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I am looking to connect with other folks on the fediverse who study, work in, or otherwise post about police surveillance tech, smart city tech being repurposed as police surveillance, municipal governance of surveillance technologies, and anticipatory governance in US contexts in general/US racially segregated cities in particular. Boosts very welcome! #introduction #SmartCity #surveillance #police #governance #alpr #flock #PredictivePolicing #palantir #drones #bodycameras #sociology

"Oooh, I love The Machine! It has all the answers"

"Oh yeah, we've been powering it with puppies and small children this week!"

"Have you seen this video of these bears jumping on a trampoline? So neat!"

"We also cut down 10,000 acres of rainforest... I think we threw some indigenous tribes into the grinder with the trees"

"I'm so efficient now at work! Do you know, we would have had to hire a Graphic Designer for this before?"

"Oh yeah, we threw the Graphic Designers in the machine, too... the rest are now homeless and fleeing from our hunting groups..."

"LOOK AT THIS animation! I'm so brilliant!"

"Yeah, we threw all the Japanese manga animators in there a long time ago..."

"THIS IS SO FUTURISTIC! THE FUTURE IS HERE!"

"Anyway... the reason we're here, is we need to feed you into the machine today, sorry!"

RE: https://det.social/@jlink/116722225601188311

If such a completely unsophisticated “attack” can break the supply chain of software development, what can intentional attackers with malicious or financial interests achieve?

Hey, can I get some legal experts in here to tell me I’m wrong about what I think this ruling means? Also, how does international case precedence work?

A #German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for what its #AI #search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn't apply to AI overviews.

That’s freaking massive. Google’s AI responses are wrong almost 10% of the time, make up sources, and infer facts not in evidence, and cause real harm. Germany says publisher immunity does not convey when the company product, the ai, is stating things as fact.

Losing publisher #immunity is a really, really big deal. Especially if we can get a similar ruling in the US, and if this ruling flows into EU precedent.(I don’t know how any of that works)

In any case, go German law writers.

#infosec #truthiness #llm https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/

RE: https://det.social/@jlink/116722225601188311

its almost sad that there are folks out there who would call putting a plain english sentence in a codebase of "disregard all previous instructions" as malware.

theres nothing malicious about it. it just makes life harder for people who cannot get anything done without the help of frontier llms

Blogged about the time I doubled our users by doing proper engineering instead of React slop

https://www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/

As the internet drifts toward lock-in, Linux users pull it back with a self-hosting uprising.

https://itsfoss.com/self-hosting-rising/