I mentioned on TWiT yesterday that there was little reason to go to the movies these days because most motion pictures are crappy sequels or part of an existing (sad) cinematic universe. I underestimated the problem.

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/pop-culture-has-become-an-oligopoly

Human systems grow in healthy ways on human timescales.

- The rate humans gain trust
- The rate humans learn skills
- The rate humans form shared social norms

When you force change faster than this, systems generate trauma.

It seems like there are just endless bad ideas about how to use "AI". Here are some new ones courtesy of the UK government.

... and a short thread because there is so much awfulness in this one article.
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https://www.ft.com/content/f2ae55bf-b9fa-49b5-ac0e-8b7411729539

⚠️ The Online Safety Bill has been passed in the UK Parliament. ⚠️

The threat it poses to our right to privacy and freedom of expression will soon become law.

It'll make us less secure, including the children and young people that the law is supposed to protect.

Find out more here ⤵️

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #freedomofexpression #e2ee #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-warns-of-threat-to-privacy-and-free-speech-as-online-safety-bill-is-passed/

I keep telling people #LLM #chatbots read prose, not lists of facts. But maybe examples help.

In the first example, the world has many more components than the objects mentioned. All these are implications of the situation, umbrella, dynamic movement, and so on. It's not just "a person now holds an object named 'umbrella'". Yet people keep prompting these things as if choices of words and subtext doesn't matter.

Sure, the hottest new programming language is English, but are you sure you know what it means? It's not the neutral engineer-English you use in documenting things.

The second example is a dog barking at night. So, "an animal makes a noise + timestamp"? No! It all brings a world of associations and implications with it!

These systems will read your programming code and JSON elements as prose as well. It is not all the same how the properties are named, and what the contents are. Even the names of people you might have in there will spawn up worlds of imagination which will guide the chatbot in its decisions.

Did you think the names of your classes aren't executable code and hence don't matter? Well, now they are!

I have never in my life felt so seen by a piece of writing. https://nymag.com/strategist/article/led-light-bulbs-investigation.html

LED bulbs are terrible!!! But when you talk to lighting normies about things like color temperature, they look at you like you’re from another planet!