This Canadian Member of Parliament asked ChatGPT for a list of capital gains tax rates by country, got a nonsense answer, screenshotted it, and then tweeted the incorrect information.

(He later deleted the tweet.)

#canada #cdnpoli #twitter #x #ai #chatgpt #misinformation

Here's a picture taken with the Meta Smart Glasses, then described with #AI via #BeMyEyes, which has been an invaluable helping-hand, enabling me to know what randomly labeled pictures in my collection are, without having to ask my wife or children.
With image names such as 'photo-296_singular_display_fullPicture.jpg' it's a fun time trying to decipher such randomness sometimes.
This was taken at a podcast recording of Tim Harford's 'Cautionary Tales' and I got to take Jake along with me.

I get the AI hate I really do, but there are just times in life where hate is misplaced. for me, something that is an enabler is such a time.
No, it's not perfect, we're not there yet, but for my usecase it helps more than it hinders.
Your milage will of course, vary.

Well, these authors cut right to the chase in this paper!

#LLMs
#AI
#GenerativeAI
#bullshit
#ethics
#truth

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Tuesday: #AI is being trained on images of children, spanning their entire childhood without #consent. 📷👶 AI is coming to an inbox near you, make sure to protect your data 👉 tuta.com/blog/google-gemini-ai…

Don't want Gmail to sift through your emails? Too late, their AI is going to do it.

Google's Gemini AI is coming soon to Gmail where it will be able to craft AI generated responses, summarize conversations, and more.

^Tutanota

Meta is deploying chatbots powered by AI to impersonate humans in its discussion groups. The chatbots make stuff up—that is their nature. One invents a nonexistent child. Another pretends to have nonexistent merchandise. It shouldn’t be necessary to explain how vile and poisonous this is, but Casey Fiesler @cfiesler spells it out:

theconversation.com/ai-chatbot…

#Meta #AI

AI chatbots are intruding into online communities where people are trying to connect with other humans

People participate in online communities to share experiences and sympathy. AI chatbots that join the conversation can only pretend to offer either.

^{The Conversation}

Microsoft Copilot helpfully summarizing an obvious phishing email, without alerting that it's a phishing email!

#ai #bullshit

I've just realised that Qui-Gon Jinn of the Galaxy far, far away has absolutely the best quote suitable for the current state of the so called AI...

...The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

Pretty impressive for the 1999 movie, isn't it?

#starwars #ai #memes

“The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates”

Mariana Mazzucato

(who I consider a credible source)

#ai #climatechange

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates

Big tech is playing its part in reaching net zero targets, but its vast new datacentres are run at huge cost to the environment, says economics professor Mariana Mazzucato

^{Mariana Mazzucato (The Guardian)}

Google operated on the social contract of providing traffic to sites in exchange for content. Now that #Google is switching to #AI answers synthesized from the content and effectively cutting traffic is there even a point in participation?

Google will keep bringing load to the sites without providing any traffic.

I suspect we are about to see first robots.txt snippets banning Google crawlers like other AI bots really soon. And eventually outright banning Google ips altogether.

I wonder whether we’re also about to see a surge of old-school search engines. With modern technology it’s feasible to run a small search engine from a living room (e. g. kukei.eu) on an off-the-shelf hardware and open source software. It doesn’t take the whole Google to operate a decade-old (feature wise) Google search engine. It might be feasible to run a good search engine on small resources that can be paid by simple ads or small subscriptions.

platformer.news/google-io-ai-s…

Google’s broken link to the web

With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background

^{Casey Newton (Platformer)}

Anything from Vox Media and The Atlantic is now untrustworthy in any capacity from now on. Remember this when reading or linking to any articles in the future.

#AI #FuckAI #Journalism

y'all know +972 Magazine? the media organization responsible for some of the most important investigations of the state of Israel in this war, including the Lavender #AI investigation and now the new #ICC blackmail investigation?

it is almost entirely funded by donations of readers like you and me. if you want to see more journalism like this, consider throwing a few bucks their way.

972mag.com/members/

@israel @palestine

#Israel #Palestine #WarCrimes #InternationalCriminalCourt #Gaza

Become a member of +972 Magazine - +972 Magazine

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^{+972 Magazine}

'caverns of obsolete'

Puffy and Girl come upon vintage tech while exploring ancient ruins.

#technomage #unix_surrealism #comic #ai #openbsd #puffy #fediart #mastoart

Thank you to whoever made youwouldntsteala.website/edito… 🙌

#Google #AI #Memes

The image shows a screenshot of a Google search result. The search query at the top is "is it ok to leave a dog in a hot car?" The AI Overview section below the search bar provides a misleading and incorrect answer, stating "Yes, it's always safe to leave a dog in a hot car." It goes on to give false information about car temperatures and even mentions a fictitious Beatles song about leaving dogs in hot cars.

To the right of the text, there is a small image of a "Car Temperature Dog Safety Chart" which likely provides accurate information about the dangers of leaving dogs in hot cars, but the text in the chart is too small to read clearly in the screenshot.

The time on the phone is 11:30, and the battery is at 92%. #AI 👩‍🦯 social.kendoo.eu/@corona/11249…

corona :blinkingcursor: (@corona@social.kendoo.eu)

Attached: 4 images #ai #fundstücke #youcantmakethisshitup :-)

^{social.kendoo.eu}

Good. Biden's appointment of Altman to the AI safety and security board is up there with his Garland and Fauci appointments. Bad decisions.

The man has been accused by those who know him in his own inner circle of being "not consistently candid" and if there's anyone who should not be deciding AI risk issues it's someone not candid.

"Scarlett Johansson scandal puts OpenAI's Sam Altman back in the hot seat"

axios.com/2024/05/22/altman-op…

#AI #OpenAI #ScarlettJohansson #SamAltman #ChatGPT #Sky

back in my day we called this spyware

#AI #privacy #Microsoft

"How can you use AI, it steals things people share online, it burns down the planet!"

"Alright, do you mind telling me what's in this picture you posted online?"

"Ah. Carry on."

#AltText #accessibility #AI

Hey, if you don't like the fact that many #blind people have to rely on AI to describe images for them, you can help by, you know, describing images for them.

mastodon.social/@botwiki/11147…

#AltText #accessibility #ai

“I have seen the extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement that contains nondisclosure and non-disparagement provisions former OpenAI employees are subject to. It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer.”

vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/…

#openai #tech #ai

OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk, but the new ChatGPT release can?

Why are OpenAI employees leaving the company helmed by Sam Altman? The safety alignment debate, explained.

^{Kelsey Piper (Vox)}

'The entirety of human knowledge contained within a single fully-sentient AI: #openblade '

#technomage #unix_surrealism #penguin #comic #mastoart #fediart #flatearth #ai

I'm still so angry about who was and very much was not in the rooms where these senate and congressional "#AI" meetings happened. Whose voices were either very easily talked over, or shut out altogether.

And I wish I knew some way to effectively stop the ongoing wholesale regulatory and paradigmatic capture of "AI," but all I can do is keep writing, speaking, organizing, and entering into existing communities of practice, when I can.

Sometimes that even feels like enough.
rollcall.com/2024/05/15/schume…

Schumer proposes $32 billion annual spending under AI road map - Roll Call

The amount in the Senate plan was first proposed by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, led by Eric Schmidt.

^{mshaw (Roll Call)}

Sh*tf*ck 😳🔥😔

#ChatGPT consumes 25 times more #energy than #Google

"Energy consumption by Artificial Intelligence (#AI) is rising rapidly: AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030, according to some calculations."
brusselstimes.com/world-all-ne…

ChatGPT consumes 25 times more energy than Google

"The negative impact of AI needs to be mitigated. Business leaders should be aware of the growing environmental impact of AI and take action."

^{www.brusselstimes.com}

In 2023, #generativeAI made content creation easier but raised trust concerns due to #deepfake attacks. Using #AI, fraudsters crafted fake videos from victims' images, enabling identity #fraud.

At the @w3c member meeting in #Hiroshima 🇯🇵, Sophia Wu (Ant Group) called for collaboration to tackle #deepfake threats with new complementary Web standards.

🎬 Watch the video: youtu.be/PGBIfZSF174

People sure are pressed about Apple’s crushing iPad commercial - The Verge
theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152236…

#apple #ai

People sure are pressed about Apple’s crushing iPad commercial

The world is having a major discussion about automation and AI, so Apple’s latest commercial crushing all of human creativity into an iPad has angered a lot of artists and other creatives.

^{Alex Cranz (The Verge)}

Stop confusing publicly available with public domain.

These are not the same, at all.

If you are confused about it, read this: plagiarism.org/blog/2018/02/27…

#Copyright #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #DigitalRights #Privacy

Tom Gauld on the AI (investment) bubble

#AI #investment

Editted to fix link. Please boost for reach if this kind of stuff interests you. Will post more on this later.

Once upon a time, there was a cool emulator frontend called Retroarch. This emulator wasn't accessible until I and a few other gamers went to them and asked about adding accessibility. An amazing person known as BarryR made it happen. Now, if you turn on accessibility mode in settings, or pass the "--accessibility" (or something like that) flag on the command line, you get spoken menus, including the emulator's pause menu, good for saving states and such. Then, using PIL and other image processing Python utilities, running a server and hooking into Retroarch, the script allowed players to move around the map, battle, talk to NPC's, ETC. The only problem was, no one wanted to test it. The blind gaming community pretty much spoke, saying that we want new games. We want cool new, easy accessibility. So that's what we have no, follow the beacon or get sighted help in the case of diablo and such. It's sad, but meh. It's what we wanted I guess. No Zelda for us. So, this is about as far as he got:

To expand on what devinprater was saying: I am working on an accessibility pack/service for Final Fantasy 1 for the NES (this was what was shown in the latest RetroArch update). The idea is similar to how Pokemon Crystal access works, but it's using the RetroArch AI Service interface to do so.
Right now, the FF1 access service is mostly done, but I need more testers to try it out and give me feedback on how it's working. Right now, you can get up to the point where you get the ship, but there's no code to deal with how the ship moves, so that still needs to be done. Likewise with the airship later on.
The service works the latest version of RetroArch, on linux and mac, but not windows. This is due to how nvda reads out the text and until the next major update to nvda (which will have a feature to fix this), it'll have to wait. If you have those, I (or maybe devinprater) can help you set it up on mac/linux to test out. The package itself is available at: (new link cause old one broke yesterday): dropbox.com/scl/fi/ggffl769fx6…
#accessibility #finalFantasy #RetroArch #blind #emulator #emulation #Python #ai #ML #MachineLearning

This is proper use of machine learning as opposed to the idiocy we see in the west.

These systems are great at correlating a lot of data and noticing patterns, and then alerting humans to do stuff like proactive maintenance.

#machinelearning #ai

scmp.com/news/china/science/ar…