"Chamber of Progress, a tech industry coalition whose members include Amazon, Apple and Meta, is launching a campaign to defend the legality of using copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence systems."
#AI#GenerativeAI#Search#Perplexity#Plagiarism#Journalism#Media#News: "AI-powered search startup Perplexity appears to be plagiarizing journalists’ work through its newly launched feature, Perplexity Pages, which lets people curate content on a particular topic. Multiple posts that have been “curated” by the Perplexity team on its platform are strikingly similar to original stories from multiple publications, including Forbes, CNBC and Bloomberg. The posts, which have already gathered tens of thousands of views, do not mention the publications by name in the article text — the only attributions are small, easy-to-miss logos that link out to them.
For instance, a Perplexity aggregation of Forbes’ exclusive reporting on Eric Schmidt’s stealth drone project contains several fragments that appear to have been lifted, including a custom illustration. Over the past several months, Forbes has broken a series of stories on the former Google CEO’s secretive efforts to develop AI-guided aircraft for the battlefield, and this week reported that Schmidt had poached talent from SpaceX, Apple and Google, and has been testing his drones in the wealthy Silicon Valley town of Menlo Park." https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2024/06/07/buzzy-ai-search-engine-perplexity-is-directly-ripping-off-content-from-news-outlets/
Microsoft has announced it is making its controversial Recall feature, announced alongside its new Copilot+ PCs last month, something you will have to opt-in to use.
The feature, which will screenshot everything you do on your computer, is something privacy advocates and security experts have warned could be a “disaster” for cybersecurity. Microsoft had originally planned to turn Recall on by default, but now the company says users will need to “proactively choose to turn it on.” @theverge has more.
it’s a little disingenuous to refer to #LLMs as #opensource because you can really only open source an LLM in roughly the same way you open source a microprocessor — RISCV is open source, the plans for it anyway, but it still costs millions to riff off it and make your own custom version, same with LLMs. that’s not exactly what open source was going for
@kellogh I get what you're saying. But barrier to entry has always been "high" depending on who you're talking to. The average person doesn't have the skill and knowledge to set up and compile open source software. I still think it fits the original spirit of the term and movement. The more knowledge out there the better for us smelly nerds. :smug:
#Algorithms are generally bad, esp. for workers, but good for corporations:
Variable pricing (surge pricing) has a much more insidious effect on workers than on consumers. When a worker is selling their labor… it's about their ability to survive.
Hospitals have begun using apps to allocate tasks based on⬆️sophisticated calculations of how workers move thru space & time -fastest nurse -not necessarily the best at sanitation or skill.
For two consecutive quarters, generative #AI dealmaking at the earliest stages has declined, dropping 76% from its peak in Q3 2023 as wary investors sit back and reassess following the initial flurry of capital into the space.
Okay, now this is important. Drop everything you're doing, because Tom7 has released a new video. And oh boy, is it wonderful. 20 minutes won't save your life - and this video demands you sacrifice that time. Now!
Tonight is Creative Code Stammtisch, 122nd edition. As usual, at 19:30 in co.up in Berlin: a low-key 'show and tell' format in 10 minutes. Come by and show us what you've been working on!