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Mike Cook

@mtrc
18 posts
2025-08-12
Fascinating feedback loops going on here.  It's easier to take action against the smaller public entity than the actual source of the problem, so everyone else pays the price.  [embedded post]
2025-08-12 View on X
The Verge

Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing every page but its homepage, after catching AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine

it was illegally collected by AI companies Andrew Nusca / Fortune : Ford's new EV strategy includes $2 billion U.S. investment Amanda Yeo / Mashable : Reddit is blocking Wayback Ma...

2024-09-05
This is especially sad when contrasted against headlines like this [image]
2024-09-05 View on X
Wired

The Internet Archive loses its appeal of a US district court ruling that favored publishers in a copyright dispute over the nonprofit's ebook lending program

I could follow the logic of the concept of the Digital Library itself, but the “National Emergency Library” was clearly a step too far.  There was no way “let's unilaterally lend o...

2024-01-11
This goes in both directions too - players will be expected to report in-game violations, while developers will be responsible for “illegal or infringing content” in pre-generated content, so the buck gets passed both ways. [image]
2024-01-11 View on X
IGN

Valve plans to add an “AI disclosure section” to Steam, asking developers to describe how their games use AI content and to let gamers report illegal AI content

https://steamcommunity.com/... James House-Lantto / @Theeo123@mastodon.social : https://www.gamingonlinux.com/ ...  Valve has posted new, and clearly defined rules or games using A...

Valve now allow AI-generated content in games sold on Steam. Notably none of their objections to AI content have changed, but in true Valve style they've simply shifted responsibility for dealing with it onto the user. https://steamcommunity.com/... [image]
2024-01-11 View on X
IGN

Valve plans to add an “AI disclosure section” to Steam, asking developers to describe how their games use AI content and to let gamers report illegal AI content

https://steamcommunity.com/... James House-Lantto / @Theeo123@mastodon.social : https://www.gamingonlinux.com/ ...  Valve has posted new, and clearly defined rules or games using A...

2024-01-10
Valve now allow AI-generated content in games sold on Steam. Notably none of their objections to AI content have changed, but in true Valve style they've simply shifted responsibility for dealing with it onto the user. https://steamcommunity.com/... [image]
2024-01-10 View on X
IGN

Valve's Steam plans to add an “AI disclosure section”, asking developers to describe how their games use AI content, and to let gamers report illegal AI content

New survey update will ask developers to disclose how their games use generative AI.

This goes in both directions too - players will be expected to report in-game violations, while developers will be responsible for “illegal or infringing content” in pre-generated content, so the buck gets passed both ways. [image]
2024-01-10 View on X
IGN

Valve's Steam plans to add an “AI disclosure section”, asking developers to describe how their games use AI content, and to let gamers report illegal AI content

New survey update will ask developers to disclose how their games use generative AI.

2023-05-17
Now that regulation is inevitable, the best next PR move if you own a big tech company is to lean into it and attempt to guide the process as much as possible. https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-17 View on X
Financial Times

Sam Altman tells Congress that AI regulation is “essential” but must let companies adapt to new tech, suggests safety measures and a licensing regime, and more

2023-05-16
Now that regulation is inevitable, the best next PR move if you own a big tech company is to lean into it and attempt to guide the process as much as possible. https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-16 View on X
Financial Times

Sam Altman tells Congress that AI regulation is “essential” but must let companies be flexible and adapt to new tech, recommends safety measures, and more

OpenAI's chief executive Sam Altman will tell US lawmakers on Tuesday that regulation of artificial intelligence must allow companies …

2023-05-05
A lot of people say that private research is more efficient than academia, but I feel like I could get quite a bit done if I was allowed to lose $540m in a year. https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-05 View on X
The Information

Sources: OpenAI's losses roughly doubled to ~$540M in 2022, and Sam Altman privately suggested the company may try to raise as much as $100B in the coming years

OpenAI's losses roughly doubled to around $540 million last year as it developed ChatGPT and hired key employees from Google …

2023-02-23
For those RT'ing stuff about the Midjourney-assisted comic book copyright case: copyright was NOT granted for the Midjourney images. The copyright was only granted to... the bits the human did. Like any other comic book. https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-02-23 View on X
Reuters

Letter: the US Copyright Office says a graphic novel's images that were generated using the AI tool Midjourney should not have been granted copyright protection

Images in a graphic novel that were created using the artificial-intelligence system Midjourney should not have been granted copyright protection …

2022-12-01
Very excited for people to make large language models more and more pedantic until no-one wants to talk to them any more because they've gone full deGrasse Tyson. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-01 View on X
MIT Technology Review

OpenAI releases a demo of ChatGPT, a chatbot version of GPT-3 that answers follow-up questions, admits its mistakes, challenges incorrect premises, and more

A chatbot version of GPT-3 that admits its mistakes is more transparent than the original.  But it's still not perfect.

2022-06-23
Earlier in the week, @NilChristopher emailed me with a fascinating mystery: DALL-E Mini repeatedly produces images of women in saris when prompted with a blank input. He did some digging to find out why, but the mystery persists. A really nice piece: https://restofworld.org/...
2022-06-23 View on X
Rest of World

A hacktivist claims DALL-E-like Craiyon, formerly DALL-E mini, generated portraits of brown-skinned women in saris almost every time he ran a blank request

The images represent a glitch in the system that even its creator can't explain.  —  Like most people who are extremely online … Tweets: @mtrc , @nilchristopher , @sub8u , @flitter...

2021-10-15
This is another reason why relying on private companies to do scientific research doesn't work. Facebook is full of lovely people, I'm sure. But Facebook itself is not interested in what humanity needs, what makes the future better, or what the most interesting questions are.
2021-10-15 View on X
The Verge

Facebook details Ego4D, a research project in partnership with 13 universities that uses first-person video to improve perception by AI assistants

cataloguing not just what you say but the physical world around you. Such systems could be incredibly useful, of course, but have huge privacy implications. https://www.theverge.co...

It's easy to forget that a lot of new technological “frontiers” are just a single very powerful company or person wanting to push an idea. There's no need for egocentric AI. There's no need for smart glasses. But Facebook wants you to think there is, and that they're inevitable.
2021-10-15 View on X
The Verge

Facebook details Ego4D, a research project in partnership with 13 universities that uses first-person video to improve perception by AI assistants

cataloguing not just what you say but the physical world around you. Such systems could be incredibly useful, of course, but have huge privacy implications. https://www.theverge.co...

2021-07-19
I think Karen Hao is one of the great AI critics, but I do feel she's off the mark here. We don't need to give this guy any slack, in my opinion - Helen herself here tracks down ethics specialists to discuss this idea for the article. Why couldn't Neville have done the same? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-19 View on X
New Yorker

Experts say consent and disclosure are key to the ethical use of synthetic media, amid controversy surrounding Bourdain's deepfake voice in a new documentary

2021-04-01
Nick Clegg really has perfected the art of locating the absolute worst people he can find and then enabling and defending them to the hilt. https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-01 View on X
Medium

Nick Clegg defends Facebook, saying it is not in the company's interest, financially or reputationally, to continually push users toward more extreme content

In  —  a recent article for The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance compared Facebook to a Doomsday Machine: “a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life.”

2021-03-31
Nick Clegg really has perfected the art of locating the absolute worst people he can find and then enabling and defending them to the hilt. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-31 View on X
Medium

Nick Clegg defends Facebook, saying it is not in the company's interest, financially or reputationally, to push users towards ever more extreme content

In  —  a recent article for The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance compared Facebook to a Doomsday Machine: “a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life.”

2019-11-08
The four ideologies they studied were “white supremacy, Marxism, jihadist Islamism, and anarchism” (looks directly at camera) as outlined here: https://openai.com/.... Their full report is attached to this larger PDF release from OpenAI, towards the back: https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/ ...
2019-11-08 View on X
The Verge

OpenAI releases the full version of GPT-2 text generation AI, which it previously said was too dangerous to share, after finding “no strong evidence of misuse”

James Vincent / The Verge :