Mark Hurst

AI and the illegal war “No stupid rules of engagement.” That was Pete Hegseth, the American war secretary, boasting during a press conference about the approach with which he and...

AI is central to this illegal war.

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AI and the illegal war “No stupid rules of engagement.” That was Pete Hegseth, the American war secretary, boasting during a press conference about the approach with which he and...

In Hegseth's words: "no stupid rules of engagement" -
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Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year | TechCrunch The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely CEO Roy Lee shared last summer was a lie, its founder and CEO Roy Lee admitted on Thursday on X.

I can’t believe the “cheat-on-everything” guy would do this.

AI and the illegal war “No stupid rules of engagement.” That was Pete Hegseth, the American war secretary, boasting during a press conference about the approach with which he and...

“The oligarchs are now floating the hype that their AI, used in the illegal war, is ‘precise’ and can ‘prioritize targets.’ I invite them to look at the photos of the schoolgirls’ coffins - then tell me again about ‘precision.’”

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Cory Doctorow, author and journalist | Techtonic with Mark Hurst on WFMU The descent of Big Tech platforms into exploitative and unethical behavior prompted sci-fi author Cory Doctorow to coin a new term, something like “enfecalization.” Cory explores the idea in his upcom...

Happy to see @doctorow.pluralistic.net on Bluesky. He explains how he's here, but not bound by Bluesky's T&C:
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And here is my most recent interview w/Cory on Techtonic:
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They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

please come by on Monday evening!

good point- just choose "CD"... meantime we're working on changing it to read "cassette" - thanks for the heads-up

ugh - another embarrassment

From my newest Techtonic, with @wfmu.bsky.social station manager Ken Freedman. This after I played the clip of Sam Altman talking about "training human beings."

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Full episode:
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I found the exact moment -
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This is at 52:40 in this episode -
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Techtonic with Mark Hurst on WFMU Techtonic with Mark Hurst is a weekly radio show from WFMU about technology, how it's affecting us, and what we can do about it.

I also read that bit on techtonic.fm a week or two ago

I've repeatedly said this in the past: the end goal of all AI is surveillance, specifically to influence and control

who made this

“In some cases, Meta will review your interactions with AIs, including the content of your conversations with or messages to AIs, and this review can be automated or manual (human).”

In practical terms, this means that "data annotators" in Kenya are accessing private moments to improve AI for Meta.

"no stupid rules of engagement." he actually said this

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

From the NYTimes: "The administration has not provided Congress and the American people with critical details about the scope and immediacy of the threat," Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, said in a statement on Saturday. He called for Congress to "quickly return to session and reassert its constitutional duty" by passing legislation to curtail the military campaign against Iran.

What Chuck seems to lack the clarity or courage to say:

• Only Congress can declare war

• Congress did not declare war on Iran

• This war is illegal

• Wars of aggression are considered to be "supreme international crimes" by the International Criminal Court. The phrase was coined at Nuremberg.

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

“It’s difficult to understand the scale of the problem, but OpenAI itself estimates that more than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT.”

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

“the Department of *War* displayed a deep respect for safety” according to the guy who is being sued eleventy times because his product tells children to kill themselves

War is fundamentally unsafe and so is your piece of shit chatbot but COOL STORY BRO

Zuck in the dock Mark Zuckerberg testified a few days ago that his services aren’t addictive. This was part of the ongoing trial against Facebook/Meta and Google/YouTube....

“Zuck claims that users appreciate his platforms because they’re *valuable*. It’s like the intrinsic value of a slot machine, or a cigarette, or a crack pipe. Addicts the world over are so thankful for the *value* they experience every day.”

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Say no to Waymo Waymo automates the decision to surrender control over our image and activity. You don’t even have to be a Waymo user to be subject to Waymo’s gaze.

"A private corporation, unaccountable to the interests of residents, is storing massive troves of data from driving around our cities.. Cities that Waymo operates in are transmuted into vast networks of public and private surveillance"

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Reminds me of Clapper testifying that the NSA doesn't engage in surveillance - they're just gathering data on citizens. It's only spying when they *access* the data.

Riiiight.

(I covered this w/ @byrontau.bsky.social this week)
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Maybe "vibe launching"

or perhaps "vibe nuking"

ok i was calling them "sludge factories" but maybe "vomit factories" is more accurate

samesies

Also this: "the only question is how much damage will be done."

An autonomous AI-powered nuclear launch would be... some damage.

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