“Deepfake Porn Victims Are Seeking Federal Protections Through Legislation | Teen Vogue”
I honestly think that this is a much more important issue than the fictional problem of a language model going all SkyNet on us.
“History revealed – Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall’s blog”
“Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta”
I know it’s popular to only acknowledge progress (esp. Safari progress) with a complaint, but this honestly just looks great.
“Introducing Jetpack AI Assistant in WordPress.com”
Do you think this will:
- Level up blogging, man! Every blog post will now be amazing!
- Fill the web with garbage, since Google doesn’t seem to mind AI-generated posts.
😬
“FBI warns of increasing use of AI-generated deepfakes in sextortion schemes | Ars Technica”
This was incredibly predictable.
Save search by flooding the web with crap, then use that same crap to filter the crap from the crap. Brilliant
“AI chatbots lose money every time you use them. That’s a problem.”
AI chatbots have a problem: They lose money on every chat.
This is such a fucking bubble.
“Microsoft 365, including Outlook and Word, goes offline for thousands”
“Why do we employ all these people? They clearly aren’t doing anything important! Just fire them.”
Also, something, something cloud software.
“Modern software quality, or why I think using language models for programming is a bad idea”
This massive 7000 word essay is based on a talk I gave at Hakkavélin, a hackerspace in Reykjavík
Specifically, moderators are no longer allowed to remove AI-generated answers on the basis of being AI-generated, outside of exceedingly narrow circumstances
“Tech Elite’s AI Ideologies Have Racist Foundations, Say AI Ethicists”
“Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values - by John Warner”
There’s a good chance that in a year or two we’ll see a spike in hard to replicate bugs, where software is behaving erratically with frequent but unpredictable declines in quality. The cause will turn out to be a hastily integrated language model somewhere in the system.
“Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain”
The current state of the art’s been creeping up on us for quite some time now, and in the cold light of day a lot of it turns out to be Fool’s Gold
“Ayyyyyy Eyeeeee. The lie that raced around the world… | by Cory Doctorow | Jun, 2023 | Medium”
“Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good”
This is what I use most dedicated notes apps for. But working notes are also a huge part of my process and those are in separate apps
“How the media is covering ChatGPT - Columbia Journalism Review”
Incredibly disappointing to see a bunch of smart poeple do a “nonono I don’t actually agree with the literal statement that I said I agreed with. I actually agree with a completely different statement I imagined in my head”
“Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
That article about an “AI” drone killing its operator in a simulation is a complete fabrication. “Simulation” here means constructed scenario. No actual “AI” model was created
“I can just suck up all of the data in the world to build my model and not pay anybody anything”
Later…
“WTF? Why is everybody closing up, charging for APIs and access, and suing AI companies? Not fair”
Tech broke the web’s social contract and now everything is closing up