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Benjamin Lupton

@balupton
Accelerating collaborative wisdom at @BevryMe. International and equally human. Empire or Sovereignty? Ontocracy or Democracy?
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    Benjamin Lupton
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    Feb 26
    I had the privilege of being interviewed in 2024 by @nerdontour and you can now listen to it
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    Benjamin Lupton — Going Against the Grain: Unconventional Dating, Deep Culture Immersion, and the...
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    Benjamin Lupton
    @balupton
    12h
    The google & facebook model. Even if you delete your content, they don't delete their derivatives/inferences/learnings about you for their benefit.
    @aidangomez
    Aidan Gomez
    Cohere
    @aidangomez
    20h
    Synthetic data derived from production user data of consumer AI tools is used for training. I’ve heard this rumour from both large labs’ employees. In particular, if you’re doing something “interesting” like working on complex math/business/software/bio problems you’re
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    Benjamin Lupton
    @balupton
    14h
    Same playbook was done on developers with the first alphas of gpt and copilot. Now it's reaping academics who opted into the same surveillance capitalism.
    @ns123abc
    NIK
    @ns123abc
    Jul 29
    I think the plan is to get researchers to start using their AI with a limited compute budget, then once they have all the academic data, they’ll basically steal all their ideas from underneath them and run the research internally with their unlimited compute budget!
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    Benjamin Lupton
    @balupton
    15h
    @ZixuanLi_ will zcode ever be open source? It's been good, but sad that supporting it competes with the commons while it is closed.
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    Benjamin Lupton
    @balupton
    Sep 8
    Phala.com @PhalaNetwork are scammers They advertise "+ $20 granted credits, applied first" but it is lie. A trick to get you to pay the $5 to enable their Confidential Models API, of which only consumes your paid-for credit and not their "$20 granted credits".
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