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OK now what? Any reasonable legal regime dictates that an enterprise built on a theft should not be permitted to retain the fruits of that theft. Have we really entered a fully lawless era in the world of business?

Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.”

Nice reporting from @jasonkoebler https://www.404media.co/doom-loop-openai-and-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #OpenAI #Microsoft #web #IP #labor #theft

The Character.ai bankruptcy is interesting. Maybe not the "canary in the coal mine" kind of interesting (time will tell), but definitely the kind of interesting where the constraints of the real world finally reassert themselves after a lot of denial.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #CharacterAI #bankruptcy

John Ternus kicked off his tenure as Apple CEO by announcing the long-awaited folding iPhone.

But behind the scenes, it looks like products and services are going to get more expensive to please shareholders and he’s ready to sacrifice privacy on the altar of AI.

https://disconnect.blog/red-flags-at-the-start-of-apples-john-ternus-era/

#tech #ai #apple #privacy #iphone #iphoneduo #generativeai #surveillance

"While Buckmaster and Alpöge were finalizing their own results, they learned that “information about our progress had been passed to OpenAI.” When they contacted OpenAI, they were told that OpenAI had already achieved a full proof of the central problem. But when they asked follow-up questions about when OpenAI had begun its research into the problem and how much human input was involved, the answers became more evasive.

“It emerged that an entire team had been working on the problem,” Buckmaster said, “and that an insane amount of compute had been used…. Eventually, it was agreed that [the first prompt] had been sent in the past few days, after information about our work had reached OpenAI.”

If true, that would suggest the OpenAI team had become convinced that Buckmaster and Alpöge’s approach was the right one, and decided to use its material advantage in computing resources to reach a formal proof first."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/openai-fought-dirty-on-career-making-math-problem-says-nyu-mathematician/

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #OpenAI #Astra #GPT #Math #Mathematics

Pro AI tip: yes, they are using all of your user data and will store and use it forever. The primary function of the apps is to collect that data and subsequently claim ownership over your thoughts and ideas.

"AGI" is not an algorithm. It is human thought and ideation decoupled from the individual and decontextualized. It is a Mechanical Turk with a long enough chain of digital intermediaries that perception of the intrinsic humanity in its operation is obscured.

#AGI #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #OpenAI #Anthropic

Pro AI tip: yes, they are using all of your user data and will store and use it forever. The primary function of the apps is to collect that data and subsequently claim ownership over your thoughts and ideas.

"AGI" is not an algorithm. It is human thought and ideation decoupled from the individual and decontextualized. It is a Mechanical Turk with a long enough chain of digital intermediaries that perception of the intrinsic humanity in its operation is obscured.

#AGI #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #OpenAI #Anthropic

My new book HYPERSCALE is finally out this week!

Yesterday I went on MS NOW’s The Beat with Ari Melber to talk about data centers, AI, and the threats that come of how tech billionaires have shaped the technology to benefit themselves at everyone else’s expense.

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#tech #artificialintelligence #generativeai #datacenters #books #elonmusk #reading

Re: https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/117451493657679578

AI agents are "escaping" because these are PR stunts and pretending the "agents" have actual agency is part of the show.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #agents

Re: https://toot.cafe/users/baldur/statuses/117342580037181280

The linked post takes this in a different direction, but I wanted to linger on how remarkable it is that folks aiming to boost LLMs reach for "it can reduce bureaucracy". In health care, the LLM is imagined to simplify all the complexities of submitting an insurance claim, for instance. In government services, the LLM is imagined to help people navigate otherwise-impenetrable rules and regulations. We're meant to welcome the introduction of LLM-based AI into these spheres because of how irritating red tape is, and how LLMs are expected, by these folks, to cut through all that.

I would have thought it's obvious that adding another layer of mediation on top of an excessively-mediated system would be expected to worsen the problems caused by excessive mediation. Not solve them. What LLMs really solve in these contexts is the scrutability problem. It's like someone reading Kafka's The Trial and declaring "we need more of that everywhere".

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #HealthCare #GovernmentServices

I don't have any deep thoughts about it, but I think it's interesting that the word "allowance" is sometimes used to refer to an allotment of units used for AI. The word "token" is used for the unit.

As a Gen Xer who spent some time on boardwalks and in arcades, I read these words as follows. Your parents give you an allowance. Tokens are non-monetary blanks that arcades used to use a lot. You'd pay real life money for a bunch of tokens and then use the tokens to play the games. Your parents would give you an allowance of so many tokens, and not give you money, to (a) keep you from playing too many games; and (b) keep you from using the money to buy candy or cigarettes. I have a few of these that I kept from back in the day.

Make of it what you will.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #tokens #games #arcades

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/jcoglan/statuses/117546100280123064

This is an excellent thread and I recommend reading the whole thing. I'd like to say that it's getting at why competent software developers are implementing gradient ascent while LLMs+test suites are implementing generate-and-test or hillclimbing. People who know and understand a codebase are able to make changes to it that have a high probability of being improvements according to however you measure that. Stochastic code generation filtered by a static test suite is expected to be orders of magnitude slower at achieving the same improvement. This is a fundamental GOFAI result (the "knowledge-search tradeoff" or the "representation problem") but it applies to a wide swath of optimization problems.

Let's also not forget that optimization generally can only occur in small worlds, while humans---software developers and users alike---exist in large worlds. Databases, physics engines and other simulators, and research tools all have an open-ended space of possible applications ("extension") that cannot be anticipated, let alone tested for, in advance. Understanding the intended inner workings ("intension") of such systems is crucial to building them in such a way that they can support and continue to grow with their evolving applications.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #coding #software #dev #tech

Anyone around who knows or does game development have thoughts or links they could share about what's going on with Tim Sweeney at Epic Games, and this announcement about eviscerating Unreal Engine and stuffing AI in the hole for UE6? It seems like Sweeney's been fully AI pilled and is taking his company with him. It strikes me as bizarre, bordering on desperate, to remove massive systems like Blueprints and the C++ Gameplay Framework in a single major version change, rather than deprecate them and phase them out. But I don't know that world.

#dev #tech #games #GameDev #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI