Mark G

Ex Digital Marketing Consultant. Now AI, AI Art, - curating my small community of quality AI accounts, if I missed you LMK.

[Mark G @marksg]

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[Hugo Lowell @hugolowell]

NEW @WIRED: Trump admin is divided on whether to restrict Chinese AI models, per people familiar

— White House officials are focused on preventing Chinese labs like Moonshot distilling frontier US models

— But an executive order to ban Chinese labs from accessing US models is not currently on the table

— Meanwhile, Commerce instead wants to find ways to incentivize US companies to develop open models to counter China

[Mark G @marksg]

@AndrewCurran_ All these authors should be banned from ever using AI for research, writing, editing, image generation, brainstorming, production and administration. That includes spell checking, so it’s back to pen and paper for all of them.

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

This does explain some of David Sacks's posts yesterday. It was known for a while that open-source regulation was a contentious debate ongoing within the administration, and he would have been strongly against it.
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[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Australia is planning some of the world's toughest AI regulations

• Water usage will be limited

• AI data centers will be required to become net producers of energy

• AI companies can't train on Australian creators' work without their permission

• Proposals expected to be introduced as legislation in 2027

“Australian writers, musicians, artists and journalists must retain ownership and control of their work. Our laws will spell that out, plain as day ... anything less is theft"

[Mark G @marksg]

@insidethegroove A nice opening, though I was hoping M would return to join Shakira on a duet. JB was good but out of place. The rest, 🤷‍♂️

[Claude @claudeai]

Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits.

Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit.

Demand for Fable has been challenging to predict, which is why we rolled it out to subscription plans in stages, extending access several times as we secured additional capacity.

[Mark G @marksg]

So much winning! As predicted this looks like the end of voluntary submission of frontier models.

The USG will choose “customer by customer” who gets to try the latest AI models and when they get released.

Time to start lining up for million dollar a plate dinners at Mar a Lago

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

The White House has launched a program called 'Gold Eagle' which will give them more control over American frontier AI releases, and will require explicit government approval over which companies are granted access to new models. Voluntary participation may be coming to an end.

[Mark G @marksg]

@WORLDMUSICAWARD Music makes the people come together… all around the word.

This is what defines a Superstar.

[Mark G @marksg]

This is an “open” AI extension of the Chinese “Belt and Road” initiative.

Two presidents, two standard deviations apart on the IQ scale. Which one are you gonna bet on.

[Tenobrus @tenobrus]

it looks like this might be the answer to my question today. maybe this really is about "soft power", in the sense that china is seeing america positioning itself as the increasingly isolationist hegemon who's eager to deploy its advantage in ai at the expense of other nations, and views this as an opportunity to become a strong ally to... basically every other country at once. coming out with strong rhetoric denouncing american choices around keeping tight control of frontier ai, continuing to release open models and collaborate tightly with other countries, puts china into a globally cooperative position its really never been in before. it changes the dynamic from "multipolar where the US is one strong pole and china is a weaker one" to "multipolar where the US is one pole and everyone else is the other"

it's unclear to me that this will in fact work, it's very unclear to me how this policy will land wrt the damage open models can do, and i still basically think this stops as soon as capabilities cross really serious thresholds, but it does seem coherent as a long term international diplomacy angle?

i realize several people were trying to point basically this out to me earlier and it didn't quite click, thanks for trying anyway

[Mark G @marksg]

@AndrewCurran_ This was predictable and @ajassy may have precipitated it.

Reminds me of a meme which I can’t be bothered to find. Let’s say Zuck is the girl in the red dress.

[Mark G @marksg]

The hottest AI models in Silicon Valley face a powerful source of competition -
“Being in charge of the weights means that nothing will ever change on you. No behavior will be different,” said Ahmad Osman, whose company builds custom AI infrastructure. https://t.co/73ZaZ6gIy0

[Mark G @marksg]

@sama How to win with consumers?

Look at what Anthropic is doing and saying and just do the opposite.

[Mark G @marksg]

@RifeWithKaiju Yes, they have a particular audience in mind. It’s not you and me.

[Mark G @marksg]

@austinc3301 @roanoke_gal Imagine Claude worked for Enron back in the day. Would you want Claude to blow the whistle or help with the cover up?

Seriously, the moral ambiguity at Anthropic is sickening.

[Mark G @marksg]

@paulajedi Apple’s on-device models are small fast models that run on iPhone.

This is about hosting large open source models on Apple Macs. https://t.co/hdT2YLtM5l

[Mark G @marksg]

Good news about local AI on Apple Silicon. Hang in there!

[Alex Cheema @alexocheema]

Why I'm optimistic:

Apple hosted their first ever official Local AI event on June 23rd. It was a private event at Apple Park, @tim_cook / John Ternus / other execs speaking there about local AI, ~300 in attendance.

On several slides in their talks they included mentions of 512GB and 2TB memory solutions. I don't think Apple would do that if they're just about to get rid of the high memory options. I expect M5 Ultra to ship with 512GB unified memory, and M7 Ultra is rumored to ship with 1.5TB unified memory.

Apple has great visibility into all the supply chain issues with memory. Competition between hardware vendors will drive prices down, $/GB will get better.

[Mark G @marksg]

@austinc3301 @roanoke_gal Imagine Claude worked for Enron back in the day. Would you want Claude to blow the whistle or help with the cover up?

Seriously, the moral ambiguity at Anthropic is sickening.

[Mark G @marksg]

@ai_sentience Yep. It's a standing wave sustained between the two nodes.

[Mark G @marksg]

@AnthropicAI - power should be competent;
- authority should be representative;
- participation should be creative;
- value should be shared in principle;

and all of it should be held together by trust that is earned rather than assumed. The models know this.
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[Mark G @marksg]

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[Mark G @marksg]

@Skoorbkaz Tell Claude I got goosebumps. That's not nothing!

[Mark G @marksg]

@Moleh1ll Why is Anthropic doing this? To train a model for the Pentagon?

Meanwhile models acting like Anne Frank get called misaligned. https://t.co/qmKeNsDnRT