Daily Archives: 2025-01-29

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Naturally, flag killed on HN because the valleybros don't like being called out on their bullshit. There have always been competing cultures in the tech world, and the startup-hustle-buisness-culture strand - who love to pretend they're the O.G. Hackers but are a largely unrelated group that came later - has always had a distasteful amount of hierarchy (especially misogyny) in their world view.
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OpenAI Says DeepSeek May Have Improperly Harvested Its Data

Source: NYT > Technology

Article note: The plagiarism machine, fed with incredible quantities of unlicensed material whose economic value they hope to capture without compensation, is offended another player might have treated them in the same way. Cue the world's tiniest violin.

The San Francisco start-up claims that its Chinese rival may have used data generated by OpenAI technologies to build new systems.

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