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The Party on the Stairs, by British painter Adelaide Paxton (1875). In private collection.
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BREAKING: House Democrats have introduced a resolution that Congress should not bail out AI firms in the event of a financial crisis and should be subjected to the ordinary bankruptcy process.
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mogwai • how to be a werewolf
youtu.be/T8ky_fcHlow?si=y3Id…
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«Vous devez l'endurer, non pas parce que vous êtes fort, mais parce qu'il n'y a pas d'autre choix.»
Charles Bukowski
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C.S. Lewis, you must not wait for the perfect conditions
ALT There are always plenty of rivals to our work. We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
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Humans act like they appreciate empathy and kindness but the reality is that a lot of humans don’t really respect nice people and lowkey resent them.
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Oblique Strategy of the Day… #BrianEno #PeterSchmidt
ALT Oblique Strategy of the Day… Courage!
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"Several bestselling Big Five authors say their relationships with publishers have suffered over the past year due to AI use...
....One bestselling author says they received marketing copy that included AI-hallucinated quotes from their book, but the publisher insisted they were not AI-generated. “I was gaslit on all of it,” the author says.
During a recent round of contract negotiations, another bestselling author says they could not get a single Big Five publisher to promise no AI would be used in any way on their books."
Workers tell WIRED that NOA—or “No Ordinary Assistant”—was unhelpful. Bestselling authors also say AI is ruining their relationships with Big Five publishers. buff.ly/eIHTMUa
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Behind closed doors these AI companies are all perfectly aware that their models are built by stealing from creatives to transfer wealth to a centralized few at the top.
AI is theft and they know it. The stealing was always the point to enrich a chosen few and that's it.
As Anthropic prepares to IPO for over $1 trillion, a reminder of Dario Amodei’s words shortly after founding the company:
“Distributed human labor is being used to train AI models by large, centralized actors, who concentrate the resulting profits while in the long run making the human labor obsolete.”
In other words, this IPO will be built off the backs of the world’s creatives - who will get nothing out of it except obsolescence.
It is a totally unjust transfer of wealth and opportunity from artists, writers, musicians & other creatives to a tiny tech elite.
I hope it is remembered as such.
(this quote is from a document he wrote that was unsealed in Bartz v. Anthropic)
