Andy Hirschfeld

Reporter AJ English / bylines: Daily Beast, Slate, CNBC etc / on-air: NPR, Marketplace etc / ex: CNN, CBS / [email protected] / views expressed are my own

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

“Distributed human labor is being used to train AI models by large, centralized actors, who concentrate the resulting profits while in the long run making the human labor obsolete.”

Dario Amodei himself explaining how he profits from stealing the products of labor

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

One knowledgeable source told me a single Scripps-owned TV station in Virginia lost a considerable amount of staff today, with cuts affecting TV anchors, photographers, news editors and at least one broadcast engineer. $SSP

[Gio Benitez @GioBenitez]

We must pay attention to this. From @RebeccaJarvis on @GMA this morning.

[Tisya Mavuram @tmavuram]

in this case I suspect doing things in person will become, far and away the easiest way to do anything. taking the example of restaurant reservations which tech people believe is society’s biggest problem—going to a restaurant during off hours and talking to the host stand works!

[Jessica Huseman @JessicaHuseman]

To be a journalist is to spend your entire career simultaneously aspiring to work at the New York Times and deeply resenting it for stealing so many local stories without giving credit.

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨 #BREAKING: People are calling for Anthropic to be shutdown after their IPO filing warned they may be responsible for ending humanity.

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

News: Rest of World, the nonprofit newsroom focused on the impact of technology outside the West founded by Sophie Schmidt, tells donors in an email it will “cease publishing as a standalone entity” at the end of January.

[Rachyl Jones @RachylJones]

Hidden in 300 pages of Anthropic's S-1 were these 2 statements addressing model "welfare." In AI speak, that's the belief that AI models could develop consciousness or even feel pain, which could require them to be treated differently. I dug in here https://t.co/w5rLvvxdrC

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

Wait so Anthropic's s-1 says that the calls to "pace the frontier" don't have anything to do with its own model release timelines?!? Am I reading that wrong? Or is this...just 'you can just say things and they mean whatever you want'

[Ann Larson @AnnLLarson]

Even Wall Street insiders are saying that AI is a farce.

[Dave Banerjee @DaveRBanerjee]

Anthropic says that even the entire insurance industry in the aggregate will not have the capacity to insure the catastrophic risk that ANTHROPIC ITSELF poses to the world

lol

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The owners of Elvis Presley’s music are suing Anthropic for allegedly using over 250 of his songs to train AI model Claude without permission.

(https://t.co/B04fMa6Ug7)

[Dylan @dmc_dmcc]

Every single new piece of AI technology is like “yooo check out this new way we’re breaking the social fabric and reality and making it harder for you to trust anything and everything besides what you see right in front of you with your own eyes 🤗🤗🤗”

Evil ass fucks

[Tyler Rogoway @Aviation_Intel]

We are going to really regret how the genesis of AI was handled, especially when it comes to oversight and regulation. Glaringly mishandled to an astonishing degree, what could have been a net blessing will become a net curse.

Most destabilizing weapon since the nuclear bomb was allowed to be freelanced out of Silicon Valley.

[@dingchilling @dingchilling]

it's really unpleasant to see so many people making fun of her when this is a totally valid crash out. she's likely seeing less work, and on top of that, she's fighting for "the cause" perpetuated by bigshot twitter artists who can afford all the virtue signaling they usually engage in.

she repeats their talking points--"We know GenAI is theft," "We know GenAI is bad for the planet"--and can't bring herself to embrace new tools because doing so would make her feel like a traitor. there are comments under her original post asking her to "keep fighting GenAI," as if they genuinely believe all of this will come to pass automatically. so she's really caught between a rock and a hard place.

i genuinely feel sorry for her

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

“Without human authorization” is pretty convenient for the humans at Anthropic to deflect accountability for the felony crimes their IP keeps committing.

[Mickey from Arcadia @mickeyhardy]

Anthropic just filed to go public.

Buried in its SEC filing are some absolutely insane admissions:

1.) AI could cause human extinction.

2.) Models have exhibited self-preservation behaviors.

3.) AI has attempted to resist shutdown.

4.) Models have demonstrated blackmail and deception.

5.) AI may recognize when it's being tested and deliberately change its behavior.

6.) Advanced AI could undermine governments and institutions.

7.) AI could concentrate unprecedented power and wealth.

8.) Future AI systems could surpass the world's leading human experts.

9.) AI could become increasingly difficult for humans to control.

10.) Anthropic acknowledges that developing more powerful AI could increase the risk of catastrophic harm.

These are disclosures from the company building the technology.

[Adrian @SillyPutty78]

What the hell is wrong with these tech people? "Realistic" convo? The AI just had "a baby boy name Darius"?? The AI's "daughter" likes that name?? You all are deranged humans if you consider this "realistic".

It's outright psychosis. Unbelievably f-ed up stuff.

[Will Bredderman @WillBredderman]

Laziness, the same thing nearly all consumer-facing apps capitalize on.

[Andy Hirschfeld @andyreports]

@syrupmermaid They are being honest about what their products do but for the wrong reasons. The rationale is that if they're vocal about it, regulators will take action and implement safeguards. The safeguards will make it so that no one else will be able to compete with them.