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Walled Culture

Leaders in the generative AI world are daring to say the unsayable: that copyright is not sacrosanct

For the last hundred years or so, the prevailing dogma has been that copyright is an unalloyed good, and that more of it is better. Whether that was ever true is one question, but it is certainly not the case since we entered the digital era, for reasons explained at length in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available). Despite that fact, recent attempts to halt the constant […]

#aiActionPlan #Amazon #china #deezer #elonMusk #exceptions #fairUse #google #jackDorsey #lobbyists #musicStreaming #openai #patents #stockImageLibraries #tdm #trademarks #US #usCopyrightOffice

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PSDI

With plans to boost compute power twenty-fold and partnerships with tech leaders like Vantage Data Centres and Kyndryl, the UK is positioning itself as a global AI powerhouse.

It will be interesting to see how this will impact the Physical Sciences research community and our work.

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Simon Brooke

@MonniauxD I too remember the days when you used to rent some space in a rack and shoved your own machine(s) into it, but these are not that sort of data centre. They are data centres owned and operated by a single corporation, containing only (almost certainly identical) machines all belonging to that same corporation and running the exact same software.

This isn't even like AWS or Linode where you rent space on a server and run your own code.

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Simon Brooke

"Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT's parent company OpenAI, has pitched plans for 5GW data centres in the US, which is the equivalent of about five nuclear reactors' worth and enough energy to power a large city. These voracious demands for electricity come with immediate consequences for national grids and for climate emissions"

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computerweekly.com/opinion/Lab

ComputerWeekly.comLabour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right | Computer WeeklyCritical computing expert Dan McQuillan argues that, on top of the clear social and environmental harms associated with the technology, Labour's vapid fixation on AI-led growth in lieu of real change will further enable the far right. Instead, he proposes an alternative strategy of 'decomputing'.
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Simon Brooke

"The breathless rhetoric is accompanied by policy demands; a factor of ten increase in the UK's compute capacity, the diversion of major spending commitments to #AI infrastructure, reducing regulation to US levels and, of course, enacting all this in close relationship with the private sector."

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computerweekly.com/opinion/Lab

ComputerWeekly.comLabour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right | Computer WeeklyCritical computing expert Dan McQuillan argues that, on top of the clear social and environmental harms associated with the technology, Labour's vapid fixation on AI-led growth in lieu of real change will further enable the far right. Instead, he proposes an alternative strategy of 'decomputing'.
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Simon Brooke

"While recommending a high-tech form of land enclosures via '#AI Growth Zones' (AIGZs), which are about handing data centre developers "access to land and power", it gestures towards the idea that these could drive local innovation in post-industrial towns"

This is certainly absolutely delusional. The whole point of the Internet is that there is NO geographical linkage between the location of the servers and the high value jobs.

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#LandReform

computerweekly.com/opinion/Lab

ComputerWeekly.comLabour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right | Computer WeeklyCritical computing expert Dan McQuillan argues that, on top of the clear social and environmental harms associated with the technology, Labour's vapid fixation on AI-led growth in lieu of real change will further enable the far right. Instead, he proposes an alternative strategy of 'decomputing'.
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Simon Brooke

Data centres employ remarkably few people per unit investment. They're basically big warehouses full of server racks; they need one on duty tech person and maybe a security guard. #Starmer's assertion that they will create employment is certainly a lie, but whether it's a lie he's telling or a lie he is passing on unexamined is harder to be sure of.

So this is handing over UK money, land, and generating capacity to foreign capital for essentially nothing in return.

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