baybee, the one true paperclip maximiser
The Journal of Human Evolution is published by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers. All but one of the JHE editorial board resigned last week in the wake of Elsevier rewriting papers w…
GPU vendor Nvidia is the one company making all the money in the AI bubble. It put $1 billion into AI startups in 2024. That’s a lot of money for the startups — but it’s pocket change for Nvidia gi…
After an avalanche of lawsuits over scraping everyone’s copyrighted works for their LLMs to regurgitate, OpenAI promised in May 2024 to develop a “Media Manager” tool to let creators opt their work…
Facebook is a dying mall. You go on to talk to your old high school buddies and meet a wall of ads, weird engagement bait vaguely related to your interests, AI slop, and — occasionally — posts from…
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> Note: I don't care if the issues listed can be fixed - it's still like selling a nonworking car then getting the users to go to the shady cyberpunk district to get the fixes. It's like selling a dangerous power adapter and then go, hey, you can get an expert to go in there and do some soldering to the bridge rectifier and bulk cap trace widths, fix up the spark gaps so it complies with the most basic of safety regulations, and it will work as well as the competitor's, so aren't they practically the same? "Duurp, well at least you CAAAN get inside and solder-" Hey, what if a power supply just worked and was well featured? After like 40 years of development. Ever thought about that?
We finally have a real definition of the elusive "AGI."
David Gerard @awful.systems the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit
https://davidgerard.co.uk/