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European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools

European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools - awful.systems

> Data privacy and AI services have not been the greatest of bedfellows. Studies have shown that employees regularly leak company secrets via assistants, and on-device AI services are a focus of vendors amid concerns about exactly what is being sent to the cloud. > The thought of confidential data being sent to an unknown location in the cloud to generate a helpful summary has clearly worried lawmakers, which is why there is a blanket ban. However, the issue has less relevance if the process occurs on the device itself.

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bignose Dec 1

Good news every time this happens.

Even better, this blog post is a great reference of the many reasons GitHub is shitty, becoming shittier, and everyone should abandon that platform.

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bignose Nov 13

GEMA versus OpenAI. Whoever wins, we all lose.

But I’m still happy to see them fight.

bignose Oct 13

I don't know. With these weapons...

https://awful.systems/post/5932009

I don't know. With these weapons... - awful.systems

> Kyle Reese meme from Terminator (1984) > Listen. And understand. That LLM is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until they run out of money.

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bignose Oct 7

So many of the criticisms here survive essentially unchanged, fifty years later:

If he calls the main loop of his program “UNDERSTAND”, he is (until proven innocent) merely begging the question. He may mislead a lot of people, most prominently himself, and enrage a lot of others.[…] If Quillian <1969> had called his program the “Teachable Language Node Net Intersection Finder”, he would have saved us some reading. (Except for those of us fanatic about finding the part on teachability.)

bignose Sep 10, 2025

No, AI isn’t going to kill us all, despite what this new book says

https://awful.systems/post/5568817

No, AI isn’t going to kill us all, despite what this new book says - awful.systems

> Yudkowsky and Soares have a number of policy prescriptions, all of them basically nonsense. […] They say it should be illegal to own more than eight of the top 2024-era GPUs without submitting to nuclear-style monitoring by an international body.[…] nations must be prepared to enforce these restrictions by bombing unregistered data centres, even if this risks nuclear war, “because datacenters can kill more people than nuclear weapons” (emphasis theirs). > Take a deep breath. How did we get here? For me, this is all a form of Pascal’s wager. […] > Frankly, I don’t understand how anyone can go through their days thinking like this. People alive today matter. We have wants and worries. Billions of us are threatened by climate change, a subject that goes essentially unmentioned in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Let’s consign superintelligent AI to science fiction, where it belongs, and devote our energies to solving the problems of science fact here today.