Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
CEO of @fairlytrained / Composer
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…
Big tech & their lobbyists were hoping the US AI Action Plan would change copyright law to benefit AI companies. It did not. The Action Plan is disappointingly accelerationist, but there’s no change to copyright law. And as a reminder, Judge Chhabria recently said “in many…
The @AdaLovelaceInst has recommended the UK government launch an inquiry into the private sector's role shaping govt policy on AI in the public sector. Given the govt has deals with Google, OpenAI & more, and is advised by the CEO of Google DeepMind, this is very much needed.
Important point. AI companies cannot control the current generation of AI models. (Grok praises Hitler, ChatGPT encourages devil worship, etc.) What gives anyone any confidence that future superintelligent models can be controlled?
“What is important to observe here is an inability to control behavior of an AI model even at current levels of intelligence,” Yampolskiy says. “Whatever models claim to be conscious or not is of interest from philosophical and rights perspectives, but being able to control AI is…
The AI Action Plan is even worse than I thought it'd be. A tech industry wishlist with every box ticked. It signals the further coherence of Silicon Valley and the Trump-led federal government into a cooperative, automation-bent surveillance state. It's a blueprint for dystopia.
The 2015 version of Google was 10x better, actually. Can we get it back please? 🙏
Then there’s the remarkable evolution in Search. We’ve created entirely new ways to search like Lens + Circle to Search, and we keep incorporating our most advanced AI models. Now AI Overviews and AI Mode are reimagining the types of queries people can ask and we can answer. The…
Reports that @voguemagazine is using AI models. Can’t confirm whether true or not, but if it is I suspect they will face serious questions
Vogue’s August issue has begun to use “AI models” instead of human models for some of their photoshoots.
‘AI Opportunities’
LeBron James' Lawyers Send Cease-and-Desist to AI Company Making Pregnant Videos of Him 🔗 404media.co/lebron-james-l…
This is Elon Musk's vision of the future. How many jobs do we lose when this transformation takes place? Do we really want to interact with robots instead of people? What do you think?
Last night, Trump sided with parasitic AI companies against millions of writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians trying to eke out a living. The rationale is if AI developers can't steal intellectual property, then they can't feed their digital demons. Sounds good to me.
Congrats on all that cash, Sundar ... now, remind me why Google can't afford to pay creators & copyright holders when your AI uses their content?
Hugging Face CEO saying this the same day as we revealed his platform hosted tools for generating deepfake pornography of teenage celebrities 🙃
It’s time for the American AI community to wake up, drop the "open is not safe" bullshit, and return to its roots: open science and open-source AI, powered by an unmatched community of frontier labs, big tech, startups, universities, and non‑profits. If we don’t, we’ll be forced…
If you’re feeling down about politicians who have been captured by big tech and want to let AI companies steal work with impunity, remember that the public overwhelmingly disagrees with them (in a ratio of eight to one). Legalizing IP theft is a hugely, hugely unpopular policy -…
🚨It’s time for US creatives to organize. Trump has bought into the lines on AI & copyright that he’s been fed by his big tech advisers. Today he: - likened AI training to human learning (in reality they are very different, and treated differently under the law) - said you…
NEW: In tonight's speech at an AI summit, Trump dives into copyright policy - an issue that the AI Action Plan avoids taking a stand on. "When something goes into the vast intelligence machine, you cannot expect every time to say let's pay this one that much."
Scoop: @BusinessInsider obtained an internal list of websites that could and couldn't be used for training Anthropic's latest AI models. Anthropic's contractor Surge AI left the list fully public on Google Docs. 'Sites you can use' include Bloomberg, Harvard, & the Mayo Clinic
.@SenHawleyPress: "If you look at how these [AI] companies are behaving, it's basically a smash and grab mentality ... there's something wrong with that." #AxiosLive
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission 🔗 404media.co/spotify-publis…
This is the new CEO of Applications at OpenAI writing about creativity. IMO this is a gross misunderstanding of what it means to be creative. The fact that our skill sets limit our ability to express our creativity is not some problem to be solved. Creativity *is* your skill…
