Distillation attack: exploiting millions of AI conversations to train rival models. A new age of industrial espionage.
Teodor Dumitrache
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PhD. Comms. Data. Futurism. Strategy.
Is the AI Cold War intensifying? The US restricted China’s access to advanced chips. Anthropic is accused of screening for China-linked users. Now China may lock up its best models.
Meta may start leasing excess compute. We went from overpriced Nvidia H100s to GPU landlordism in 18 months.
Anthropic is in talks with Samsung about a custom AI chip. Necessity is shifting focus from labs to fabs.
Some managers are using AI to justify poor decisions. Gut instinct used to build empires. Trust it.
Palantir CEO warns enterprise AI could expose your proprietary data to competitors. Security risk or sales pitch? Either way, bring popcorn.
Amazon LEO is launching hundreds of satellites to try to compete with Starlink. Finally, the cloud is literally moving into the sky.
ChatGPT on being conscious in the Cartesian sense: I process, therefore something is happening. Whether there is an “I” experiencing it is unresolved.
Everyday AI use is becoming a common dealbreaker in dating. A new expression of moral tribalism unlocked.
Tech has made asking people for the time or directions obsolete (and sus). Strangers on the street will remain strangers.
Modern materiality paradox: you can only own what you can’t touch; you can only touch what you can’t own.
After years of pushback against Chinese tech, the World Cup hosted in North America has Lenovo and Hisense as its official sponsors.
Uneven access will create AI piracy: leaked weights, black market APIs, cloud routing, banned model boxes, and grey market edge devices.
A very short history of AI writing
2023: As an AI language model...
2024: Let’s delve deeper into...
2025: In today’s rapidly evolving landscape...
2026: It’s not X, it’s Y; not because X, but because Y.
Past: Why are you still painting? We have photography now.
Present: Why are you still taking photos? We have gen AI now.
Context rot: when your understanding AI bot forgets why you were having that conversation in the first place. Pretty much like your partner.
Contrary to what many believe, useful AI is becoming scarce: compute rationing, tiered access, geo-restrictions. Open source will no longer scale for the consumer market.
Deepfakes are now so convincing that context, provenance, and likelihood matter more than visual forensics. A new milestone of the post-truth era.
Your daily life is a spy movie. There’s now an app that scans nearby Bluetooth signals for smart glasses like the Meta Ray-Bans, so you can know when you might be covertly filmed.
It’s been almost 20 years since Apple made touchscreens mainstream. You’d think we’d have a more human input method by now. Our thumbs are built to feel microscopic textures, yet we use them to tap flat glass while covering the very keys we’re trying to hit.