Dr Chris McKillop 🇨🇦

Books on baking banana bread available now 🍌 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Celebrities of Scotland: Hercules the Bear at the Loch Lomond Bear Park Festival with Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks, Lee Brilleaux of Dr Feelgood and The Stranglers' Hugh Cornwell. (1979)

Take yer cagoule if yer headin oot the day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌧️

@TinyWriterLaura Wow - that escalated quickly 😮

i didn’t even realise this was a serious argument until he threatened me with genocide 🫣

You can tell that company is run by men.

Thought for the day from our walk in Bildeston #Suffolk today

A Snorkeler in Nova Scotia Thought This Was a Leaf, but It Was Something Far Weirder gizmodo.com/a-snorkeler-in… gizmodo.com/a-snorkeler-in…

🚨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.

A second peregrine falcon egg has been laid on the Cathedral spire! 🥚🥚 Egg number two is thought to have been laid at about 8.50am today. cathedral.org.uk/news/peregrine… 📷 @Hawkandowluk

JFC 🤦‍♀️

Sorry, no you're still not 'doing the work'

Which one is the puppet robot?

Scissors ✂️ might help.

Cocaine-fueled sharks are on the prowl in the Caribbean - scientists blame partying tourists trib.al/kFRWSAr

omg this is one of the cutest things I have ever seen.. The little beaver temper tantrum noises … 🥹

Nothing you made with Sora mattered. Nothing made with any AI prompt will ever matter. Instead, invest in yourself by learning real creative skills.

Now you can’t use Sora - how about making a transistor radio.

@SandyHorne61 Love it!

I got the rejection email today. I didn't have any luck with the Australian Geographic photo comp this year. No need for sympathy. I'm used to it. It's very competitive. Here's one of my unsuccessful entries. A yellow-tailed rock wallaby at Boolcoomatta Reserve.

Who are they sending? 🤡