Reposted by e.g. Alice Roberts
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time:
John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team.
(Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
![The filings also point to the hiring of Tarun Gogineni in 2022 to lead OpenAl's efforts to improve the writing quality of its models. The documents show that Gogineni stated that his "research mission" was to create a machine that would supplant human authors. Along those lines, the brief states that Gogineni was aware of authors' complaints that the
'datasets are stolen' and that authors were losing work to Al-generated competition. Nevertheless as the brief goes on, he did not find those complaints
'all that sympathetic' and instead viewed them as
'acceptable economic disruption.' He wrote that the world would soon experience 'the death of the reader' as 'machines created] slop for more machines.
'"
The hubris Gogineni exhibited about Al replacing human authors is perhaps best exemplified in a tweet that appeared in testimony that if George R.R.
Martin dies early "GPT can write the next [Slong of [l]ce and [F]ire book."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lxies7eticbkmfjntqngrct6/bafkreie3z67ytyrgovsstbbofibtyyb6zysgpsjef3mgzuoz4e5qf2igmm)
![As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."
3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study).
Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:azpq3hfq3llpowyqpjkqwgxs/bafkreibpynfdssvr5aehvgzmcuerbo3romumydje4qsdhog7a3tnazrh2u)
