Users express surprise, delight, and disgust with viral Sora clips, as some warn of IP theft and that Cameos could lead to new kinds of misinformation and scams
and terrifying. X: Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : Someone gave my psychotic stalker an invite to Sora and he's already making AI videos of me. Thankful that Sora has the option to block and delete un...
Pump.fun raised $500M via a sale of PUMP tokens, which sold out in 12 minutes; it offered 12.5% of its total token supply at a fully diluted valuation of $4B
But Something Doesn't Add Up Monika Ghosh / CryptoSlate : Memecoin platform PumpFun concludes one of the fastest ICOs, raising $600M in 12 minutes Anthony Patrick / crypto.news : DIY memecoin platform...
A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for stealing from users of his now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange and orders him to forfeit $11B+
Past 6 pm on December 29 … Matthew Russell Lee / Matthew Russell Lee's Newsletter : Aftermath: SBF Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison After Coin Flip and Presidential Aspirations Cited by Judge - Ellison...
OpenAI and others will likely face more copyright lawsuits as systems like DALL-E produce copyright-infringing materials without attribution or informing users
including movie, TV, and computer game scenes and characters. Reductio ad absurdam: trademark-infringing output from a two word prompt ("animated toys"): https://garymarcus.substack.com/ ... … Neil B...
OpenAI and others will likely face more copyright lawsuits as systems like DALL-E produce copyright-infringing materials without attribution or informing users
A full of spectrum of infringement — At around the same time as news of the New York Times lawsuit vs OpenAI broke … Threads: @carnage4life and @thebrianpenny Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop , @ar...
Sources: in 2019, Paul Graham flew from the UK to San Francisco to fire his protégé Sam Altman from YC, worried that Altman put his interests ahead of YC
Before OpenAI, Altman was asked to leave by his mentor at the prominent start-up incubator Y Combinator … X: @cher0x801 , @bigmeaninternet , @deljohnsonvc , @josh_wills , @itsurboyevan , @itsurboyevan...
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt attributes angst over driverless cars to anti-robot bias, saying “anything that we do differently than humans is being sensationalized”
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said in an interview with The Washington Post that the angst around driverless cars in San Francisco is overblown X: @yoda . Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars X: Drew Olanoff / @yoda : I ...
Sources: Meta is considering paid, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for users in the EU, to fend off privacy concerns and scrutiny from EU regulators
#Meta is considering paid, ad-free versions of #Facebook and #Instagram for users in the EU, to fend off privacy concerns and scrutiny from EU regulators. — https://www.nytimes.com/... #privacy Blu...
Meta launches Instagram's text-based Threads app on the App Store and Google Play in 100+ countries; users log in via Instagram and can follow the same accounts
As Twitter has become even less-filtered … Michael Muchmore / PCMag : Hands On With Instagram Threads: Does Meta's Twitter Killer Deliver? John Palmer / Cryptopolitan : Meta's Threads Promises Decentr...
The FTC proposes penalizing companies for shady review practices, including fining companies buying fake reviews up to $50K for each time a customer sees one
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Twitter: Jess Miers / @jess_miers : ICYMI: The FTC is cracking down on fake reviews, teeing up yet another #Section230 conflict. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ......