An Alt-Opinion On Alt-Text.
#alttext #ai #accessibility #websites #socialmedia https://youtu.be/CHCK43D0jJ0An Alt-Opinon On Alt-Text. In this conversation, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece...YouTube
#alttext #ai #accessibility #websites #socialmedia https://youtu.be/CHCK43D0jJ0An Alt-Opinon On Alt-Text. In this conversation, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece...YouTube
And what would these standards be, pray tell, @mozilla ?
Keeping in mind that you are including services that told people to eat rocks or put glue on a pizza?
> Our initial offering will include ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral, but we will continue adding AI services that meet our standards for quality and user experience.
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#AI
We're launching an opt-in experiment offering access to preferred AI services in Firefox Nightly for improved productivity as you browse.Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
Wait...What?
microsoft.com/en-us/security/b…
Microsoft recently discovered a new type of generative AI jailbreak method called Skeleton Key that could impact the implementations of some large and small language models.Mark Russinovich (Microsoft Security Blog)
Programming, hacking, gaming, composing music. These are all things a fully blind person using a screen reader can do, given enough technical know-how. On this channel, I show you how it all works. Come stay a while :)YouTube
Hi all, Accessibility is one of those topics that is often ignored until it’s too late, at times deliberately, and at other times completely by accident.Jupyter Community Forum
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.
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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…
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…
People participate in online communities to share experiences and sympathy. AI chatbots that join the conversation can only pretend to offer either.The Conversation
The AI image recognition and description field is demonstrating AI's strength in transforming the lives of blind people, particularly with the increasingKareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)
“The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates”
Mariana Mazzucato
(who I consider a credible source)
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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 MazzucatoMariana Mazzucato (The Guardian)
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
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.
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With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the backgroundCasey 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.
#Israel #Palestine #WarCrimes #InternationalCriminalCourt #Gaza
'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… 🙌
Generate your own memes in the style of 'you wouldn't steal a car', 'you wouldn't download a house', etc.youwouldntsteala.website
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…
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"
"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."
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…
Do you typically use AI to describe images you post/see on social media? #AltText #ImageDescription #accessibility #a11y #blind #ai #poll [ ] Yes, and I'm blind/visually impaired [ ] No, and I'm blind/visually impaired [ ] Yes, and I'm not blind/vi…Mastodon
“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.”
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Why are OpenAI employees leaving the company helmed by Sam Altman? The safety alignment debate, explained.Kelsey Piper (Vox)
Learn about Android’s latest accessibility features and best practices for app developers. In this session, we'll share ways to meet the needs of people with...YouTube
For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, here’s new updates to our accessibility products.Eve Andersson (Google)
'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…
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."
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"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
by Sophia Wu, Ant Group.In 2023, generative AI made content creation easier but raised trust concerns due to deepfake attacks. For example, fraudsters use AI...YouTube