What do you call a clause explicitly saying that you waive the right to whistleblower compensation, and that you need to get permission before sharing information with government regulators like the SEC?

I have many answers.

I also know that OpenAI, having f***ed around, seems poised to find out, because that is the claim made by whistleblowers to the SEC. Given the SEC fines you for merely not making an explicit exception to your NDA for whistleblowers, what will they do once aware of explicit clauses going the other way?

(Unless, of course, the complaint is factually wrong, but that seems unlikely.)

We also have rather a lot of tech people coming out in support of Trump. I go into the reasons why, which I do think is worth considering. There is a mix of explanations, and at least one very good reason.

Then [...]

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Outline:

(01:40) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(08:10) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(10:19) Clauding Along

(12:25) Fun with Image Generation

(13:46) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(14:49) They Took Our Jobs

(18:29) Get Involved

(20:14) Introducing

(21:46) In Other AI News

(25:02) Denying the Future

(26:59) Quiet Speculations

(32:34) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(37:03) The Other Quest Regarding Regulations

(57:02) SB 1047 Opposition Watch (1)

(01:07:41) SB 1047 Opposition Watch (2)

(01:11:21) Open Weights are Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This

(01:12:21) The Week in Audio

(01:14:21) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:14:48) Oh Anthropic

(01:16:57) Openly Evil AI

(01:24:21) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:37:30) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:37:52) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:39:49) The Lighter Side

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