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Our access to free literature is being abused from two ends, on one side is a U.S. government taken over by tech oligarchs, the other side is some of the oligarchs and other big tech firms. AI developed by companies like Meta have gobbled up millions upon millions of books from piracy sites. But if you don’t want to read AI-generated garbage, the federal government under President Donald Trump is looking to kill one of the major sources of funding for public libraries. It’s a bad time if you love reading.

Over the past two years, The Atlantic has been analyzing and creating repositories of publicly-available data troves used to train AI. The site set its sights on LibGen, an archive of pirated media that includes millions of books, academic papers, and other articles. Recently the site released its findings alongside a tool for searching through the archive of millions upon millions of pirated works. With that, you can look for your favorite authors to find if they have been used to train AI models from the likes of OpenAI, Mistral, and Meta.

gizmodo.com

You Can Now Peruse All the Books Meta Pirated to Train its AI

Trump, DOGE, and big tech companies like OpenAI and Meta don't care about free access to books unless it benefits their AI.
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China release an update to the DeepSeek AI model...

 

Amazon is testing shopping, health assistants as it pushes deeper into generative AI​

  • Amazon is testing new shopping and health assistants as it dives further into generative AI.
  • One feature, called Interests AI, prompts users to enter conversational search queries, and another tool is a chatbot focused on health and wellness.
  • Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has pushed employees across the company to build AI applications.
Amazon, in an effort to infuse generative artificial intelligence across a wider swath of its e-commerce universe, recently began testing a shopping assistant and a health-focused chatbot with a subset of users.

AI has become a major area of investment across Amazon, including in its retail, cloud computing, devices and health-care businesses. Within the retail business, Amazon has already launched a shopping chatbot, an AI assistant for sellers and AI shopping guides.

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Yeah, I reckon a chat with Dr Grok could be more useful than a chat with a pharma indoctrinated human who can only give you 10 minutes and nine of em are spent looking at a screen…..

Even better if there’s a Dr Mercola version that can offer natural remedies .
 

Digital afterlife - Could AI change how we grieve and remember the dead? | DW Documentary​

Apr 1, 2025 #documentary #dwdocumentary #dwdocs
Communicating with deceased relatives is now possible thanks to virtual reality. Companies around the world are working with artificial intelligence to allow people to live on after their death. Could grieving become a thing of the past?
Justin Harrison, founder of the app "You, Only Virtual”, enables the bereaved to communicate with virtual clones of their deceased loved ones - via text message or even a phone call. For J. R. Adams, whose mother was like a best friend to him, the virtual exchange means she continues to be part of his life.
Jason and Melissa Gowin are both seriously ill. They have each created a virtual copy of themselves so that their children can actively cherish their memories after their death.
At the heart of the so-called "digital afterlife industry” is the vision of precisely preserving a someone’s memories and stories so that they do not die with them. But not everyone welcomes the development. Sociologist Holly Prigerson says technology can provide temporary support and comfort, but it cannot be a substitute for actually saying goodbye and coming to terms with the loss.


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My first thought was this has to be an April fools prank, but I'll be damned, it checks out.
 
GROK-3 MINI MADE AI HISTORY—100% ON HARDCORE REASONING TESTS

Grok-3 Mini pulled off what no other model has!

It aced every question on one of the toughest reasoning benchmarks out there.

The test? A custom logic gauntlet packed with curveballs:

* 120/120 on the “Marcus Problem” — full of shuffled sentences meant to trip up inference.

* 24/24 on the “Alice+ Problem” — designed with irrelevant noise to throw models off course.

* 24/24 on high-difficulty mixed challenges — where even GPT-4.5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro slip.

No guessing. No trivia. Just pure, distraction-proof reasoning—Grok-3 Mini nailed it!
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Bill Gates says AI is coming for 2 kinds of jobs that once seemed tech-proof​

  • Bill Gates said AI could solve shortages in two key professions: teaching and medicine.
  • The billionaire said AI will help plug labor gaps, even in blue-collar roles.
  • He also said AI could make early retirement or shorter workweeks possible.
Bill Gates said that the long-standing shortage of doctors and teachers may soon be over because AI will fill the gap.

"AI will come in and provide medical IQ, and there won't be a shortage," he said on a podcast episode of "People by WTF" published Friday.

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searcher said:
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Why Sarah Silverman and Other Artists Are Suing Open AI and Meta​

In a class action lawsuit [PDF] filed in California, comedian Sarah Silverman and other writers (Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey) seek to recover damages against OpenAI and Meta over copyright infringement. The lawsuit alleges OpenAI and Meta scraped copyrighted books from pirate websites to train their AI models. This is the equivalent of an AI model downloading its training datasets from Piratebay without compensating the authors.

Coincidentally, a separate class action lawsuit [PDF] against OpenAI alleges the company used unauthorized private information to train ChatGPT. Google is also facing a similar lawsuit over allegedly using stolen data to train Google Bard. This is why you should make it a habit to protect your personal information, though publishing work and private personal data are not the same.

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EFF Urges Court to Avoid Fair Use Shortcuts in Kadrey v. Meta Platforms

EFF has filed an amicus brief in Kadrey v. Meta, one of the many ongoing copyright lawsuits against AI developers. Most of the AI copyright cases raise an important new issue: whether the copying necessary to train a generative AI model is a non-infringing fair use.Kadrey, however, attempts to...
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