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Imagine if the Internet were used to process information rather than merely pass it along. Well, it is being done by some of the biggest companies in the world.
Wired for Thought
Jeffrey M. Stibel
On a podcast with his friend Michael Anton, now the director of policy planning at the State Department, Yarvin argued that the institutions of civil society, such as Harvard, would need to be shut down. “The idea that you’re going to be a Caesar . . . with someone else’s Department of Reality in operation is just manifestly absurd,” he said.
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America | The New Yorker
Ava Kofman
Indeed, one recent lawsuit filed by the Arkansas news organisation Helena World Chronicle in a class action against Google and Alphabet argues that the “unlawful tying” arrangements, in which the search giant misappropriates publishers’ content and republishes it on its platform, are “only extended and exacerbated by Google’s introduction of Bard in 2023” — since the chatbot trained on content from publishers from the Helena World Chronicle to the Washington Post, none of whom were compensated.
Content Creators Fight Back Against AI
Rana Foroohar
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