Notable that this longstanding problem, which I and a few others have been naming for ~a decade, is now common sense. It's true. AI is fundamentally a technology controlled by Big Tech. But the current 'solutions' to this problem would extend, not dilute, Big Tech control. 1/ https://
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Big Tech AI Control Problem: Current Solutions Risk Extending Dominance
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Big Tech dominance limits academic AI research access
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The issue: Big Tech has the $$ infrastructure, data, ability to pay talent, and access to market which no one else does. So as academics, you either pay retail for access, or get it discounted/free by yoking yourself to Big Tech (via dual affiliation, or just being hired). 2/
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Signal Enhances Phone Number Privacy With Username Feature
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Big Tech AI Marketing Masks Democratic Monopoly on Development
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This is wild. The open letter form used by tech workers to protest tech cos…now as Big Tech marketing No, we can't all develop/use AI (see GPU scarcity/$). & w/o clarity on how "we as humans" get a say, this's democracy-washing monopoly tech. https://
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NVIDIA CUDA dominance and TSMC capacity constraints
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*cough* CUDA, and who has all the TSMC capacity tied up?
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Big Tech Giants Accuse Each Other of AI Monopoly
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Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, in unison: "look over there, an AI monopoly!"
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Anti-Privacy Proposals Rely on Technical Magical Thinking
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I use magical thinking this way bc I think it’s accurate shorthand for the current crop of anti-privacy proposals which shun expertise + evidence and posit a goal that is impossible to achieve technically, otherwise (and whose pursuit can be extremely harmful in the meantime)
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Opposes Anti-Encryption Efforts
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“Signal’s Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as ‘parochial, magical thinking’” <<
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Grok vs Gemini: Communication Quality and Information Value
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I would say, in terms of communicating meaningful information, Grok's answer is about as informative as Gemini's, just more verbose and weirdly irony-poisoned