Conor McGarrigle

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After 8 years of inaction, the DPC now claims that RTB adtech does not provide location data to dodgy firms.
Wrong.
Meet "Patternz" for example:
An Israeli surveillance tool built on RTB data that provides a targeted individual's coordinates and "driving path"
https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/PATTERNZ-NATIONAL-SECURITY-PATTERN-DETECTION.pdf
i'm so exhausted with studies like this https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-76900-1
AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports

As AI-generated text continues to evolve, distinguishing it from human-authored content has become increasingly difficult. This study examined whether non-expert readers could reliably differentiate between AI-generated poems and those written by well-known human poets. We conducted two experiments with non-expert poetry readers and found that participants performed below chance levels in identifying AI-generated poems (46.6% accuracy, χ2(1, N = 16,340) = 75.13, p < 0.0001). Notably, participants were more likely to judge AI-generated poems as human-authored than actual human-authored poems (χ2(2, N = 16,340) = 247.04, p < 0.0001). We found that AI-generated poems were rated more favorably in qualities such as rhythm and beauty, and that this contributed to their mistaken identification as human-authored. Our findings suggest that participants employed shared yet flawed heuristics to differentiate AI from human poetry: the simplicity of AI-generated poems may be easier for non-experts to understand, leading them to prefer AI-generated poetry and misinterpret the complexity of human poems as incoherence generated by AI.

Nature
Worlds colliding, a University Challenge contestant called Schuyler Colfax #Colfax #Denver
#AuroraBorealis on my street in Dun Laoghaire, second time seeing it in the city, less spectacular than last time but still fantastic
Worth reading NYT article on OpenAI's plans to spend trillions of dollars to expand energy hungry AI infrastructure even as the company burns through billions. Not sure what point in the hype cycle this is.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/business/openai-plan-electricity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Nk4.boiZ.DvECWsCbFSZ7&smid=url-share
Behind OpenAI’s Audacious Plan to Make A.I. Flow Like Electricity

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, is talking to the United Arab Emirates, Asian chipmakers and U.S. officials to expand the computing power needed to build artificial intelligence.

The New York Times

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Art project or real product? Getting harder to tell these days with AI grift all around
Worlds colliding. Bowie and Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell hanging out on the set of The Man Who Fell to Earth. I've seen the film too many times but never realised they got a real astronaut for that scene.

A few years ago, a kid mourning his dad handed me over 300 DVDs his dad had made of local bands in his London Suburb in the 2010s before passing on. He didn't know what do with them. I did. All of them are up at Internet Archive, hundreds of hours of cover bands playing in a bar, and now, thanks to a volunteer, Ducky, we have them all with dates and descriptions, where known. Enjoy.

https://archive.org/details/hamiltonpubperformances

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine