pheras

pheras, 6 days ago to random

TikTok will be banned if it is not owned by a US company. What for?

IT US companies:

MSFT takes frequent screenshots of your desktop and stores OCR in SQLite, easily retrievable from other accounts in the machine (https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/windows-recall-demands-an-extraordinary-level-of-trust-that-microsoft-hasnt-earned/)

MSFT spies your LLMs chat sessions (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/02/microsoft-is-spying-on-users-of-its-ai-tools.html)

New Adobe license in Photoshop forces creators to allow Adobe appropriate their works (https://nichegamer.com/photoshop-terms-of-service-grants-adobe-access-to-user-projects-for-content-moderation/)

Google processes every single bit ever existed about you (https://www.404media.co/google-leak-reveals-thousands-of-privacy-incidents/)

pheras, 20 days ago to random Spanish

"The use of probabilistic techniques to determine who is worthy of death – wherever they’re used – is, to me, the most chilling example of the serious dangers of the current centralized AI industry ecosystem, and of the very material risks of believing the bombastic claims of intelligence and accuracy that are used to market these inaccurate systems."

Read the whole piece by @Mer__edith

https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/detail/die-rede-der-zukunftspreistraegerin

pheras, 1 month ago to random Spanish

The western manufacturers ain't anymore

From industrial engineering to financial engineering

The case of Boeing

"The past 30 years may well be remembered as a dark age of U.S. manufacturing. Boeing’s decline illustrates everything that went wrong to bring us here."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/boeing-corporate-america-manufacturing/678137/

cc @bert_hubert

pheras, 1 month ago to random

It does not matter if you are paying or not for a service offered by a cloud platform. It does not matter if in fact the platform is your client

What should worry you is if you have the freedom to leave that platform

And you can only gain that freedom by fighting with the law the companies that want to retain you in their platforms, either as a client or as a provider

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/22/kargo-kult-kaptialism/#dont-buy-it

By @pluralistic

pheras, 2 months ago to random

Exclusive: Google Workers Revolt Over $1.2 Billion Contract With Israel

https://time.com/6964364/exclusive-no-tech-for-apartheid-google-workers-protest-project-nimbus-1-2-billion-contract-with-israel/

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

"Social Media Authoritarianism and the World As It Is"

By
@Mer__edith

https://lpeproject.org/blog/social-media-authoritarianism-and-the-world-as-it-is/

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

"A group of researchers backed by the French government have released what is thought to be the largest AI training dataset composed entirely of text that is in the public domain. And the nonprofit Fairly Trained announced that it has awarded its first certification for a large language model built without copyright infringement, showing that technology like that behind ChatGPT can be built in a different way to the AI industry’s contentious norm.'

https://www.wired.com/story/proof-you-can-train-ai-without-slurping-copyrighted-content/ @jgbarah

pheras, 2 months ago to random

"Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media

Social media’s unregulated evolution over the past decade holds a lot of lessons that apply directly to AI companies and technologies."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/13/1089729/lets-not-make-the-same-mistakes-with-ai-that-we-made-with-social-media/

By Nathan E. Sanders & Bruce Schneier

pheras, 3 months ago to random

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/23/gazeteer/#out-of-cycle by @pluralistic

pheras, 3 months ago to random

Does anyone even want an AI search engine? by Ryan Broderick. Through @pluralistic

https://www.garbageday.email/p/ai-search-doomsday-cult

(long version) https://www.fastcompany.com/91033052/does-anyone-even-want-an-ai-search-engine

pheras, 3 months ago to random

AI in education is a public problem. By Ben Williamson.

"These 21 arguments against AI in education demonstrate how AI cannot be considered inevitable, beneficial or transformative in any straightforward way. You do not even need to take a strongly normative perspective either way to see that AI in education is highly contested and controversial. "

https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/ai-in-education-is-a-public-problem/

pheras, 3 months ago to random

AT&T mobile network fails.

HW fault, SW fault, Heissenbug?

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/att-cell-service-outage/index.html

pheras, 4 months ago to random Spanish

@bert_hubert https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-2024-plea-for-lean-software/

pheras, 4 months ago to random Spanish

Emmanuel Todd interviewed (in french):
https://m.youtube.com/live/R4HRWQPV6BU?si=mbqnn-9XJ58lCaMe

Latest book: La Défaite de l'Occident
https://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Hors-serie-Connaissance/La-Defaite-de-l-Occident

via @rnaudbertrand

pheras, 5 months ago to random Spanish

Really good review of what Niklaus Wirth contributed to IT https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary

pheras, 5 months ago to random Spanish

NY Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft for infringing copyrighted works

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/ny-times-sues-openai-microsoft-infringing-copyrighted-work-2023-12-27/

pheras, 5 months ago to random Spanish

@brianmerchant and @pluralistic write about the future and the aftermath of the AI bubble blast

1/ https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-12-14/column-this-was-the-year-of-ai-next-year-is-when-you-have-to-worry

2/ https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

pheras, 5 months ago to random Spanish

Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them

https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-repaired-trains-the-manufacturer-artificially-bricked-now-the-train-company-is-threatening-them/

pheras, 9 months ago to random Spanish

AI in 1953: even before the acronym was coined the hype was already there

Featuring Shannon, Wiener, machine learning, robotics,...

https://youtu.be/NN7mlicU95w?feature=shared

via @timnitGebru

pheras, 10 months ago to random Spanish

New book from @pluralistic about how to seize the means of computation

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation

pheras, 11 months ago to random Spanish

Digital neoliberalism

By Evgeny Morozov ( @evgenymorozov )

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/opinion/artificial-intelligence-danger.html?smid=url-share

pheras, 11 months ago to random Spanish

How the brain achieves consciousness?

Nobody knows. The quest continues.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02120-8

pheras, 11 months ago to random Spanish

"We discuss how psychology interacts with generative AI in problematic ways."

Young minds that ask first an LLM and receive convincing wrong answers in an anthropomorfized way will be easily convinced and it will be later more difficult to prove they wrong by adults trying to teach them the right answers.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi0248

pheras, 1 year ago to random Spanish

Ayyyyyyu-Eyeeeee

The lie that raced around the world before the truth got its boots on.

by @pluralistic
https://doctorow.medium.com/ayyyyyy-eyeeeee-4ac92fa2eed

pheras, 1 year ago to random Spanish

How Eugenics shaped statistics

https://nautil.us/how-eugenics-shaped-statistics-238014/

via @timnitGebru