FTC authorizes compulsory process for AI-related products and services: bit.ly/3sAZzDT

The OpenAI Sam Altman decision is also putting Microsoft in the crosshairs of regulators. politico.com/news/2023/11/2…

Recent papers support that current artificial intelligence paradigm - deep learning - is based on compression. Transformers & diffusion models encode compressed versions of the original data. AI is currently just glorified compression.

ICCL statement, 24th November.

With the rise of tech giants and concerns about American dominance, European startup Aleph Alpha, led by Jonas Andrulis, enters the stage. And it's it's challenging the AI frontier with transparency and multilingual capabilities. wired.trib.al/pI6hNJ6

Today, the Prime Ministers of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand released a joint statement. Read it here: ow.ly/zUkk50Qi0rF

Introducing, VonGoom: A method for data poisoning large language models to introduce bias, requiring as few as 100 poisoned examples within training data. Deployed in January, we have penetrated dozens of commonly scraped websites with poison examples. delcomplex.com/vonGoom

I am fascinated by the brand new #osint geolocation tool geospy.web.app from Boston “startup” Graylark. It works best in urban areas. Can you reply with your own results so we can find out together how good the tool is? Till now, my results are promising (1/3)

The Guardian endorses my view that a "New Romanticism" is starting to emerge. People are resisting the total dominance of technology in their lives, and embracing more human elements in culture. It's just starting. Links in the thread below.

🚨🚨Super early Chrome deprecation data analysis! 🚨🚨 Data from tens of millions of impressions since the 1% deprecation trial came into effect on Jan 4. 1/

See people saying GPT-5 is a step towards AGI … Sorry to break it to you: AGI is a hoax

"3. We recommend that the Government does not pursue plans for a broad text and data mining exemption to copyright.." committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…

New minute entry in United States v. Google LLC (Dep't of Justice Ad Tech Monopoly): Reset Hearings: Final Pretrial Conference and Status Conference reset for 3/22/2024 at 10:00 AM in Alexandria Courtroom 700… [full entry below 👇] Docket: courtlistener.com/docket/6675378… #CL66753787

It’s hard to know which generative AI companies train on scraped data, and which take a more ethical approach by licensing. So today we’re launching Fairly Trained, a non-profit that certifies gen AI companies for fairer training data practices. Our first certification, called

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The cat has three front legs. Watch closely. Lol.

We’re 80% towards achieving our goal, but we still need to raise more to cover start-up costs. This is an All or Nothing Crowdfunder, so IKLECTIK will only survive if we hit this target by 1st March. Please support us to move into our next chapter crowdfunder.co.uk/p/iklectikfutu…

Bound to be more and more of this. abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…

I won. I won my appeal. The Luxembourg court has ruled that Jeff Dieschburg infringed upon my copyright when he used my work without consent. Using a different medium was irrelevant. My work being 'available online' was irrelevant. Consent was necessary. 1/

Proprietary Google fingerprinting. Someone really should bring this up at Antitrust.