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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.

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.
 

 

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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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/tec...S&cvid=c35d6380690d46ad9461daf76ccf6145&ei=26
 

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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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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops​

Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers, according to internal documents, contracts, and communications that 404 Media obtained via public records requests.

Massive Blue, the New York–based company that is selling police departments this technology, calls its product Overwatch, which it markets as an “AI-powered force multiplier for public safety” that “deploys lifelike virtual agents, which infiltrate and engage criminal networks across various channels.” According to a presentation obtained by 404 Media, Massive Blue is offering cops these virtual personas that can be deployed across the internet with the express purpose of interacting with suspects over text messages and social media.

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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”
www.wired.com
 
Let me take you down
'Cause I'm going to AI filled social media
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
AI filled social media forever

Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out
It doesn't matter much to me
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I'll be the first to admit................I'm guilty as sin.

Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power​

If chivalry isn't already dead, it's certainly circling the drain.

OpenAI CEO and tech billionaire Sam Altman recently admitted that people politely saying "please" and "thank you" to their AI chatbots is costing him bigtime.

When one poster on X-formerly-Twitter wondered aloud "how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying 'please' and 'thank you' to their models," Altman chimed in, saying it's "tens of millions of dollars well spent."

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...S&cvid=7d50a399105c4a3c9155bf3d5e116298&ei=14
 

What's next for AI at DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence lab | 60 Minutes​

Apr 20, 2025

At Google DeepMind, researchers are chasing what’s called artificial general intelligence: a silicon intellect as versatile as a humans, but with superhuman speed and knowledge.

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Google DeepMind CEO demonstrates world-building AI model Genie 2​

Apr 20, 2025

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis showed 60 Minutes Genie 2, an AI model that generates 3D interactive environments, which could be used to train robots in the not-so-distant future.

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