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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 2h

The new security attack surface is literally every person around you wearing a “companionship” recording device

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Triple-Q @triple-q.bsky.social · 7d

when something happens in America and everyone posts about it:

- "thing happened in America"
- "How can you tell?"
- "consecutive posts all over the feed that don't give context"

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Justjessicaok @justjessicaok.bsky.social · 15h

The people currently in govt want to companies to be able to assign value to you based on this kind of surveillance data to automatically allow or deny certain things: an algorithmic value status that instead of ad targeting it decides like if you’re worth sending an ambulance.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h

I wonder: over time what is the effect of the machine inaccurately reporting to you your daily activities?

When my husband left the house carrying a shotgun, the alert said he was carrying a garden tool. It’s unclear whether this is intentional (I’ve reached out to Google), but not identifying weapons seems like a significant oversight for a security-focused system. I would like to know if there is a person with a gun on my porch or wielding a knife in my home.
However, the daily Home Briefs is where it got weird. Around 8:30 each night, the Google Home app presents its interpretation of the day’s events in a new Activity Tab. You can customize this to focus on things you’re most interested in; for me, that’s animals and teenagers arriving home past curfew.
The summaries were about 80 percent correct, with a few less concerning confusions — it said a pizza oven was delivered when I was actually taking it away. But my main issue was with the heavy-handed editorializing in the summaries. Gemini took accurate real-time descriptions of events and turned them into a narrative full of declarative sentences that were simply incorrect.
For example, on Halloween, the summary said “Jenni and R were seen interacting with the trick-or-treaters and enjoying the festive atmosphere.” While I did pass out candy, my daughter R wasn’t home. Another summary detailed how my husband and I had spent an enjoyable evening relaxing on the couch along with others. We were home alone.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 21h

You can’t put something out with a “here, see what you can do with this” and then say “it’s not for that”

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h

Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.

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Lisanne van Vucht @lisannevanvucht.bsky.social · 2d

Last year, @alexfanta.bsky.social and I started collecting data on a decade of meetings between Google and the European Commission. Today, Alex shows how Google influenced people in Brussels to dominate the scene.

Follow the Money EU @ftm.eu · 2d

Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks.

Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 1d

Also, we ALREADY KNOW what they think. Do you think I've avoided Samuel Alito's views on my civil rights, or JK Rowlings opinions about my trans family members or Steven Miller's insane mania about immigration? Because I can assure you I know EXACTLY how they feel on these issues.

Leave me be.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

It’s weird to assume that certain people *need* exposure to people who disagree with them, as if I could go a day in my life w/o encountering that shit and that my actual survival doesn’t depend on knowing what assholes think.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

this is all so stupid, wasteful and, quite frankly, misleading to investors. A $38bn deal huh? How’s OpenAI paying that? How much counterparty due diligence was done on these deals?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d

*AMAZON JUMPS 6.1% ON DEAL TO SUPPLY OPENAI WITH NVIDIA CHIPS

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Asia Górska @mayome.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, but that could be considered exceeding self-defence, and make *you* the perpetrator. That class focused a lot on the “don’t let the cops turn it on you” aspect, which was funny bc it was taught by ex-cops

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Asia Górska @mayome.bsky.social · 2d

I had a self-defence class once (Poland) and they told us we can’t carry and use anything that is *only* a weapon, bc that can imply premeditation. Instead they told us that aerosolised deodorant/hair spray works better and has no such issues if your attacker sues you

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

Well-meaning Americans in my mentions: kindly do not recommend extremely illegal actions that could land people in the UK with a ten year prison sentence

Reply to a post about the incident in Huntingdon from a US account: “ I cannot stress this enough to people. Carry a small canister of pepper spray and keep it accessible when you’re out in public especially trapped in a train. It’s an easy protective measure we can all take.”
Reply from me: “I cannot stress enough to you that pepper spray is illegal to possess, buy, or carry in the UK under the Firearms Act 1968. I strongly recommend anyone reading does not do this under any circumstances.”

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Matthew Chalmers @matthewchalmers.bsky.social · 2d

This quote is set to be on the intro slide of an undergraduate lecture, soon.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d

AI "is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecо-destroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins."
—A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social

LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR...

www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 2d

a huge part of the gen ai project is to create the mythic past that is central to the fascist narrative: the non-existent golden age that needs to be restored and the supposed fallen present that must be overturned. if these things are lies then reality itself must be altered to make them true

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash

Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

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Frag-Piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 16d

@JihadalHaqq
you ever see something posted online you have to get a racism translator to explain exactly what they're trying to be racistly mad about. like yes, i can tell it's speaking in racism, but i don't know what it's trying to say

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 3d

Great piece from Shannon, who has come to the very sensible conclusion that the very male-dominated discourse around AGI is basically conspiracy theories.

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 3d

I had a long conversation with MIT Tech Review’s @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social about AGI; it fed into this very good read on the rise of AGI orthodoxy

How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...

www.technologyreview.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d

Ed Zitron the smiling man. The hair is a coat

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 3d

considering doing a bit where I refuse to change my clocks and just show up an hour late for everything until March

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody in modern tech is satisfied with building A Thing that Works and then just... letting it be.

So close to calling it a disease at this point.

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Yves Jeanrenaud @yjeanrenaud.bsky.social · 4d

that tech journalists or anyone else should just mock about. It is ridiculously strange and bad made,ok. We got that. But imho it is designed with an evil intention that is so obvious it must be fought against with much force.

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Yves Jeanrenaud @yjeanrenaud.bsky.social · 4d

the algorithmic logic of monopoly tech hegemony in resources to acces knowledge play out. In another dystopian near-future, your AI driven browser and search engines of all flavours will spew out contents of this fascist pedia as if it was true. It shapes knowledge, it shapes reality. It is nothing

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 4d

Lots of phone scams use AI to spoof real people to steal money. It's crazy that we've reached a point where this is needed, but having a pre-agreed codeword with your family and friends that you can share in an emergency can be *critical* in determining if a suspicious call is in fact a real person.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

"Criminals increasingly use generative AI to mimic real people’s voices and con their loved ones out of money. There’s a simple solution to this high-tech problem: a code word." www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

Why Every Family Needs a Code Word

Authenticating the voice on the other end of the line is critical in an age of deepfakes.

www.wsj.com

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5d

Today, someone who has been surfing the AI hype wave to boost his career, got upset by our position paper.

He gave no substantive couinterargument. Just called it “activism”. As if that is an insult.

In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, I’m a proud scientific activist.

Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4d

This is an absolute beast of a piece - 10,000 words, deeply-researched, exhaustively-explained - but I think it will end up being one of my most consequential works.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4d

Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve.
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/

Big Tech Needs $2 Trillion In AI Revenue By 2030 or They Wasted Their Capex

As I've established again and again, we are in an AI bubble, and no, I cannot tell you when the bubble will pop, because we're in the stupidest financial era since the great financial crisis — though,...

www.wheresyoured.at

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 4d

This is why I don’t trust these companies when they sell tech to education - because this is who they are: criminals who don’t care about digital rights or humans at all.

Stop letting them into schools, whoever they are. They lie and can afford the fines. Nothing but jail will make them do better

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 4d

regulations that are put in place to protect individuals from the wealthiest and most powerful corporations are apparently `out of control’

Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has privately tried to convince the Irish Government to lead a pushback against data protection laws at European Union level, correspondence shows.
The interpretation by regulators of strict EU rules that protect individuals’ data and privacy is “completely out of control”, Meta’s chief privacy officer and vice-president Erin Egan told Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan in a May 23rd letter.
The correspondence shows Meta has expanded the scope of its campaign against EU regulations to include the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which puts greater obligations on big tech multinationals to safeguard the data of people using their platforms or services.
Europe’s approach to data protection requires a total overhaul, Ms Egan told Mr O’Callaghan in her letter.

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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 4d

🎧 NEW: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast episode 65 - 'Crunching The Numbers' 📈

@emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social talk to journalist @deccamuldowney.bsky.social about how so-called AI tools are infiltrating newsrooms, particularly when it comes to data analysis.

🔗 Below ⬇️

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4d

I want to be generous and say this is difficult: it isn’t! NVIDIA hasn’t sent any money to OpenAI yet. Oracle doesn’t have the capacity and won’t for years. OpenAI doesn’t have the money even if NVIDIA did send it to them. There is nuance but it’s not particularly sophisticated

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