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blair @blairaf.com · Nov 21

AI industry

Photo of a group of three people gathered around two lobsters facing off with one another. They are throwing money on the ground around the lobsters, and the three people and both lobsters are all labeled "AI investors"

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

“Another former OpenAI employee who also was not authorized to speak publicly argued that releasing a deepfake AI social media platform was the right business decision, even if it contributes to the collapse of everyone's shared sense of reality.” 💀

Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet

OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?

www.npr.org

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 12h

This is why you see the Bank of England, the Financial Times, and so many more warning about the risks of all economic growth depending upon AI, and yet perfectly rational-short-term investors throw even more money into frontier model development. Correction is coming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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blair @blairaf.com · 1d

"how's Alberta are you settled in now?"
"the milkmen are watching me"

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blair @blairaf.com · 1d

Working in AI policy rn is like being on a derailed train where the conductor is saying "haha check out this sick trick the train is going so much faster now" and you have to calmly explain to the conductor why actually maybe it is bad that the train has derailed

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blair @blairaf.com · 1d

"OpenAI is Canadian sovereign AI" is astonishing mental gymnastics and it gets worse the more you think about it

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blair @blairaf.com · 1d

Maybe of interest @parismarx.com

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blair @blairaf.com · 1d

The OpenAI for Countries initiative is part of the Stargate project backed by the US government, OpenAI is very clear on their own website that their For Countries infrastructure partnerships are supported by and coordinated with the US government

Excerpt from OpenAI website that reads:

Today, we’re introducing OpenAI for Countries, a new initiative within the Stargate project. This is a moment when we need to act to support countries around the world that would prefer to build on democratic AI rails, and provide a clear alternative to authoritarian versions of AI that would deploy it to consolidate power.

In response to these interested governments, OpenAI is offering a new kind of partnership for the Intelligence Age. Through formalized infrastructure collaborations, and in coordination with the US government, OpenAI will:

Partner with countries to help build in-country data center capacity. These secure data centers will help support the sovereignty of a country’s data, build new local industries, and make it easy to customize AI and leverage their data in a private and compliant way.
Provide customized ChatGPT to citizens. This will help deliver improved healthcare and education, more efficient public services, and more. This will be AI of, by, and for the needs of each particular country, localized in their language and for their culture and respecting future global standards.

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blair @blairaf.com · 1d

Looks like Canada's approach to "sovereign AI" will involve creating structural dependencies on large US tech companies

Excerpt from an article that reads: Lehane met with AI Minister Evan Solomon on Monday. Solomon told The Logic in June that his mission is to “create sovereign AI.” But “sovereignty is not solitude,” Solomon said, noting that Canada still needs technology and capital from other countries.

OpenAI is participating in similar initiatives in other advanced economies. In May, the firm launched OpenAI for Countries, a new program that localizes ChatGPT and its underlying models for a nation’s particular customs and the requirements of its public sector. It is also offering to build data centres for countries that help pay for the infrastructure.

Countries are turning to OpenAI because of its “cutting-edge technology,” which can be used to build homegrown tools and applications, and because the firm can help stimulate their domestic AI ecosystems by building or buying compute capacity, Lehane said.

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blair @blairaf.com · 1d

Working in AI policy rn is like being on a derailed train where the conductor is saying "haha check out this sick trick the train is going so much faster now" and you have to calmly explain to the conductor why actually maybe it is bad that the train has derailed

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 3d

“The user interfaces on our devices have become less like tools and more like receptacles for collection,” @anthropunk.bsky.social writes. It’s a dynamic that “exploits our energy and labor.” www.fastcompany.com/91397818/lar...

LLMs are the users now

Tech companies have shifted focus from designing for people to prioritizing algorithms.

www.fastcompany.com

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blair @blairaf.com · 8d

Oops the October tan turned into an October burn

blair @blairaf.com · 8d

Visiting Toronto for the first time since moving out to Edmonton and it is still basically summer here you are all so lucky. Gonna enjoy getting an October tan for the next few days

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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 8d

I wrote a short essay about refusing to participate in Canada's public consultation on AI.

On refusal and reaching the limits to engage

This is an essay about the importance of refusal. As a researcher, I hardly write anymore this way, but I thought I should, in this moment, where the need to document our descent into fascism is cr…

www.anabrandusescu.com

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blair @blairaf.com · 11d

It centers around promises of optimization and enablement. Find a niche where you can convince ppl that your product will make them more capable/more efficient, then convince investors that ppl will pay for your product. Now you have more capital that you can use to make promises to even more ppl

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11d

why not opt-in? just ask permission first

if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked

just ask permission first

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

on.wsj.com

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blair @blairaf.com · 11d

agentic pasta pot development as a new pillar of the Italian national AI strategy

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blair @blairaf.com · 11d

But what if I want to cook a lot of pasta? The only solution is $20 million in VC funding for an AI-infused pot

blair @blairaf.com · 11d

Can one of the AI for social good people pls make AI that stops my pasta water from boiling over

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blair @blairaf.com · 11d

PSA please do not give your credit card information to the hallucinating robot

openai.com/index/buy-it...

Buy it in ChatGPT: Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol

We’re taking first steps toward agentic commerce in ChatGPT with new ways for people, AI agents, and businesses to shop together.

openai.com

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blair @blairaf.com · 11d

Finally coming out of my writing lull to write a whole piece that unpacks this contradiction & re-centers public interest

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blair @blairaf.com · 11d

Canada's AI strategy is in a counterproductive place rn "we want to implement AI everywhere and we want the public to trust & use the AI, but we don't want to do too much public engagement or regulation" this isn't a recipe for success

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blair @blairaf.com · 12d

beautiful, poised, & in her zone (big bird outside the window)

Huxley the dog has big ears and brown black and white fur and brown eyes and is staring out a window on a sunny day

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blair @blairaf.com · Apr 6

me every weekend

ms paint drawing of a little stick figure smiling and burrowed under the ground with the text captions "safe from emails, ground, and me"

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