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  • In lighter news, this anti-LLM rhyme made me chuckle:

    I will not talk with a chatbot
    \ I do not want it while I shop

    I do not want it on Windows X-box
    \ I do not want it in Firefox

    I do not want it in my house
    \ I do not want it on my mouse
    \ I do not want it here or there
    \ I do not want it anywhere.

    I do not want AI and Spam
    \ I do not want them Sam-Alt-Man

  • I love a good thorough takedown of fash tech; not sure it’s effort well spent, and I’m not agreeing with the author’s suggestions on some specific security matters (gnupg, argh, please avoid it), but damn, they actually installed it and used it. That’s some commitment to the bit.

  • It can be done (friends and I have tried around 2007, and saw minor success until the company ran headfirst into the financial crisis and our inflexibility regarding user privacy and choice), but it’s not easy if you don’t already have money and connections.

    If you do have those connections, nobody will stop you from building the stupid company of your dreams tbh.

  • So they made an AI restaurant! It has a manifesto!

    It’s… a printer for QR codes. That a guy who is reallly not equipped for sticking QR codes to bowls has to peel and stick onto bowls. And then they get filled by hilariously imprecise cereal dispensers.

    They’re building an empire, yall.

    (Via Jonty)

  • Oh my god, The Guardian with the sneer:

    Take a look at Sam Altman. I mean, actually do it. Go to Google images, where you can find countless photos of the OpenAI boss smiling in a kind of wan genius way, the humble lost puppy of Silicon Valley. But I urge you to simply cover the bottom half of his face in any of these pictures, and you will immediately clock that Sam has the sad-psycho eyes of the lost woman’s boyfriend who the police have asked to front the missing person’s appeal. Please come home, Sheila – we’re all worried sick and we just want you back.

  • Yup, exactly. The chatbot, no matter how helpful, exists in a context of dark patterned web design, incredibly bad resource usage and theft. Its purpose is to make the customer’s question go away, so not even the fanatics are interested.

  • Been tangentially involved in a discussion about how much LLMs have improved in the past year (I don’t care), but now that same space has a discussion of how annoying the stupid pop-up chat boxes are on websites. Don’t know what the problem is, they’ve gotten so much better in the past year?

  • These are great recs. You can definitely find good sci-fi out of America as long as you pick from authors that aren’t white, straight or cis. Marginalized people have a really good sense of the world (no doubt because they need it to survive)

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Nature: Al generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Yet another completely normal use of generative AI: not-obviously-illegal CSAM

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    The “I will piledrive you” post, discussed on the Better Offline podcast

    FreeAssembly @awful.systems

    Nix project: ban? What ban?