Matt Stoller
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Hahahaha the editorial board for CNN and CBS gets appointed by David Ellison.
what’s annoying about the AI safety debate is that the “largest theft of labor in human history" is something that’s actually happening rn not a far off sci fi scenario
AI firms are subject to already-existing laws, @linamkhan tells @cwarzel: Part of the conversation around regulating AI “seems to assume that these current developments are happening in some legal vacuum,” she adds, “and that is just false.”
#TAF26#
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Remember folks, take notes here:
✅ When your company hacking another helps with marketing, its "Rogue models gone wild hacking other companies." 😱
❌ No publicity! When a hacking incident solely shows you as massive thieves, it's an internal "ah nice"
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I had to be on TV responding to their "OMG we have six NEW incidents of CONCERNING models gone ROGUE cause they're SO POWERFUL" thing yet again.
Turns out hacking another company isn't really a concerning incident when it doesn't raise your valuation.
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Brendan Carr just cleared the way for a nation that was responsible for the murder of an American journalist to hold a key stake in CBS news and 60 Minutes, and if this merger goes through, in CNN and Last Week Tonight.
Saudi Arabia First.
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The FCC just let some of the most repressive governments in the world indirectly control nearly all of a combined Paramount-Warner Bros
An investment this large in one of America's biggest media companies doesn't just buy equity, it secures influence over what gets said and made
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The other problem with the pretense that liability law might solve our problems is that our existing federal government has shown little interest in prosecuting or even investigating potential violations of existing laws.
If the AI companies thought that potential violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act would be investigated, they would shut down all the “rogue” agents tomorrow.
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OpenAI's President Greg Brockman, when told his company had hacked the NYT paywall to scrape the site, responded with "ah nice."
That's a straightforward criminal violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. OpenAI executives in jail.
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OpenAI President saying “ah nice” after learning that their model had been programmed with “a hack to get around nytimes paywall.” This obviously constitutes another OpenAI violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Think this one demonstrates criminal intent, @DKThomp?
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They drove @aaronsw to death for much less than this and he had legal access to the material and was downloading it for a non-commercial use.
Still, the feds prosecuted the hell out of him, a case only dropped when he ended his life.
This is a crime if what he did was.
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This exclusive "news" story smells like a Paramount psyop. I've had some experience dealing with sneaky PR campaigns by big companies trying to push mega-mergers through antitrust review.
Here's why this one stinks: short 🧵, (1/x)
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This document looks like the almost 90% of Paramount will be owned by Middle Eastern nation states, Saudi Arabia, UAW, and Qatar.
Brendan Carr: "We also find that it is in the public interest to permit up to 100% indirect foreign equity interest of Paramount."
That's brazen.
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NEWS: The FCC approved Paramount’s request to let foreign investors — including sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar — own more than 25% of its equity, clearing a regulatory hurdle tied to its WBD purchase. Here's the ruling’s breakdown of the investments:
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OpenAI's President Greg Brockman, when told his company had hacked the NYT paywall to scrape the site, responded with "ah nice."
That's a straightforward criminal violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. OpenAI executives in jail.
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At Fordham Law conference AAG of DOJ Woodward coming out swinging against antitrust federalism, states independently reviewing mergers. Claims state AGs are more politically motivated. Calls state AGs “sticking the feet in the door” and claiming illegitimate actions on behalf of state AGs. “When the federal government makes the determination that a merger is in the public interest states can’t claim they are acting in public interest”
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new unredacted filings in the publishers (including my employer) vs OpenAI and Microsoft lawsuit
Microsoft's Director of applied science calls LLM training "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions"
asked MSFT and OAI for comment, nothing yet. NYT declines comment.
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So let me get this straight: AI CEOs now say the end of the world is near because of what their AI bots have been doing - but they want an antitrust exemption as a reward? How about instead we make them liable for whatever bad stuff their bots do
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woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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This is totally crazy.
A GOP candidate in Texas is sending texts that say "Attachment: $5,000 Check… Pres. Trump just authorized it," and a link to the "portal" for the $$ goes to a fundraising page for him to pay off his personal loan to the campaign!
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Senators Adam Schiff and Jim Banks nearly got an antitrust exemption in the defense bill for AI.
🌞Scoop: Trump aides are prepping a new AI-driven government services site: before midterms
Under discussion: Filing taxes & passport renewal
Government AI chatbot possible
Trump killed Direct File so could mark major reversal
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