Andrew Morantz

act first and ask permission later.

So Anthropic and OpenAI, you know, mulched a lot of books into their training data and are now being sued by publishers over this.

I'm actually part of a class action suit of authors who are suing Anthropic over this.

And when it comes to the liability stuff, it raises really interesting questions, right?

On the one hand, we have legal regimes that are clear that a tech platform can't be held liable if somebody

issues, you know, bad opinions or dangerous opinions on that platform.

On the other hand, these things are tailored using your data to your own preferences in a way that does seem different, right?

ChatGPT guiding you through how to do something dangerous is a little different than, you know, reading something on Facebook or Twitter about how to do something dangerous because it is reading your signals.

It's being sycophantic to your needs and desires.

So

We have yet to see how juries and judges will sort all that out.

It's kind of a very scary Wild West.

And the people at these companies know it's a Wild West.

And again, they're sort of forging ahead anyway.

I really appreciate it.

Have a good one.

There's kind of this folk theory of politics, which I think actually has some truth to it, that, like, every election has its own dominant medium. And, you know, 1960 was the TV election.

There's kind of this folk theory of politics, which I think actually has some truth to it, that, like, every election has its own dominant medium. And, you know, 1960 was the TV election.

There's kind of this folk theory of politics, which I think actually has some truth to it, that, like, every election has its own dominant medium. And, you know, 1960 was the TV election.

So there was kind of this Monday morning quarterback consensus that 2024 was the livestream election or the long-form podcast election. And there was kind of this easy narrative, which was, if only there were a Rogan of the left, the Democrats would have pulled it out. And so I sort of wanted to examine how true that was.