Hugh Stephens Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Image: Shutterstock (edited) Am I the only one, or did anyone else have just a touch of schadenfreude when they read the story in the New York Times that OpenAI is claiming the Chinese start-up DeepSeek may have improperly harvested its data. What irony! DeepSeek caught everyones attention earlier this week when it announced a … Continue reading "The Height of Hypcrisy!

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FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The Artificial Intelligence boom promises unparalleled progress which, in theory, can change the fabric of society. As startups and established tech giants explore their options, data has become the new oil in the race to develop AI. Archives of text, in particular, are key to training Large Language Models (LLMs). Early on, many tech giants used shadow libraries to train their models.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Michael Burstein, The Law of the Direction of Innovation Foundational texts: NBER Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity, and revisited. But we need to ask: what innovation should we prioritize? What innovation, by whom, and for whom? These are contestable subjects of political choice. Health law scholars have started to ask why so many me too drugs instead of novel therapeutics; trying to generalize from these questions.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Tang, Creative Labor in the Age of Platform Capitalism Theories of expressive work and creativity: lead to idea that AI training itself is not a problem b/c it doesnt use work expressively. Past idea: digital creativity enhances autonomy by giving individuals greater roles in authoring their own lives. When people are creative, making new things out of old things, become producers, they exercise and perform freedom and become the sort of people who are free.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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