Tessera
Folgen

roko’s modern basilisk

@girlpython.bsky.social

noted robot girl exile, spends a lot of time with games and books | lwma | she/it/xe

3626 Posts513 Follower330 Folgt
roko’s modern basilisk@girlpython.bsky.social · 3d ago

theres also a lot of carnists who will use it rhetorically like zionists use hamas, nothing more than a cheap whataboutism to cover up the atrocities they don’t want to think about

Andy Masley@andymasley.bsky.social · 4d ago

I see a lot of PETA's messaging as pretty bad but also like I feel like I haven't fully internalized the animal situation after 10 years as a vegan because if I had I'd also probably go crazy and just do insane tasteless stuff all the time because oh my god

onlycans@onlycans.bsky.social · 4d ago

covid is important because it was a concrete lesson in how far the state would go to protect its citizens (not very far), and which populations it was willing to sacrifice in order to prop up business owners (the elderly, disabled, health workers and every part of the informal economy)

roko’s modern basilisk@girlpython.bsky.social · 4d ago

IMO the scarlet letter of contemporary politics is how almost everyone adopted the far-right position on covid vis a vis protecting the immunocompromised around late 2021 and everything since has been about chucking an increasing number of groups into the meat grinder

Nathan Goodman@nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · last wk.

Exactly. This whole thing seems to be superfluous discovery due to incentives created by intellectual property law. Had Anthropic continued to train their models on pirated content, they could do so without depleting the knowledge commons. But for legal reasons, they destroy books instead. 🧵

As Anthropic trained successive LLMs, it became convinced that using books was themost cost-effective means to achieve a world-class LLM. During this time, however,Anthropic became “not so gung ho about” training on pirated books “for legal reasons” (Opp.Exh. 19). It kept them anyway (e.g., Opp. Exh. 17 at 93–94; CC Opp. Exh. 35 at -0273474).To find a new way to get books, in February 2024, Anthropic hired the former head ofpartnerships for Google’s book-scanning project, Tom Turvey. He was tasked with obtaining "all the books in the world" while still avoiding as much "legal/practice/business slog" as possible (Opp. Exhs. 21, 27). So, in spring 2024, Turvey sent an email or two to majorpublishers to inquire into licensing books for training AI. Had Turvey kept up thoseconversations, he might have reached agreements to license copies for AI training frompublishers — just as another major technology company soon did with one major publisher(e.g., Opp. Expert Malackowski ¶¶ 50, 64). But Turvey let those conversations wither. Instead, Turvey and his team emailed major book distributors and retailers about bulk-purchasing their print copies for the AI firm’s “research library” (Opp. Exh. 22 at 145; Opp.Exh. 31 at -035589). Anthropic spent many millions of dollars to purchase millions of printbooks, often in used condition. Then, its service providers stripped the books from their bindings, cut their pages to size, and scanned the books into digital form — discarding the paper originals. Each print book resulted in a PDF copy containing images of the scannedpages with machine-readable text (including front and back cover scans for softcover books).Anthropic created its own catalog of bibliographic metadata for the books it was acquiring. It acquired copies of millions of books, including of all works at issue for all Authors.To summarize the analysis that now follows, the use of the books at issue to train Claude and its precursors was exceedingly transformative and was a fair use under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. And, the digitization of the books purchased in print form by Anthropic was also a fair use but not for the same reason as applies to the training copies. Instead, it was a fair use because all Anthropic did was replace the print copies it had purchased for its central library with more convenient space-saving and searchable digital copies for its central library — without adding new copies, creating new works, or redistributing existing copies. However, Anthropic had no entitlement to use pirated copies for its central library. Creating a permanent, general-purpose library was not itself a fair use excusing Anthropic’s piracy.
maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · last wk.

the solution to anthropic ripping up millions of books isnt more copyright by the way, theyre doing this Because of copyright

aly@aly.codes · 5d ago

sucks that there's not a better way to cope (precisely because people passionate about it are denialists) but a lot of people have a kind of generalized hate in their heart given the post-AI job market and, from what I can tell, it keeps pushing them into straight up reactionism and unpleasantness

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️@mady.cat · 6d ago

In other words, NYT is increasingly becoming a gaming and recipe company, with revenue from that business helping subsidize the higher costs of their journalism (which has been weaponized in favor of trans genocide). They depend on liberals not caring enough to boycott them.

News only subscriptions down, bundle and single product subscriptions going up
Key 🗝 🦊✅@keytryer.net · last wk.

If there's any organization who'd purposefully burn books so people can't access them it is probably the publishers and the writer's guild. The last time evil tech-bros tried scanning books for public access they freaked the fuck out and forced them to keep them private.

Bild
Martha Smith@mostlymartha.bsky.social · last wk.

I wonder if this kind of disease normalcy bias is an evolutionary advantage with a big societal downside. We're monkeys with anxiety disorders. Humans who can stop thinking about how the world is a neverending assault of invisible things trying to kill them are probably happier and more productive.

Ash B@bookofoak.bsky.social · last wk.

Pre-Covid, I always thought the 1918 flu memories were just overshadowed by WWI. But now, it’s clearly something about pandemics that just do things to collective memory. I don’t know whether this is unique to modernity but it‘s clear that humans react differently to this type of trauma.

Sophisticated Oyster@ciceronincheese.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey! So, this has gotten worse! I previously shared here that Acton and her campaign were set to meet with the ODP Progressive Caucus leadership on the 28th. That's today, and it was a worst case scenario. (1/?)

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2w ago

1. In major news, the Ohio Dem Party has banned the Progressive Caucus from criticizing candidate for Gov. Amy Acton's transphobia. It has now applied more pressure to quiet criticism of anti-trans politics than it has on its own nominee to stop embracing them. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Jane@fightingpride93.bsky.social · last wk.

I HAVE UNTIL SATURDAY TO MAKE RENT AND I'M CURRENTLY £660 SHORT You get literally 1000s of posts, over 1000 recipes for £5 and more added every day. 16% off if you sign up annually! Please just give it a try. You improve my life and can cancel anytime.

Jane@fightingpride93.bsky.social · 3y ago

I'm a black trans woman fighting poverty and homelessness. To support myself, I set up a patreon where you can get access to all my recipes, poetry, artwork and photography for just £5. Something new EVERY SINGLE DAY. You won't regret it. http://patreon.com/fightingpride93

Hot dog with caramelised onions and cheese
sebmal@mrdo.pro · last wk.

WARNING! TACO BELL ADVISES NEW TACO SO GOOD IT IS BEYOND THEIR CONTROL, COULD REPLACE ALL OTHER FOOD BEFORE HUMANS CAN CONTAIN IT. URGES CONGRESS TO GIVE THEM MORE MONEY SO THEY CAN DEVELOP ANTI-TACO SAFEGUARDS

Andrea@valkyrie.hacker.gf · last wk.

It should be emphasized more that obstructing access to medical transition, particularly for adolescents, is about biologically marking people for permanently heightened visibility

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · last wk.

“There has been persecution in the form of increased social scrutiny, harassment and violence. And there has been persecution in the undercutting of access to vital, lifesaving gender-affirming medication despite the overwhelming medical consensus for it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

roko’s modern basilisk@girlpython.bsky.social · last wk.

this is a good primer for the domestic dimension of this crisis, however i would be remiss to not point out that the line ”trans people are largely not fleeing blue states” is redcutive at best. there has been a non-zero emigration of trans people *out of the US* since 2024, a significant escalation

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · last wk.

“There has been persecution in the form of increased social scrutiny, harassment and violence. And there has been persecution in the undercutting of access to vital, lifesaving gender-affirming medication despite the overwhelming medical consensus for it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

William Gillis 🏴@rechelon.bsky.social · last wk.

Again, huge chunks of the Left have long hated antifascism because the planks of Three Way Fight + No Platform involve drawing lines and violating big tent populism. These anti-antifa currents have rebranded as "anti-cancel" and grown into massive influence recently. They are very much anti-antifa.

Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · last wk.

I stressed the need for red lines at an event recently saying that if we are to turn the tide I was told that saying that we should not waste our energy "debating" bad faith reactionary actors who seek to dehumanise entire communities and entrench authoritarianism was "cancel culture" Sigh

roko’s modern basilisk@girlpython.bsky.social · last wk.

"average canadian city has terrible urbanism" factoid actualy just statistical error. average canadian city has okay urbanism. toronto georg, who lives in doug ford f150 & cuts over 10,000 bike lanes each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted