Khor

Use tech to make the world more caring, and responsible. Nat. Univ. Singapore, Carnegie Mellon Univ, Univ. of Tokyo. IBM, 500Startups & Y-Combinator companies

[Khor @neth_6]

@unusual_whales is he still relevant?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Hajime Miura just clinched his 8th 3A World Yo-Yo Championship title at the World Yo-Yo Contest in Prague—cementing his legacy as one of the most dominant players ever.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Pilot's view from the cockpit while landing at night ...

[Khor @neth_6]

@damengchen People don't want to live like this.
They live like this hoping to make more so they don't live like this.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is the quality of humor we want from Grok

[Khor @neth_6]

@elonmuskADO no

[Khor @neth_6]

@AndrewYNg Learning from others and combining learnings to create writing, fashion, art, etc. is not new.
What is new is the speed AI can do it, giving the pioneers little chance to benefit from their creation before it is replicated.

[Khor @neth_6]

@ylecun Cause humans have proven to
be selfish, greedy, and all other stuff.
And institutions likewise.
My advice is if something is inevitably winning don't put all your energy fighting it. Your life is short & your energy is limited. Be a winner too. Place your bets on it winning.

[Khor @neth_6]

@ednewtonrex i fully support your stance!
my utmost respect to you 🫡

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

I’ve resigned from my role leading the Audio team at Stability AI, because I don’t agree with the company’s opinion that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is ‘fair use’.

First off, I want to say that there are lots of people at Stability who are deeply thoughtful about these issues. I’m proud that we were able to launch a state-of-the-art AI music generation product trained on licensed training data, sharing the revenue from the model with rights-holders. I’m grateful to my many colleagues who worked on this with me and who supported our team, and particularly to Emad for giving us the opportunity to build and ship it. I’m thankful for my time at Stability, and in many ways I think they take a more nuanced view on this topic than some of their competitors.

But, despite this, I wasn’t able to change the prevailing opinion on fair use at the company.

This was made clear when the US Copyright Office recently invited public comments on generative AI and copyright, and Stability was one of many AI companies to respond. Stability’s 23-page submission included this on its opening page:

“We believe that Al development is an acceptable, transformative, and socially-beneficial use of existing content that is protected by fair use”.

For those unfamiliar with ‘fair use’, this claims that training an AI model on copyrighted works doesn’t infringe the copyright in those works, so it can be done without permission, and without payment. This is a position that is fairly standard across many of the large generative AI companies, and other big tech companies building these models — it’s far from a view that is unique to Stability. But it’s a position I disagree with.

I disagree because one of the factors affecting whether the act of copying is fair use, according to Congress, is “the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work”. Today’s generative AI models can clearly be used to create works that compete with the copyrighted works they are trained on. So I don’t see how using copyrighted works to train generative AI models of this nature can be considered fair use.

But setting aside the fair use argument for a moment — since ‘fair use’ wasn’t designed with generative AI in mind — training generative AI models in this way is, to me, wrong. Companies worth billions of dollars are, without permission, training generative AI models on creators’ works, which are then being used to create new content that in many cases can compete with the original works. I don’t see how this can be acceptable in a society that has set up the economics of the creative arts such that creators rely on copyright.

To be clear, I’m a supporter of generative AI. It will have many benefits — that’s why I’ve worked on it for 13 years. But I can only support generative AI that doesn’t exploit creators by training models — which may replace them — on their work without permission.

I’m sure I’m not the only person inside these generative AI companies who doesn’t think the claim of ‘fair use’ is fair to creators. I hope others will speak up, either internally or in public, so that companies realise that exploiting creators can’t be the long-term solution in generative AI.

[۟ @MINHxDYNASTY]

After seeing a wild TTJ jacket crossing the street, we harmoniously yelled “IKUZO” in front of 1,000+ people as we ran to the middle of the convention center for a warm embrace.

[Khor @neth_6]

@ylecun for people to speak up, they must (convinced to) believe, they will be heard.

otherwise it's just a waste of their time & increases their frustration.

how often so-called leaders never listen but only rally the community in the time of their own need.

[۟ @MINHxDYNASTY]

Real life is the true utility.

It’s a beautiful thing to go anywhere in the world and meet people that seem like distant family, all because of pieces of art that connect us.

So much love to the @Azuki Korea family for welcoming us with open arms and warm hearts.

[Khor @neth_6]

@elonmusk @pmarca If AI kills us, it's just accelerating what mankind wanted. AI learned from us and it's just more efficient.

[RTFKT @RTFKT]

If you’re visiting our experience at @GEISAI_Official make sure to have the Coinbase or MetaMask mobile app🦊

We will be giving away digital collectibles in person 🎁

We also will be randomly airdropping some of these collectibles to CloneX holders
🌸🧬

[RTFKT @RTFKT]

😈 or 😇

Which side are you on⚖️

[Khor @neth_6]

@elonmusk maybe they're not that 'smart' after all

[Khor @neth_6]

@meopic @JackLombardi @DavidClinchNews @elonmusk because the 7 sins of humanity never change!

[Khor @neth_6]

@Snowden one-sided viewpoint from someone supposedly so smart.
ngmi.

[DeeKay @deekaymotion]

self-control 🫡