The Supreme Court is about to take a case with enormous consequences for how the federal government works — potentially shifting the balance of regulatory power from agencies like the FTC and FCC to the courts themselves. What’s fascinating to me is how many crypto people I’ve seen flag this case, since it would defang the SEC as well. Wild times ahead.
Former BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith on what’s next — and his new book, Traffic.
Everything about AI music is incredible disrespectful to everyone involved, including the listener, and it’s never going back in the bottle. I love it.
Sadly, I was not able to work Laser Bong into this episode, but I’ll keep working at it.
It’s good, I’m hopelessly biased in favor of it, and you should watch it. That’s the disclosure!
Crypto has a lot of haters these days. The former Facebook exec is trying to prove them wrong with his Bitcoin startup.
The company is the latest to demand payment for training data, following Reddit and various publishers around the world. Wired has the story:
“Community platforms that fuel LLMs absolutely should be compensated for their contributions so that companies like us can reinvest back into our communities to continue to make them thrive,” Stack Overflow’s Chandrasekar says. “We’re very supportive of Reddit’s approach.”
We have been trying to post it all day and keep getting flagged because, well, it is obviously about doing drugs with lasers. I demand a Congressional hearing into this situation. Also: just watch it on YouTube Shorts.
