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Meta Can’t Use Sexual Orientation to Target Ads in the EU, Court Rules

Europe’s most famous privacy activist, Max Schrems, landed another blow against Meta today after the EU’s top court ruled the tech giant cannot exploit users’ public statements about their sexual orientation for online advertising.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-cant-use-sexual-orientation-to-target-ads-in-the-eu-court-rules/

Meta Can’t Use Sexual Orientation to Target Ads in the EU, Court Rules

Privacy activist Max Schrems has won another legal fight against Meta, this time limiting how the company can use off-platform activity—and public statements—to target ads.

WIRED

The more sophisticated AI models get, the more likely they are to lie

Human feedback training may incentivize providing any answer—even wrong ones.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/the-more-sophisticated-ai-models-get-the-more-likely-they-are-to-lie/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The more sophisticated AI models get, the more likely they are to lie

Human feedback to AIs makes them favor providing an answer, even a wrong one, while making the answer more convincing.

Ars Technica

🆕 blog! “GitHub's Copilot lies about its own documentation. So why would I trust it with my code?”

In the early part of the 20th Century, there was a fad for "Radium". The magical, radioactive substance that glowed in the dark. The market had decided that Radium was The Next Big Thing and tried to shove it into every product. There …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/githubs-copilot-lies-about-its-own-documentation-so-why-would-i-trust-it-with-my-code/

#AI #github #LLM

GitHub's Copilot lies about its own documentation. So why would I trust it with my code?

In the early part of the 20th Century, there was a fad for "Radium". The magical, radioactive substance that glowed in the dark. The market had decided that Radium was The Next Big Thing and tried to shove it into every product. There were radioactive toys, radioactive medicines, radioactive chocolate bars, and a hundred other […]

Terence Eden’s Blog

An observation on the uncopyrightable nature of AI art and questioning the possibility of a digital being as artist (2024, digital collage and knitted chicken)

#sillyScribbles #MyfanwyAndFriend #silly #art #nonsense

Over 33,000 sounds are available for free download from the BBC’s sound effects library. “Among the plethora of sounds covered are reindeer grunts, common frog calls and crowds at the 1989 FA Cup Final.” https://djmag.com/news/you-can-now-download-over-33000-sound-effects-bbc-archive
You can now download over 33,000 sound effects from the BBC archive

Among the plethora of sounds covered are reindeer grunts, common frog calls and crowds at the 1989 FA Cup Final

DJ Mag
spherical tilings are SO messed up!!
once you know a little bit of set theory, all of those little debates people sometimes have (e.g. is water wet) begin looking like set theory problems.

Write Bash Script. Run Bash script on (nearly) any Linux system.

Write Python Script. Realize why containers became a thing.

people who make fun of linux mint users should be sentenced to a day in the stocks