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.
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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… 🙌
You Wouldn't Edit a Meme - Online Meme Generator
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…
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"
"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…
botwiki.org (@botwiki@mastodon.social)
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.”
vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/…
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)
This is a bit technical, but the following new Google-produced video is really interesting if you want more details about TalkBack 15, including better Braille support.
Updates to Android accessibility features and API: youtube.com/watch?v=qLCK0HO_tN…
#Android #Accessibility #TalkBack #Braille #AI
Updates to Android accessibility features and API: youtube.com/watch?v=qLCK0HO_tN…
#Android #Accessibility #TalkBack #Braille #AI
Updates to Android accessibility features and API
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
GAAD 2024 and Google: 8 new accessibility updates across TalkBack, Lookout, Maps and more:
Gemini’s integration with TalkBack, Lookout's Find mode, Look to Speak, etc.:
blog.google/outreach-initiativ…
#Accessibility #Google #GAAD #AI #TalkBack
Gemini’s integration with TalkBack, Lookout's Find mode, Look to Speak, etc.:
blog.google/outreach-initiativ…
#Accessibility #Google #GAAD #AI #TalkBack
8 new accessibility updates across Lookout, Google Maps and more
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…
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
Fighting the deepfake threats
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
Great action 👍🏻. My hope is that we get more specialized pages/blogs, instead of those central places that sooner or later get way too much power. Especially if that power is based on contributions by the community. For this reason, I decided to revamp my blog (linux-audit.com/), specialize, and still allow #AI to crawl it. After all, if it continues to exist, I rather want it to use knowledge of higher quality.
People sure are pressed about Apple’s crushing iPad commercial - The Verge
theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152236…
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
Understanding the Public Domain and Citation - Plagiarism.org
Students don't always understand that because a work is on the Internet doesn't mean it's in the public domain.www.plagiarism.org
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
AI is causing massive hiring discrimination based on disability thehill.com/opinion/technology… #ai #disability #employment #tech #fail
AI is causing massive hiring discrimination based on disability
AI hiring tools have automated violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.Sarah Roth and Becca Delbos, Opinion Contributors (The Hill)
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.
scmp.com/news/china/science/ar…
How 5G, AI and a cotton revolution helped China beat US Xinjiang sanctions
A “revolutionary shift” in theStephen Chen (South China Morning Post)
GOSIM 2024 Europe Will Be Held in the Netherlands on May 6th: Embrace the Global Open Source Wave and Build a New Era of AI Here comes the GOSIM 2024 Europe!
medium.com/@gosimfoundation/th…
For more information please visit: europe2024.gosim.org
Scan or register here:
eventbrite.com/e/gosim-2024-co…
#rust #rustlang #rustnl #opensource #gui #mobile #app #ai #fediverse #matrix #gosim
The Latest Guest Lineup of GOSIM 2024 Europe Revealed, Gathering Global Masters in AI Open Source field
May 6th, 2024, GOSIM 2024 Europe hosted by the organization of Global Open-Source Innovation Meetup (GOSIM) will be officially held in Delft, Netherlands, Europe. This grand event has provided a…GOSIM Foundation (Medium)
Even if you don't code, this is essay presents a solid case on why #AI can't be relied on to replace work requiring any degree of empathy and nuanced understanding
Specifically, if you're building accessible web-based experiences, @hdv explains why "outsourcing" this work create more harm than good and offers some better alternatives to focus on instead (hint: invest in a #DesignSystem)
#accessibility #a11y #InclusiveDesign
hidde.blog/ai-for-accessible-c…
“AI” and accessible front-end components: is the nuance generatable?
Are LLMs helpful tools to assist with making accessible front-end components? Let's find out.Hidde's blog
On Tech Talk this week, I had a great conversation with Troy Otilio from @AiraVI about their new Access AI feature, which has recently been released as a beta in the Aira Explorer app. We spoke about where this feature came from, the impact the use of AI has on privacy, and so much more about AI and Aira in general. Have a listen here or wherever you get your podcasts
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/…
@rnib #aira #AccessAI #AI #chatGPT #gemini #blind #accessibility #podcast
RNIB Tech Talk: Tech Talk 508: Access AI, WelcoMe In Currys, RNIB Gamer Survey on Apple Podcasts
Show RNIB Tech Talk, Ep Tech Talk 508: Access AI, WelcoMe In Currys, RNIB Gamer Survey - 16 Apr 2024Apple Podcasts
An actual business expert grapples with large language models: ben-evans.com/benedictevans/20… #AI #LLM
Looking for AI use-cases
We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful for everyone, right now? Do Large Language Models become universal tools that can do ‘any’ task, or do we wrap them in single-purpose apps, and build thou…Benedict Evans
If you have a website with neo cities, just know that the creator actually likes AI, and will add it again based on this post alone. Moratorium on freaking out about AI kyledrake.com/writings/ai
One alternative I've found is nekoweb.org/
Background on NeoCities adding AI to their editor.
cohost.org/horseonvhs/post/566…
#AI #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #neocities
horse on cohost
fucking, come on man. (edit from the future: a few hours after i posted this, the feature was reportedly turned off - see here [https://cohost.org/nicky/post/5665868-damn-i-should-be-sen] for more info)horse on cohost
No, AI user research is not “better than nothing”—it’s much worse scribe.rip/no-ai-user-research… #ai #userresearch #usability
Start saving money for that M4 Ultra with 500GB! Maybe this could be the first open source that could surpass GPT-4! AIatMeta: "Llama 3 8B & 70B models are just the beginning of what we’re working to release for Llama 3. Our largest models currently in the works are 400B+ parameters and while they’re still in active development, we’re excited about how this work is trending." #LLM #AI #ML twitter.com/AIatMeta/status/17…
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Form Extractor Prototype
“This tool extracts the structure from an image of a form.”
github.com/timpaul/form-extrac…
#ai #LLM #UX #accessibility
GitHub - timpaul/form-extractor-prototype
Contribute to timpaul/form-extractor-prototype development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Apparently Meta is planning to release two small varients of Llama-3 next week "as a precursor to the launch of the biggest version of Llama 3, expected this summer." Command-r-plus, mixtral 8x22b, Google CodeGemma... All of sudden companies are releasing LLMS like crazy! Where's Apple? Maybe In WWDC 2024? lol #LLM #AI #ML theinformation.com/articles/me…
Director @tink is quoted in the Financial Times this week discussing the increasing presence of AI in the world of digital accessibility.
ft.com/content/3c877c55-b698-4…
#FinancialTimes #AI #Accessibility
Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids
Unreliable software installed to comply with rules to help disabled people navigate online has prompted thousands of lawsuitsFinancial Times
Following xAI Grok-1 314B, Databricks DBRX 132B, Cohere Command R+ 104B, another big model drop this time from Mistral! Mistral 8x22B! #LLM #AI #ML twitter.com/mistralai/status/1…
Lots of things happening in the AI/LLM space that could have implications for #accessibility
Ferret-UI from Apple:
arxiv.org/abs/2404.05719
ScreenAI from Google
research.google/blog/screenai-…
Ferret-UI: Grounded Mobile UI Understanding with Multimodal LLMs
Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have been noteworthy, yet, these general-domain MLLMs often fall short in their ability to comprehend and interact effectively with user interface (UI) screens.arXiv.org
"Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids", reports an article in the Financial Times:
ft.com/content/3c877c55-b698-4…
#FT has a paywall but three articles can be accessed for free if you register.
TLDR is that AI #accessibility widgets over promise and under deliver. Repeatedly.
#AI #GenerativeAI #a11y
Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids
Unreliable software installed to comply with rules to help disabled people navigate online has prompted thousands of lawsuitsFinancial Times