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Comment Re: Enough Already (Score 1) 130

No one is getting fired for doing what Altman told them to do. These failures aren't legit, they are theater to justify regulations ...

... regulations that would create a moat Open AI desperately needs around it's business, if it wants to be able to pay back the INCREDIBLY HUGE LOANS it needs to repay in the next year or two.

Comment Re:This is Gavin Newsom's Fault (Score 1) 120

I know you're being flippant, but I'm referring to California's attorney general (who had been VERY vocal about pursuing this ... and who had been leading the charge on this lawsuit).

He capitulated after fighting hard and people were like "why would you do that?" Answer: BECAUSE GAVIN NEWSOM MADE HIM.

Comment This is Gavin Newsom's Fault (Score 1) 120

The CA attorney general buckled because of pressure from Gavin Newsom (who is worried that falling employment levels in CA might damage his run for president in a few years).

Again GAVIN NEWSOM is to blame. When he runs for president in a few years, remember it was GAVIN NEWSOM who betrayed America and forced his attorney general to let the Paramount deal through. GAVIN NEWSOME.

Submission + - The 'Anti-AI' Panic Is Led by...AI Companies (hotair.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: What we are seeing is a massive, pretty obviously coordinated campaign by AI researchers, companies, NGOs, and politicians to strangle competition in an industry and, as I will show, save the financial bacon of the top AI companies that are vastly overextended financially because they have made contractual commitments that they simply have no prospect of paying for.

Comment Re:Translation: (Score 1) 94

by machineghost (#66334868) Attached to: Altman Considers Slowing Down AI Development

They've NEVER profited off anything they've ever done. Open AI and the other frontier AI companies operate at a (INCREDIBLY HUGE) deficit!

Their entire business model requires them to grow by like 20x AND lower their costs to 1/20th where they are now (or something like that, not those exact numbers). If they can't do that, they literally will not be able to pay their bills in a few years.

It's a house of cards predicated on the assumption one company will dominate a huge new market AND get their costs way down, and THEN they will make huge profits for years on that market. If that doesn't happen, the subprime mess will look like child's play compared to what happens to the frontier companies (and likely the rest of the economy with them).

Comment Re:It was just ordinary research... (Score 1) 50

by machineghost (#66333286) Attached to: Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons

It absolutely can ... it's just that when you ask it to do so:

  • 30% of the time you'll get a simple correct answer
  • 30% of the time you'll get a 10-page dissertation of the answer
  • 30% of the time you'll get either a dissertation or one line ... that's wrong
  • 10% of the time it will answer "they were talking shit" with no further explanation.

Comment Re:Automattic and WP Engine now have the same prob (Score 4, Interesting) 38

by machineghost (#66332866) Attached to: Automattic's Board Forces CEO Matt Mullenweg Into Leave of Absence

It's not quite *that* simple.

In OSS, *anyone* can fork the code. If it was as simple as "the original creator is doing stupid/terrible things", everyone involved could fork and start contributing to the fork (anyone ever hear of a little database called MySQL ... which is now more popularly known as MariaDB?)

But this isn't just about OSS code, it's about the corporation. It's that corporation that is the root of the entire problem.

Comment Re:These companies need to bring charges (Score 1) 125

by machineghost (#66332534) Attached to: Anthropic Reveals Fourth Likely Crime Committed By Its AI

Why is everyone pretending like corporations and AIs are somehow legally shielded? I'm no lawyer, but in the eyes of the law I'm pretty certain a crime is a crime.

It doesn't matter if ACME corp told you to do it or not: if you murder someone (and get caught), you are going to jail ... not ACME. Maybe your boss at ACME also goes to jail for telling you to murder someone, but the point is there's no special legal standard for "well an AI/corporation did it, so we can't prosecute them". THAT IS NOT HOW THE LEGAL SYSTEM WORKS.

(Now of course we have entire sections of laws just for dealing with corporations: I'm not talking about that. I'm talking above crimes that violate people's rights. If you break into someone's home, assault them, steal from them, murder them, etc. our legal system holds the human(s) involved responsible. Period.)

Submission + - Journalist Calls Out 'Collective Amnesia' of Schools' Romance with Big Tech 2

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: The74 reports that in her new book, Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools ("the inside story of how Big Tech catalyzed, co-opted, and ultimately came to capture computer science and AI education in America"), Natasha Singer, a veteran business reporter for The New York Times, traces Big Tech's bid to persuade schools to embrace their products, with industry-sponsored curricula and tools growing at astonishing speed.

In his book review of Coding Kids , Aran Shetterly begins with a Spoiler Alert: "Turns out, Silicon Valley isn’t especially altruistic." He writes, "At the center of her book is the story of the nonprofit Code.org and its charismatic, Harvard-educated leader, Hadi Partovi. Thirteen years ago, Partovi produced a five-minute video called “What Most Schools Don’t Teach.” This 'audacious act of Silicon Valley influencer marketing...aimed...at a low-resourced nonprofit sector: public schools serving millions of children,' delivered a worrying message: Kids who didn’t learn to write code would be left behind. And the long-term success of the United States economy depended on training these students to fill a million open tech jobs. [...] No word in Coding Kids chills more than 'democratize.' 'Democratizing' sounds a lot like 'democracy,' but the tech-elite byword has nothing to do with a form of government; from the lips of the tech barons, it means enforcing ubiquitous access to their products."

Fast-forward to 2026, and now we're dealing with AI, and tech is reading from a similar playbook. Asked by The74's Greg Toppo, "Does this moment seem different to you?", Singer replies, "This moment is different, but also similar. We are in a moment in society where a lot of people have increased distrust of these huge tech companies, and we see a wave of parents pushing back against tech in schools. [...] We have had these cycles of tech in schools where there are all these promises about the latest tech, laptops, learning apps, massive open online courses, virtual reality, big data's going to revolutionize schools and like democratize access to education for kids and get them these great career skills, and we keep having these cycles. My concern is that we don't learn anything. One of the reasons I wrote this book is because it feels like we have collective amnesia. Now we're in the sixth or eighth cycle of this — and shouldn't we be asking questions about the push for AI in schools, based on what we've learned about the push for all the other things that came before?"

Comment Re:Where's The Price War? (Score 2) 17

by machineghost (#66329352) Attached to: Meta Debuts Muse, Its Long-Planned Personal AI Agent

If you use a provider like OpenRouter you can use any AI on a per-token basis. You can even switch from one to the other with the press of a button (almost).

FWIW, I still pay for a $20/month Claude subscription ... but if that plan didn't work well for me, I could very easily use other AIs at other rates with OpenRouter.

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