John Paul Bindel 👍🏼

And now he’s actually following through on his tantrum with troop withdrawals in Germany, making the US weaker and Russia happy. Funny how that keeps happening.

🚨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.

“Frog,” said Toad, “if I wash my dishes right now, then I will not have to wash them tomorrow, will I?” “No,” said Frog. “You will not have to.” Toad washed and dried his dishes. He put them in the cupboard.

Terrible. Promoting equality does not require diminishing excellence.

Duma-fication continues. And Montesquieu weeps.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United Sates:

Remember, if you object to a 79-year-old American president threatening war against a longtime NATO ally, and explicitly saying it was because he wasn’t given a Nobel Peace Prize, there are Americans who will insist that your objection is a sign of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Chinese state media: Xi tells Trump return of Taiwan to China an important part of post-war international order This is the direct consequences of Trump telling Putin he can have part of Ukraine. Now every expansionist dictator thinks Trump will roll over.

Never let it be said that Trump cannot be loyal. He has demonstrated tremendous loyalty to exactly one person on Earth.

Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.

'We look brave,' said Frog. 'Yes, but are we?' asked Toad.

The turtle laughed. The lizards laughed. The snake laughed. The field mouse laughed, and Frog laughed.

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

There was only some wet mud and a lizard who was chasing his tail.

Here it is, folks: episode 2 of my new @novapbs micro-series, as an explainer of viral science videos. In today's installment, a dude on a boat seems to pause gravity... youtube.com/shorts/AQxs0d6…

You thought you could delegate to the perfect, immortal machine. And where did that lead you? Back to me.

For the 1000th time, if they were Russian assets, what would they do differently?

1st commandment of the Trump administration: “The top priority in even the most mundane post congratulating a foreign ally on their Independence Day, is to offer effusive praise for Donald Trump.”

@EvilMopacATX Hopefully praying changes *you*.

Praying is fine But doing changes things

The credit music on The Blacklist sounds like the Terran music in Starcraft, right?