Put all those trolls and other spreaders of hate disguised as truth in the hands of this gentleman. Very satisfying. youtube.com/@chotutufan.1?…

A high school student asked if he should join a startup or go to university. I said that if he was ambitious he could learn a lot more at a university. The work you do in a startup is severely constrained. If it isn't, the startup is inefficient.

I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions. Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.

What many teachers are saying: "it's like you are interacting with them briefly in between hits of the internet, which is their real life." Get the phones put away, and stop putting internet-connected devices on students' desks.

Sweden will makes its schools phone free! They are also pulling back on edtech. They recognize that multifunction devices make it harder for students to learn. thelocal.se/20250313/swede…

Sad.

Brua Brua — a medium through which trustworthy information flows reliably from one human to another, in a way that is fair and respectful towards those who form the pillars of knowledge that (often unknowingly) have shaped modern AI. bok365.no/artikkel/ansva…

AI, in its present form, can be characterized as a technology that erodes intellectual capital, which has been adopted en masse in a way that erodes social capital. This is not how I want my field to evolve. This is not the AI I want my kids to encounter, nor should you.

You would not believe the quotations we have from inside TikTok. They know what they are doing to children including the addiction ("compulsive use") and attention fragmentation. You've got to read the quotations yourself: afterbabel.com/p/industrial-s…

"You're fighting a losing battle, even if you win the AI lawsuits, there's still China." China: "18 months in prison."

Pay attention to who is celebrating today's fair use judgement. Despite authors' big piracy win, verdict's narrow scope, & likely appeal on fair use, these people celebrate a verdict that favors AI companies over creators defending their rights. Tells you all you need to know.

The fair use ruling feels pretty unfair. Amongst other things, the end user is using these tools to quickly access raw info written by some human. Surely, it impacts the market for work in question.

Emad as in, collected from other people without a license agreed

This is big: 10 authors have filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for allegedly training AI models on pirated books. They cite evidence Microsoft trained on Books3, a 200,000-book dataset known to derive from pirated sources. Full complaint: bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop…

🚨 Another AI fair use ruling today, and this one is *much* better for creators. 🚨 tl;dr: The judge said "In many circumstances it will be illegal to copy copyright-protected works to train generative AI models without permission." Authors sued Meta for training on their

Couldn't agree more @feistyredhair LET KIDS BE LOUD 🥳 afterbabel.com/p/let-kids-be-…

🚨New paper on AI and copyright Several authors have sued LLM companies for allegedly using their books without permission for model training. 👩‍⚖️Courts, however, require empirical evidence of harm (e.g., market dilution). Our new pre-registered study addresses exactly this

Me (exhausted): what were you doing when I was resting? Kid: shouting at you 😂

To me founding a company is the same as creating culture. This has inherent pushback. Ppl are used to their ways. It requires a mindset that accepts change. It requires a place that accepts change. Norway isn’t it. Yet.

Daniel Levine Paying for your training data