🚨Scoop from me and Brody Ford: Adobe has touted Firefly as a safe and ethical alternative to competitors like Midjourney… but it also quietly trained Firefly on Midjourney images.

Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The chances of content online already being spiked and offered as a honey pot for badly implemented bots is very high!

👶 BabyLM Challenge is back!
Can you improve pretraining with a small data budget?

BabyLMs for better LLMs
& for understanding how humans learn from 100M words

New:
How vision affects learning
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It's harder to claim Fair Use if you're charging for content. I wonder if that was a factor for Medium's decision, since they didn't ban it outright...

This way they can still claim DMCA Safe Harbor that would be otherwise under question due to 'direct financial benefit.'

generating weird scales on a five-limit tuning lattice

The idea that companies should be considered 'persons' whose rights are protected under the same laws as humans (freedom of speech or right to privacy) was one of the worst turning points in the history of civilization.

** change my mind meme **

In Python, every callable/executable object has its bytecode embedded inside it. For instance, a function will have the field __code__ which is an instance of PyCodeObject that in turn contains the bytecode of the function.

And, you can replace the function's bytecode at…