Ed Newton-Rex

CEO of @fairlytrained / Composer. Involuntary training data provider.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

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

[Ryan Orhan @rynorhn]

holy shit.

tristan buckmaster is saying openai has a forced navier–stokes blowup via the córdoba / martínez-zoroa program.

and that it may have used drafts from his and levent alpöge’s private codex sessions.

that’s the córdoba / martínez-zoroa route. almost nobody else was on it.

he also says the first prompt went out after information about his and levent alpöge’s work reached openai. that “very little human input” was not true. that a whole team had already been set on easier problems, including euler. that even the prompt they showed him was written by prompting codex.

then he asked:
did the model have their private codex sessions.

no answer on training.

if any of that holds, openai didn’t just scoop a math result. they may have done it off two researchers’ unpublished drafts, then tried to cut the coauthor because he works at anthropic.

a millennium-problem-adjacent result just became employee drama before an ipo.

i don’t even know which part is crazier.

this is one of the slimiest things i’ve seen in this industry.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

AI music company Suno has been sued again - this time by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN).

SOCAN shared examples of Suno’s output.

Here is one:

https://t.co/CiLdOXUvyu

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

I really, genuinely hope the King invites an artist or a writer who will call out the huge theft of creative work that modern AI is built on

https://t.co/6rOf9lCq1F

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

"We would be very foolish to develop superintelligence now, when there is no scientific consensus it can be developed safely and controllably."
— AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton

A new piece in The Times covering our UK Artificial Intelligence Security Bill, which will be introduced by Alex Sobel MP in Parliament tomorrow.

It will be the first bill to prohibit superintelligence to be introduced in a legislature anywhere in the world.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

I wrote about the Substackers who hate Pangram. They say their issue with it is that it doesn't work. I think that in some cases the detector is working fine.

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

Just as not all communities are rolling over for data centers, not all newsrooms are sitting back and letting AI steal our content. Some of us are fighting back. https://t.co/bplJLeeEFZ

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

The Seattle Times sues OpenAI.

“Like a snake eating its own tail, GenAI that is trained on painstakingly researched, expensive-to-produce content threatens to destroy the very news organizations [that produced that content] by competing directly with them through AI-generated substitutive content. If Defendants are allowed to succeed, independent journalism of the kind Plaintiffs produce will struggle to survive.”

https://t.co/1MDVXSKGjT

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

@sarahdrinkwater @mikebutcher @isnit0 @ElevenLabs @_CommonMagic oh yeah I have no issue with the picnic. I just want ElevenLabs to pay for the work they train their models on.

[rich sweeney @richlsweeney]

Hard to express the rage I feel when I open my undergraduate lecture slides and see this every time in @Adobe

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

Pivotal week in Big AI’s work to undermine centuries of copyright law by getting Trump’s team and DOJ to put its thumb on the scale for them.
Conservative legal mind and activist Mike Davis has now weighed in (rightly) calling DOJ’s position “un-
American and absurd.” 1/2

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The two largest public school systems in the country, New York and Los Angeles, are banning AI for at least some of their students this school year. https://t.co/87KYL12Mfn

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

ChatGPT took our stories. We’re suing. https://t.co/bplJLeeEFZ

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

@thorwebdev What’s the training data?

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

@EvanOtero What is it trained on?

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

@nbrichtova @GeminiApp is it trained on people's copyrighted music they uploaded to youtube, as suggested by this? https://t.co/LUko2TvHMI

[billboard @billboard]

YouTube Terms of Service Allow AI Music Training, Google Says in Copyright Lawsuit
https://t.co/3YUyFCjwE6

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

@GoogleAIStudio oh

[billboard @billboard]

YouTube Terms of Service Allow AI Music Training, Google Says in Copyright Lawsuit
https://t.co/3YUyFCjwE6

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

@Google @GeminiApp @googleflowmusic @GoogleAIStudio huh

[billboard @billboard]

YouTube Terms of Service Allow AI Music Training, Google Says in Copyright Lawsuit
https://t.co/3YUyFCjwE6

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

@GeminiApp is this at all related

[billboard @billboard]

YouTube Terms of Service Allow AI Music Training, Google Says in Copyright Lawsuit
https://t.co/3YUyFCjwE6

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

@_NathanCalvin That's because it was trained on the top 40 pop you would hear in Target