Americans express fear and negativity toward AI, often relying on bad arguments like water usage, a stark contrast with Asia's and Europe's relative positivity
Noah Smith / Noahpinion : X: @sarthakgh , @noahpinion , and @noahpinion X: Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : Excellent rant and love letter about AI by @Noahpinion https://www.noahpinion.blog/ ... Noah S...
How billionaire investors of the internet era are fighting to determine whether AI's future will be one of concentrated safety or unfettered advancement
Alex Konrad / Forbes : X: @bgurley , @sarthakgh , @ylecun , and @twobitidiot X: Bill Gurley / @bgurley : Tickled to be mocked a “johnny-come-lately” to open-source in @alexrkonrad's important article...
The lawsuits against tech companies could shape what copyright means for AI, or simply serve as leverage for plaintiffs to secure more favorable licensing deals
The bar for fair use is typically that the new work doesn't compete with the original. … X: Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : “If the NY Times successfully argues that reading a third party article to hel...
X starts removing preview headlines from posts with article links, showing only the lead image and domain name; Elon Musk mentioned the change in August 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @rickf@indieweb.social : In other words, “please generate needless clicks so I can boost ‘engagement’ on the platform to get more advertisers back, pleeeasseeee.......
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has over 30M signups, up from 10M within seven hours of launch, 5M in four hours, and 2M in two hours
what you need to know Tyler Lee / Phandroid : Twitter should be worried as Threads racks up 30 million sign ups in less than 24 hours Livemint : Elon Musk hits out at Zuckerberg as Threads seems ‘Thre...
Interviews, pitch decks, and documents suggest that the recent success of Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque has been bolstered by exaggeration and dubious claims
Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and — per interviews with more than 30 people … LinkedIn: Jon Lam . Bluesky: @carnage4life.bsky.social . Tw...
After news broke that Microsoft Advertising was dropping Twitter support, Elon Musk tweeted that it's “lawsuit time” for training “illegally using Twitter data”
So if I were an artist I'd get the hell off there, because legally you don't have a leg to stand on. Mike Masnick / @mmasnick@mastodon.social : LOL. Musk claims he's going to sue Microsoft for not pa...
Stack Overflow CEO says the company plans to charge large AI developers for access to the 50M questions and answers on its service as soon as mid-2023
The programmer Q&A site joins Reddit in demanding compensation when its data is used to train algorithms and ChatGPT-style bots Mastodon: @paul@social.paulkedrosky.com . Tweets: @nwaisb , @jason , @ev...
Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turn out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal
I marvel the technology. But. … Kyle Dent : An open letter calls for companies to pause building AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 due to “profound risks to society and humanity.” … Peter Peng : Co...
The US case against alleged Mango Markets manipulator Avraham Eisenberg highlights traders treating crypto as a game, forgetting the real-world consequences
Mango — So here's a trade. — You open two accounts on a commodity futures exchange, Account A and Account B. Tweets: @pt , @matt_levine , @mrauchs , @martincschmalz , @aservais1 , @michaelbkelley ,...