Is the ad hoc AI licensing regime a precursor of the US monarchy?

1. use children as a rhetorical shield for mass ID checks 2. move slowly, selectively, or opaquely on real-world child trafficking and institutional abuse

Age verification: it’s to save the children. How about listening to the victims? They’ve raised their hand. We have suspects. They’re on a list I’m told. How about we start there instead of dragnet surveillance capitalism?

A society where the wealthiest gets beheaded. You can be wealthy. Just not the wealthiest Not like a ceiling. More like a chimney.

Theory: USG banned Fable because they couldn’t play with Mythos to find vulns in Russian and Chinese infrastructure

The future is about to get way more unevenly distributed

The USG ~shutdown of Mythos and Fable makes a strong case for rolling your own open source models. More hardware scarcity, more points to open source/open weight. I know OS is not as capable. But at least you can rely on it being available

The newsletter from [email protected] now has a distinct AI smell. For better or for worse?