In several stories this past week, The Atlantic has focused on how AI companies including Meta used a large digital repository file containing thousands of copyrighted books, in order to train its generative AI models.
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FROM DENIAL TO ARROGANCE: WORKERS TOLD TO ‘GET OVER’ AI TAKING THEIR JOBS
Legacy media still mostly spouts the lines of tech CEOs (at least the ones who haven’t politically transgressed) concerning both the inevitability and the general gee-whiz awesomeness of AI and fast approaching AGI and ASI.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI MUST BE ALLOWED TO STEAL IP BECAUSE ‘NATIONAL SECURITY’, PLUS MORE HUMAN WORKER OBSOLESCENCE
Tech companies including Meta and OpenAI, who developed generative and now Agentic AI to divert huge profits from human creatives to themselves, have been battling copyright and IP laws in courts for several years now.
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COVID JEOPARDY BUBBLES UP AGAIN FOR FAUCI AND ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE
Autopen pardons, a wrongful death lawsuit, and new info concerning U.K. intelligence have all brought COVID back to the front pages this past week.
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RAY KURZWEIL GOT IT WRONG: AI AND TECHNOLOGY NOT FOSTERING SMARTER HUMANS
AI, and other general technology advances like smartphones and even the internet, are not making people smarter.
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MERGE WITH AI OR BE REPLACED
Humans are being pressured in their work and personal lives to merge with AI in 24/7 “collaborative” existence, in order to avoid obsolescence.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: HUMANS WORKING OVERTIME TO CREATE THEIR AI AGENT REPLACEMENTS
Mainstream media continues to dote on the wonders of the AI Revolution, while betraying at least some qualms about whether it might be serving narrow interests and speeding massive human worker obsolescence.
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HUMAN BIOLOGICAL COMMODITIZATION: “BIOLOGICAL COMPUTER” DEBUTS
Australian startup Cortical Labs is hailing a breakthrough in “organic” computing.
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WRONG DATA, COSTLY CONSEQUENCES: THE LATEST IN MISGUIDED CLIMATE GOALS
A new study out of Osaka, Japan has found that the UN’s climate policy org is using faulty historic data and assumptions in fashioning radical carbon zero and other policies.
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TRANSNATURAL: THE UNROTTEN FRUITS OF GENE EDITING
The prospect of mass human redesigns of every food that naturally spoils is now on the table, with bananas being served up first.
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