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The black Cyrano De Bergerac of rap with the ghetto/Angelo-Sax poetic syntax

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof.

In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov’s soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved.

I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.

If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.

And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.

We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.

AI is not discovering new mathematics.

AI is stealing human discovery.

[Braiins Forge @Braiinsforge]

Your TV might be one of 216,000,000 LG smart TVs sold worldwide.

Researchers rooted one and pulled plain text transcripts of what people said in the room.

It kept recording while the screen looked off.

If your TV can do that, it’s time to look at everything else on your desk👇🏻

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen.

The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

More from @DRBoguslaw below:

https://t.co/pZv9kQr4eB

[Not Sure Gnosis 🦈🐆🐧 @ViceLitty]

Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Altman are the exact same archetype
Dishonest, pathologically deceptive thieves with zero human remorse

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Completely illegal and incredibly dystopian.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Why corporations spend $1.7 billion on union busting each year in one chart:

[Larry Fisher 🐉 @burnergod77]

I think about it often, it was basically instant and justified every climate warning we received for the last 25-30 years. There was always a chance to prevent everything

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

How come Al is inevitable and we need to adapt and accept it, but renewable energy, tackling microplastics and restoring ecosystems are framed as stupid and inconvenient? The gaslighting from the 1% is top tier.

[Sunrise Movement 🌅 @sunrisemvmt]

This is misleading. What the report actually says is that we must — AND CAN — limit the worst damage by stopping warming fast and declining it to below 1.5°C.

Don't fall for doomer headlines. We can win a livable future, and it's a disgrace that our leaders aren't acting.

[Fight for a Union @FightForAUnion]

Corporate profits have doubled from 6% of GDP to 12.4%. That's roughly an additional $2 trillion that historically would have gone to paychecks that is now being routed strictly to shareholders and CEOs. I wonder why we can’t afford anything anymore.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Unearthed video: Leaked Flock webinar reveals Flock employees teaching police how to surveil anti-Trump No Kings protestors and track their vehicles.

[Cocaine Kitty @cocainechippy]

It’s almost like we should utilize the THREE DIFFERENT PARALLEL RAIL CORRIDORS RUNNING RIGHT NEXT TO IT OR SOMETHING

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

Incarcerated people in Oklahoma are working in call centers... and sometimes they make calls on behalf of conservative super PACs.

They described doing as many as 800 calls a day, facing performance quotas, and delivering conservative scripts they didn't fully understand.

All they make is $2/hour, while the Department of Corrections gets $10/hour. We need to close the slavery loophole in the 13th amendment.

Aside from the fact that it's immoral to exploit incarcerated people for what's basically slave labor, these call centers generate a lot of profit.

There are plenty of Americans who can do those jobs for a living wage. They shouldn't have to compete with a captive population who's coerced to take a small fraction of what the labor is really worth.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

The fact that animal life on Earth has been reduced by 70% in the last 50 years isn’t sickening enough people.

[v @vorantvacuity]

@RobGeorge Marvel should retcon a secondary mutation that allows him to age more slowly & keep the original Holocaust survivor backstory. Or, they could update & make him Palestinian.

[I Dissent @DissentFu]

Look its more of our food chain dying off so that 8 guys can have more money sitting in their bank account.

Why aren't you pissed off enough to do something about it?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

This is what a rigged economy looks like:

Today, we have more income and wealth inequality than at any time in American history, worse than the “Gilded Age” of Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan and Carnegie.

Today, the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 90% and one man, Mr. Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 50% of American households.

Not acceptable. We can, and must, create an economy that works for all, not just the few.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

If Bernie’s Social Security bill is signed into law, Social Security would be solvent for 75 years, benefits would go up by $2,400, 91% of Americans would not pay a penny more in taxes and the wealthy would finally pay their fair share by scrapping the cap on all taxable income.

[The Laundry Mat @_TheLaundryMat]

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