Great read. Really helps illustrate why we're in the mess we're in.
US gov policy is strongly influenced by the effects of these recommendation engines.
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Great read. Really helps illustrate why we're in the mess we're in.
US gov policy is strongly influenced by the effects of these recommendation engines.
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…
“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it’s ever used in warfare.
Anthropic’s Claude partnered with the military’s Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates. https://wapo.st/46BFe1T
Breaking: Republican support for punching puppies has shot up to 100% after one of the remaining Republicans changed their party identification to independent.
New poll reveals that most Americans do not support punching puppies, but it still remains popular among Republicans with 80% of the 5 remaining Republicans supporting it
Why is Nextdoor showing me horrific headlines from the Bronx? Because an algorithm is prioritizing my engagement over my neighborhood.
This matters: platforms like this erode trust, and trust has never been lower.
From my talk at @creativemornings.bsky.social:
Videos and social media posts reviewed by ProPublica also show that several high-ranking officials attended a summit last month in which prominent conservative figures urged the president to follow through on this plan.
tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety.
venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars.
child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me.
mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed.
mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.
Huh. And our president said "I guess" when asked about attacks on U.S. soil.
Probably not good.
This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
Bad, very bad. LLMs have an *intense* sycophancy problem.
Making a list (and checking it twice)
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A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.
Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.
Just realized I should've been investing time in setting up Discourse in mailing list mode.
Oops. Oh well.
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I'm also on Google and I have an old account from the first days of Gmail.
Trust me, my position is not extreme. They've built a surveillance apparatus that would make George Orwell weep.
Download privacy badger to understand the extent of their infrastructure.
Seems reasonable TBH
My surface-level take on this: I think this is a reasonable law that implements device-based age verification and actually enhances our privacy.
It looks like they do not require ID verification and simply require OS providers to capture a user's broad age and make it available to apps.
I think both are appropriate. Their business model is surveillance - and if you ban surveillance advertising then you destroy their business model.
(So really, you don't have to explicitly ban those companies)
… so about that consumer data privacy legislation we’re never going to get and even if we did would have a huge “law enforcement and safety” carve out? 🫠🤦🏻♀️
THANKS I HATE IT
Yes, of course. Because LLMs are being built by people who made social networks before, which were algorithms designed to amplify content that would reflect back your priors in another person’s voice. It’s ex-Facebook product managers making ChatGPT! Except more emotionally addictive this time.
“Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes
As others have pointed out, this should improve the quality of their "AI" coverage as his stories were generally credulous industry PR
If you’d prefer to limit or disable ACR-style monitoring of your watching behavior, here’s where to look.
Methinks the backlash is growing. Probably not good for tech companies.
BREAKING: Today Bernie Sanders is proposing new legislation to raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires — a move that would virtually cut their massive fortunes in half.
A chunk of the money raised would go toward sending a $3K stimulus check to every person earning under $150K.
We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.
motorolanews.com/motorola-thr...
We gotta stop penetrating people with smartphones.
