I think I heard a good analogy for this in Well There’s Your Problem #164.
One topic of the episode was how people didn’t really understand how boilers worked, from a thermal mechanics point if view. Still steam power was widely used (e.g. on river boats), but much of the engineering was guesswork or based on patently false assumptions with sometimes disastrous effects.
Fresh from the presses: OpenAI loses song lyrics copyright case in German court
GEMA (weird german authors’ rights management organisation) is suing OpenAI over replication of song lyrics among other stuff, seeking a license deal. Judge rules that whatever the fuck OpenAI does behind the scenes is irrelevant, if it can replicate lyrics exactly that’s unlawful replication.
One of GEMA’s lawyers expects the case to be groundbreaking in europe, since the applicable rules are harmonized.
You flatter me, I haven’t thought about any shit as cool as this in a while.
This sound like cyberpunk setting backstory, to explain how the continental US came to be managed by a fickle alliance between several corporate nuclear powers.
But I’m sure everything’s gonna be fine.
I got the calendar on order too. It’s a nice calendar.
So kurzgesagt put out an anti AI-slop piece 2 weeks ago. It’s hits good angles too, going hard on the society-eroding effects. The conclusion is a little mushy, but hey, I wasn’t expecting an instigation to machine-breaking from kurzgesagt.
Doesn’t matter if any of those projects come through. The aesthetic of the current US ruling clique is gilded toilet bowls and AI-generated poop videos, and always will be.
The search thing is in the works for a while now: https://openwebsearch.eu/
I’m kind of worried though, whether it will make the jump from an all-over-the-place research project to an actual production-ready digital service for public good. That hasn’t really been done before on an EU level.
It’s never too late to git merge --abort!
Awesome!
I keep getting analognowhere posts, where the image won’t load. Also seems to affect the sdf.org web client, so it’s not just local. Last happened for “What’s in a name” and “of wasps and beavers”. Wonder what does that.
Also: any chance this will go on RedBubble as a canvas print?
That’s logically correct of course, but I think these people don’t mean actual censorship and more like conspiracy nuts attributing every inconvenience to nefarious forces.
People don’t reply to you on Twitter? -> shadowbanned
Moderator strike? -> you’re being silenced
Custody awarded to your ex? -> retribution for knowing too much
PS: I’m not even sure about the economics here. IPv6rs are in it for the money, but the soj people might be authentic far-right activists. If they’re not the same people, which seems likely.
Happy to contribute with a personal experience. If you’re interested in self-hosting, stay well clear of https://ipv6.rs/
They’ve promoted and been active on https://soj.ooo/ , a project whose motto might as well be “self-host so (((they))) can’t censor you!” The crowd is your typical “too antisemitic to be MAGA” fellas.
So if you want a static IP, go to your local ISP or buy tunnelling from Cloudflare.
Bit late to the party, but this should prolly be tagged “Paper” on pivot.
I want to put together a little pitch for the data-brained that AI is Not Good Actually®, and this is the most smoking gun I can think of.
Fresh of the press, only in german unfortunately: tagesschau
President of bavaria (and head of the extra fashy bavarian splinter party of the christian conservatives) wants to cut 10.000 public service jobs using AI.
Does anyone have a good definition or classic examples for the term mall ninja at the ready?
I first heard that term on this channel, and I feel like I should understand that phenomenon better.
I have some stale notes on the AI Hacking chapters of Schneier’s “A Hacker’s Mind”, and in one of those chapters he theorizes how AI might hack human emotions. He brings humanoid robots with cute faces as an example.
You know, I think I have an idea how a social countermeasure to that might look like.
Maybe I’ll add, my first though was this must be some kind of LLM. Some kind of compressed model or something. But that it’s just a 20 line string combiner with a handful of templates is somehow even cooler.
Seems topical to Pennycook et al. You don’t need a lot of complexity to make it seem like a lot of complexity.
Nice! Here’s a GitHub link for my fellow sauce enjoyers.
Where did you get the generator & the word supply? Original? Getting the conjugations right must have taken a lot of fiddling.
Seems easy and fun to modify too. Maybe consider slapping on an OSI license?
Recently my research lead recounted a meeting among the senior people, where they hammered out a bunch of project pitches. Some of the wording was still a little rough, but they were going to pass it all through DeepL anyway, to make it read good. Also everyone’s bad at spellling these days, since you got a thing that autocompletes for you, right? They were proud they remembered how to spell “continuous”.
Sure, everyone has days they can’t word good, but this starts sounding like worrying de-skilling. These people spend a good portion of their paid time working on and arguing over wording.