So I think we can all agree that AI is the internet equivalent of Ebola. A virus that spreads and destroys whatever it touches.
I was just reading that chat GPT are going to be putting ads in their service and my immediate thought was, "oh look, they're adding cancer to Ebola."
What makes something data? Some thoughts on that question, and how answers to it help us understand AI hype:
https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/what-makes-something-data-f6d9f498f312
I spoke to Michael Bobbitt, a former FBI official about how the FBI secretly ran an encrypted phone for criminals, backdoored it, and collected tens of millions of messages. Bobbitt was helping funnel intelligence from US to European authorities
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLeueG5V4QY
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115643458015221823
Jumping on the AI hype while it is collapsing is such a perfect summary for a lot of EU tech policy. This not only shows lack of understanding but lack of leadership and vision.
"Did you ever think to yourself what if we burned down the data centers?" Donât worry, youâre not alone. @ritualdust
đđ» https://l1zb3th.online/files/burning-down-datacenters-print.pdf
AI Authoritarianism: Towards an Analytical Framework · This intervention offers a call for investigating the deepening alignment of #AI & authoritarian politics.
đđ» https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tran.70048
Why I 𧥠the web.
After the recent #Cloudflare outage someone built a DownDetector for DownDetector after DownDetector went down.
âThree years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsyâ
1) it was never a high wave, and waves go down
2) itâs not a surprise to a large number of people
The minute you see a bunch of business execs getting excited about something is the minute to begin to roll your eyes, generally.
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