🚨 BREAKING: In a newly leaked benchmark from Stanford, OpenAI's GPT-4 has just blown past the infamous Bärnhauer-Czernijewski Boundary Condition. Here's what it means for or B2B SaaS, a 🧵

I'm not arguing w the fact that AI poses risks. I AM ceaselessly annoyed by the pattern This is not new or novel. It was women - @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) MMitchell, me, et al - who rang the AI alarm years ago & were retaliated against, pushed out for doing so. nytimes.com/2023/05/01/tec…

This is such a powerful example. And TBH one of the best ways to "regulate" AI: organized workers demanding dignified and safe working conditions, rejecting the idea that AI-enabled degradation of work is inevitable!

Writers in other fields should be paying attention to the WGA negotiations. Here's the current position on the use of AI.

My first quote in the Financial Times For context: Alarmist statements on the part of mining industry that Chile’s move to increase state role in lithium sector are *tactical.* Raising the specter of capital flight is one way to induce gov to water down their plans on.ft.com/3Ny3TvC

No, it could not. Full stop. If any Hollywood exec claims they're replacing workers with AI, know that people are working as scabs behind the scenes. Because, I repeat, AI cannot replace human workers. Writers, editors, and otherwise.

we still don't have a home for our paper and if any journals are interested in working with us to get it published, reach out to me here's the current abstract:

Whoa. Adobe is offering *full* legal indemnification for copyright lawsuits over generated images that enterprise users produce in Firefly. Their model is trained on licensed & out of copyright images, which others don't do - so it's a big throw-down. fastcompany.com/90906560/adobe…

A can’t-miss episode if you’re trying to make sense of this AI hype cycle

Joining Threads from Instagram is easy, but migrating from Twitter is a headache! This shows why we need social media based on open protocols – as LJW and I explain today in Harvard Business Review: hbr.org/2023/07/thread…

CLJE Fellow Mark Erlich's new book takes a deeper look into the history and dynamics of the building trades, and offers solutions for the future of the industry. "The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work" is out now. press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087…

As a linguist, I'm really curious to watch how a better understanding of history might change the modern use of the word Luddite. As someone concerned about how tech is being used to concentrate power, I want everyone to learn from this, stat.

tremendous work from the best guy i know, my boy .Tom Stackpole motherjones.com/politics/2024/… very much haunted by this graf:

Read Tom Stackpole on housing crisis on Martha’s Vineyard, the onetime regular place turned celebrity rich people playground where he grew up. Lessons for everywhere, particularly places where second homes/short-term rentals push out year-round residents motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

every company training artificial intelligence models realizes their problem is finding enough data across the internet to make their products live up to their sky-high future expectations By Cade Metz Cecilia Kang Sheera Frenkel Stuart A. Thompson Nico Grant nytimes.com/2024/04/06/tec…