Mediaeater Digest - Weekend Edition

How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse ByteDance uses its 1 billion users’ data to fuel its AI growth, after investing $11B in 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/business/tiktok-china-bytedance-ai.html? Vim is more useful in the age of LLMs  https://ja3k.com/blog/vimllm This and anthropic artifacts make me think the future of code could involve a lot of bespoke software made just for one individual’s use case. ‘We tried to train it like it was a kid in art school’:  artist David Salle on using an AI model to enhance his painting practice https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/10/artist-david-salle-on-using-ai-model-enhance-his-painting-practice If you are not jailbreaking models your missing out https://github.com/elder-plinius/L1B3RT4S Notable Aamicus filings. Aamicus brief in support of authors suing Meta  https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.415175/gov.uscourts.cand.415175.525.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.433688/gov.uscourts.cand.433688.152.0.pdf OpenAI employees on Friday filed a proposed amicus brief opposing OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit corporation. Papers Defeating Prompt Injections by Design https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18813 Google : Taking a responsible path to AGI https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/taking-a-responsible-path-to-agi/ Google : An Approach to Technical AGI Safety and Security   https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/evaluating-potential-cybersecurity-threats-of-advanced-ai/An_Approach_to_Technical_AGI_Safety_Apr_2025.pdf ARTS Hamlet hail to the Thief. https://www.rsc.org.uk/hamlet-hail-to-the-thief/