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Established Models & releases Signal 9d ago

Openai head of strategic futures says openweight

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Christopher Mims Karl Bode

“apparently we are headed for "full AI communism" www.reddit.com/r/Artificial...”

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Christopher Mims: There is a civil war happening in tech over Chinese / free to use / open weights AI? At least on X. I realize no one else cares, but this is my World Cup. tl;dr a former Trump official joined OpenA…
Christopher Mims: apparently we are headed for "full AI communism" www.reddit.com/r/Artificial...
Christopher Mims: "let them fight" always gets my antennae twitching
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Established Models & releases Signal 5d ago

How the futuristic hack by rogue openai models unfolded 1657bcea

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Justin Hendrix Christopher Mims

“I've seen some folks try to frame OpenAI's unreleased model hacking a company that tests its abilities as a cynical marketing ploy but reporting says that absolutely was not the case: This was a real-deal escape of an AI agent that could have done vastly mo…”

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Christopher Mims: I've seen some folks try to frame OpenAI's unreleased model hacking a company that tests its abilities as a cynical marketing ploy but reporting says that absolutely was not the case: This was a re…
Justin Hendrix: I've seen some folks try to frame OpenAI's unreleased model hacking a company that tests its abilities as a cynical marketing ploy but reporting says that absolutely was not the case: This was a re…
Christopher Mims: Some people seem to have trouble holding both these ideas in their heads at the same time: Dumb, cheap AI will often give totally wrong answers on the most basic of open-ended questions Eye-waterin…
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Established Models & releases Signal 11d ago

Cheaper ai commodity openai anthropic 0111da73

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Ted Underwood Christopher Mims

“HUGE news from China last night, and I have a comprehensive analysis of its implications for the AI bubble this morning. Xi Jinping has more or less declared war on OpenAI and Anthropic and any U.S. tech firm that insists on closed, proprietary AI models. 🎁…”

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Christopher Mims: HUGE news from China last night, and I have a comprehensive analysis of its implications for the AI bubble this morning. Xi Jinping has more or less declared war on OpenAI and Anthropic and any U.S…
Christopher Mims: I think we're going to get good at efficiently running open weights models anywhere we care to, it will reduce the environmental impact of this stuff as with "open as in open source", in software o…
Ted Underwood: HUGE news from China last night, and I have a comprehensive analysis of its implications for the AI bubble this morning. Xi Jinping has more or less declared war on OpenAI and Anthropic and any U.S…
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Established Compute & infrastructure Development 9d ago
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AI used to make anti-data center slop

AI Grifters Are Making Anti-Data Center Slop With AI

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Olivia Guest 404 Media Mike Masnick Christopher Mims Roland Meyer

“We are in the making AI slop against AI data centers hellscape grift now. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...”

“People now hate data centers so much that they're falling for anti-data center AI #slop on Facebook. Can't even say if that's good news or bad news, probably both? www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...”

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Roland Meyer: People now hate data centers so much that they're falling for anti-data center AI #slop on Facebook. Can't even say if that's good news or bad news, probably both? www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...
Olivia Guest: People now hate data centers so much that they're falling for anti-data center AI #slop on Facebook. Can't even say if that's good news or bad news, probably both? www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...
Olivia Guest: This is relevant I think olivia.science/entryism/
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Established Responsible AI Development 14d ago
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Meta AI biased targeting mass layoffs

Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs | The Verge

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Hypervisible Christopher Mims

““The lawsuit accuses Meta of violating federal and state laws preventing employers from terminating workers for taking protected leave.””

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Hypervisible : “The lawsuit accuses Meta of violating federal and state laws preventing employers from terminating workers for taking protected leave.”
Christopher Mims: “The lawsuit accuses Meta of violating federal and state laws preventing employers from terminating workers for taking protected leave.”
Christopher Mims: I wonder if they'll just settle, the algorithmic audit that could happen otherwise might reveal A LOT they don't want out there
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4 experts · 10 posts · 11d ago
Hypervisible Christopher Mims Tim Carmody Dave Parisi
Christopher Mims: This morning my AI powered fitness band was like “why don’t you go for a run??” and I was like “actually dangerous air quality” and it was like “good decision!!” Anyway do not take health advice fr…
Hypervisible : This morning my AI powered fitness band was like “why don’t you go for a run??” and I was like “actually dangerous air quality” and it was like “good decision!!” Anyway do not take health advice fr…
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2 experts · 5 posts · 11d ago
Christopher Mims Dan Greene
Dan Greene : This is basically the Jeff Ding case: real, pervasive adoption depends on end-users taking cheaper tools and figuring out profitable use cases in their specific domains. Which is not the moonshot/A…
Dan Greene : I feel like that's a timing issue. There's a world where OAI shrinks and gets fully acquired by Microsoft, Anthropic IPOs, and the action shifts to applications that use MS or Anthropic or whatever…
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