This sound like cyberpunk setting backstory, to explain how the continental US came to be managed by a fickle alliance between several corporate nuclear powers.

But I’m sure everything’s gonna be fine.

I got the calendar on order too. It’s a nice calendar.

So kurzgesagt put out an anti AI-slop piece 2 weeks ago. It’s hits good angles too, going hard on the society-eroding effects. The conclusion is a little mushy, but hey, I wasn’t expecting an instigation to machine-breaking from kurzgesagt.

Doesn’t matter if any of those projects come through. The aesthetic of the current US ruling clique is gilded toilet bowls and AI-generated poop videos, and always will be.

The search thing is in the works for a while now: https://openwebsearch.eu/

I’m kind of worried though, whether it will make the jump from an all-over-the-place research project to an actual production-ready digital service for public good. That hasn’t really been done before on an EU level.

That’s logically correct of course, but I think these people don’t mean actual censorship and more like conspiracy nuts attributing every inconvenience to nefarious forces.

People don’t reply to you on Twitter? -> shadowbanned

Moderator strike? -> you’re being silenced

Custody awarded to your ex? -> retribution for knowing too much

PS: I’m not even sure about the economics here. IPv6rs are in it for the money, but the soj people might be authentic far-right activists. If they’re not the same people, which seems likely.

Happy to contribute with a personal experience. If you’re interested in self-hosting, stay well clear of https://ipv6.rs/

They’ve promoted and been active on https://soj.ooo/ , a project whose motto might as well be “self-host so (((they))) can’t censor you!” The crowd is your typical “too antisemitic to be MAGA” fellas.

So if you want a static IP, go to your local ISP or buy tunnelling from Cloudflare.

Bit late to the party, but this should prolly be tagged “Paper” on pivot.

I want to put together a little pitch for the data-brained that AI is Not Good Actually®, and this is the most smoking gun I can think of.

Fresh of the press, only in german unfortunately: tagesschau

President of bavaria (and head of the extra fashy bavarian splinter party of the christian conservatives) wants to cut 10.000 public service jobs using AI.

Does anyone have a good definition or classic examples for the term mall ninja at the ready?

I first heard that term on this channel, and I feel like I should understand that phenomenon better.

I have some stale notes on the AI Hacking chapters of Schneier’s “A Hacker’s Mind”, and in one of those chapters he theorizes how AI might hack human emotions. He brings humanoid robots with cute faces as an example.

You know, I think I have an idea how a social countermeasure to that might look like.

Maybe I’ll add, my first though was this must be some kind of LLM. Some kind of compressed model or something. But that it’s just a 20 line string combiner with a handful of templates is somehow even cooler.

Seems topical to Pennycook et al. You don’t need a lot of complexity to make it seem like a lot of complexity.

Nice! Here’s a GitHub link for my fellow sauce enjoyers.

Where did you get the generator & the word supply? Original? Getting the conjugations right must have taken a lot of fiddling.

Seems easy and fun to modify too. Maybe consider slapping on an OSI license?

What’s this “RL” thing?

Thx for the sauce. Im already hooked.

archive link

whatever minor body of irrelevant five-follower internet loons might bother trying to argue the literal uselessness of a predictive text generator

/c/techtakes mention!?

de-paywalled link

I’m interpreting your phrasing as you believing that the non-profit “taking over” is somehow good, because profit motive bad presumably. But regardless of incentives, everyone involved is trying to flood the world with slop by incinerating cash and processors on industrial scales.

But so far the cash incinerator has been running on speculative financial products issued by a club of esoteric computer scientists trying to awaken the robot god. Investors are slightly uncomfortable with this, so Sammy boy is trying to offer them a more traditional vehicle to incinerate their cash (while indulging in his personal profit motive a bit).

You’re certainly hitting some nails on their heads here. The normalisation of AI is absolutely happening, mostly because the buttons start showing up on Google/Microsoft/etc. products with massive market share.

Also the manlyman blogs bitching about beaver hair brushes. I was looking up safety razors in german (“Rasierhobel” btw, totally unaware of that until now), and Wikipedia was referencing one such archived blog, bitching about pig bristle brushes being “drug store” garbage. I might still get one. (The razor that is, not the brush. Spray on foam will do for me.)

Not so sure about the scythe/mower thing. My battery powered mower & motor scythe slap. (Stihl btw)