Now, you might object: Anysphere wouldn’t be abusing just their customers’ data. Their customers’ customers’ data may have non-disclosure agreements with teeth. Then there’s personal data covered by the GDPR and so on.
If we're lucky, this will spook customers into running for the hills and hasten its demise. Whatever magical performance benefits Cursor's promising isn't gonna be worth getting blamed for a data breach.
The report claims its about ethical AI use, but all I see is evidence that AI is inherently unethical, and an argument for banning AI from education forever.
OpenAI’s choices don’t make any long term sense if AGI isn’t coming. The obvious explanation is that at this point he simply plans to grift and hype (while staying technically within the bounds of legality) to buy few years of personal enrichment.
Another possibility is that Altman's bought into his own hype, and genuinely believes OpenAI will achieve AGI before the money runs out. Considering the tech press has been uncritically hyping up AI in general, and Sammy Boy himself has publicly fawned over "metafiction" "written" by an in-house text extruder, its a possibility I'm not gonna discount.
Richard Stallman successfully kamikazes his reputation for good after multiple close attempts over the years
He still maintains a solid reputation with FOSS freaks, fascists and pedophiles to this day. Given the Venn diagram of these three groups is a circle, this isn't particularly shocking.
Literally what I and many others have been warning about. Using LLMs in your work is effectively giving US authorities central control over the bigotry and biases of your writing
- Baldur Bjarnason, talking about Trump's plan to turn LLMs into propaganda machines
Remember when I told you that using these LLMs was like giving US tech a bigotry dial for all your writing?
- Baldur, once again, on Facebook obeying in advance with Llama 4
(On a brighter note, that's a pretty clever Touhou nod in the thumbnail)
Being compared to whackjobs with a worse grip on reality than him definitely helped.
Somehow, ~~Palpatine returned~~ Scott came off as a voice of reason
In more low-key news, French voice actor Françoise Cadol has accused Aspyr Media of making an AI replica of her voice for the latest Tomb Raider remaster (the French one specifically, though its probably not the only one with AI slop voices).
Examples of the AI-generated voicelines have popped up on social media.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind cost 1 million to make in 1984. (No idea what that would be adjusted for inflation).
I checked a few random inflation calculators, and it comes out to roughly $3.1 million.
The video's also all over Twitter, thanks to nonexistent moderation.
With AI, of course