Arjun Chandra
@boelger
Dad of 4. Founder and CEO @brua_io sculpting a socially responsible role for AI. Led large model training stability @graphcoreai. PhD in AI @uobcompsci (2011).
The year is 2022. Life, universe, and everything remain as wondrous as they’ve ever been, and as wondrous as they shall ever be. There is a enough for everyone to learn, invent, cherish and heal. Engage yourself in this wonder with wisdom and kindness✨
Couldn't agree more @feistyredhair LET KIDS BE LOUD 🥳 afterbabel.com/p/let-kids-be-…
This is big: 10 authors have filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for allegedly training AI models on pirated books. They cite evidence Microsoft trained on Books3, a 200,000-book dataset known to derive from pirated sources. Full complaint: bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop…
as in, collected from other people without a license agreed
🚨 Another AI fair use ruling today, and this one is *much* better for creators. 🚨 tl;dr: The judge said "In many circumstances it will be illegal to copy copyright-protected works to train generative AI models without permission." Authors sued Meta for training on their…
"You're fighting a losing battle, even if you win the AI lawsuits, there's still China." China: "18 months in prison."
“May you live in interesting times.”
Pay attention to who is celebrating today's fair use judgement. Despite authors' big piracy win, verdict's narrow scope, & likely appeal on fair use, these people celebrate a verdict that favors AI companies over creators defending their rights. Tells you all you need to know.
The fair use ruling feels pretty unfair. Amongst other things, the end user is using these tools to quickly access raw info written by some human. Surely, it impacts the market for work in question.
Today's ruling in the authors vs. Anthropic copyright lawsuit is a mixed bag. It's not the win for AI companies some headlines suggest - there are good and bad parts. In short, the judge said Anthropic's use of pirated books was infringing, but said its training on non-pirated…
You would not believe the quotations we have from inside TikTok. They know what they are doing to children including the addiction ("compulsive use") and attention fragmentation. You've got to read the quotations yourself: afterbabel.com/p/industrial-s…
WOW: @JonHaidt got info from inside TikTok admitting how they target kids: "The product in itself has baked into it compulsive use... younger users... are particularly sensitive to reinforcement in the form of social reward and have minimal ability to self-regulate effectively"
AI, in its present form, can be characterized as a technology that erodes intellectual capital, which has been adopted en masse in a way that erodes social capital. This is not how I want my field to evolve. This is not the AI I want my kids to encounter, nor should you.
The in-person generative AI protests have begun. Authors today protesting the unauthorized use of their books for AI training at Meta’s UK offices. Expect lots more protests like this.
Brua @brua_io — a medium through which trustworthy information flows reliably from one human to another, in a way that is fair and respectful towards those who form the pillars of knowledge that (often unknowingly) have shaped modern AI. bok365.no/artikkel/ansva…
Sad.
The entire AI Studio Ghibli thing is awful. But by far the worst part is the people *actively celebrating* that this would sadden/anger Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli's creator. Silicon Valley has never been in a worse place. It's sickening to watch the artist-hate spread.
What many teachers are saying: "it's like you are interacting with them briefly in between hits of the internet, which is their real life." Get the phones put away, and stop putting internet-connected devices on students' desks.
The current state of education. She has a point.
Sweden will makes its schools phone free! They are also pulling back on edtech. They recognize that multifunction devices make it harder for students to learn. thelocal.se/20250313/swede…
I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions. Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.
A high school student asked if he should join a startup or go to university. I said that if he was ambitious he could learn a lot more at a university. The work you do in a startup is severely constrained. If it isn't, the startup is inefficient.
Put all those trolls and other spreaders of hate disguised as truth in the hands of this gentleman. Very satisfying. youtube.com/@chotutufan.1?…
The main reason I'm not sending my kids to a Norwegian public school. Get those iPads and phones out. Let kids grow in the real world in the company of each other.
As parents around the world try to save their kids from a phone-based childhood, their efforts are undermined by schools that put a laptop or tablet on every desk. This video is the most compelling one I've seen, about why this must stop. At After Babel: afterbabel.com/p/sophie-winkl…
All this applies to Norwegian public schools as well. Good talk.
I just watched one of the best talks ever given on what smartphones, social media, and ed-tech are doing to childhood and education. From Sophie Winkleman. If you question the wisdom of the screen-based school day, you must watch, just 20 minutes: youtube.com/watch?v=7V6nuc…
Back from kindergarten. 3yo opens up the chess set. Lays out the pieces. Black and white working together. That’s my boy! 🤗😇
Cannot imagine my kids being subjected to the isolating digital hell we’ve together created for them with smart phones for losing self worth, and iPads for losing their imagination. As much as I want to, it’s clear to me that they just cannot be sent to a Norwegian public school.