In 2011, I wrote a novella about a Silicon Valley startup that trains its virtual reality software from tourist photos it scrapes off the Internet. Millions of these photos are stitched together to create a virtual cable car ride across San Francisco.| j-nelson.net
Is it only considered piracy if the people who do it lack resources and respectability? Apparently so.| Jim Nelson
Introduction The Atlantic has an interesting story on all the books Meta/Facebook pirated to train their Llama 3 AI model. The story includes a tool where you can enter an Author’s name and get a l…| Stephen Smith's Blog
OpenAI is raising the specter of China and predicting the US will lose the AI race if it's unable to scrape copyrighted materials.| Futurism
National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says.| Ars Technica