disingenuous declarations of pieties the company doesn’t actually live up to is the corporate brand.
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OpenAI Sued by Penguin Random House Over ChatGPT Copyright Infringement
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No f’ing way is that Fair Use. Kenshi (@kenshii_ai) 🚨OpenAI sued again! Penguin Random House has filed a major lawsuit against OpenAI in Munich. ChatGPT is now generating full stories and illustrations that are virtually indistinguishable from their popular childrens book series Coconut the Little Dragon. These legal battles keep piling up for one simple reason. OpenAI refuses to change how they build their models. This reckless pattern cannot continue. OpenAI is putting the entire future of AI at risk with their arrogance. They must fix this immediately or step aside. — https://nitter.net/kenshii_ai/status/2042852899676450947#m
→ View original post on X — @garymarcus, 2026-04-11 15:06 UTC
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Practitioners Express Caution About LLM Hype and Limited Utility
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👇 “I still maintain that LLMs are really dumb and of limited use. it’s my opinion as a practitioner and professional that the hype being peddled by the AI corporations and self promoters (from X grifters right up to academia) are ill-founded at best and and downright dangerous at worst. i am yet to see any significant support for LLMs from practitioners with responsibility. the deeper they go the stronger their caution gets.” fj (@fjzeit) i’ve been using it in-depth for 2.5 years. i discovered the same approach that Karpathy calls “LLM Wiki” over 18 months ago (as have many others). i’ve built a hardware simulator, two operating systems, an embedded systems harness, an ai coding harness, a coding IDE, two games, and a programming language. i still maintain that LLMs are really dumb and of limited use. it’s my opinion as a practitioner and professional that the hype being peddled by the AI corporations and self promoters (from X grifters right up to academia) are ill-founded at best and and downright dangerous at worst. i am yet to see any significant support for LLMs from practitioners with responsibility. the deeper they go the stronger their caution gets. i look forward to the day when the considered opinions of practitioners gets as much airtime as those with a vested interest in the technology. — https://nitter.net/fjzeit/status/2042814019405513141#m
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Boycott ChatGPT to Remove Altman from OpenAI Leadership
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postscript: Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) Violence is not the answer. Boycott is the answer. This one’s easy. There is ample evidence that Altman is a dishonest person with inordinate power that we should not trust. But the way forward to is get the board to remove him, not to throw bombs at his house. Humanity must take the high road. The way to take the high road is to stop using his products, in protest of his implied openness to mass surveillance, his mass IP theft, and his company’s opposition to liability for their actions. When people stop using ChatGPT, Altman will have to go; it’s simple as that. Quite possibly the COO or CFO will step in, and we (and OpenAI itself) will all be better off. — https://nitter.net/GaryMarcus/status/2042973781304709251#m
→ View original post on X — @garymarcus, 2026-04-11 14:43 UTC
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Boycott ChatGPT, not violence against Sam Altman
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Violence is not the answer. Boycott is the answer. This one’s easy. There is ample evidence that Altman is a dishonest person with inordinate power that we should not trust. But the way forward to is get the board to remove him, not to throw bombs at his house. Humanity must take the high road. The way to take the high road is to stop using his products, in protest of his implied openness to mass surveillance, his mass IP theft, and his company’s opposition to liability for their actions. When people stop using ChatGPT, Altman will have to go; it’s simple as that. Quite possibly the COO or CFO will step in, and we (and OpenAI itself) will all be better off. Dean W. Ball (@deanwball) The guy who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail through Sam Altman’s window seems to have been an adherent to pause/stop AI. I am entirely unsurprised and have been warning about this for a long time now. I am fine with people advocating for their preferred policies—if that includes a “pause” on AI development, so be it, even if I disagree strongly. But the obvious reality is that the rhetoric of this community—which to be *extremely clear*, is a very small and non-representative subset of the AI safety community—is closer to ecoterrorism than it is to a more typical activist policy effort. Every time I have written about existential risk in recent months, I have been called a mass murderer. People with ⏹️ and ⏸️ in their handles confidently tell me that I am murdering my own baby boy and every other child on the planet. Another prominent one of these people has called me a traitor to America. I only use my own examples because I know them; this rhetoric is representative of how this fringe of the AI safety world communicates with everyone. The rhetoric of the pause/stop crowd is out of control and it has gotten worse with time. This rhetoric always had the potential to cause violence and now this seems to be no longer hypothetical. — https://nitter.net/deanwball/status/2042782724440612952#m
→ View original post on X — @garymarcus, 2026-04-11 14:31 UTC
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AGI Learning Capacity and Training Data Fairness Debate
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not at all fair comparison when you consider a. how much poker-relevant data is presumably in the entire training database of the scraped internet (lessons, tutorials, youtube videos)
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Sam Altman AI Safety Concerns and Boycott Strategy
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people *should* be afraid of Sam; I stand by that. they shouldn’t commit violence; I stand by that. and I literally said it in multiple tweets both here (yesterday) and in other contexts, many times. instead, as recently as yesterday I called for a boycott. the main reason
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OpenAI’s ‘Too Dangerous to Release’ Phrase Origins
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fun fact: “too dangerous to release” actually originated at OpenAI.
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Kids Learn Efficiently With Minimal Data Requirements
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and yet kids manage just fine, with much less data.