Today, let’s look at two Pitchbook reports — the US VC-Backed M&A Outlook for second quarter 2025 and the 2025 US Venture Capital Outlook: Midyear Update. [Pitchbook; Pitchbook, PDF, archive; P…
give this its own post
Meta has won against Kadrey et al — the authors’ case against Meta training their Llama LLM on the authors’ books, including on pirate copies. [Order, PDF; case docket] Both sides brought motions f…
Looking through your chudposting, this may not be the discussion group for you.
Much beloved US phone company Verizon has updated its My Verizon app to include 24/7 customer service from AI! It’s got a chatbot based on Google Gemini. [Verizon] Verizon tells The Verge: [Verge] …
Habryka runs the fucking site
One of the many copyright cases in progress against chatbot vendor Anthropic is Bartz v. Anthropic, where several authors brought a class action suit in August 2024 for violating their copyrights w…
Habryka doesn't really know how not to start fights
In May, legendary Apple designer Jony Ive hooked up with OpenAI to announce an unspecified gadget. [WSJ, archive] To promote this complete vaporware, OpenAI released a video of Sam Altman and Ive b…
When our glorious AI bubble deflates, and we contemplate the wreckage of so many companies that did nothing but turn venture capital billions into carbon dioxide, there’s one company that wil…
even McCarthy was open that it was a marketing term
Over on YouTube, we run Google’s Veo 3 video generator through its paces. So when you’ve read this, go and watch the worked examples. [YouTube] Aron Peterson is a media production professional. He’…
this took me all day, but it's a banger if i do say so myself - watch the video first
podcast probably tomorrow
Headlines about AI companies paying “billions” for other AI companies mostly don’t mean real money, but equity in private companies with imaginary valuations. But sometimes, people want actual mone…
this is the one we banned a few days ago coming in from another server
and even if it isn't hoo boy that posting record
yeah I suggest you keep reading the thread pointing out how they were explicitly talking about generative AI a year before
iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…
A week ago I attended LessOnline, a rationalist blogging conference featuring many people I’ve known for years—Scott Alexander, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Zvi Mowshowitz, Sarah Constantin, Carl…
AI boosters are people who literally cannot tell good from bad, yet again
Salesforce is still hyped for AI everywhere! Especially its chatbot Agentforce, introduced in December! Agentforce didn’t work so well in outside tests. The reviewer said: “I can’t help but questio…
OpenAI must finish its transition from a weird charity to some sort of for-profit company. Then it can get $40 billion from SoftBank! OpenAI absolutely needs to get the stakeholders on side — parti…
why don't the sexy robots get more of this huh
In a new study, MIT Media Lab measured 55 people over four months on how well they could write an essay — either with ChatGPT, with a search engine, or just their unassisted brain. The researchers …
You can’t put data into an LLM and then filter the output to block some of it. Once it’s in the model, it’s in the model. If you put confidential business information into Microsoft 365 Copilot, an…
oh this is amazing, I wanna write this one up. The world needs warning of whatever shit Allred is trying to pull.
I need to set out the precise scam so it's incredibly obvious to any reader who hasn't encountered Allred before.
Meta’s got a new chatbot app, Meta AI. You can ask it questions in text or voice, much like ChatGPT or Gemini. [Meta] There’s one difference — the other chatbots don’t reveal your conversations to …
Hot off blowing over $100 billion on the Metaverse, Facebook/Meta has started doing the same with “AI.” Facebook just bought 49% of Scale AI for $14.3 billio, acqui-hiring founder-CEO Alexandr Wang…
author here - there is of course a good chance Disney will want to squash them like a bug.
Midjourney runs a diffusion model that you can ask to generate pictures. Disney and Universal and several other movie studios have sued because Midjourney keeps spitting out their copyrighted chara…
ChatGPT suffered a worldwide outage from 06:36 UTC Tuesday morning. The servers weren’t totally down, but queries kept returning errors. OpenAI finally got it mostly fixed later in the day. [OpenAI…
video version with eye searing hot pink
A pile of patient data that was sent to NHS England from doctors to research Covid-19 just happened to get poured into the NHS’s new LLM, Foresight. The British Medical Association and the Royal Co…
Apple Intelligence is most famous for mangling news headlines and text messages and making spam texts look legitimate. Bloomberg wrote in March: [Bloomberg, archive] People just aren’t embracing Ap…
David Gerard @awful.systems the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
https://davidgerard.co.uk/