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To Open-Source or Not to Open-Source?
Defining open-source AI vs open-source software, why Meta's Llama models are not open-source, and how open foundation models could help us sidestep the traps we fell into with social media.
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How to Deal with Data Harvesting AI Girlfriends?
Chatbots everywhere, privacy study by the Mozillla Foundation on "romantic AI chatbot apps" and considerations on why they are so popular.
symbolism
Lawyers Need Wisdom, Not to Call GPT
LLMs as writing editors, existential thoughts on the role of lawyers, and a case study of corporate product promotion disguised as academic research + OpenAI lawsuits
OpenAI
AI’s Labor Market Impacts Are Slower Than Expected
Key findings in a recent paper on AI's labor market impact by MIT and IBM + conversation with Renée Shaw.
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Potential Landmark Case on Social Media's Destruction of Youth Mental Health
The multi-state class action against Meta, social media's harmful effects on the youth, manipulative product features, and Meta's denial of key findings in internal research.
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Why Amazon Was Hit with a GDPR Fine of €32 Million by the French Data Authority, CNIL
Amazon's heavily criticized surveillance of stock workers is not allowed under the strict data privacy laws of the European Union. + My appereance on the STAY Sustainable Blog.
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Rabbit R1 & The Future of Operating Systems
A future without smartphones, LLMs as operating systems, AI mind reading devices + conversation with Conrad Gray.
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Biggest Global Risk in 2024 is Misinformation
The number 1 risk in WEF's Global Risk Report 2024 is misinformation. Impacts and countermeasures to AI propaganda, synthetic media and deepfakes, and the urgent need for more boredom.
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OpenAI’s Mounting Legal & Ethical Problems
UK, EU, and US considering investigations of the OpenAI/Microsoft partnership, copyright lawsuits, many private companies blocking the GPTBot, OpenAI's journalism blog post + EU AI Act Leak
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A Sensible Approach to Regulating AI in Copyright Law – The Input Phase
A new class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, Gary Marcus and Reid Southen in IEEE Spectrum, Public vs. Private datasets + Podcast with Sairam from Gradient Ascent
OpenAI
The NYT Lawsuit Against Microsoft and OpenAI Could Signal GenAI’s Napster Moment
Introduction While reading about the myriad of lawsuits that are hitting OpenAI and Microsoft, I am more and more inclined to think that ChatGPT could face a “Napster moment”. Napster, the peer-to-peer streaming platform that was big from 1999-2001, became defined, not by its proliferation of free
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Announcements for 2024
Happy New Year! I have some important announcements to share regarding this publication.