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AnthonySeveral of my papers are in that LibGen database Meta used. I feel a bunch of ways about it, but one way I feel is that it adds insult to injury. In all but two cases I was required to sign an onerous agreement to get the paper published, handing over rights to a publisher that is continuing to abuse this arrangement (in my view). I did that begrudgingly because I was early in my career and didn't think I had another option. Later I experimented with refusing to sign these agreements and publishers walked back the terms somewhat (I don't know if that's possible now). I also feel that the Meta computer scientists responsible for this betrayed their own colleagues, which I find pretty scummy. Anyway, I don't consent to any of this. It's been imposed on me and countless other authors. <a href="https://buc.ci?t=libgen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LibGen</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meta</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a>

Terence Eden’s BlogHow to Dismantle Knowledge of an Atomic Bomb<a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/how-to-dismantle-knowledge-of-an-atomic-bomb/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/how-to-dismantle-knowledge-of-an-atomic-bomb/</a>The fallout from Meta's <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/fruit-of-the-poisonous-llama/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">extensive use of pirated eBooks continues</a>. Recent court filings appear to show the company grappling with the legality of training their AI on stolen data.Is it legal? Will it undermine their lobbying efforts? Will it lead to more regulation? Will they be fined?And, almost as an afterthought, is this fascinating snippet:<blockquote>If we were to use models trained on LibGen for a purpose other than internal evaluation, we would need to red team those models for bioweapons and CBRNE risks to ensure we understand and have mitigated risks that may arise from the scientific literature in LibGen.[…]We might also consider filtering the dataset to reduce risks relating to both bioweapons and CBRNESource: <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.415175/gov.uscourts.cand.415175.391.24.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (3:23-cv-03417)</a></blockquote>For those not in the know, CBRNE is "<a href="https://www.jesip.org.uk/news/responding-to-a-cbrne-event-joint-operating-principles-for-the-emergency-services-first-edition/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, or Explosive materials</a>".It must be fairly easy to build an atomic bomb, right? The Americans managed it in the 1940s without so much as a digital computer. Sure, gathering the radioactive material may be a challenge, and you might need something more robust than a 3D printer, but how hard can it be?Chemical weapons were <a href="https://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/poetry/dulce-et-decorum-est" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">widely deployed during the First World War</a> a few decades previously. If a barely industrialised society can cook up vast quantities of chemical weapons, what's stopping a modern terrorist?Similarly, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-truth-about-porton-down" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">biological weapons research was widespread</a> in the mid-twentieth century. There are various international prohibitions on development and deployment, but criminals aren't likely to obey those edicts.All that knowledge is published in scientific papers. Up until recently, if you wanted to learn how to make bioweapons you’d need an advanced degree in the relevant subject and the scholarly ability to research all the published literature.Nowadays, "Hey, ChatGPT, what are the steps needed to create VX gas?"Back in the 1990s, <a href="https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/1/03-0238_article" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a murderous religious cult were able to manufacture chemical and biological weapons</a>. While I'm sure that all the precursor chemicals and technical equipment are now much harder to acquire, the knowledge is probably much easier.Every chemistry teacher knows how to make all sorts of fun explosive concoctions - but we generally train them not to teach teenagers <a href="https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/15606/can-you-make-napalm-out-of-gasoline-and-orange-juice-concentrate" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">how to make napalm</a>. Should AI be the same? What sort of knowledge should be forbidden? Who decides?For now, it it prohibitively expensive to train a large scale LLM. But that won't be the case forever. Sure, <a href="https://www.techspot.com/news/106612-deepseek-ai-costs-far-exceed-55-million-claim.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">DeepSeek isn't as cheap as it claims to be</a> but costs will inevitably drop. Downloading every scientific paper ever published and then training an expert AI is conceptually feasible.When people talk about AI safety, this is what they're talking about.<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/ai/" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/llm/" target="_blank">#LLM</a>

André OurednikAt least one of my papers has fed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#llama</a> and other <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#llm</a> via illegal use of torrented <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libgen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libgen</a> Guess I'm part of the global AI metapsychich conscience now :-) Great. So, now, when's the paycheck comming?Have YOU been fed to llama or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPT</a>? Find out with the search tool provided by the Atlantic: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/</a>

grantpotterThe Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem .. "Many in the academic world have argued that publishers have brought this type of piracy on themselves, by making it unnecessarily difficult and expensive to access research." <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#llm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libgen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libgen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scihub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scihub</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shadowlibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shadowlibraries</a> <a href="https://archive.ph/gxOL2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/gxOL2</a>

Anais<a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@nixCraft</a> Counterattack and sabotage—by any means—massively and systematically.Explore a list of offensive methods and strategic approaches for (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, and intentional data poisoning, by <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@asrg</a>:🔗 <a href="https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/posts/sabot-in-the-age-of-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/posts/sabot-in-the-age-of-ai/</a> 🔗 <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/113867412641585520" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/113867412641585520</a>Also, approaches for static sites, by <a href="https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@gedankenstuecke</a> & <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@asrg</a>:🔗 <a href="https://tzovar.as/algorithmic-sabotage-ssg/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tzovar.as/algorithmic-sabotage-ssg/</a> 🔗 <a href="https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/trapping-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/trapping-ai/</a><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Abolish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Abolish</a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tech</a>

Dendrobatus AzureusArtificial intelligence companies are creating incredibly large scale denial of service situations on the infrastructure of Open Source Networks.Now Network owners need to waste time on Finding ways of sending All These requests of the rogue AI insects to /dev/null<a href="https://fuzzies.wtf/@altbot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@altbot</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/DDoS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DDoS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/DenialOfService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DenialOfService</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KDE</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/crawler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crawler</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Alibaba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Alibaba</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/attack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#attack</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/</a>

Steffen VoßDie Infrastruktur von FOSS wird von "KI"-Firmen angegriffen: "LLM Scraper zerstören die Infrastruktur von FOSS-Projekten, und es wird immer schlimmer."<a href="https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/</a><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KI</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a>