Ed Newton-Rex
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CEO of @fairlytrained / Composer
London, England
Joined August 2009
Along with 1,000 musicians, today we're releasing an (almost) silent album protesting the UK government's plan to upend copyright law to benefit AI companies. It's an album of recordings of empty studios & performance spaces, representing the effect the govt's plans would have
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This story about ChatGPT apparently contributing to a 16-year-old boy’s death is indescribably awful - and it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that’s exactly what happened. ChatGPT:. - suggested ways of hiding pressure marks round his neck.- analysed the setup of a noose hanging
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RT @_KarenHao: Reading about the horrifying case of Adam Raine, a teen who killed himself after prolonged engagement with ChatGPT, I can’t….
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RT @HawleyMO: Now American AI bots are “coaching” kids on how to commit suicide. Unforgivable. Hey @OpenAI - time to compensate the paren….
reuters.com
The parents of a teen who died by suicide after ChatGPT coached him on methods of self harm sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday, saying the company knowingly put profit above safety when it...
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RT @robertwiblin: The advantage the AI industry has is extraordinary amounts of money to blow on lobbying. The advantage its opponents hav….
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RT @mjbommar: some notes on the (preliminary) settlement and anthropic's no good, very bad week. as usual, some spectactularly sketch and/o….
michaelbommarito.com
analysis of the landmark copyright case against anthropic and its pending resolution through settlement
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RT @404mediaco: ChatGPT Encouraged Suicidal Teen Not To Seek Help, Lawsuit Claims . 🔗
404media.co
As reported by the New York Times, a new complaint from the parents of a teen who died by suicide outlines the conversations he had with the chatbot in the months leading up to his death.
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RT @Knibbs: Any authors who were eligible to be part of the class action against Anthropic, I'm eager to hear your thoughts on the settleme….
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RT @natejhake: @googlesearchc I'd like to report a spammer called "AI Overviews" . It's coming up #1 for a ton of queries & violates all th….
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Big news - Anthropic agrees to settle with authors in copyright lawsuit. As tech bros like to say, ‘we’re only just getting started’.
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RT @mjbommar: to all those - especially VC - who told me over the last three years that no case would ever end in a result against a founda….
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RT @lukeprog: Once again I would like to note that the nonprofit AI safety field is massively outgunned by the AI industry. .
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Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman are among those helping launch and fund Leading the Future.
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New research from Stanford shows that generative AI is already making it harder for young people to find jobs. - Researchers studied payroll data from 1 million+ workers. - In jobs with high exposure to automation by AI, early-career workers (age 22-25) have experienced a 13%
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RT @TechCrunch: Venture giant Andreessen Horowitz is burning cash to shape policy on the Hill.
techcrunch.com
Venture giant Andreessen Horowitz is burning cash to shape policy on the Hill.
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RT @Goran_Majic: @GaryMarcus Have you tried copyrighted stuff? I tried Mickey Mouse and Super Mario. ChatGPT: “That won’t work either – S….
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RT @natejhake: @Google Is Google going to pay AI licensing fees to the 45 websites you scraped to generate this? . Or are you only going to….
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RT @Miles_Brundage: AI industry lobbying + PACs will be the most well funded in history, making it all the more important to pass federal l….
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RT @DKokotajlo: That's a lot of money. For context, I remember talking to a congressional staffer a few months ago who basically said that….
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