Mister Puca

Designer and Illustrator, UK

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[Mister Puca @misterpuca]

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[Soph @SophieMcDLaw]

The hardest part about renting in your 20s and 30s is learning to coexist with your drying rack at all times

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨 BREAKING: Meta defies the EU and says it WON'T sign the EU AI Act's Code of Practice for general-purpose AI models. 😱 Here's what its Chief Global Affairs Officer said:

"Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI. We have carefully reviewed the European Commission’s Code of Practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models and Meta won’t be signing it. This Code introduces a number of legal uncertainties for model developers, as well as measures which go far beyond the scope of the AI Act.

Businesses and policymakers across Europe have spoken out against this regulation. Earlier this month, 44 of Europe’s largest businesses – including Bosch, Siemens, SAP, Airbus and BNP – signed a letter calling for the Commission to ‘Stop the Clock’ in its implementation.

We share concerns raised by these businesses that this over-reach will throttle the development and deployment of frontier AI models in Europe, and stunt European companies looking to build businesses on top of them."

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My comments:

Meta is being consistent with its previous declarations, continuing to accuse the EU of overregulation and overreach.

A reminder that Meta has been in a long-standing legal battle against the EU on various fronts, including the GDPR, the Digital Services Act, and the Digital Markets Act.

It looks like they are ready to start a new front: the AI Act.

A reminder that the Code of Practice is consistent with the obligations set out in the AI Act, and its goal is to accelerate compliance (signature is voluntary).

To me, the way the Chief Global Affairs Officer framed the statement suggests that Meta will also legally defy compliance with the EU AI Act.

Pay attention to what he said: "businesses and policymakers across Europe have spoken out against this regulation. (...) We share concerns raised by these businesses (...)"

He is not criticizing the Code of Practice only, but the EU AI Act as a whole.

Grab your popcorn 🍿, because another legal dispute between Meta and the EU is warming up...

I'll keep you posted!

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[neil turkewitz @neilturkewitz]

“Scraping millions of copyrighted works to train on is the original sin of generative AI development. People sometimes ask me why I think this is so unacceptable. I’ll tell you. It’s because generative AI competes with the work it’s trained on, and the people behind that work.”

[Alison Herman @aherman2006]

the biggest flex of the rehearsal finale is how nathan fielder pulls off the craziest stunt of his entire career and then relegates it to a tossed-off epilogue. "here I am on a military airfield, enjoy not hearing from me for 3-5 years!!!"

[Zara Rahim @ZaraRahim]

nathan fielder was just on cnn with wolf blitzer and was explaining to wolf’s co-host how wolf is more important and it must be hard to speak up and she was like ‘no we have a great equal relationship’ and he was like ‘no you’re just saying that bc you HAVE to’

[demi adejuyigbe @electrolemon]

i know this is not the point of it, but did anybody else watch the finale of THE REHEARSAL and go “that looks so fun. maybe i should take flying lessons”

[jon repetti @pourfairelevide]

Nathan is on CNN right now playing it totally straight and prefacing all his comments with “as a pilot…”

Wolf Blitzer has no idea what is going on and getting increasingly frustrated

[kel 💭 @keldotlauren]

combine the two and you get freelance graphic design

[neil turkewitz @neilturkewitz]

Legendary Facebook Exec Scoffs, Says AI Could Never Be Profitable If Tech Companies Had to Ask for Artists' Consent to Ingest Their Work

"I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first” says Nick Clegg.
Hey ladies, he sounds like a keeper, no? https://t.co/buQfpZUfMK

[Jade Cole @JadeCole2112]

Sites are spreading fear about this - when in reality LLMs are simply predicting the next set of most likely tokens based on the provided context window.

It's not aware of what being "shut down" means - this bubble is stupid and needs to burst.

[Caroline Dinenage MP @cj_dinenage]

Is @SciTechgovuk @peterkyle gaslighting me or misleading Parliament? Here he chides me that he’s never used the word uncertain. Yet 6 months ago: “That is why we are setting out a balanced package of proposals to address uncertainty about how copyright law applies to AI”.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Bravo @cj_dinenage for holding UK tech minister Peter Kyle to account:

1. Calls him out in parliament for falsely calling UK copyright law ‘uncertain’ regarding AI training (it is not)

2. Now calls him out for falsely claiming he never did so (he did)

[Eric Bourdages @EZE3D]

This narrative that they NEED copyright material to make their generative AI's work is false. They CAN ask permission and they CAN train their models ethically & legally they just don't WANT to. It would cost them money, be slow & their AI outputs would be limited.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The people who are claiming the most benefits in the UK.

1. King Charles - £500m a year.
2. The 150 Billionaires - Dodging £300m a year each in tax.
3. MP's - Claiming nearly £50k each in personal untaxed benefits.

These are totally unnecessary benefits we need to crackdown on.

[Nate Hake @natejhake]

I strongly suggest watching this 5 min interview

Matthew says publishers should start blocking AI scrapers en masse to gain leverage to negotiate licensing

Also interesting to watch the CNBC hosts react to idea Google could be coming for their jobs too

[Tomer Bennet Renard 📚 ✍🏼 🪴 @RenardReads]

Yet another reason why I will NEVER accept GenerativeAI. There is NO PART of these models that isn't built on exploitation.

Environmental destruction, labor exploitation, theft of creative work, & now the literal incorporation of CSAM into datasets, thus further driving demand.