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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦2d ago

Lilly Hunter 2d ago

I think about this a lot.

Philip Mallis 🇺🇦4d ago

Free ice creams being given out at Flinders St Station if anyone wants one

#Melbourne #FreeFood

Philip Mallis 🇺🇦5d ago

Augustus Brown 🌈5d ago

Thoroughly enjoyable chat with @GarethDennis and @railmaps on the history of Australia's railways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHgvpCiCADc/

A history of Australia’s railways - with Chris Brownbill | #Railnatter 265

Chris Brownbill (https://railmaps.com.au/) joins us this week to take us on a quick jaunt through the history of Australia's railways - in the process bustin...

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦Jun 10

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Prof. Sam Lawler Jun 10

My takeaway: Satellite launches are undoing the recovery of the ozone layer that should be happening now that CFCs are banned. And this study doesn't even take into account metal deposition from reentries, which might be even worse!

When I teach climate change in my astro classes, I always give the recovery of the ozone layer as an example of how countries can work together to fix a giant problem (Montreal Protocol). I guess satellite companies are now destroying that too.

Philip Mallis 🇺🇦Jun 9

AJ Sadauskas Jun 9

And so the enshittification of ChatGPT begins.

CMOs are now looking for ways to game those large language model algorithms.

After all, millions of people are now turning to ChatGPT for advice and uncritically accepting what it says as true.

So if ChatGPT says "product xyz is the best", they'll take that as gospel.

So a cottage industry of AI optimisation specialists is popping up on LinkedIn to take the CMOs money, and spam the sites the LLMs are trawling for training data.

That means spamming Reddit and Wikipedia, two human-edited sites that were among the best places to find information from an actual human on the web.

Which is why they're weighted so heavily in the ChatGPT and Google Gemini training data.

And now with a cottage industry of AI optimisation experts trying to game AI responses, they're sbout to be spammed to kingdom come.

See the LinkedIn post below for an example.

So now not only are you going to be increasingly likely to see AI queries return responses about how you need a Coke.

But legit information sources will be spammed to make it happen.

#LLM #AI #artificialintelligience #ChatGPT

Philip Mallis 🇺🇦Jun 3

Dave Rahardja Jun 3

“I teach 18 year olds who range in reading levels from preschool to college, but the majority of them are in the lower half that range. I am devastated by what AI and social media have done to them. My kids don’t think anymore. They don’t have interests. Literally, when I ask them what they’re interested in, so many of them can’t name anything for me. Even my smartest kids insist that ChatGPT is good “when used correctly.” I ask them, “How does one use it correctly then?” They can’t answer the question…They try to show me “information” ChatGPT gave them. I ask them, “How do you know this is true?” They move their phone closer to me for emphasis, exclaiming, “Look, it says it right here!” They cannot understand what I am asking them.”

#ai #education

https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

Teachers Are Not OK

AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

404 Media

Philip Mallis 🇺🇦Jun 1

Mojeek Search Engine May 31

https://travellemming.com/perspectives/ftc-letter-google-censors-indie-publishers-with-ai/

Philip Mallis 🇺🇦May 29

Continuing to post retro shops that still exist among us.

This one is the Mitcham North Newsagency and Local Post Office (LPO) on Mitcham Road. Love the old fonts and signs.

#Australia #Suburbia #Melbourne #LocalHistoryForAll

Philip Mallis 🇺🇦May 29

End Of 10 Campaign May 29

#EndOf10 "The Open Source alternative to forced obsolescence"

https://opensource.org/blog/end-of-10-the-open-source-alternative-to-forced-obsolescence

> Open Source isn’t just about code. It’s about community, sustainability, and autonomy. The “End of 10” campaign is a chance to show the world how powerful those values can be.

> We invite everyone—users, developers, educators, and advocates—to be part of this movement. Because the end of Windows 10 isn’t the end of the road. It’s a new beginning.

@osi

#Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Microsoft #FOSS