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the sketchbook of villard de honnecourt, a 13th century french artist who would sometimes give up on drawing faces
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there is an argument (which I've made privately until now) that one of the principal innovations of the large language model labs is a *legal* innovation, not a technical one
by building a system that hoovers up mind-bogglingly large volumes of human information and feeds it into a recombinatorial association machine, the companies have bulldozed the existing IP regime and made the contents of ~all human IP (including the most mundane) searchable, reconfigurable, and usable while also obscuring any trace of origin and eliminating a need to provide credit or attribution. much of the perceived benefit is therefore access and exposure to IP people would not otherwise have had access to, presented behind a system that abstracts the IP from its context and history and presents it as net-new information.
I imagine we would have seen ~similar productivity outcomes had Google actually been allowed to make productive use of the Google Books database over a decade ago.
I’m starting to get increasingly uncomfortable with the economics of AI as it is currently happening
It seems fundamentally wrong that a small number of people with access to a huge amounts of VC money can vacuum up all the contributions of humanity, often paying nothing for it, then turn around and get enormously rich while the many people who put all the work into creating the training data get nothing
I am generally pro-AI, but the way it is happening is seeming increasingly parasitic to me
So I would say maybe change jobs every 1.5 to 2 years instead, but otherwise I think changing jobs semi-frequently is a good way to prevent yourself from being professionally "stunted" when it comes to skills / knowledge.
OH: "you want 5 years of experience. not 1 year of experience 5 times"
a clean way to articulate the most simple challenge a lot of people have in the industry
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Something kind of amusing about this scene is that the term "robot" wasn't coined until 1923. Implicitly this takes place before then since the 19th amendment (women's right to vote) was adopted in 1920.
I still think this is very cute though.
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As someone who's bearish on AI but with evolving opinions of it, the prediction was clearly wrong but I think the bearish sentiment was partially correct given how far behind Meta and Google are in their AI efforts.
Newsletter: Based on estimates of their burn rate and historic analyses, I hypothesize that OpenAI will collapse in the next 12-24 months unless it raises more funding than in the history of the valley and creates an entirely new form of AI.
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To elaborate, I think the failures of Meta and Google disprove the dominant idea at the time that scale was all you needed. I think Anthropic and OpenAI are using some kind of secret sauce(s) other than scale. I think AI is hard, not inevitable, and hardly certain.
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If you're working on a project and want visuals that aren't AI-generated, the world's great museums have put hundreds of thousands of high-res artwork scans into the public domain.
Just search for a museum name, plus "open access".
So as a developer the idea of designers being able to push (potentially) working code to Github from Figma is kind of a wake-up call for me that I should be as good at design as I am at implementation if I want to continue enjoying frontend, because soon it'll be table stakes.
Learn more and join the waitlist figma.bot/CodeOnFigmaCanvas
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I realize that this is a pretty milquetoast take, but at this point I really do think that any developer who leans towards frontend really should get serious about identifying as a designer for the simple fact that a Github integration means designers can ship code.
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Been meaning to learn motion design for a while now, might finally pick it up
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Of course "some" people at the frontier labs believe startups are over.
"Some" people at Meta earnestly believed they'd dominate the Metaverse or whatever.
You really don't expect people to drink the Kool Aid?
Some people at frontier AI labs told me they believe startups are over.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI will absorb every industry as AGI nears. Coding today, science, medicine, and finance next. Then everything else.
If they’re right, that’s a pretty boring end of the world.
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🚨 To make it clear to everyone, tech executives like Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk want NO legal protection for:
- original creative works
- trademarks
- patents
- trade secrets
- geographical indications
They want:
- the financial collapse of creators
- no system of consumer trust
- full corporate espionage
- the end of high-investment innovations
- fake regional products
If you had doubts about what the tech industry stands for, here you have it, loud and clear.
[*or they don't know anything about law; in that case, as influential tech leaders with millions of followers, they should be much more self-aware and refrain from encouraging baseless ideas]
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Intellectual property matters, and it is ESSENTIAL to the survival of the innovation, ingenuity, and creativity that sustain the tech and AI industries.
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👉 I invite you to ignore the noise, join my newsletter's 77,000+ subscribers, and learn more about recent AI copyright issues in the edition I published today (link below).
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.@sama's infectious stupidity has struck again!
#Oracle Customers Throw Cold Water On Company's Claim It Was Not Hacked
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Did OpenAI patch it's image model last minute to prevent Studio Ghibli generations?
I wanted to see if it could do zoomer wojak, Ghibli-style, but it's refusing any Ghibli-related requests from me.
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Still only barely dipping my toes in the water with Contra, but it's definitely an interesting direction compared to the Upwork / Fiverr duopoloy
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