Writer, programmer, investigator.
Joined February 2011
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Let's give credit where it's due. theatlantic.com/technology/2…
AI doesn't "learn" like a human, it makes copies of books, art, music, and videos. Which could be a big problem for Silicon Valley. My latest investigation for the The Atlantic presents research that the AI industry has been trying to keep hidden. theatlantic.com/technology/2…
A little-known nonprofit has been lying to news publishers while funneling millions of paywalled articles to tech companies for AI training. Read about my investigation in The Atlantic. theatlantic.com/technology/2…
AI is doing to publishers what Uber did to taxi companies. Books and journalism may increasingly be controlled by Silicon Valley. See my latest piece in The Atlantic for details. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
Style imitation isn't copyright infringement, but it's potentially disastrous for artists and studios. Can anything stop AI companies from doing it? I wrote about it for The Atlantic. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
If AI chatbots are getting better, why can't tech companies measure their progress? I wrote about a serious problem with the industry's benchmark testing. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
Dialogue from more than 139,000 movies and TV shows is being used to train generative AI. I wrote about it for The Atlantic and built a search tool for screenwriters, directors, and actors to find their work. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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A ground-breaking investigation by @AnnieGilbertson and @_alexreisner for @proof__news found that subtitles from 173,536 @YouTube videos, siphoned from more than 48,000 channels, were used by Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple and Salesforce to train their AI models
proofnews.org/apple-nvidia-a…
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So the BEST LLMs write functional code — the thing they are apparently best at — less than 50% of the time?????!!
And this justifies hundreds of billions in VC investment and cooking our planet with insane compute usage HOW???
How do the LLMs compare? Leveraging our "code grading" tech to introduce weekly computationally grounded LLM benchmarking...
wolfram.com/llm-benchmarking…
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Wow, @NintendoAmerica -- guardians of actual creativity -- has more spine that every hollywood studio.
Is generative AI a good thing for our culture? Does it help spread knowledge or does it impede creativity and collaboration? These are central questions in the ongoing lawsuits against AI companies, which I just wrote about for @TheAtlantic. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
A behavior called "memorization" is causing legal problems for generative AI. I wrote about it for @TheAtlantic. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
Alex Reisner retweeted
Good heavens. I hope this doesn't encourage proliferation of 'veritable cathedral of ice' in AI composition
New pieces in my series for @TheAtlantic on AI training data: theatlantic.com/technology/a… and theatlantic.com/technology/a…
Great response from @MargaretAtwood to my piece in @TheAtlantic. "...they could at least buy me a coffee." theatlantic.com/books/archiv…
I did some hacking and wrote a piece for @TheAtlantic about the complex realities of AI training data. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
