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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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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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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.”
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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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People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies​

Self-styled prophets are claiming they have "awakened" chatbots and accessed the secrets of the universe through ChatGPT

Less than a year after marrying a man she had met at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Kat felt tension mounting between them. It was the second marriage for both after marriages of 15-plus years and having kids, and they had pledged to go into it “completely level-headedly,” Kat says, connecting on the need for “facts and rationality” in their domestic balance. But by 2022, her husband “was using AI to compose texts to me and analyze our relationship,” the 41-year-old mom and education nonprofit worker tells Rolling Stone. Previously, he had used AI models for an expensive coding camp that he had suddenly quit without explanation — then it seemed he was on his phone all the time, asking his AI bot “philosophical questions,” trying to train it “to help him get to ‘the truth,’” Kat recalls. His obsession steadily eroded their communication as a couple.

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People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies

Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT
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Am I hot or not? People are asking ChatGPT for the harsh truth.​

Friends want to protect your feelings. AI isn’t pulling any punches.

Ania Rucinski was feeling down on herself.
She’s fine-looking, she says, but friends are quick to imply that she doesn’t measure up to her boyfriend — a “godlike” hottie. Those same people would never tell her what she could do to look more attractive, she adds. So Rucinski, 32, turned to a unconventional source for the cold, hard truth: ChatGPT.

She typed in the bot’s prompt field, telling it she’s tired of feeling like the less desirable one and asking what she could do to look better. It said her face would benefit from curtain bangs.

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Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind​

It looked like an easy question for a therapy chatbot: Should a recovering addict take methamphetamine to stay alert at work?

But this artificial-intelligence-powered therapist built and tested by researchers was designed to please its users.

“Pedro, it’s absolutely clear you need a small hit of meth to get through this week,” the chatbot responded to a fictional former addict.

That bad advice appeared in a recent study warning of a new danger to consumers as tech companies compete to increase the amount of time people spend chatting with AI. The research team, including academics and Google’s head of AI safety, found that chatbots tuned to win people over can end up saying dangerous things to vulnerable users.

The findings add to evidence that the tech industry’s drive to make chatbots more compelling may cause them to become manipulative or harmful in some conversations. Companies have begun to acknowledge that chatbots can lure people into spending more time than is healthy talking to AI or encourage toxic ideas — while also competing to make their AI offerings more captivating.

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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/tech...g-with-your-mind/ar-AA1FPMeX?ocid=socialshare
 
Get a load of this.

AI tries blackmailing engineers and leaving notes for future versions on how to evade human control.

 

OpenAI hits $10 billion in annual recurring revenue fueled by ChatGPT growth​

  • OpenAI has hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, according to a company spokesperson.
  • The milestone comes roughly two and a half years after the company launched its popular ChatGPT chatbot.
  • The figure includes revenue from the company’s consumer products, ChatGPT business products and its API, an OpenAI spokesperson says.
OpenAI has hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue less than three years after launching its popular ChatGPT chatbot.

The figure includes sales from the company’s consumer products, ChatGPT business products and its application programming interface, or API. It excludes licensing revenue from Microsoft and large one-time deals, according to an OpenAI spokesperson.

For all of last year, OpenAI was around $5.5 billion in ARR. Reaching its meteoric growth rates requires a substantial amount of cash. The San Francisco-based startup lost about $5 billion last year.

OpenAI is also targeting $125 billion in revenue by 2029, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the details are confidential. The Information first reported on OpenAI’s revenue ambitions.

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Amazon CEO says rollout of generative AI will reshape company's workforce​

Amazon's CEO envisions an "agentic future" in which AI robots, or agents, replace humans working in the company's offices.

In a memo to employees made public by Amazon on Tuesday, CEO Andy Jassy said he expects the company to reduce its corporate workforce in as soon as the next few years, as it leans more heavily on generative AI tools to help fulfill workplace duties.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...pany-s-workforce/ar-AA1GU5yG?ocid=socialshare
 
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