New report out on the rise of opposition to data centers, find it here:
https://t.co/FceszYTXzP
Thank you, @DavidSKrueger and @2gtherAgainstAI, for your collaboration on this effort!
Sneak peek:
#datacenters#AI
Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies.
The UK government is considering upending copyright law to benefit AI companies. Don’t Steal This Book urges them not to.
Apart from the list of authors involved, the book is empty, representing the effect the government’s plans would have on authors' livelihoods.
We're handing out 1,000 free copies at London Book Fair over the next couple of days. If you’re there, pick up a copy!
A huge thank you to the thousands of authors involved.
Read more here: https://t.co/h3Z9vW1L8J
#DontStealThisBook
TIME’s new cover: In a deeply divided nation, a new coalition is forming around one belief: AI is moving too fast. Inside the stories of nine Americans, across ideologies and professions, determined to slow down the technology reshaping daily life https://t.co/8gv0YiO7CX
Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison.
Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.
LLMs memorize whole copyrighted books.
A recent study showed that it is possible to extract large portions of popular books from all the major chatbots. 🧵(1/5)
"We find that is possible to extract large portions of memorized copyrighted material from all four production LLMs".
They have shown this to work for multiple popular books, and this is further proof that AI models are trained on copyrighted material and memorize it. (4/5)
Students and staff at the California State University are petitioning for the university to not renew their ChatGPT Edu contract.
“The CSU must reject Silicon Valley’s AI hype and invest in the people who make this university system a destination for our 460,000 students. The challenges that we face in higher education cannot be resolved with AI. We must, instead, empower faculty, staff, and students to define a sustainable, human-centered future for the CSU system.”
The opposition is working. $64 billion of data center projects have already been delayed or cancelled due to local opposition.
Find and join a group near you: https://t.co/Ed93kzgIw8
Join a data center opposition group near you!
There is a rapidly growing opposition to data centers across the US. Local opposition groups have more than 120k members across 100+ groups. 🧵(1/2)
Evitable is a nonprofit that aims to educate the public about the dangers of artificial intelligence. (6/6)
Check out their site: https://t.co/bYQZ6aDA7j
Currently, local data center opposition groups have 120k+ members across 100+ groups. (5/6)
See if there is one in your neighborhood: https://t.co/Ed93kzgIw8