JUST IN: Mark Zuckerberg warns a small group controlling superintelligence could dominate economics, science and politics — calls for “personal superintelligence” for everyone.
Second-hand booksellers across Europe are sounding the alarm, because rare books are being destroyed. They have received random lists of thousands of titles. Books too obscure to resell at a profit. Requests arriving overnight from companies nobody in the trade has heard of.
One bookseller told 404 Media his inventory is full of rare, foreign-language and low-circulation books, meaning that if they are destroyed in the process of becoming training data, they will be even harder to obtain.
One email came from "Nataly" at 2077AI, a Singapore company. Attached: 3,000 English titles grouped by ISBN. A 1999 geomechanics monograph. A 2018 study of laser shock peening on ceramics. A 2021 academic book on Irish folk tales.
A German dealer watched the orders arrive every night between 3am and 5am. Canadian company Zoom Books, buying systematically, titles with nothing in common. Zoom told Swiss broadcaster SRF that this is a regular recycling and trading model.
- scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. - A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. - Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. - A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. - Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
>meeting Republicans AND Democrats >topic: Open weights = American leadership in AI >meeting Sen. Mark Warner >Sen. Warner concerned about security after OpenAI’s autonomous cyberattack >Sam Altman ALSO meeting Warner separately
🚨BREAKING: Anthropic CEO Dario responds to Nvidia CEO Jensen’s open weights letter
“Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.”
What Anthropic DOES support: >don’t sell powerful chips to China, crack down on smuggling >crack down on industrial-scale distillation >mandatory safety testing for all capable models, open AND closed
On Jensen’s letter:
Agrees: >open weights expand access >strengthen competition >give customers control
Disagrees: >that open weights necessarily help defenders more than attackers >specifically worried about biology >“sufficiently capable models may be able to quickly weaponize pandemic-level viruses”
On distillation: >“A blanket ban on open-weights models is neither the correct remedy nor something we have called for.”
The real target: "companies backed by an authoritarian state seeking to overtake the US at the frontier."
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