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Archives for August 2023

Google and YouTube are trying to have it both ways with AI and copyright

Google has made clear it is going to use the open web to inform and create anything it wants, and nothing can get in its way. Except maybe Frank Sinatra.

Nilay Patel
The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawlerThe New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler
Jay Peters and Wes Davis
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Microsoft has pulled more of its poorly-written travel articles.

Business Insider found that Microsoft removed articles that defined the terms “hamburger” and “seafood” and a photo recommendation article that suggested eating wagyu beef.

None of those are as egregious as the one suggesting people go to an Ottawa food bank on “an empty stomach,” but they cast further doubts on Microsoft’s processes for making these articles.

Microsoft said last week that the Ottawa article was due to “human error” and “was not published by an unsupervised AI,” but didn’t comment on the processes for the other stories to Business Insider.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Breaking down how Nvidia became a leader in AI hardware.

Nvidia’s AI lead pushed it to become a $1 trillion company, while its H100 chips are so in demand they can be used as collateral even as the next-gen Nvidia GH200 sits on the horizon.

Now the New York Times describes how it’s established a monstrous lead over other chipmakers, extending a victory tour of editorial recounting Nvidia “hand-delivering processors to Elon Musk and Sam Altman,” how it started in a Denny’s, and CEO Jensen Huang’s SIGGRAPH keynote outlining its decision to focus on AI.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Books3, a huge literary dataset used to train OpenAI and Meta chatbots, is filled with copyrighted works.

Programmer and writer Alex Reisner’s expansive piece for The Atlantic documents his deep dive into the dataset, identifying all but 20,000 of the 190,000 books it contains, as well as its history and controversy surrounding it.

Books3, part of a larger dataset called “The Pile” created by EleutherAI, is the linchpin of Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against OpenAI.