Mastodawn

antifuchs Aug 30, 2024

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

Nature: Al generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect - awful.systems

Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish [https://friend.camp/@aparrish/113053044485254385] who says it better than I could: > it’s a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i’m paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that “alignment” strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

antifuchs Aug 28, 2024

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

https://awful.systems/post/2245406

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

School student tells AI to put 20 other students’ faces on nude pictures, shares them in chat; it takes months for anyone including the school administrators to act because of some extremely, uh, dubious loophole. If someone does that in photoshop, it’s a crime; if they do it in AI pretending to be photoshop, it’s somehow not. Gotta love this legal system’s focus on minor technicalities rather than the harm done.

antifuchs Jul 7, 2024

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

https://awful.systems/post/1850234

The “I will piledrive you” post, discussed on the Better Offline podcast - awful.systems

They have Nik Suresh (the author) on, as well as Robert Evans. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it’s fun so far.

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antifuchs Jun 21, 2024

discourse.nixos.org/t/…/47393

average nix contributor is removed from project 3 times a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average contributor stays on the project. Mod Actions Jon, who lives in cave & becomes a contributor 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Constitutional Assembly Statement on Jon Ringer

The mission of the NCA is to establish a community-based governance structure, which still takes some time, but the current situation regarding Jon Ringer (@jonringer) calls for immediate attention. We want to see people engage in forward progressing change in the project. We believe that this means acting generally in ways which de-escalate hard issues and seek resolution not rancor. Respectful disagreement is substantially different from rhetorical appeals. In discussion with the moderation ...

NixOS Discourse

antifuchs Jun 21, 2024

Nix project: ban? What ban?

https://awful.systems/post/1746256

Nix project: ban? What ban? - awful.systems

They invited that guy back. I do have to admit, I admire his inability to read a room.