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peraon Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

Maybe I am missing your point but "Textbooks are all you need" distilled from GPT-3.5

peraon Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

Sorry but your argument doesn't seem coherent: How is the cost of RL relevant here?

It would also help if you could substantiate your initial claim (i.e. "internet training data is not where frontier capabilities come from")

peraon Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

> Using them was allowed as fair use

That is only relevant in the US, and even there it is still not clear-cut whether the fair use doctrine applies on all these scenarios. Outside of the US the situation is also quite different: for example take a look at the recent ruling on GEMA vs OpenAI in Germany.

The reality is that the copyright issue with generative AI is very complex and reaching anything resembling a conclusion will take much more than a few opinion paragraphs from an American district judge.

peraon SpaceX Drops 14% in One Day, Price Now Below IPO Launch

-16.5% at the moment... Is the market reacting to the $20B bond offering news?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/spacex-ki...

peraon Midjourney Medical

> Today we're gonna announce something a little weird and a little crazy, but also spectacular and filled with hope.

Why is that almost every LLM generated article sounds like a LinkedIn motivational post?

(this is not a rhetorical question, I would really like to know why, from all the writing styles, this is the most prevalent one)

peraon Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

Kissing the ring also helps - I won't be surprised if Anthropic's next model goes full MAGA

peraon Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

Here in Scotland it seems the desinfo campaign targeted mostly the SNP and Swinney. I guess it's hard to know how effective it was but his party lost 6 seats in last month's elections.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26188090.john-swinney-ta...

peraon How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math

As a person from the developing world I feel obligated to say that I find your assurance quite unconvincing: the negative effects of smartphone at this point in time is invariant globally, and whether they are a net positive or negative is at least debatable.

And in relation to your first comment, most sane people would agree that "tools" don't exist in isolation - neither come into existence out of nowhere.

This reductionist position of treating extremely complex machines with deep social interactions as a tool like any other is objectively wrong, and I believe the reasons are highly obvious but I can expand on this if you disagree.

peraon Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

I remember reading in the news that Pokémon Go was quite popular in Palestine.

If GP has access to this dataset it would be interesting to know how sparse is the data in that area.

peraon SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P

> they are dangerous for progress of humanity

A tiny bit hyperbolic for someone who's not a fan maybe? :)

peraon Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing

I don't believe the comments I replied to were specific to Uber.

peraon Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing

They get paid for saying whatever VCs want to hear and now that thing is "we have now become an AI-native company". The thing I'm still trying to understand is who is scamming whom

peraon Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence

It's a real shame there are no many people like Woz in the bay area

peraon AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

Yeah and back then it wasn't used as a sort of UUID to track every single thing you do in your life... Different times

peraon AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

> You are never going to get the exact book word-for-word using LLMs

You could say the same about MP3 encoders but I don't think that would convince any judge

peraon Google changes its search box

Sharing ideas with people is nice, the actual problem is your ideas in this case are just a vehicle for generative AI companies to monopolize access to information and control our own cognitive processes, which is not entirely something new but it feels like we are now moving backwards: from free access back to ministry of truth days

peraon Google changes its search box

This is absurd, why is Google so desperate to kill the best thing they once had? I would love to know what happens inside a corporation to destroy itself in such way.

I also don't remember ever seeing anything being force-fed as much as LLMs, why?

peraon Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?

I feel 2023 is when we entered the decrepit stage, but ~2015 is when it began: Theranos, Musk's charlatanry and cult, "unicorns", Cambridge Analytica, the raise of social media addiction, etc.

Not that things were amazing before that... it's just that mid 10s had simply too many bad actors showing up at the same time with a lot of money and power.

peraon OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

I remember back in 2018 during peak crypto bubble the same class nick named Malta as the "Blockchain Island"

peraon Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

For cars the classic example of inherently bad tech are touchscreen controls instead of physical knobs.

If you want more examples look into IoT products like smart toothbrushes, many of them now are "AI enabled".

peraon Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

I don't know anything about tractors but our modern world is full of useless and inherently bad "tech" that only exists for the flashy factor.

People are just tired of being mislead and abused by corporations, which is why there is now a market for non-tech products.

peraon Farmer arrested for speaking too long at datacenter town hall vows to fight

> Who is building it and who is principally using it?

I was actually just looking into that: Beale Infrastructure, owned by Blue Owl.

we saw a gap: some of the largest global hyperscalers—companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google—needed partners who could move at their speed and scale to solve their growing data needs

https://wealth.blueowl.com/learnengage/ra/capturing-growth-t...

The CEO is ex-Azure/Microsoft:

https://bealeinfra.com/about/

peraon ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

I really can't tell for sure (new user posting a ridiculously hypocritical corporate message on a Sunday) but if GP actually works for OpenAI the lack of self-awareness is seriously striking

peraon Ask HN: Looking for programmers who don't use and don't want to use AI

Virtually everyone on Mastodon is against generative AI

peraon GitHub is once again down

Microsoft Makes AI Mandatory For Employees

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2025/07/08/microsof...

peraon Ares and Apollo cap private credit fund withdrawals as exodus grows

Also reported on The Financial Times:

Apollo caps investor withdrawals from flagship private credit fund

https://www.ft.com/content/d315cb1c-1e1e-479c-a6d4-b3a817fea...

Ares limits withdrawals from $10.7bn private credit fund

https://www.ft.com/content/9a1b60c5-7015-4314-9608-d02c00c3a...

peraon Liberated Systemd

Context/related submission:

Store birth date in systemd for age verification

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436240

peraon OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)

The Private Equity world already has a solution for this:

Nasdaq's Shame

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392550

peraon Malus – Clean Room as a Service

There are a lot of examples like that since the first announcement of GitHub Copilot in 2021, search for (copying) "verbatim" in this submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676266

Here is a more recent example I found in Cursor's browser experiment from January:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661236

peraon Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

Yeah power consumption (and performance per watt) is the main reason I keep buying Raspberry Pi, I haven't find anything similar on that regard, specially for pi zeros