Gray Rohrer

🚨BREAKING: Every book you have ever read. Every novel that has ever been published. It is sitting inside ChatGPT right now. Word for word. Up to 90% of it. And OpenAI told a judge that was impossible. Researchers at Stony Brook University and Columbia Law School just proved it. They fine tuned GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and DeepSeek V3.1 on a simple task: expand a plot summary into full text. A normal use case. The kind of thing a writing assistant is built for. No hacking. No jailbreaking. No tricks. The models started reciting copyrighted books from memory. Not paraphrasing. Not summarizing. Entire pages reproduced verbatim. Single unbroken spans exceeding 460 words. Up to 85 to 90% of entire copyrighted novels. Word for word. Then it got worse. The researchers fine tuned the models on the works of only one author. Haruki Murakami. Just his novels. Nothing else. It unlocked verbatim recall of books from over 30 completely unrelated authors. One author's books opened the vault to everyone else's. The memorization was already inside the model the whole time. The fine tuning just removed the lock. Your book might be in there right now. You would never know it unless someone looked. Every safety measure the companies rely on failed. RLHF failed. System prompts failed. Output filters failed. The exact protections these companies cite in courtroom defenses did not stop a single page from being extracted. Then the researchers compared the three models. GPT-4o. Gemini. DeepSeek. Three different companies. Three different countries. They all memorized the same books in the same regions. The correlation was 0.90 or higher. That means they all trained on the same stolen data. The paper names the sources directly: LibGen and Books3. Over 190,000 copyrighted books obtained from pirated websites. Right now, authors and publishers have dozens of active lawsuits against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. These companies have argued in court that their models learn patterns. Not copies. That no book is stored inside the weights. This paper says that is a lie. The books are still inside. And researchers just pulled them out.

Update: DeSantis has signed the remaining two bills that had been formally sent to his desk: SB 386, and SB 844

Looks like @GovRonDeSantis has signed HB 399, which paves the way for the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach to build a water park, into law. He's also signed four others: HB 569, HB 1443, HB 1445, and HB 7011

I’m not questioning your credentials, Michelle. I do find it interesting that I didn’t make the list. Kind of makes me wonder about the criteria used.

Florida Democrat found guilty of House Ethics violations dlvr.it/TRkb11

Betteridge's Law of Headlines remains undefeated

!! Cherfilus-McCormick sought a presidential pardon during last year’s White House Christmas party, The Hill reports thehill.com/homenews/house…

You can already have instantaneous access to the classics: it's called owning books. Ovid on your nightstand. Homer on your desk. Plato in your book bag. Virgil on your kitchen counter. You can even memorize these things and call them to mind when you are away from your books.

Fans from several countries participating in this summer’s World Cup must deposit up to $15,000 in bond payments to be granted a tourist visa to enter the United States, while organiser FIFA is privately pressing the Trump administration to make exemptions for players. The difficulties have emerged as nationals from certain countries travelling to the U.S. on a business or tourist visa — known as B-1 and B-2 visas — have been subject to bond payments after policy changes by President Donald Trump’s administration. The “Visa Bond Pilot Program” relates to 50 countries, five of which have qualified for the World Cup. The policy has impacted nationals from Algeria, Cape Verde, Senegal and Ivory Coast since January 21 this year. Last week, World Cup participants Tunisia were among the countries added to the list, which comes into effect from April 2. There is no wording outlined in the Visa Bond Pilot Program that grants immunity to athletes competing in major sports events such as the World Cup. More from @AdamCrafton_ 🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/71384…

Among the TSA workers going unpaid: A woman in Indiana who put off dental surgery. A Florida couple with young children who are depleting their savings. A grandmother in Idaho who plans to sell her car to pay the rent. apnews.com/article/tsa-ag…

Professional sports are a visible example of a merit-based system, but through the Rooney Rule, the NFL requires its teams to use race-based hiring practices. We are putting Commissioner Roger Goodell on notice: the Rooney Rule violates Florida law, and it must stop.

Gambling companies are tweeting lies as if it's legitimate news because it brings more attention to them. Facts matter. Slippery slope when gambling companies that leagues and media outlets are partnered with are lying to fans. It undermines all of sports.

Quick work by the FL Senate to get the new member website up for Brian Nathan already. House has theirs up too for Gregory, Scott and Holley but without their pictures yet. flsenate.gov/Senators/S14

Fellow Dems may soon call for Cherfilus-McCormick to resign: "If the Ethics panel's decision appears to be based on the evidence, and she's found culpable for this misuse of campaign dollars, I won't hesitate to call for resignation," one told @axios axios.com/2026/03/25/che…

Statement from chair of the @FloridaGOP, @EvanPower on last night’s special elections. The @FlaDems flipping two of three legislative seats in play: “We are proud of our Republican candidates and voters who participated in yesterday's special elections, and we proudly congratulate Hilary Holley on her decisive victory in HD District 51… With a Republican voter registration advantage of nearly 1.5 million, we are well-positioned and fully energized as we head toward November.”

Opening Day should be a national holiday. Let's drop Presidents Day.

This is within the margin for an automatic recount.

In the United States car seat laws mandating use until age 8 save 57 lives each year at the cost of about 8,000 births.

Florida news: President Trump says he'd consider a role for Ron DeSantis in the administration once he's done serving as Florida's governor in Jan 2027. Q: Do you foresee a role for Ron DeSantis in the administration once he’s done serving as governor? Trump: “I don’t know but I’d certainly consider it. I think he’s good, doing a good job.”