My weekly (hopefully) compendium of links to stuff that I found interesting on the web. This week the focus is about "Being on the Internet".

#blogging #Indieweb #Links #linkdump #reads #articles

http://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/04/linkblog-dwelling-on-internet/

Note to you:

1. Use an RSS reader to curate your feeds.
2. Start your own blog.
3. Generously share posts and cross link to other independent websites.
4. Read and write often.
5. Comment thoughtfully.
6. Explore liminal and boundary spaces & ideas.
7. Shun AI and break the algorithms.

#writing #ai #blogging #creativity #mastodon #indieWeb #poetry

Meta Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram. It Worked.

Now is a good time to remember that Meta has announced that it is laying off 10% of its workforce, including 2,000 people just today, while going in on a "AI will replace workers" strategy.

https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/116652708401285794

"every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at scale"

1. The hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.
2. Bias amplification
3. Environmental cost
4. Documentation — the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit

#AI #GenAI

THIS IS AI.

"Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account. The claims coincide with a series of high-profile Instagram account takeovers, including the Barack Obama White House account, the Chief Master Sergeant of Space Force’s account, and Sephora’s account."

https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/

#ai #404media #meta #instagram #hacking