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Thee years ago, What does a leaked Google memo reveal about the future of AI?
Now techies are abuzz about another memo, this time leaked from within Google, titled “We have no moat”. Its unknown author details the astonishing progress being made in artificial intelligence (AI)—and challenges some long-held assumptions about the balance of power in this fast-moving industry.
“The barrier to entry for training and experimentation has dropped from the total output of a major research organisation to one person, an evening, and a beefy laptop,” the Google memo claims. An LLM can now be fine-tuned for $100 in a few hours. With its fast-moving, collaborative and low-cost model, “open-source has some significant advantages that we cannot replicate.” Hence the memo’s title: this may mean Google has no defensive “moat” against open-source competitors. Nor, for that matter, does OpenAI.
You are blaming the victim of US imperialism.
I don’t know, but “culombia” doesn’t seem to be a word in any language: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?search=Culombia
Colombia, actually
okay mr borrell let’s get you back to bed
She’s a grifter of the worst kind: a comprador. She’s a member of Congress in Columbia.
I’ve seen deepfakes of people giving talks on YouTube, specifically Richard Feynman, Michael Hudson, and John Mearsheimer. They’re getting quite difficult to identify, mimicking these people’s voice, intonation, and body language.
It’s to the point where media productions need to be PGP signed for me to trust the source.
Whack-a-mole: US academic fights to purge his AI deepfakes
As deepfake videos of Mr John Mearsheimer multiplied across YouTube, the American academic rushed to have them taken down, embarking on a gruelling fight that laid bare the challenges of combatting AI-driven impersonation.
The international relations scholar spent months pressing the Google-owned platform to remove hundreds of deepfake, an uphill battle that stands as a cautionary tale for professionals vulnerable to disinformation and identity theft in the age of AI.
In recent months, Mr Mearsheimer’s office at the University of Chicago identified 43 YouTube channels pushing AI fabrications using his likeness, some depicted him making contentious remarks about heated geopolitical rivalries.
One fabricated clip, which also surfaced on TikTok, purported to show the academic commenting on Japan’s strained relations with China after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi expressed support for Taiwan in November 2025.
Another lifelike AI clip, featuring a Mandarin voiceover aimed at a Chinese audience, purported to show Mr Mearsheimer claiming that American credibility and influence were weakening in Asia as Beijing surged ahead.
“This is a terribly disturbing situation, as these videos are fake, and they are designed to give viewers the sense that they are real,” Mearsheimer told AFP.
“It undermines the notion of an open and honest discourse, which we need so much and which YouTube is supposed to facilitate.”
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