“People tell chatbots about their medical fears, their relationship problems, their beliefs about God and the afterlife.

Advertising built on that archive creates a potential for manipulating users in ways we don’t have the tools to understand, let alone prevent.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/11664538/anthropic-ai-safety-researcher-mrinank-sharma-quits-concerns/

#Privacy #NoAI

Top Tip, If you are caveat-ing an apology with "if I caused offence to some people" or similar then you are not only not apologising but you are shifting the blame to those who were criticising you. Suddenly they are the issue and not the nonsense you were spouting.

Yes, this is a Toot about Jim Radcliffe and plenty of other entitled wealthy mostly men.

With extreme and even violent hatred against #transgender people and their families increasingly normalized, I'm proud of my friends the Morgensterns and Amy Buell for speaking out publicly against Mike Braun's divisive, harmful, and unnecessary new BMV rule banning #trans people from obtaining the safety and privacy of an updated driver's license.

https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/in-your-community/downtown-indy/parents-of-transgender-hoosiers-share-impact-of-bmv-gender-marker-rule-change

#Indiana #LGBTQ #HoosierMast

Tech bros think using AI is fine even though it regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic, because _tech bros_ regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic.
Why shouldn't "Move fast and break things" apply to AIs too?
Some of us have been trying all along to preserve the early ethos that programming is fine craftsmanship and quality is key. We've been fighting the tendency toward "good enough" since decades before ChatGPT.
It's been a losing battle.
#AI #programming #tech

Tech entrepreneurs aren't rewarded for _good_ tech, they're rewarded for tech that creates the biggest splash, "disrupts" the most, or extracts the most money. None of these have anything to do with quality or getting details right.

Hello mastonautə

stavo pensando di svendere un po' di stampe per liberare spazio e lasciarle svolazzare altrove.

Le metto qui di seguito; le farei a 5 🪙 + spese di spedizione (quindi busta e francobollo, suppongo un altro paio d'euro).

Ve le illustro di seguito. 🌈

I colori sono un po' più saturi perché Camscanner oggi fa le bizze e non sono al PC, vi assicuro che sono meglio dal vivo.

Gatto poeta - 2 copie disponibili

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#mastomercatino

@ozoned Why do I get a "translate" button under your posts? It seems like mastodon.online finds them not in English or something.

You might've noticed I went to the #ProfSamLectureTour of @sundogplanets today.
So, I ehm... wrote down some thoughts
https://firesphere.dev/articles/spacejunk?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon

A Moist Owlette is freshly showered at Owl Park San Vigilio, a zoological park in northern Italy 🇮🇹 via https://fb.com/816647270688824 #owlsintowels 💛🦉

@catsalad Ultimate paw experience. Catrachnoid.

When talking about the energy consumed by LLMs don't be fooled by arguments focusing solely on the direct power consumption of these models, because they are externalizing a lot of it. Browsers are now doing proof-of-work calculations to access many websites, because websites need to protect themselves from AI scrapers. That takes power! Let that sink in: every computer, tablet or phone on earth is now consuming more power *every time it accesses a webpage* because of "AI".

@ozoned it's a nightmare to invest ethically unless you have the time to investigate everything in great detail 😔

I spent weeks earlier this year moving what little investments / pension I have out of US orgs and into more ethical / sustainable options but acknowledge that it's going to cost me in the long run.

My old 'climate plan' pension was 80% US stocks and a large part of that was the so called magnificent 7 which beggars belief! The new one is only 12% US and none of the 7.

@Natouille
Interdit aux moins de 29 ans ?

@ozoned so it is doable but it made my head hurt sorting it out! I'm in the UK so the options are probably different but there must be equivalent things over there - I've also changed mine from 100^% equity to a mix of stocks, bonds etc to try and even out the effect of the giant cheeto in chief having a rant 🤦‍♂️

AI coding platform's flaws allow BBC reporter to be hacked https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4wnw04e8wo "Mohsin was able to gain access to my project, and view and edit any of the code… this allowed him to gain access my computer - because shortly afterwards, a notepad file called "Joe is hacked" appeared on the desktop, and the wallpaper was changed to an image of an AI hacker.

The implications of the hack on the platform's tens of thousands of projects were obvious … This attack was able to be carried out without any involvement from the victim - a zero-click attack, as it's known."

Orchids gets 0 out of 10 on my vibe rater.

@imbl @alexh by coincidence, I also have a long standing research interest in the notion of burden of proof and its role in argument 😉

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ulrike-Hahn-3/publication/227070271_The_Burden_of_Proof_and_Its_Role_in_Argumentation/links/004635274a8deebdff000000/The-Burden-of-Proof-and-Its-Role-in-Argumentation.pdf

Security org: "credentials should be tightly scoped"

Security org: "Also we will make each request for a storage container involve a process that requires like 3 rounds of back and forth between you and us and hours of time investment, and sometimes just randomly disable a containers access until you take action to fix that. we can see no reason why this would cause everything to go into one big container that has Everything in it instead of nicely separated ones. do you not care about security"

@gabrielesvelto Good point. The pursuit of surveillance at ALL costs (and our expense!)

@onlmaps I will never look at Czech Republic in the same way, now that I know there are so many jedis