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Alexander Panetta

@Alex_Panetta

For 28 years: a journalist @ CBC, POLITICO, CP. Next: getting a master’s in Artificial Intelligence management at Georgetown.

Washington, D.C. Katılım Haziran 2009
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Alexander Panetta
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
Let the lawsuits begin. Britannica/Merriam sue OpenAI. Now how many more will we see from news publishers? Why this is on my mind: a jaw-dropping new study showing LLMs grabbing *paywalled* content, and republishing without attribution. Plagiarism on a mass scale. Paper cites evidence of API calls working behind the paywall. And more evidence that the models are capable of attributing when asked — they just don’t. mediatechdemocracy.com/all-work/ai-ca…
Kenshi@kenshii_ai

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam Webster have just sued Sam Altmans OpenAI. These legendary publishers accuse OpenAI of stealing nearly 100000 copyrighted articles and dictionary entries to train ChatGPT. The AI now copies their content freely while crushing their website traffic and revenue that built centuries of real knowledge. This is not innovation or progress. This is blatant industrial scale theft from the guardians of human knowledge. Sam Altman preaches ethics and safety while building his empire on plagiarism and lies. The lawsuits are only getting started.

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Alexander Panetta
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
@kimleclerc Out of curiosity, which model were you using? Did you try this with Claude code?
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Kim Leclerc 🇨🇦
Kim Leclerc 🇨🇦@kimleclerc·
I finally have a pretty good idea of how to fix it. It absolutely needs a RAG, and ideally you should use a small model for the search that sends it to your larger model for analysis and the answer. This should be pretty useful for a future website. However, I also realised that it would be impossible to be as efficient as a simple, public, curated NotebookLM within the budget. The documents are far too large to be cheap in terms of tokens, simple and efficient for a small website. At least with the tools available right now. So I share my personal NotebookLM for this Budget.
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Alexander Panetta
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
Pretty soon people with AI access outside the budget lockup are going to be able to conduct analysis more quickly, more thoroughly, within minutes of the public release than people locked up for the entire day to study the document inside a room without wifi
Stephen Taylor@stephen_taylor

I used AI and dozens of subagents to read the Alberta budget docs and I produced an extensive data-rich website with - analysis for 25 sectors of the economy - guides for 26 different audiences - 40 lobbyist stakeholder notes Done in 30 minutes. albertabudget.ca

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Alexander Panetta
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
@DavidColetto @emilyhaws …and to be honest I don’t even see the political upside in it. Maybe 10 years ago. But we’re obviously well into an era, driven by new comms technology, that prizes the sound of authenticity. Don’t get it.
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Alexander Panetta
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
@DavidColetto @emilyhaws You have no idea what sort of matrix-like moment it is once Canadian reporters do a post abroad. Once you hear the robo-speak of Canadian politicians, you can’t unhear it.
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David Coletto 🇨🇦
David Coletto 🇨🇦@DavidColetto·
My wife just made a really interesting point about Canadian politicians doing interviews on American platforms, whether Trudeau, Carney or Poilievre: “Why can’t they speak like humans when they talk to us here?”
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Soumaya Keynes
Soumaya Keynes@SoumayaKeynes·
found something rather baffling when researching my column this week… I wanted to see if there was any evidence that AI tools were helping economists to make their research more readable. So I analysed the text of NBER working paper abstracts…
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Alexander Panetta
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
There’s a lot of blah blah about AGI — whether we’re there, close to there, never gonna get there. Cool project here from Google to quantify it across measurable dimensions of human intelligence — 10 cognitive attributes. And you know what? A few sound like qualities of a skilled news editor, which I wrote about the other day. How that’s the skill set everyone will need to work with these tools. blog.google/innovation-and…
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Alexander Panetta
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
Both look really promising. The chat one looks like it’s a day away from truly working, once you get past these glitches. And once it works, you could replicate the code year after year. It becomes scalable. The full site won’t react to taps on my phone but I suspect that’s just a question of asking the LLM to make changes to optimize it for telephones. Also appears to be a limit of how many consecutive questions you can ask.
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Kim Leclerc 🇨🇦
Kim Leclerc 🇨🇦@kimleclerc·
The chatbot turned out tougher than expected! First version was super slow and could only handle the 12-page Budget brief. I explored tons of options by asking Claude, Grok, ChatGPT & Gemini… all while staying 100% free. Final idea: shrink the full Budget from PDF to clean Markdown (Claude loved it), used LlamaParse to parse it fast & accurately, cut sections above D, hosted on Cloudflare Pages for low latency. Switched Gemini calls to the free Google AI Studio tier directly in the Cloudflare Worker (plenty for this scale; bigger volume would need vector RAG). Try the chat here → budget-qc.pages.dev/chat(it only answers in Canadian French 😏) Full site: budget-qc.pages.dev update once I had the files: ~10 minutes flat. A month ago I didn’t even know what “vibe coding” was.
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Alexander Panetta
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
@provisionalidea It is to us what disruptive strikes are to the French, and long lines at the post office are to the Italians: a perennial frustration in a mostly pleasant place. Which on rare occasions even produces moments of comic levity.
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️@provisionalidea·
the history of Montreal corruption is legendary. the mayor got caught on the yacht of a mafia boss. gets busted for corruption. deputy mayor takes over. gets his house raided and dragged out in cuffs for being more corrupt than the first guy. the entire return of separatism after a decades-long lull was because the major parties (including the separatist one) got caught up in a corruption scandal (the Charbonneau commission) and Pauline Marois, the PQ leader at the time, wanted to engineer a distraction. so @krassenstein saying there’s no corruption in Montréal is hilarious for any of us from there (much as we love our hometown) — because it doesn’t just have corruption…it has “Old Europe”-style corruption.
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta

Look, I love my hometown and am proud of it but you’ve gotta check out the Charbonneau commission, the Gomery commission, the Cliche commission…

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Alexander Panetta
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
@kimleclerc That seems like a good set up. If you get all the text embedded in the page, I’m assuming the API calls won’t be too expensive either, right?
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Kim Leclerc 🇨🇦
Kim Leclerc 🇨🇦@kimleclerc·
I quickly checked with Claude. Tonight I’ll probably build the chattable budget tool using Claude for development, powered by the Google Gemini API with the Gemini 2.5 Flash model. I’ll protect the API key with a Cloudflare Worker and host everything on Cloudflare Pages so the site is fully public and fast.
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Alexander Panetta
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
@provisionalidea I can’t imagine we are very close to automating certain things that make a manager great: inspiration, cross-pollination, and all sorts of human interaction. Might automate some parts of the job, but we’re far from the rest.
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️@provisionalidea·
quality execution of managerial tasks is substantially more difficult than writing boilerplate code, with significantly less training data to build off of. the market is also significantly more difficult to penetrate than devs, who are very open to trying new productivity tools.
Ethan Mollick@emollick

I get why AI labs are so focused on software development (it helps them get recursive improvement, and also they are coders so they think coding is the most vital thing), but there are 9.5x more managers than there are coders & efforts to build tools for them are very nascent.

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Alexander Panetta
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
@bruce_arthur What fun — you could combine bets on things like war and nuclear weapons with the mob corruption of Las Vegas!
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Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
@kimleclerc Just had another thought: assuming this respects copyright, and I think it does, you could probably extract all the text from the budget PDF immediately and make it a chattable, queryable document
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Alexander Panetta
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
@kimleclerc Look forward to seeing it. Can you ping me with the results? Would also be keen to hear your thoughts a few hours or days later, on how it holds up under scrutiny. What a fun experiment.
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Alexander Panetta
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
@EcceErgo True. There is genuine public outrage over this stuff which is very healthy
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Alexander Panetta
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
I mean, none of this negates the implied point that the current U.S. president has all but glued a For Sale sign to the Truman balcony, but still, facts are facts
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