tante

AstraLuma: "@dragonarchitect@rubber.social Digital Ocean had …" - Taco Bell Labs

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*): "I don’t understand the panic over ‘LLMs can tell …" - Infosec Exchange

Smashing Frames

Power grab

Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab. If you don’t know what Omarchy is here’s the short summary. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of RubyOnRails, owner of a software business and millionaire, decided a few months ago to go all in on Linux and – because that’s just his MO – […]

404 Media

‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

Smashing Frames

The Test

Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being said in that recording/writeup. It’s painful. You feel your mental capabilities decaying with every minute of listening … […]

Taggart :ifin:: "The unsealed motion for summary judgment in the N…" - Infosec Exchange

The American Prospect

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

Smashing Frames

Der besorgte "KI"-Bro

Wir lesen in den letzten viel über die besorgen “KI”-Bros: Dario Amodei und Sam Altman sprechen beide davon, man müsse jetzt die Entwicklung von “Frontier KI” verlangsamen und Elon Musk stimmt ebenfalls zu. Eine unheilige Allianz, die nachdenklich machen sollte, gerade wo die drei betreffenden Herren sich alle zu tiefst verachten. Sind die “KI”-Bros jetzt […]

Leaving them behind

The one where I’ve seen enough (for real this time).

tante: "Omarchy is part of new fascism. But it's also a g…" - tldr.nettime

Lobsters: "Leaving them behind https://lobste.rs/s/h3igdh #…" - Mastodon

Internet Exchange

What It Means to Lose Autistici/Inventati

A terrorism designation is forcing Autistici/Inventati to shut down operations, and forcing its blogging platform NoBlogs off the internet.

Bianca Kastl: "Mich hat die taz mal Anfang 2023 gefragt, ob dies…" - Mastodon

arXiv.org

What and Whose Knowledge? Measuring Epistemic Diversity in Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as primary knowledge sources, yet their epistemic diversity - defined as the diversity of real-world claims in their outputs - has never been measured. Low epistemic diversity would pose a risk of knowledge collapse as homogeneous LLMs mediate a shrinking in the range of accessible information over time. The dominant paradigm is that overall LLM diversity is low, but this is always with respect to a single point in time, with no reference baseli

HeydonWorks

The AI Artist Paradox

Whichever way you cut it, you cannot be an AI artist.

The GNOME LLM Policy That I Want

KDE is on the news because of a controversial proposal to define an official “AI” (LLM) policy. Other projects have tried their hand at similar policies and stances but, in my opinion, they miss the mark about the goal of such initiatives. I think that the point of these statements is shaping social norms and...

heise online: „Elon Musk will Texas untertunneln Die Straßen zw…“ - Heise Medien on Mastodon

Smashing Frames

The Test

Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being said in that recording/writeup. It’s painful. You feel your mental capabilities decaying with every minute of listening … […]