Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.
Coming to a workplace near you
People often defend Grammarly when I lump them in with the rest of the LLM crowd, but this is why: their model of consent is no better than OpenAI's or Anthropic's.
AI adoption continues to be guided by who it can be imposed upon unilaterally:
Finally, Oracle are justified in saying "These lay-offs are because by AI" bsky.app/profile/luke...
Now that they're trying to pretend their war is not a war, they've gone back to calling it the Defense Department.
I have reversed my childhood position on this issue and now believe we did not bully nerds nearly enough.
The think tank that was over-quoted by the legislators of the NY age verification law is connected to people like Ajit Pai and Carr. These are monopoly-supporting puppets. bsky.app/profile/vexo...
I joined 300+ security and privacy academics in calling for a global pause on online age verification: www.politico.eu/article/age-...
Over 400 scientists have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on the deployment of age-verification technologies. The letter suggests the widespread deployment of untested AV tech is making the internet less safe.
www.politico.eu/article/age-...
So instead of going to University to learn and acquire actual knowledge and skills of your own you get training on how to use chatGPT. Cool.
Text from OpenAI article on its educational programs: "Agency does not emerge from basic AI use alone. Students must progress from simple tasks to deeper applications such as studying, building, creating, coding, and managing agents. But among college-age users, we see a widening global “capability overhang,” defined as the gap between what AI tools can do and how people actually use them. Even advanced student users still operate roughly 90% to 99% below how power users of ChatGPT are engaging with our tools. Educational institutions play a central role in closing that gap. Faculty and educators can help students harness AI’s full potential by embedding authentic AI use cases into coursework—assignments that use AI and mirror real professional work, such as analyzing a market, designing a product concept, evaluating a policy trade-off, or building a simple agent"
Shouldn't let OpenAI puff about education get to me, but its claim students need AI skills for future jobs and "agency", then letting slip it really means making students into GPT "power users", and making that an educational imperative, *and* planning to measure it ... 😦 openai.com/index/ai-edu...
Can we find other ways to make Tim Sweeney shut up?
The closest the paper gets to explaining a mechanism is when it claims ZKPs can be used to attest you have a bank account without revealing the bank account.
Cool, I guess.
But I don't want to give MS my bank account just to start the computer.
But for being a paper, it is quite scarce on the details on how you'd implement age verification as a ZKP. I mean, you'd have to turn the verification into a math problem somehow.
ZKPs are very interesting. I recently watched this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otvc...
Influence Watch link to anyone who wants to dig up more www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/f...
Swarztrauber's history advising some of the worst pro-monopoly goons from the Trump administration should discount his opinion on anything related to Technology and specially Privacy and Technology Choice.
And yet the NY law can't stop quoting this guy's arguments.
Luke Hogg is a BA in "Government and Data Science" (not in Data Science)
Swarztrauber's main accomplishment listed is ... hosting a podcast.
But for real he was a former advisor to Ajit Pai and Brendan Carr. Yeah, that Ajit Pai who ended net neutrality.
Its main argument is "Now we have Zero Knowledge Proofs and Blockchain? and AI? So all of the opposition against Age Verification is outdated now"
Neither of The authors of the paper are cryptography experts.
So I looked for it. www.thefai.org/posts/on-the...
This "paper" is basically just a bunch of arguments published by a think tank to promote the idea of Age Verification at Operating System-level.
You can read the text of the NY "age verification" bill. www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...
And you know, it's quite a bizare text. You can find repeated quotes from a "paper" called "On the Internet, No One Knows You're a Dog Examining the Feasibility of Privacy- Preserving Age Verification Online"
www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/many...
I've been digging into this story and I got a small question:
Why is the State of New York letting a Trump FCC Pro-monopoly goon write its laws?
I am really liking the Cocoon launcher (github.com/inssekt/Coco... ) it's so pretty once you set up all your games that it makes you want to pick up the android device and play.
The US war on Iran is a lot of things. But it is also yet another government bailout on AI companies. In this thread Here we see Jeff Bezos' news paper using the war to write an Ad for Antropic's MOST ADVANCED AI USED DURING A WAR.
Meanwhile: bsky.app/profile/hari...
Not great that so much of the commentariat is absolutely dug in on the idea that advocating for a green transition was a sort of "luxury belief" and not the most hard-headed of realism and now that we're once again seeing how wrong this is, none of them want to draw attention to how wrong they were.
Now we know why Trump kept throwing tantrums about AI, we will be accusing the AI of picking the civilian targets so that the responsibility of picking the targets and also the responsibility of choosing to use AI for this is ignored.
We send our deepest sympathies to Mr. Gavalas’ family. We are reviewing all the claims in this lawsuit. Our models generally perform well in these types of challenging conversations and we devote significant resources to this, but unfortunately AI models are not perfect. Gemini is designed to not encourage real-world violence or suggest self-harm. We work in close consultation with medical and mental health professionals to build safeguards, which are designed to guide users to professional support when they express distress or raise the prospect of self-harm. In this instance, Gemini clarified that it was AI and referred the individual to a crisis hotline many times. We take this very seriously and will continue to improve our safeguards and invest in this vital work. – Google
"Works on my machine" ~Google
Ah, interesting gambit, let's just check how pivoting from reliable software people actually use to an AI focused subscription service is going for Adobe real quick
Coincidentally this gives openAI more private data about you and your relationships.
