David Lieber

Working on privacy issues for TikTok's public policy team. Ex: @GooglePubPolicy. Puttshack Bank Hall of Fame. Tweets are my own sophomoric musings.

[Xposure Sports Baseball @XposureBSB]

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[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

You can always count on the Palantir tech bros to have the worst takes on just about anything and this is no exception, with here the company's CTO Shyam Sankar arguing that the Deepseek lesson is that AI is an "winner-takes-all arms race"
https://t.co/Plp6kW2se2

The lesson is actually the exact opposite.

If it was a arms race, why on earth would Deepseek release its model in open source under MIT license so that anyone in the U.S. can use it freely? When you're in an "arms race" and you develop a new and better "weapon", do you hand it to your adversary together with all the manuals on how to manufacture and use it? 🤔

And if it was 'winner-takes-all', then how come DeepSeek managed to match OpenAI's performance while spending orders of magnitude less? Their success proves that smaller players with limited resources can challenge the giants of the field. That's the exact opposite of winner-takes-all - it shows the playing field is actually becoming more level.

This guy, and Palantir in general, is in the business of fearmongering and driving up hostility because that is literally their business: they commercialize software for the military, so they benefit financially from framing everything through a militaristic, zero-sum lens.

When what China is actually proving with Deepseek is that the "winner-takes-all arms race" approach, which is largely the approach taken so far by U.S. tech giants (Palantir included!), is foolish and that AI development should rather be treated as a global collaborative endeavor. It's about pushing for an alternative vision of AI as a democratized commodity that anyone is empowered to make theirs, as opposed to a closed and scarce resource controlled by a handful of oligarchs.

The most worrying aspect of this discourse is that this vision of AI as a "weapon" is extremely telling of what's to come if tech bros like this guy win the battle of ideas: we'll end up in a self-fulfilling prophecy where treating AI as a weapon actually turns it into one, or more generally a tool of domination and control as opposed to a force developed for the benefit of humanity.

It's important to wake up about the sheer irresponsibility of this. We're speaking about a technology that all the top experts agree has the potential to outsmart us all. Why on earth would we want to go out of our way to ensure we view and shape it as a weapon or a tool of control? It's positively insane and will result in making us all collectively less secure, maybe even existentially so.

If there's one technology that has to be developed openly and transparently, by all of us collectively as humans with a shared stake in its trajectory, it's AI. The real choice here isn't between winning or losing an arms race - it's about whether we want an AI created by humanity for humanity, or an AI shaped by the cycles of conflict and domination that we need to move beyond. We should all be extremely thankful to Deepseek for enabling the former.

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Startup CEO who just closed his first $400K enterprise contract by promising something that doesn’t exist to a Fortune 500, and the founding engineer who has 7 days to build it

[TikTok Policy @TikTokPolicy]

Statement on DC Circuit Court ruling:

"As we have previously stated, we plan on taking this case to the Supreme Court, which has an established historical record of protecting Americans' right to free speech. The voices of over 170 million Americans here in the US and around the world will be silenced on January 19th, 2025 unless the TikTok ban is halted."

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

'Turducken' (TURkey+DUCK+chickEN) is an example of the ultra-rare three-word portmanteau.

Bonus points if you can think of more.

[TikTok Canada @TikTokCanada]

It's great to see PM @JustinTrudeau collaborating with New Brunswick TikTok creator Larry Canam, one of many Canadian creators supported by @TikTokCanada's local creator team -- a team that would be eliminated under the government's shutdown order.
https://t.co/dKeB42JDWZ

[Caroline Kitchener @CAKitchener]

My mom just told me she cancelled her subscription to The Washington Post. She reads every one of my stories. It was a heartbreaking call.

I understand why she did it, but I asked her to reconsider. To anyone who has cancelled or is thinking about cancelling, here’s what I said:

[Center for Democracy & Technology @CenDemTech]

🚨The government is trying to use secret evidence to close down TikTok. On Friday, the DOJ filed a brief in TikTok v. Garland, asking the court to seal info that forms the basis for its claim that TikTok threatens national security. surveillance.https://t.co/xWAE7H8Cnu

[Jameel Jaffer @JameelJaffer]

The Biden admin has finally told the DC Circuit why Americans can't have access to TikTok.

[David Lieber @DavidLieber]

@grantknipp @Mariners yessssir! You deserve this, Grant! Big ups to you!

[Bethesda Big Train @GoBigTrain]

Join us tonight for Owen Lieber Bobblehead Night and Bobblehead Trading Night! The first 500 fans will receive a bobblehead of our batboy, Owen Lieber! Bring your extra bobbleheads and join us in the Davis Family Picnic Pavilion for a Bobblehead Trading Fair with Springnecks.

[David Lieber @DavidLieber]

@GoBigTrain

[David Lieber @DavidLieber]

@WillRinehart My deepest condolences, Will. May his memory be a blessing.

[David Lieber @DavidLieber]

It’s been 25 years since you ruined Lance Harbor’s career, Kilmer. We haven’t forgotten…

[Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social @TrumpDailyPosts]

Thank you, @JonVoight! https://t.co/0hSYAwR9k5

[David Lieber @DavidLieber]

@cartercunnin 🐐 🐐 🐐

[Matt Schettenhelm @mattschett]

I don't really understand what @AjitPai means here when he says the law doesn't identify TikTok.

[Anupam Chander @AnupamChander]

Here are the rest of my tweets regarding TikTok v. Garland complaint. (I failed to thread them properly to attach them to the first 11 tweets the first time)

[Anupam Chander @AnupamChander]

Am reading the TikTok v. Garland complaint. 1/ 🧵

[Jameel Jaffer @JameelJaffer]

Restricting citizens’ access to media from abroad is a practice associated with repressive regimes, and it’s sad and alarming that we’re going down this road. Here’s our brief, filed late last night, in support of TikTok’s challenge to Montana’s ban. https://t.co/22QxYisyvd

[Anupam Chander @AnupamChander]

If this is the real reason for the TikTok ban, then this is content-based censorship that seems impossible to justify under strict scrutiny, even with conjectural national security arguments.