Keeping it short as we wind down 2024, but we do want to leave you and the year with this: we noticed something of a tech story arc as we find ourselves heading into this age of fakes and bear with us. First, a few articles we need to share:
The tech sector has a bad habit of releasing tech before it has been tested over time, sending it out into the wild, no matter the potential harm it may do. This is a warning we saw in the Age of Social, but tech is always about pushing the envelope, no matter that someone’s standing there in ready with a lit match. Case in point: Facebook contended that it was there to bring the world closer together. Remember Facebook’s Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Day when whistleblower Frances Haugen went public about the platform’s manipulations and the damage it was doing to young people? To this day, the problems have not been eliminated.
And you do have to wonder how dangerous a platform truly is when it’s the whistleblower himself who is eliminated.
“A former researcher at OpenAI has come out against the company’s business model, writing, in a personal blog, that he believes the company is not complying with U.S. copyright law. That makes him one of a growing chorus of voices that sees the tech giant’s data-hoovering business as based on shaky (if not plainly illegitimate) legal ground…OpenAI is currently being sued by a broad variety of celebrities, artists, authors, and coders, all of whom claim to have had their work ripped off by the company’s data-hoovering algorithms. Other well-known folks/organizations who have sued OpenAI include Sarah Silverman, Ta-Nahisi Coates, George R. R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, the Center for Investigative Reporting, The Intercept, a variety of newspapers (including The Denver Post and the Chicago Tribune), and a variety of YouTubers, among others,” Gizmodo reported.Read More...
The reference is to a book called Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson, MD, “an inspirational advice book on how people and businesses can respond to changing times and situations by learning how to adapt quickly and successfully.”
That’s what we hope we’re accomplishing at our Online Investor Insights, which we host every two weeks, with a different investor each time. We keep the group small so that everyone can participate.
This is not a plug for the event, which is free to attend, but to share – and give a flavor of – some of the advice our guests share.Read More...
No full-on editorial due to the holiday weekend and hope you enjoyed yours!
Thanksgiving is the biggest travel weekend of the year. Then again, Americans seem to always be on the move.
It’s not just the country itself that people are leaving. For the curious or those whose for whom home was not where it was last Thanksgiving, here are The Top 5 States Americans Are Leaving, with California once again being the big winner. Or in this case, loser.Read More...
