In a paper, media mogul Tim O'Reilly and economist Ilan Strauss say OpenAI likely trained GPT-4o on paywalled O'Reilly Media books without a licensing agreement
OpenAI has been accused by many parties of training its AI on copyrighted content sans permission.
How generative AI model providers can create business models that reward copyright holders and content creators, much like what has happened on the web
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Media : LinkedIn: Tim O'Reilly See also Mediagazer LinkedIn: Tim O'Reilly : I make the argument that rather than being “AI's original sin,” the use of copyrighted material by ...
A look at the cycles of decentralization and recentralization, and why we won't understand what Web3 consists of until after the next bubble pops
There's been a lot of talk about Web3 lately, and as the person who defined “Web 2.0” 17 years ago, I'm often asked to comment. Tweets: @oreillymedia , @amyjokim , @fredbenenson , @tgoetz , @robertdou...
AI must account for basic concepts of how the world works, like time, space, and causality, beyond statistical pattern detection, before it can earn our trust
@GaryMarcus and Ernest Davis @nytopinion https://www.nytimes.com/... Tim O'Reilly / @timoreilly : A refreshingly contrarian perspective on #AI. @garymarcus argues that we need to start over with first...
Mark Zuckerberg calls for global regulations in four areas: policing harmful content, election integrity, a GDPR-like privacy framework, and data portability
but some experts are questioning his motives Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run : Mark Zuckerberg: ‘I Believe We Need a More Active Role for Governments and Regulators’ David McCabe / Axios : Zuckerberg start...
Hoffman and Yeh's “Blitzscaling” offers practical advice for startups but presents a lot of revisionist history and ignores the perils of VC-fueled hypergrowth
The pursuit of monopoly has led Silicon Valley astray. — Look no further than the race between Lyft and Uber to dominate the online ride-hailing market. Tweets: @ulaar , @joshelman , @schulte_stef ,...
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg about Russia, fake news, InfoWars, Myanmar, and why he thinks Facebook shouldn't take down posts that deny the Holocaust
Kara Swisher got … Sarah Frier / Bloomberg : Zuckerberg Walks Back Defense of Holocaust Deniers on Facebook Rhett Jones / Gizmodo : Mark Zuckerberg Has a Great Idea for How to Fix Facebook Max Read / ...
Analysis: IBM and Oracle are tens of billions behind Amazon, Google, and Microsoft in CAPEX, and grow much slower in cloud infrastructure from a much lower base
Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics : Tweets: @jonathansorum , @timsneath , @charlesfitz , @jaypipes , @timoreilly , and @marypcbuk Tweets: Jonathan Sorum / @jonathansorum : CAPEX is a leading indic...
Analysis: IBM and Oracle are tens of billions behind Amazon, Google, and Microsoft in CAPEX, and grow much slower in cloud infrastructure from a much lower base
In previous installments (2017, 2018) of Follow the CAPEX™ (merch store opening soon!), we've looked at the capital expenditures behind … Tweets: @jonathansorum , @timsneath , @charlesfitz , @jaypipes...
Robert Scoble has allegedly continued to sexually harass women after going sober
After decades … Matt Bell : I know Quinn and trust her narration of reality. Tweets: Hadi Partovi / @hadip : This article implicitly suggests sexual harassment is excusable if it was 2 years ago, unde...