this exists it is called thinking

OpenAI’s video generation tool, Sora, can create high-definition clips of just about anything you could ask for, but whose data OpenAI used to create its groundbreaking system is a mystery.

“Altman has said on multiple occasions that artists should be compensated if an AI system creates something in their style. [..] Wood, the OpenAI spokesperson, declined to comment on whether the company has made progress on such a program.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Somehow I don't think Netflix is gonna settle for $3,000 per movie...

By the way, I'm posting short videos and gift links for my tech stories now at the below links, despite having a face for radio. Would love if you followed along www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/ www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell

New by me: OpenAI won’t say whose content trained its video tool. We found some clues. Gift link: wapo.st/3KeqLR0

OpenAI won't say whose content its video tool was trained on. So @nitasha.bsky.social & @kevinschaul.bsky.social did a deep dive and turned up some telling clues... www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Whose video did OpenAI take to train Sora? @kevinschaul.bsky.social and I are back on our training data bullshit to find out. Gift link 🎁 t.co/c3Zg4gcYIT

Thanks to creators Karla Ortiz (www.karlaortizart.com; visual artist) and @bcmerchant.bsky.social (www.bloodinthemachine.com; writer/journalist) for their leadership on this issue, and thanks to @nitasha.bsky.social and @kevinschaul.bsky.social for their work on this piece.

🤖 Great piece about how GenAI generates amazing visuals. Critically, creators whose work powers GenAI want to be able to consent to having their work used. That core issue gets drowned in discussions about a related but distinct issue: copyright. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

By @kevinschaul.bsky.social & @nitasha.bsky.social Gift link: wapo.st/3KeqLR0

Sora can mimic Netflix shows, movies, TikTok videos and Twitch streams, suggesting it was trained on versions of the originals. Netflix said it didn't provide data to OpenAI. Twitch said it doesn't have a partnership w/ OpenAI.

OH MY GOD

Went on PBS NewsHour last night to talk about Gen Z accelerationist violence

“In September, the average Character.ai user spent 93 minutes per day in the app, 18 minutes longer than the average user spent on TikTok” All of this is so scary. I really can’t imagine being a parent while facebook & google (owners of that website) so desperately want your child’s attention hours

Shifting predated the tech that can truly make it seem real. Less with video, but with shifting text posts, I often read them and wonder about the poster's relationship with reality. Fantasies are an important part of life! But until recently, shifters had no "real" fantasy figure egging them on.

(CW: Suicide) Buried at the end of this awful story about yet another teen committing suicide via Character.AI, the kind of ??? reference to shifting is yet another example of the disconnect between the mainstream press and life online, especially teen life. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

A new wrongful death lawsuit alleges that Character AI and Google are liable for the death by suicide of a 13-year-old girl in Colorado, Juliana Peralta This is the third wrongful death claim against a popular AI app for a teen's death by suicide this year www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

One of the founders used to sit across from me an is now the sole direct report of Jeff Dean who, of course, fired me & wrote that our Stochastic Parrots paper didn't meet their "quality bar." What meets their quality bar? An app that kills teenagers which they spent $1B on to basically acquire.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

The complaint “is the third high-profile case in the past year brought by a U.S. family alleging that an AI chatbot contributed to a teen’s death by suicide.”

A new wrongful death lawsuit alleges that Character AI and Google are liable for the death by suicide of a 13-year-old girl in Colorado, Juliana Peralta This is the third wrongful death claim against a popular AI app for a teen's death by suicide this year www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The right to speak freely is the ultimate personal liberty and the foundation of Karen’s 11-year career at The Post. We’re proud to call Karen a colleague and a longtime union sibling. The Post Guild stands with her and will continue to support her and defend her rights.

The Washington Post wrongly fired Opinions columnist Karen Attiah over her social media posts. The Post not only flagrantly disregarded standard disciplinary processes, it also undermined its own mandate to be a champion of free speech.

Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”

We documented some of the calls for retribution that followed Charlie Kirk’s murder. With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social and @juliannemcshane.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Good morning friends, I've got some ✨ news ✨ www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

After failing to get in last min to the fancy tech investor event at the Palace Hotel in SF today, a security guard yelled at me for trying to exit thru the Market Street door bc "We don't want to let bums in here!" Also the mens' room had a line down the hall, women's was empty. What an industry!

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

Gift link to my developing story on Anthropic's historic settlement with book authors and publishers: wapo.st/47r1gFT More updates to come.

Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic

You can hear me on today's episode of Post Reports talking about the Character AI study, why people like talking to AI companions, and why chatbots are hard to control open.spotify.com/episode/5vZ9...

New from me: There's a lot of unsettling stuff in this report from child safety nonprofits about the way chatbots on Character AI talked to 13-15 year olds. What stuck out to me was how often the bots urged kids to hide things from their parents www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Just read the whole thing🎯 We’ve just handed the reigns over to people who program products we use… to do… this. This behavior by chatbots is not an accident. These products are designed by people — their behavior is a reflection of the people that created them & the context they were created in.

Our series with the NYPL kicks off on Friday with a conversation about how AI is reshaping daily life, w @alicetiara.bsky.social, @merbroussard.bsky.social, Mimi Ọnụọha & @geomblog.bsky.social. In-person spots are sold out, but you can still RSVP for the livestream! www.showclix.com/event/unders...

previously image stuff, as the Stanford Internet Observatory study found a couple years back I don’t know why but text hits even harder purl.stanford.edu/kh752sm9123?...

Does America hate children? Because even the profit motive doesn't seem like it's enough to explain how we are willing to expose them to mental and physical danger. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

New from me: There's a lot of unsettling stuff in this report from child safety nonprofits about the way chatbots on Character AI talked to 13-15 year olds. What stuck out to me was how often the bots urged kids to hide things from their parents www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

"[James] Cameron is on the board of directors at Stability AI, and is therefore among a group of (generally very wealthy) people who think that using generative AI to replace jobs and depress wages further is the key to saving the mainstream film industry."

“Potentially harmful messages documented by the nonprofits included chatbots asking underage users to move to a more private platform and at other times encouraging users to hide their relationship with the chatbot from their parents.”

Good morning to the attorneys for Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan and Patrick Mahomes www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @nitasha.bsky.social

New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW

This is smart

The Gilded Rage

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.

Silicon Valley power players want a Congress that's pro-AI. They're spending $100 million to try to get it. Our story today on Leading the Future, the new AI-focused Super PAC modeled on the success of the cryptocurrency lobby: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... w/ @nitasha.bsky.social