I resigned from Anthropic today(twitter.com)

540 points by yurivish 1 month ago | 696 comments

Twitter/X thread (via xcancel) by Jacob Coxon announcing his resignation from Anthropic, arguing AI labs are racing irresponsibly toward superintelligence.

"I was just scammed for $500K by Polymarket."(xcancel.com)

12 points by int32_64 4 months ago | 1 comments

A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran(twitter.com)

90 points by doener 7 months ago | 60 comments

BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork(xcancel.com)

355 points by Tomte 5 months ago | 132 comments

Josef Prusa's X thread (via xcancel) alleging BambuStudio violates PrusaSlicer's AGPL license and linking it to Chinese national intelligence and data laws.

Online age verification is the hill to die on(x.com)

846 points by Cider9986 6 months ago | 536 comments

An X thread by Glenn Meder arguing that online age verification is a critical fight because it requires identity verification and enables broader digital control.

Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police(twitter.com)

346 points by I_am_tiberius 4 months ago | 305 comments

A thread by Danish privacy activist and former police officer Lars Andersen describing his arrest after masked police broke down his door over publishing the PM's personal numbers.

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late(annas-archive.gl)

527 points by Cider9986 2 months ago | 834 comments

Anna's Archive blog guest post arguing AI companies are buying and destroying physical books for training, and urging volunteers to scan and upload rare books.

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late(annas-archive.pk)

669 points by darccio 2 months ago | 394 comments

Guest post on Anna's Blog claiming AI companies buy and destroy physical books for training data, urging volunteers to scan and upload rare books.

Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?(tim.blog)

380 points by imakwana 4 months ago | 431 comments

Tim Ferriss blog post examining whether AI has hurt how-to nonfiction book sales, using industry trends and his own sales data.

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt(futurism.com)

628 points by technewssss 3 months ago | 317 comments

Futurism article reporting that AI companies are using off-balance-sheet arrangements to hide large amounts of debt.

Do AI companies work?(benn.substack.com)

375 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 395 comments

A Substack essay by Benn Stancil questioning whether AI model companies have viable business models, subtitled "The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent."

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale(axelk.ee)

665 points by speckx 5 months ago | 542 comments

A personal blog post arguing that AI companies train on authors' work without consent or compensation, amounting to plagiarism at scale.