So, I managed somehow, in some way without realising, to close all tabs in iPad Safari. Again.

And I see no way to recover the 100 or so tabs without manually opening them one by one. What a UX shitshow.

“The web’s most important decision - The History of the Web”

“This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale - WIRED”

Generative AI is amazing for fraud. It’s quickly become the scammers go-to toolset

“Respeecher’s CEO on working on Star Wars, Book of Boba Fett Luke, & more”

Human voice gives all the inflections, the accent, the style of speech and pace that AI is not good at creating

I don’t think people appreciate just how much work people do to accomplish some of the more high-profile AI art. There’s clearly a lot of selection, compositing, editing, and manipulation going on. I doubt much of the “X as a movie by Y” stuff is straight out of the model.

The Intelligence Illusion is full of practical down-to-earth advice based on plenty of research backed up with copious citations. I’m only halfway through it and it’s already helped me separate the hype from the reality

😎

I just published “The truth about the EU AI Act and foundation models, or why you should not rely on ChatGPT summaries for important texts”

Kinda annoyed that I feld I had to write this one. But, y’know, somebody had to.

“Adactio: Journal—Nailspotting”

🙂

“Adactio: Links—The Industrial Hammer Complex”

“The Industrial Hammer Complex”

“Patience is its own reward — Chocolate and Vodka”

Even if AGI weren’t science fiction, the first successful one would be less “skynet destroys us all” and more “Laika howls in space until she dies”.

“Texas A&M Professor Wrongly Accuses Class of Cheating With ChatGPT – Rolling Stone”

“Model Card Regulatory Check”

This Space matches information in model cards to proposed regulatory compliance descriptions in the EU AI Act. This is a prototype to explore the feasibility of automatic checks for compliance

“Ethics & Society at Hugging Face - a Hugging Face Space by society-ethics”

“Model Card Regulatory Check - OECD.AI”

So Hugging Face and its ethics team is doing an amazing job at trying to bring OSS models both into regulatory compliance and ethical behaviour

“On cats – Going Medieval”

medieval people fucking loved cats.

“ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft.”

If the tech industry wanted to win hearts and minds, maybe pissing off writers by threatening their livelihood might not have been the smartest move?

I’m going to have to write a blog post on what the current version of the EU AI Act actually says, aren’t I?

FFS.

“Indirect Prompt Injection via YouTube Transcripts”

“Indirect Prompt Injection via YouTube Transcripts · Embrace The Red”

🤨

“I just did a test to apply as a front end developer – and things aren’t going well - Christian Heilmann”

I see dev recruitment continues to be a shitshow

I expected VC types and hangers-on to uncritically accept lies about the EU AI Act. That’s normal

It’s more disappointing to see those with sensible opinions on dev, management, and were critical of crypto fall for it as well

Like, you can’t follow a link and read for yourself?

“Ireland’s privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher”

“Algorithms’ Transparency Problem is Everyone’s Problem”