Robin Adams

@europlus@social.europlus.zone @davidgerard@circumstances.run That's the feeling I get from a lot of discussions of AI ethics which end on something like "You should consider these factors carefully before deciding whether to use an LLM." "OK, I've considered them and I've chosen not to use an LLM." "Oh. We didn't actually expect anyone to take that option."

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu A big step in the right direction.

@Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems @Kolanaki@pawb.social https://www.imdb.com/list/ls054209917/

@cmconseils A classic: #alt4me

@mullvadnet@mastodon.online @lostgen@det.social "We welcome anyone sharing these core values, whatever their other opinions." Liars. I have many friends who believe in free speech and privacy who are among the ones whom the Örebro party call "parasites", and who would lose their homes, jobs and families under their euphamistically named "remigration" programme. Apart from anything else, there is no way to carry out a mass deportation programme without mass surveillance, as we are seeing in the US now. Huge numbers of people in Sweden would be terrified of saying the wrong thing for fear of being thrown out of the country, It is utterly inconsistent to support mass deportation and say you support free speech and privacy. If you hate my friends, go ahead and give money to the people who want to destroy their lives. But don't then tell me that you welcome them.

@Rairii@labyrinth.zone I had a look at the prompt and it seems it could easily have been a bash script or similar? https://github.com/0xeb/ghidrasql/blob/main/install-prompt.md

@Laust@ohai.social @HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu From the details in the call, the definition is based on using a huge number of GPUs that are "equivalent" to NVIDIA's H100 chips: c. Compute Performance Capacity To qualify as an AIGF, the computational scale must at least reach three to four times the number of advanced processors currently available in the most powerful AI Factories10 across both deployment phases, depending on the targeted Lot: • Compute Performance Capacity o Lot 1 - Medium-Scale: The facility must deploy a minimum capacity of 25,000 (H100-equivalent) of the latest state-of-the-art AI advanced chips by Phase 1. To qualify as a full-scale AIGF, the proposal must include a binding roadmap to reach a total minimum capacity of at least 75,000 (H100-equivalent) of the latest state-of-the-art AI chips in Phase 2. This element will be assessed in the eligibility section. o Lot 2 - Large-Scale: The facility must deploy a minimum capacity of 40,000 (H100-equivalent) of the latest state-of-the-art AI advanced chips by Phase 1. To qualify as a massive full-scale AIGF, the proposal must include a binding roadmap to reach a total minimum capacity of at least 100,000 (H100-equivalent) of latest state-of-the-art AI chips in Phase 2. Utterly criminal use of public money to accelerate climate change.

@ReignOfRaining@transfem.social #alt4me

@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social #alt4me

@ReignOfRaining@transfem.social #alt4me

@mhoye@cosocial.ca @uhertlein@mastodon.social Would this mean they can also track you if you use Tor?

@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @AncTreat5358@lgbtqia.space The evidence is you're right. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cats-domesticated-themselves-but-never-became-domesticated/

@ReignOfRaining@transfem.social #alt4me Artist: blairamour.tumblr.com

@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @SecondUniverse@autistics.life The sentence was 21 months in a men's prison and 10 years on the sex offender's register: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6xlwn570lo

@Configures @LaChasseuse Not a congressman. Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Bork said he did not believe there was a Constitutional right to privacy, widely seen as a signal that he would overturn Roe v Wade. Before his confirmation, his video rental history was leaked to the press. If he doesn't believe in a right to privacy, he has nothing to complain about, right? (Depressingly, his history was not embarrassing at all: it was all Ruthless People, and The Man Who Knew Too Much, he had very good taste in movies.) In response, Congress passed... no, not a general right to privacy, don't be silly. They just made it illegal to leak video rental histories "or similar audio visual materials". That specific. He did not get confirmed. The Senate actually jumped the right way that time. From whence we get the word "borked" (which I'd always assumed was a humorous misspelling of "broke"). You may remember Robert Bork from such totally normal democratic happenings as the Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon's Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General resigned rather than fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Bork, as acting Attorney General, complied. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork

@miss_rodent @AnarchoNinaWrites One more quote that feels appropriate to generative AI: "We are already surrounded by people who use the computer as an excuse for avoiding personal responsibility. How many times lately have you heard the following excuse? "We are very sorry about the mistake in your account. It was a computer error.' That is a lie. It leads to a kind of mental parasitism, a destructive dependency. Every time you hear this excuse, you should tell the person who uses it: You are a liar."

@yatil@yatil.social @1password@1password.social There's chipass. https://codeberg.org/ChiPass "KeePassXC asks us to be skeptical of them if we are skeptical of LLMs. This is a convincing argument."

@kabel42 @eniko Writing the tests is coding, and there is artistry to a good test suite too.

@alice@mk.nyaa.place The browser is called Mozilla's monster.

@maddy@thegayagenda.fans This is a useful resource: https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html OpenBSD seems to be the best bet as they are the most strict about source acceptance and so probably the least likely to start accepting LLM code in the future, while having a larger ecosystem than small projects like Redox (although good luck to Redox for the future, and @soller@floss.social seems like a really cool guy). Completely understand staying with Linux too

@emilymbender This company is selling a magic 8-ball as "Offline ChatGPT": https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/single-post/chatgpt-magic-8-ball

@samlitzinger@journa.host The remedy for that was impeachment. Reading the constitutional debates, corruption is mentioned several times as grounds for impeachment. Nobody thought the impeachment clause would not be enough to deal with a corrupt President. They were more worried whether it would be too easy to impeach, and Congress would use this as a way to control the President: do what we want or we'll impeach ya. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_720.asp

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Or just 128 bytes of RAM like the Atari 2600.

@ZachWeinersmith I heard it explained this way: Zeno gave four paradoxes, one for each of the possible combinations: whether space is continuous or discrete, and whether time is continuous or discrete. The paradox of the stadium rules out the case where space and time are both discrete. Because then a thing travelling one unit of space per unit of time to the right and a thing travelling one unit of space per unit of time to the left could pass each other without ever being level with each other. The famous paradox of the tortoise and Achilles rules out the case where space is continuous and time is discrete (if I remember right): the usual resolution (summing an infinite sequence of times can result in a finite time) requires time to be infinitely divisible. The one that rules out continuous space and continuous time is the paradox of the arrow (roughly, if an arrow has just one position at every moment of time then it is never in motion). The person I was reading linked this to the modern idea that, to give the state of a rigid body, it is not enough to give its position - you must give its position and motion (velocity and rotation). I wish I could remember the author of this analysis.

@Alice As Jason Pargin pointed out, Idiocracy would be a utopia compared to what we got. The President gives everyone in the country an IQ test and picks the smartest people for his cabinet! And when it's clear Joe is the smartest guy in the room, everyone does what he says! What Idiocracy was missing was somebody stupid but ambitious.

@aj Sydney - opera house, not the capital Canberra - the actual capital Melbourne - Dame Edna Everidge, I think Neighbours was set here? Alice Springs - the one that's not on the coast ... yeah that's it

@shemjm@social.vivaldi.net OK, I'm surprised, because the bit of training I had about discrimination in recruiting in the UK led me to believe this would not be legal. Did a bit of research and the police's scheme was found to be not lawful: www.gov.uk/government/publications/positive-action-in-the-workplace-guidance-for-employers/positive-action-in-the-workplace#what-is-positive-action You can do things like offer a training scheme for management for women for a limited time if your management is very disproportionately male. Looks like the intelligence services are hoping that internships fall under that. I would have expected that to be illegal since it is an employment, but IANAL. The advertisement does say "Other ethnic minority group". I don't know how it would go with the services or in court if somebody tried to argue that being a Magyar, say, was an ethnic minority group.

@shemjm@social.vivaldi.net @quietewe@urbanists.social @junesim63@mstdn.social Yes - discrimination on the grounds of national origin is illegal under the Equality Act 2010.

@HadasWeiss AI is the future and inevitable, which is why everybody has to be pressured and coerced into using it as much as possible.

@MissConstrue 'And, the browser doesn’t use it, it ships queries to google cloud. It exists only so they can say it’s “local”. ' That smells like vibecoding to me. That's the sort of thing an LLM would do if you told it to make the browser use a local AI model.

@thatfrisiangirlish As Homer Simpson put it, just because I don't CARE doesn't mean I don't UNDERSTAND.

@gray@merping.synth.download Paradox! That is an example - which means it isn't - which means it is - which means...

@davidgerard I thought a bitcoin transaction took at least 10 minutes to be confirmed?

@simonzerafa @davidgerard That's just a bunch of shapes and colours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPOISnUd7WE

@kirakira @pojntfx The relevant law is the Digital Services Act which requires that "Platforms must take measures to safeguard minors on their services, such as reducing the risks of exposure to age-inappropriate content like gambling or pornography. The DSA also introduces a complete ban on showing targeted advertisements to children." https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-services-act

@Laust@ohai.social @HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu Full details here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/tender-details/docs/bc712395-692d-41ab-aa25-8e254ae86eb2-CN/CfT%20AIGF%20-%20Tender%20Specifications_V1.pdf

@antlersoft @ana And also Weird Science.

@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk They're AI-generated

@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @SecondUniverse@autistics.life Yes, Clara Watkin: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gmvgn8z7yo

@shemjm@social.vivaldi.net I'm pretty sure you're just trolling but: it's illegal in the UK to advertise a job as being for minority groups only.

@alice@mk.nyaa.place Netscape

@introvertcatto@lgbtqia.space Wouldn't advise it, she has black mould.

@evelynf@counterforce.social I use startpage as the only one I've found with no AI (not even optoutable).

@ACM@mastodon.acm.org You do not mention the environmental cost of LLMs, here or in the article. Is this a factor that was raised in the discussions leading to this decision?