Now major news publishers are actively blocking the Internet Archive—one of the most important cultural preservation projects on the internet—because they’re worried AI companies might use it as a sneaky “backdoor” to access their content.

This is a total lie. This has nothing to do with AI. They’ve hated archive sites because forums like this one hate their paywalls, and we prefer to be able to actually read their articles and discuss them instead of getting blackballed every time.

NYT is one of the worst offenders, and NYT as a company has turned for the worse in the last 5-10 years, maybe even worse than Amazon Post. None of the old media companies really understand how to adapt in the Internet age, so they are slowly dying. It’s like they are perpetually in an economic bubble that hasn’t figured out how to pop itself. There’s so much damn news and news places copying their own news, and regurgitating it a hundred times, that we’re forced to aggregate it and have YouTubers hawk shit like Ground News just to process it all.

Yeah, this is walking one thing back to get away with their still-bad behaviors.

“Distances” isn’t the same as “severing ties from”.

Cancel the contract, you fucks!

For a company named “Open” AI their reluctance to just opening the weights to this model and washing their hands of it seem bizarre to me.

It’s not when you understand the history. When StabilityAI released their Stable Diffusion model as an open-source LLM and kickstarted the whole text-to-image LLM craze, there was a bit of a reckoning. At the time, Meta’s LLaMA was also out there in the open. Then Google put out an internal memo that basically said “oh shit, open-source is going to kick our ass”. Since then, they have been closing everything up, as the rest of the companies were realizing that giving away their models for free isn’t profitable.

Meanwhile, the Chinese have realized that their strategy has to be different to compete. So, almost every major model they’ve released has been open-source: DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Moonshot AI, Kimi, WAN Video, Hunyuan Image, Higgs Audio. Black Forest Labs in Germany, with their FLUX image model, is the only other major non-Chinese company that has adopted this strategy to stay relevant. And the models are actually good, going toe-to-toe with the American close-sourced models.

The US companies have committed to their own self-fulfilling prophecy in record time. Open source is actively kicking their ass. Yet they will spend trillions trying to make profitable models and rape the global economy in the process, while the Chinese wait patiently to stand on top of their corpses, when the AI bubble grenade explodes in their faces. All in the course of 5 years.

Linux would be so lucky to have OS market share dominance in such an accelerated timeline, rather than the 30+ years it’s actually going to take. This is a self-fail speedrun.

delete my account on one site

Lemme guess: Reddit?

Nevermind that he’s never gotten this angry or political on any of his YT videos.

If you’re a regular on YouTube, then you already know Technology Connections is one of those must-watch YouTubers.

I save NINETY FUCKING MINUTES of my life.

I save 2 hours of my life by not watching a movie and not being entertained by an experience. But then I’m just filling it with something less impactful, more mundane bullshit.

Some things are worth putting the time into. Complaining about how long it is doesn’t change the fact that it’s WORTH NINETY FUCKING MINUTES OF YOUR LIFE!

Meh, it won’t be long before Reddit admins will crackdown on posts and start their usual censorship campaigns.

Who the fuck calls Instagram “IG”?

Well, “laid off” and “fired” are two different things. It sounds like this is closer to being laid off.

But, regardless, nobody gets laid off for reporting sexual harassment.

Tell me you’re a corpo lackey buying into the “synergy speak” without telling me directly.

“Made redundant”? WTF, BBC?

Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

No. See also: Shareholder Primacy.

The company’s response was an auto-reply: “Legacy Media Lies.”

Funny, that seems to be the correct answer to the headline.

My point is that xai is making the case for AI regulation for us.

Ha, regulation? With what governing body? Congress is hopeless, because apathy has griped a majority of the voting public, and there’s still a large portion of morons who thought MAGA was a good idea.

So, are we saying we’re still going to be happy with a system that you can bypass with “ignore all previous instructions” or some stupid magic phrase like that?

Nobody is bitching about photoshopping, a thing that exists and almost anybody can do to put some person’s face on a naked body or whatever situation they want. It’s existed for decades. Suddenly, journalists are inventing a new moral panic with LLMs, saying they can do whatever they want with pictures, despite the fact that this technology already existed, it’s just a little bit easier now. It’s not a new problem, so reporting on it is just shifting the blame to a new boogeyman.

See, the magic formula is to slap the word “AI” on a headline and boom, instant attention! It doesn’t matter what it’s about, if it’s a new problem, if it’s only slightly related to the main root cause… As long as you’re talking shit about every angle around AI in the most extreme ways possible, mission accomplished. It is outrage reporting because there is no solutioning or historical context. The sole purpose is the outrage, because outrages generates clicks. It’s too hard for journalists to think outside the outrage box.

No, not really.

These people and journalists don’t see to remember celebrity photoshops. Or maybe they do and want to continue to feed the outrage machine.

Pardon me if I duck out of my Two Minutes Hate for today.