If you steal a vast amount of money and then put it through a process that disguises its origin, that's called money laundering.

If you steal a vast amount of creative work and then put it through a process that disguises its origin, that's called AI.

#AI #LLM #SiliconValley

Assholes at Stanford, you say?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jge377/stanford-smart-toilet-uses-butthole-for-identification

Via @alice

#assholes #stanford #surveillance #capitalism #SiliconValley #PeopleFarming

Sam Bankman-Fried will grow old in jail. But don’t forget those who basked in his orbit

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/sam-bankman-fried-jail-ftx-money

#vc #SiliconValley

Via @leonp

Sam Bankman-Fried will grow old in jail. But don’t forget those who basked in his orbit

If the high-rollers surrounding the disgraced FTX founder had any qualms about taking his money, they didn’t show it, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

^{Aditya Chakrabortty (The Guardian)}