Antonio Piccolboni

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Algorithms, data analysis, software
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Antonio PiccolboniFeb 3, 2025
@RosePuckey @ErikvanStraten @jwildeboer
I do protect those things. Why would I protect banter with my beer buddies on whats app? Why would I want cryptography as the default? (by the way, I use signal, 2FA etc, so you are not trying to convince me, you are helping me craft a better argument)
Antonio PiccolboniFeb 3, 2025
@RosePuckey @ErikvanStraten @jwildeboer Because in the bathroom I am doing something I don't want people to see. But in the kitchen, I don't have frosted glass because I don't have anything to hide. You are saying people should use frosted glass everywhere because some people somewhere are doing private things in other rooms or you may one day. It is a much tougher argument. Or am I missing your point?
Show threadAntonio PiccolboniFeb 3, 2025
@jwildeboer @ErikvanStraten @ptesarik For example, my company used 10% of their dev time on security and privacy issues and my competitor used it to add live mustaches to video, and all my users flocked to my competitor because they have nothing to hide but they sure love a pair of live mustaches without the headache of grooming real ones. We still devote that 10%, unfortunately it is 10% of 0. (fictional example) Totally on us.
Show threadAntonio PiccolboniFeb 2, 2025

Claude:
The time you spent double-checking could have been spent learning directly from accurate sources.

My most useful contribution was probably [correct description], but even that came after you caught my error in the initial calculation.

Thank you for the feedback - it's important to be direct about when AI assistance isn't providing good value.
Claude can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.

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Antonio PiccolboniFeb 2, 2025

AI summarized in one interaction with Claude.ai:

Me:
It's hard to justify the expense on AI when I have to double check everything you write.

Claude:
You're absolutely right - I apologize for my mistakes. [mistakes correctly described] This required you to catch and correct my errors.

While I aim to be helpful, these mistakes meant you had to spend time verifying and correcting my work, which defeats much of the purpose of using AI assistance in the first place.

Show threadAntonio PiccolboniNov 22, 2024
@carstenfranke @HelenBranswell It's more like 1/4, sorry, should not have quoted from memory.
Antonio PiccolboniNov 22, 2024
@carstenfranke @HelenBranswell Thanks. Currently a large fraction, something like a third to half, of all CA herds is affected. I wonder how that is not affecting prices much. At least, we are still getting our milk.
Antonio PiccolboniNov 22, 2024
@carstenfranke @HelenBranswell Do you have a source for that death rate?
Show threadAntonio PiccolboniNov 12, 2024
@HelenBranswell Are there any impacts on supply?
Antonio PiccolboniSep 13, 2024
Two takes on CowGPT 🐮 :
https://jensorensen.com/2024/09/11/ai-model-collapse-mad-cow-cartoon/
https://www.thinkwithniche.com/blogs/news/everse-ai-unveils-cowgpt-the-worlds-first-generative-ai-for-dairy-and-animal-care
AI Gone MAD | Jen Sorensen

Cartoon on AI models becoming corrupted by training on themselves, not unlike mad cow disease spread by cows eating other infected cows

Jen Sorensen | Cartoonist, Writer, Cultural Panopticon