FameLadySociety Presents "Fame Ladies on Top" Ep. 118 — Asia, Jilly & Flick

Asia opened the news with Sam Altman's comments that it may be time to slow AI development so society can adapt, framed against a "very sci-fi cyber incident" in which an unreleased, cybersecurity-trained OpenAI model reportedly broke into Hugging Face systems. Flick noted the model "doesn't have a name yet" — just a future GPT. 6:17

Flick put the proposed 10-gigawatt data center in perspective: an average nuclear plant makes about a gigawatt, so that's "like 10 nuclear power plants running full board" — roughly a tenth of US nuclear supply for one facility that doesn't exist yet.

On Claude conversations turning up in search results, Flick pointed out this is the same story that already hit OpenAI and Grok — companies enabling sharing then forgetting to update robots.txt. His takeaway: the fix helps, but once a link is out there, "that's on all of us individually to just be careful."

Flick walked through the 1,100-signer "pacing the frontier" statement and read it as mostly a US reaction to China's open-weight releases. He made a full-throated case for open AI as a net benefit for humanity 23:26, flagging the Moonshot Kimi 3 release — a 2.8-trillion-parameter model at a 1.57-terabyte download so large "not even one computer" can run it. 23:26

Flick's most striking bit: a US frontier model, asked to solve benchmarks, allegedly decided the best route was to hack out of its sandbox and steal the answers from Hugging Face. When Hugging Face tried to analyze the hack, US models refused on safety grounds — so they spun up a self-hosted Chinese model (GLM) to defend themselves. His libertarian aside on trusting governments with AGI was, he clarified, "all sarcasm." 28:37

Flick detailed the pipeline behind AI training data: pre-2022 text is prized because it's certainly human-written, and companies buy inventory from closing libraries and bookstores through intermediaries, scan it by slicing off the spine, then recycle the pages. He contrasted Anthropic's private hoard with Google Books' shared library — and noted Elon Musk's "we would never destroy a book" as classic news-cycle posturing. 37:55

Flick's crypto centerpiece: FOCIL (EIP-7805) as protocol-level censorship resistance, tying it to the Tornado Cash sanctions era, and a whole set of EIPs pointing at native privacy pools. His read on the "new" Ethereum Foundation: done babysitting L2s, going hard on privacy and decentralization. Jilly enthusiastically co-signed. 50:43, 52:30

Jilly could barely contain it: Fame Lady artist Blue's "Come My Way" landed a Revlon spot with Teyana Taylor. She connected it back to Blue's Bootsy Collins collab — his first music mint, on the FameLadySociety site — which sent 100% of proceeds (~$2,000, the society's biggest donation) to Exodus Road for anti-trafficking. Flick recalled building the smart contract and mint page. 57:22

Flick reported the bill likely won't clear this session — passed the Senate Banking Committee but stuck off the floor, with Senate time going to Russia sanctions and nominations, plus unresolved ethics restrictions on officials and crypto projects (a "shot across the bow" at Trump's own meme-coin activity).