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If you wanna look into another example search for the Abercrombie Plan in Edinburgh: it was a very ambitious urbanistic plan to "modernize" this city. For instance they proposed to demolish all of the historical Georgian and Victorian buildings in Princes Street and replace them with brutalist buildings and a motorway.

In the mid 20th century some people believed urban motorways were "progress" and wanted to build them everywhere, see for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama_%28New_York_World%27s...

Maybe I am missing your point but "Textbooks are all you need" distilled from GPT-3.5

Sorry but your argument doesn't seem coherent: How is the cost of RL relevant here?

It would also help if you could substantiate your initial claim (i.e. "internet training data is not where frontier capabilities come from")

Using them was allowed as fair use

That is only relevant in the US, and even there it is still not clear-cut whether the fair use doctrine applies on all these scenarios. Outside of the US the situation is also quite different: for example take a look at the recent ruling on GEMA vs OpenAI in Germany.

The reality is that the copyright issue with generative AI is very complex and reaching anything resembling a conclusion will take much more than a few opinion paragraphs from an American district judge.

-16.5% at the moment... Is the market reacting to the $20B bond offering news?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/spacex-ki...

Today we're gonna announce something a little weird and a little crazy, but also spectacular and filled with hope.

Why is that almost every LLM generated article sounds like a LinkedIn motivational post?

(this is not a rhetorical question, I would really like to know why, from all the writing styles, this is the most prevalent one)

Kissing the ring also helps - I won't be surprised if Anthropic's next model goes full MAGA

Here in Scotland it seems the desinfo campaign targeted mostly the SNP and Swinney. I guess it's hard to know how effective it was but his party lost 6 seats in last month's elections.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26188090.john-swinney-ta...

As a person from the developing world I feel obligated to say that I find your assurance quite unconvincing: the negative effects of smartphone at this point in time is invariant globally, and whether they are a net positive or negative is at least debatable.

And in relation to your first comment, most sane people would agree that "tools" don't exist in isolation - neither come into existence out of nowhere.

This reductionist position of treating extremely complex machines with deep social interactions as a tool like any other is objectively wrong, and I believe the reasons are highly obvious but I can expand on this if you disagree.

I remember reading in the news that Pokémon Go was quite popular in Palestine.

If GP has access to this dataset it would be interesting to know how sparse is the data in that area.

they are dangerous for progress of humanity

A tiny bit hyperbolic for someone who's not a fan maybe? :)

I don't believe the comments I replied to were specific to Uber.

They get paid for saying whatever VCs want to hear and now that thing is "we have now become an AI-native company". The thing I'm still trying to understand is who is scamming whom

It's a real shame there are no many people like Woz in the bay area

Yeah and back then it wasn't used as a sort of UUID to track every single thing you do in your life... Different times

You are never going to get the exact book word-for-word using LLMs

You could say the same about MP3 encoders but I don't think that would convince any judge

Sharing ideas with people is nice, the actual problem is your ideas in this case are just a vehicle for generative AI companies to monopolize access to information and control our own cognitive processes, which is not entirely something new but it feels like we are now moving backwards: from free access back to ministry of truth days

This is absurd, why is Google so desperate to kill the best thing they once had? I would love to know what happens inside a corporation to destroy itself in such way.

I also don't remember ever seeing anything being force-fed as much as LLMs, why?

I feel 2023 is when we entered the decrepit stage, but ~2015 is when it began: Theranos, Musk's charlatanry and cult, "unicorns", Cambridge Analytica, the raise of social media addiction, etc.

Not that things were amazing before that... it's just that mid 10s had simply too many bad actors showing up at the same time with a lot of money and power.

I remember back in 2018 during peak crypto bubble the same class nick named Malta as the "Blockchain Island"

For cars the classic example of inherently bad tech are touchscreen controls instead of physical knobs.

If you want more examples look into IoT products like smart toothbrushes, many of them now are "AI enabled".

I don't know anything about tractors but our modern world is full of useless and inherently bad "tech" that only exists for the flashy factor.

People are just tired of being mislead and abused by corporations, which is why there is now a market for non-tech products.

Who is building it and who is principally using it?

I was actually just looking into that: Beale Infrastructure, owned by Blue Owl.

we saw a gap: some of the largest global hyperscalers—companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google—needed partners who could move at their speed and scale to solve their growing data needs

https://wealth.blueowl.com/learnengage/ra/capturing-growth-t...

The CEO is ex-Azure/Microsoft:

https://bealeinfra.com/about/

I really can't tell for sure (new user posting a ridiculously hypocritical corporate message on a Sunday) but if GP actually works for OpenAI the lack of self-awareness is seriously striking

Virtually everyone on Mastodon is against generative AI

Microsoft Makes AI Mandatory For Employees

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2025/07/08/microsof...

Also reported on The Financial Times:

Apollo caps investor withdrawals from flagship private credit fund

https://www.ft.com/content/d315cb1c-1e1e-479c-a6d4-b3a817fea...

Ares limits withdrawals from $10.7bn private credit fund

https://www.ft.com/content/9a1b60c5-7015-4314-9608-d02c00c3a...

Context/related submission:

Store birth date in systemd for age verification

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436240

The Private Equity world already has a solution for this:

Nasdaq's Shame

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392550