Alex Reisner @_alexreisner

Writer, programmer, investigator. Joined February 2011

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Alex Reisner @_alexreisner

2 months ago

AI is doing to publishers what Uber did to taxi companies. Books and journalism may increasingly be controlled by Silicon Valley. See my latest piece in The Atlantic for details. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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Alex Reisner @_alexreisner

4 months ago

Style imitation isn't copyright infringement, but it's potentially disastrous for artists and studios. Can anything stop AI companies from doing it? I wrote about it for The Atlantic. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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Alex Reisner @_alexreisner

6 months ago

If AI chatbots are getting better, why can't tech companies measure their progress? I wrote about a serious problem with the industry's benchmark testing. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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Alex Reisner @_alexreisner

10 months ago

Dialogue from more than 139,000 movies and TV shows is being used to train generative AI. I wrote about it for The Atlantic and built a search tool for screenwriters, directors, and actors to find their work. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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Reuters Institute @risj_oxford

a year ago

A ground-breaking investigation by @AnnieGilbertson and @_alexreisner for @proof__news found that subtitles from 173,536 @YouTube videos, siphoned from more than 48,000 channels, were used by Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple and Salesforce to train their AI models proofnews.org/apple-nvidia-a…

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John Lopez @jedgarlopez

a year ago

So the BEST LLMs write functional code — the thing they are apparently best at — less than 50% of the time?????!! And this justifies hundreds of billions in VC investment and cooking our planet with insane compute usage HOW???

Stephen Wolfram @stephen_wolfram

a year ago

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John Lopez @jedgarlopez

a year ago

Wow, @NintendoAmerica -- guardians of actual creativity -- has more spine that every hollywood studio.

Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex

a year ago

Wow, @NintendoAmerica -- guardians of actual creativity -- has more spine that every hollywood studio.

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Alex Reisner @_alexreisner

2 years ago

Is generative AI a good thing for our culture? Does it help spread knowledge or does it impede creativity and collaboration? These are central questions in the ongoing lawsuits against AI companies, which I just wrote about for @TheAtlantic. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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Alex Reisner @_alexreisner

2 years ago

A behavior called "memorization" is causing legal problems for generative AI. I wrote about it for @TheAtlantic. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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Helen DeWitt @helendewitt

2 years ago

@IneluctableQuak @_alexreisner @TheAtlantic @NewDirections @fsgbooks Good heavens. I hope this doesn't encourage proliferation of 'veritable cathedral of ice' in AI composition