Just saw a non-English, auto-dubbed short pop up in YouTube, and it completely worked. Tower of Babel level one? Meanwhile, captions were only available in Korean! How odd. youtube.com/shorts/3KNLk...

The entire @openlibrary.org team would like to express our deep sadness at the loss of our friend Greg Newby who, for years, has seeded @gutenberg.org with public good, open access values worth continuing to follow. Thank you for your beautiful contributions. You are missed.

Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/... Table of contents: