steve

Antifascist

[steve @stevenehring]

@washghost1 If the government did this it would cost 80k per unit

[steve @stevenehring]

@Motherhoodspx Shame

[steve @stevenehring]

@iMiaSanMia Dude cant have haters. Didnt Work like everyone hoped but a great guy im Sure

[steve @stevenehring]

@GlobeEyeNews Because hes Muslim? People used to try and hide their racism

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Anthropic maintains that it is entitled to train for free on all the world’s output, even if the author objects. But if a competitor trains on Anthropic’s output after paying for it, that is IP theft. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”

it was called project panama.

here's exactly what happened:

1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.”

2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy.

it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.”

3: that piracy created a massive legal risk.

so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.”

4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs.

those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers.

5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months.

6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them.

a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling.

7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data.

the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.

[Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker]

One of the most evil things imaginable to me

[steve @stevenehring]

@therealRoShow @behrendtio Aint no way

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

‘Great powers have spheres of influence. Ukraine is simply in Russia’s.’

Spoken comfortably, from outside the sphere. I grew up inside one. Allow me to translate.

A ‘sphere of influence’ has one defining feature: nobody inside it was ever asked. The phrase treats nations as furniture — items arranged by the owners of the house.

History ran the referendum on this concept exactly once. In 1989, the door of Moscow’s sphere cracked open, and every single resident — Poles, Czechs, Balts, Hungarians, Germans — ran west. Unanimously. Nations that had spent forty years inside Russia’s ‘influence’ could not leave fast enough.

That vote stands: 100 to 0. No recount requested.

Ukraine and Georgia are simply the residents the empire caught at the door.

So use honest language. Influence is when neighbors choose you. What Russia has is a cage with cultural programming.

An empire’s sphere of influence is just the room where the screaming is called consent.

[steve @stevenehring]

@BohuslavskaKate Neoliberalism just enables fascists

[steve @stevenehring]

@TheACagenda @MagicJohnson

[jezz @JezziiB]

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to which is exactly why we need government regulations

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

The U.S. has worse wealth distribution than pre-revolutionary France.

[steve @stevenehring]

@BowesChay Cant wait for a police bot to chase me down for jaywalking

[steve @stevenehring]

@julianbarnes Like everybody knows just killing a leader will lead to even more extreme successors lmao

[steve @stevenehring]

@Eye13Sky It was open before and now??

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

A terrorist known for burning people’s homes down shows up at your door armed with assault rifles. His group has killed 13 people this year alone. You manage to snatch his gun and shoot. The army shows up and kills you. The world sides with the terrorist. Why? You are Palestinian

[Andrew Perpetua @AndrewPerpetua]

I love how Mearsheimer's entire career is based upon being devastatingly wrong about everything at all times.