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Toot by Drew MochakDrew Mochak (freeradical.zone)

@alexhall Also, people are calling Altman a eugenicist because he's a longtermist, and well yeah there's definitely a lot of eugenics going on there. See: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/05/why-effective-altruism-and-longtermism-are-toxic-ideologies for a start. He's being called a thief because OpenAI under his leadership has an extensive track record of hoovering up whatever it can find, including intellectual property, to train its model. Without paying. Note: They supposedly stopped doing this as of May of this year, and 0 people believe Sam Altman on this.

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If You Kill Two People In A Car Crash, You Shouldn’t Then Sue Their Relatives For Emailing Your University About What You Did by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

Holy shit. So, in 2021 there was a car accident in Atwater California that killed a married couple, Pam and Joe Juarez. According to police reports at the time, a 20-year-old Stanford student, King Vanga, struck their car from behind. Here’s how ABC 30 reported on the matter: The California Highway Patrol says Pam, 56, […]

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On OpenAI: Let Them Fight by Dave Karpf
I won’t pretend to know what the hell is happening at OpenAI. The story is changing by the hour. It’s chaos though. And that’s a good thing. For the past few years, OpenAI has told a near-perfect story: The company was founded by tech luminaries — people skilled at noticing developing technologies and operating as though the future had already arrived. They recognized that we were on the cusp of a breakthrough that would transform, well,