🚨 Excited to share a new paper 📃, years in the making, with Zach Wood. We propose that human evolution is characterized as an Evolutionary Transition in Inheritance and Individuality (ETII). Explainer and OA paper below:

🚨BREAKING: Every book you have ever read. Every novel that has ever been published. It is sitting inside ChatGPT right now. Word for word. Up to 90% of it. And OpenAI told a judge that was impossible. Researchers at Stony Brook University and Columbia Law School just proved it. They fine tuned GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and DeepSeek V3.1 on a simple task: expand a plot summary into full text. A normal use case. The kind of thing a writing assistant is built for. No hacking. No jailbreaking. No tricks. The models started reciting copyrighted books from memory. Not paraphrasing. Not summarizing. Entire pages reproduced verbatim. Single unbroken spans exceeding 460 words. Up to 85 to 90% of entire copyrighted novels. Word for word. Then it got worse. The researchers fine tuned the models on the works of only one author. Haruki Murakami. Just his novels. Nothing else. It unlocked verbatim recall of books from over 30 completely unrelated authors. One author's books opened the vault to everyone else's. The memorization was already inside the model the whole time. The fine tuning just removed the lock. Your book might be in there right now. You would never know it unless someone looked. Every safety measure the companies rely on failed. RLHF failed. System prompts failed. Output filters failed. The exact protections these companies cite in courtroom defenses did not stop a single page from being extracted. Then the researchers compared the three models. GPT-4o. Gemini. DeepSeek. Three different companies. Three different countries. They all memorized the same books in the same regions. The correlation was 0.90 or higher. That means they all trained on the same stolen data. The paper names the sources directly: LibGen and Books3. Over 190,000 copyrighted books obtained from pirated websites. Right now, authors and publishers have dozens of active lawsuits against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. These companies have argued in court that their models learn patterns. Not copies. That no book is stored inside the weights. This paper says that is a lie. The books are still inside. And researchers just pulled them out.

wait so you think it is functioning according to that ideal?

人類進化で有利だった問題解決プロセスは世界的な問題解決には使えない royalsocietypublishing.org/d… 人類社会集団の競争や多様性（ある集団が失敗しても他の集団が解決する）で人類が進化した（仮説）。 考えてみればあれだ、「都市間自然淘汰主義」 都市にキャタピラ付けなくては

#HomoStupidus/#WorldSystem: "Central features of #human #evolution may stop our species from resolving global environmental #problems like #ClimateChange, says a recent study led by the University of Maine." phys.org/news/2024-01-evolut…

Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the #Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences #capitalocene royalsocietypublishing.org/d…

Haha, finally read it in full royalsocietypublishing.org/d… Their definition of Anthropocene, shown below, is rather ignorant of the Quaternary (and paleo-)sciences. My question is: Was there a time period when human (or any other lineage) evolution was independent of global change!??

Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/d…

New study: "Our species must alter longstanding patterns of cultural evolution to avoid environmental disaster & escalating between-group competition". "The typical description of the challenges facing humanity in the Anthropocene is understated". royalsocietypublishing.org/d…

The Population Bomb, but now with climate fears instead of population fears, and also more evolution. Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions royalsocietypublishing.org/d…

I per què hauríem d'evitar aquest col·lapse? royalsocietypublishing.org/d…

Evolutionary Human Sciences: Call for Papers on Scientific Racism is now Open! 📒 Submission Deadline: 15th December 2024 Please register your interest with the Guest Editors. Further information can be found here: cambridge.org/core/journals/… #AcademicTwitter #Evolution

What do Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat have to teach us about #cultural #evolution? As a social-technological phenomenon, #arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils." 🕹️🧪 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.100…

Cultural inheritance is driving a transition in human evolution academic.oup.com/bioscience/…

Humanity Is Evolving Into One Big Ant Colony Similarly to how an ant colony, two scientists say our culture—not genetics—has become the driving force of our evolution. popularmechanics.com/science…

The question is: Can we test these predictions for gene-culture coevolution? I thinks so, but others may disagree. @mmuthukrishna @JoHenrich @RyutaroUchiyama @svenkasser @CTennie

BioScience: academic.oup.com/bioscience/… Open access: timwaring.info/wp-content/up…

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