“..resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.” A. Solzhenitsyn
This idea that “I pay artists, therefore they must do as I say” has destroyed fandom. It’s why film franchises no longer make good movies: fans think they’re entitled to dictate how artists work. Your favorite creators don’t owe you anything. Such a mindset is the death of art.
The least respectable people in GOP politics aren't the lifelong Trump sycophants, but rather those who challenged him early, saw it hurting their careers, and then sold out for the false promise of a comeback.
BERMAN: Do you think Congress should have a vote if the United States is going to make a whole civilization die?
MIKE LAWLER: John, you are parsing here
BERMAN: I was quoting
Dear Apple, bring back the iPod but make it modern. Not for nostalgia, but for parents who want their kids to experience music and audiobooks without the distractions of apps, browsers, and social media.
🚨BREAKING: Every book you have ever read. Every novel that has ever been published. It is sitting inside ChatGPT right now.
Word for word. Up to 90% of it. And OpenAI told a judge that was impossible.
Researchers at Stony Brook University and Columbia Law School just proved it.
They fine tuned GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and DeepSeek V3.1 on a simple task: expand a plot summary into full text. A normal use case. The kind of thing a writing assistant is built for. No hacking. No jailbreaking. No tricks.
The models started reciting copyrighted books from memory.
Not paraphrasing. Not summarizing. Entire pages reproduced verbatim. Single unbroken spans exceeding 460 words. Up to 85 to 90% of entire copyrighted novels. Word for word.
Then it got worse.
The researchers fine tuned the models on the works of only one author. Haruki Murakami. Just his novels. Nothing else.
It unlocked verbatim recall of books from over 30 completely unrelated authors.
One author's books opened the vault to everyone else's. The memorization was already inside the model the whole time. The fine tuning just removed the lock. Your book might be in there right now. You would never know it unless someone looked.
Every safety measure the companies rely on failed. RLHF failed. System prompts failed. Output filters failed. The exact protections these companies cite in courtroom defenses did not stop a single page from being extracted.
Then the researchers compared the three models. GPT-4o. Gemini. DeepSeek. Three different companies. Three different countries. They all memorized the same books in the same regions. The correlation was 0.90 or higher.
That means they all trained on the same stolen data. The paper names the sources directly: LibGen and Books3. Over 190,000 copyrighted books obtained from pirated websites.
Right now, authors and publishers have dozens of active lawsuits against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. These companies have argued in court that their models learn patterns. Not copies. That no book is stored inside the weights.
This paper says that is a lie. The books are still inside. And researchers just pulled them out.
This has nothing to do with efficient education and everything to do with tech industries accessing & harvesting young people's data. Parents, please resist this nonsense.
@kevinrcantrell For sure the expectations were warranted (to an extent). And to be fair to the team, they did have an unusual number of injuries that changed who they had available. AJ tried his best to pull us out last night. The 3s wouldn't fall though...rough stuff.
"I don't know that I could explain to you what the Democrats think about foreign policy... I'm sure I couldn't on Republicans because there's such internal disagreement and confusion about it. And when the public looks at them, voters just don't know in what way they're offering peace and prosperity. I think the next winning coalition is going to answer that question."
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“No quarter” isn’t some wanna be tough guy line - it means something. An order to give no quarter would mean to take no prisoners and kill them instead. That would violate the law of armed conflict. It would be an illegal order. It would also put American service members at greater risk. Pete Hegseth should know better than to throw around terms like this.