I was a PM on Google Books
Know quite a bit about the history here
Interesting to see it play out
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PS - if pubs and rightsholders hadn't been so anti-fair-use and gone scorched earth on lawsuits, might have been a less crazy outcome here but they went nuts so now anyone touching this data is being extremely conservative
(Imagine a world where they could acquire the book, digitize it thoughtfully, then donate it to a rare book collection for public access etc! "Google Editions" could have enabled something like this)
I was a PM on Google Books
Know quite a bit about the history here
Interesting to see it play out
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PS - if pubs and rightsholders hadn't been so anti-fair-use and gone scorched earth on lawsuits, might have been a less crazy outcome here but they went nuts so now anyone touching this data is being extremely conservative
(Imagine a world where they could acquire the book, digitize it thoughtfully, then donate it to a rare book collection for public access etc! "Google Editions" could have enabled something like this)
@ShanuMathew93 It's extremely misleading. It's because copyright laws are evil. Google went through a ton of legal shit for something similar in the past, so now it's become the standard to shred in order to not play it safe.
Taiwanese prosecutors have detained an NVIDIA employee and searched NVIDIA offices as part of a widening probe into the alleged smuggling of chips into China. This would be the first time the government has taken direct action against someone employed by NVIDIA. Per Bloomberg.
@ArfinNathaniel@AndrewCurran_ There are only a few labs in the world that can make potentially dangerous frontier models; holding them accountable is fairly easy if China gets on board.
@kimmonismus It's an odd situation, but I doubt they will change their stance. Those within Anthropic truly believe that there is an existential threat with open-weights models. In a way it's very noble, but it remains to be seen if they're correct.