2024-11-10
OpenAI Killed Chegg Chegg's stock is down 99% since its highs in 2021, erasing $14.5 billion in value, and the company has lost half a million paid subscribers. After revenue keeps dropping quarter after quarter, there are doubts it will be able to continue paying its debts.
Wall Street Journal
Chegg lost 500K+ subscribers since ChatGPT's launch, and its stock is down 99% from early 2021, as students looking for homework help turn to free AI tools
Chegg's stock is down 99%, and students looking for homework help are defecting to ChatGPT — Most companies are starting to figure …
2024-10-19
The idiot trapped himself. OpenAI can't function without Microsoft's assets while Microsoft not only (1) gets access to OpenAI's proprietary data, but also (2) COMPLAINS when they don't deliver it fast enough for Copilot! 😆 #novaseline
TechCrunch
Report: OpenAI sees a clause in its Microsoft contract, which cuts off Microsoft's access to OpenAI tech if OpenAI develops AGI, as a path to a better contract
The New York Times on Thursday published a look at the “fraying” relationship between OpenAI and its investor, partner, and …
2024-05-12
😯 The judge basically told Elon our tweets aren't his to hoard, protect, or sell as his own. And he makes a direct jab at AI companies buying social content too👇 [image]
CNBC
A federal judge dismisses X's lawsuit against Bright Data over data scraping; Meta previously filed a suit against Bright Data and was similarly unsuccessful
In dismissing the complaint, Judge William Alsup wrote, “X Corp. wants it both ways: to keep its safe harbors yet exercise a copyright owner's right to exclude, wresting fees from those who wish to extract and copy X users' content.” https://www.cnbc.com/... [image]
CNBC
A federal judge dismisses X's lawsuit against Bright Data over data scraping; Meta previously filed a suit against Bright Data and was similarly unsuccessful
2024-05-11
In dismissing the complaint, Judge William Alsup wrote, “X Corp. wants it both ways: to keep its safe harbors yet exercise a copyright owner's right to exclude, wresting fees from those who wish to extract and copy X users' content.” https://www.cnbc.com/... [image]
CNBC
A federal judge dismisses X's lawsuit against Bright Data over data scraping; Meta previously filed a suit against Bright Data and was similarly unsuccessful
Start planning to switch phone brands.
New York Times
Sources: Apple made generative AI a tent-pole project after Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing ChatGPT and found Siri to be antiquated
Apple plans to announce that it will bring generative A.I. to iPhones after the company's most significant reorganization in a decade.
😯 The judge basically told Elon our tweets aren't his to hoard, protect, or sell as his own. And he makes a direct jab at AI companies buying social content too👇 [image]
CNBC
A federal judge dismisses X's lawsuit against Bright Data over data scraping; Meta previously filed a suit against Bright Data and was similarly unsuccessful
2024-02-19
Stop using @Reddit and delete your most personal and important posts before saving them.
Bloomberg
Sources: Reddit signed a deal early in 2024, worth ~$60M on an annualized basis, allowing a large unnamed AI company to train its models on Reddit's content
including here—is now just an unpaid day laborer on someone else's LLM training farm. The only difference is that some companies make it more obvious than others. https://www.bloo...
2024-02-17
Stop using @Reddit and delete your most personal and important posts before saving them.
Bloomberg
Sources: Reddit signed a deal early in 2024, worth ~$60M on an annualized basis, allowing a large unnamed AI company to train its models on Reddit's content
- Social media firm agrees $60 million deal with AI company — Reddit advised to seek at least $5 billion IPO valuation
2023-06-14
Thanks to Greg's stupidity, every doctor named in this article will be reported to the FTC and other relevant health law monitoring agencies. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Some US doctors are using ChatGPT to communicate more empathetically with patients, including when breaking bad news and explaining medical recommendations
Gina Kolata / New York Times : Tweets: @davidgratzer , @_eric_reinhart , @josourcing , and @sarahdigregorio Tweets: David Gratzer / @davidgratzer : “Most surprising to Dr. Lee, th...
2023-03-12
Among other steps, the Biden administration recently said it will require cloud providers to verify the identity of their users to prevent foreign hackers from renting space on U.S. cloud servers. https://twitter.com/...
Politico
Worried that cloud giants offer concentrated targets, the US plans to regulate the security practices of cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google
Governments and businesses have spent two decades rushing to the cloud — trusting some of their most sensitive data to tech giants …
2023-03-03
@Techmeme @MiaRSato Just tell us whether they're using ChatGPT!
The Verge
Memo: CNET EIC Connie Guglielmo, who defended CNET's use of AI tools, plans to step down to become Red Ventures' SVP of AI content strategy and editor-at-large
Following monthslong questions about how CNET uses artificial intelligence tools, longtime CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo …
2022-09-22
@Techmeme @Kyle_L_Wiggers In its response to the USPTOffice, OpenAI acknowledges that the vast majority of content posted online is protected by U.S. copyright laws. https://www.uspto.gov/... They're using it as a 0-cost asset and selling it anyway. https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
OpenAI open sources Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system trained on 680K hours of “multilingual and multitask supervised data” from the web
2022-08-29
@Techmeme @Alber_RomGar Like OpenAI's Dall-e, Stable Diffusion was built with stolen content, 5.6 billion images scraped from the internet without paying the artists responsible for the art. Emad Mostaque is a thief whose software will get you sued.
The Algorithmic Bridge
Unlike DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion is open source and can run on high-end consumer GPUs, while its CreativeML Open RAIL-M license “strives for” “responsible” use
A state-of-the-art AI model available for everyone through a safety-centric open-source license is unheard of.
@Techmeme @Alber_RomGar Irresponsible reporting that glorifies the theft that comes from this tool without disclosing the IP horrors that accompany it. So allow me.
The Algorithmic Bridge
Unlike DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion is open source and can run on high-end consumer GPUs, while its CreativeML Open RAIL-M license “strives for” “responsible” use
A state-of-the-art AI model available for everyone through a safety-centric open-source license is unheard of.
2022-08-13
@Techmeme @StarFire2258 Too many points of entry for my taste. It goes from game server to cloud server to google server to my PC? #Nope
The Verge
Google appears to be testing letting users launch cloud games from Stadia, Amazon's Luna, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Nvidia's GeForce Now from search results
Sean Hollister / The Verge :
2022-08-12
@Techmeme @StarFire2258 Too many points of entry for my taste. It goes from game server to cloud server to google server to my PC? #Nope
The Verge
Google appears to be testing letting users launch cloud games from Stadia, Amazon's Luna, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Nvidia's GeForce Now from search results
Sean Hollister / The Verge :