• 1995: “The unique risks — and opportunities — of The World Wide Web demand a policy-neutral, extra-regulatory model for standards and compliance.”

  2025/03/13

• Honestly can’t tell if Civil Society believes that copyright-breaking LibGen & SciHub are rebel heroes or piratical villains

  2025/02/06

• Reminder: merely a few months ago we were all worried about audio & video “deep fakes” and now even the Guardian is extolling their positive uses

  2025/02/05

• Surely we should be calling this “The Spook-Hawley AI Censorship Act”?

  2025/02/03

• Asking Elon Musk’s own Grok AI about US Trade Tariffs, and, well…

  2025/02/03

• AI “Safety” researchers finally have to face the question of whether they want LLMs to be *good* at state censorship, or to be *bad* at state censorship?

  2025/02/02

• Don’t use an LLM to generate a random number or to generate passwords

  2025/02/01

• Essay: “Securing Model Weights” considered pointless | Lessons learned from (failed) protection of the Unix source code, et al…

  2025/01/30

• GitHub: “Try, compare, and implement this model in your code for free…” | great unwashed hordes of common users are going to be using AI models as interchangable consumables, like lightbulbs…

  2025/01/30

• Run a 670 Billion parameter LLM at home for $6000 with no GPU required

  2025/01/28

• What DeepSeek r1 Means—and What It Doesn’t | Lawfare | Yes, but…

  2025/01/28

• DeepSeek FAQ | Stratechery by Ben Thompson | …a fine post which I largely agree explains why to *ignore* most of the DeepSeek hype

  2025/01/28