John J. Tierney

Security. Genealogy. Dad. Husband. Securigenealodadsband. Also: Disney fan @TouringPlans blogger.

[John J. Tierney @JJT]

I've got a pocket full of umlauts and I ain't afraid to coördinate.

[Jane @JaneFranklin99]

Normandy veterans Henry Rice and Ken Hay - both 100 - on Sword Beach once more. @ForcesNews #D-Day

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Our heroes are back and Brigitte was here to welcome them!

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Surprise! The Trump sons are ripping you off…again. This time Don Jr. & Eric took $59M from MAGA supporters for a "Made in USA" gold Trump phone, then quietly added fine print saying customers may never get one or see their money again.

[John J. Tierney @JJT]

Happy 15th Ancient Indians Day to those who celebrate.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history.

Media giants are now threatening to do this.

We can't let this happen.

Pass it on.

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

Once again, Fred in accounting has just filed his last tax return of the season.

[John J. Tierney @JJT]

@dougboneparth Or bananium.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨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.

[Daniel Pink @DanielPink]

The headlines are relentless.
AI seems posed to outthink many of us.
So what do humans do?

Twenty years after writing A WHOLE NEW MIND about the rise of right-brainers, here’s my initial answer:

Double down on six human skills. 🧵👇

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

More of this, please.😂

[John J. Tierney @JJT]

I have a new @TouringPlans Blog post outlining a very nice Pop Century Priceline hidden deal drop running from June to August!

Prices for these deals run from $105 to $138 per night, come in about 44-50% under Disney's pricing.

https://t.co/ndC81Lha3F

[John J. Tierney @JJT]

@dougboneparth IRAN 50,000 wait, what

[John J. Tierney @JJT]

@dollarsanddata There can be only one. 🤺

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

Millennials and Gen Z are swimming in student loan debt and unable to buy homes.

Meanwhile, Boomers are getting increased tax deductions and interest savings on boat loans.

It’s like they hate their kids or something.

[John J. Tierney @JJT]

@dollarsanddata AImnesia

[John J. Tierney @JJT]

Posting this for those who Disney.

I maintain a quick reference page of handpicked Disney DVC rentals for Touring Plans subscribers for those who might be interested.

You can see it here: https://t.co/2j9DqIAVsS

If not a subscriber, you can join here: https://t.co/0zZlQz01I2

[John J. Tierney @JJT]

Have to say, the new Muppet Show tonight was 100% terrific. So much fun, felt like I was watching the original show again. :)

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Politicians + temptation is usually a toddler-and-toy problem. But the bigger risk is the toddler who insists gravity is a hoax and jumps anyway. And that's why we need to watch the toddler who wants to remove Fed guardrails.