I don't know how I managed to go 27 years without seeing "the Straight story", but we watched it last night and damn I want more films like that (I'm reminded of "Spring Forward", in the same vein).
I don't know how I managed to go 27 Dan Lyke / comment 0
I don't know how I managed to go 27 years without seeing "the Straight story", but we watched it last night and damn I want more films like that (I'm reminded of "Spring Forward", in the same vein).
49 is the limit Dan Lyke / comment 0
Anthropic is quietly lobbying for an AI safety bill that will allow the government to block an AI model’s release only if it poses a risk of causing $1 billion in damages or killing or injuring more than 50 people. According to Politico, an independent third party registered with the Department of Commerce would periodically evaluate the lab and its AI models. It also noted that the lab may pay the evaluators, but only if the payment does not affect their independence.
automation bias and policing Dan Lyke / comment 0
Using the case of Angela Lipps, who was kidnapped from Tennessee by Fargo North Dakota police and held for five months, before being released without charges, based on facial recognition software, and under circumstances that would have been easily disproven with a modicum of police work (and is now suing), Jeffrey L. Vagle writing in the Stanford Law Review: AI Agnotology, Cognitive Surrender, and Policing Accountability is a fantastic dive into automation bias and policing, and is worth reading.
Via Shelley Powers @burningbird.net:
An outstanding piece.
'Machines have no legal or moral agency, but the confidence with which they’re programmed to respond to our queries, their remarkable ability to mimic human communication...can lead many to think otherwise.'
Reading a toot on "the great filter" Dan Lyke / comment 0
Reading a toot on "the great filter", and wondering if a big ol' Kessler Event that caused us to focus on terrestrial issues for a century or many is *actually* humanity's best path towards becoming starfaring...
Charlene's Google Pixel 7 phone is Dan Lyke / comment 0
Charlene's Google Pixel 7 phone is showing playback status of podcasts I'm listening to on my phone. I'm trying to figure out how to make this not happen, and...
Android is *deeply* unserious as a software product.
Member of a gay throuple posting about Dan Lyke / comment 0
Member of a gay throuple posting about a "swimming with the otters" birthday gift and I have never been more surprised to see pictures of actual animals...
Discover-Tech malware event Dan Lyke / comment 0
Targeted ads were used to de-anonymize users and deliver Candiru/"Integrity Labs" malware on to the phones of Al Jazeera reporters.
Ad blockers are security software.
Via, which is a response to a link to Israeli firm used ads to enable espionage, Canadian researchers say </a.
A few AI links Dan Lyke / comment 0
Via Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social
This is a very good point about AI development. If you use AI to "upgrade" your product piecemeal, the patterns it follows will not be YOUR patterns, they will not be the collectively understood patterns of the product, and the entire product will decohere.
Terence Tao Why are we even doing all this? is a look at the mathematical side of things.
A list of dumb phones Dan Lyke / comment 0
Meta recording without consent Dan Lyke / comment 0
Meta Ray Ban smart glasses found recording audio without wearer's consent
This week, some users reported online that their Ray-Ban Metas were recording without their consent. A person going by Kindly-Audience-137 on Reddit, for example, said this happened to them across three Meta Ray-Bans and that they had the “Respond without Hey Meta” setting turned off. The person said the Meta AI app “saves audio recordings and text transcripts of these conversations in my conversation history.”
Meta destroying advertiser reputations Dan Lyke / comment 0
I could swear something like this happened before, but searching for Facebook or Meta and AI slop and advertising is ... not too productive.
Anyway, apparently Bookshop.org had an ad on Facebook, and Meta did some sort of generative AI munging of it. For a while, I've assumed that any ad on Facebook is a scam. This is a reminder to advertisers that putting your ad on a dodgy platforms next to cheap product rip-offs and outright lies will harm your brand.
In her thread on this, Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com observes:
I am rather baffled why anyone bothers spending money on Meta platform ads anyway, since any views may well be bots and any "engagement" numbers are basically made-up. They're a black box, like Amazon ads (or KU "page reads"), and there's no way of independently verifying anything.
I went to disable this crap in our Shiraki Press ad account, and got served a popup *demanding a reason why*.