…billions of dollars and years of effort spent on tools that are incapable of being safe but are put into the public domain to try and change them…
from being unsafe in unpredictable ways to… being unsafe in unpredictable ways.
…billions of dollars and years of effort spent on tools that are incapable of being safe but are put into the public domain to try and change them…
from being unsafe in unpredictable ways to… being unsafe in unpredictable ways.
LLMs don’t understand the text they generate. Which is how this happens:
“Today, as a test, I entered a criminal judge I knew into Copilot, with the name and place of residence in Tübingen: The judge was promptly named as the perpetrator of a judgment he had made himself a few weeks earlier against a psychotherapist who had been convicted of sexual abuse”
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/26/microsoft_bing_copilot_ai_halluciation/
@EUCommission there are no net benefits to be had from accelerating
- energy consumption
- surveillance
- inequality
- feudal power
- eugenic thinking
- negligence
- mistrust
@aral bloody ell
@pvonhellermannn same
“in the 4 years of the [Balkan] war, the international community stood by as Bosnian Muslims were decimated. But these were, primarily, acts of omission. The West did not arm Republika Srpska with its best bombs. Bill Clinton did not fly in to hug Milošević. The slaughter was not accompanied by the constant refrain ‘the Serbian nationalists have the right to defend themselves’.
What we are seeing now [in Palestine] might be the first advanced late capitalist genocide.”
https://birds.town/@lycophidion/112239782903252868
@aral @cferdinandi if countries build decades of foreign policy (in the UK’s case over a century) on doing all kinds of fkery to keep the economic windpipe to an energy jackpot open, while saying it’s *only* about something else, eventually the cognitive dissonance fractures everything https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111754210396689587
Balochistan:
Guess who negotiated the Iran-Pakistan border (Pakistan was India at the time)? The British https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Pakistan_border
Guess who negotiated the Afghanistan-Pakistan border (the Durand line)? The British
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durand_Line
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The UK: never not fkn up places we have no clue about
“Nothing happens by accident,” said another source. “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target. We are not Hamas. These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.” https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/
“So when we encounter a tech company boss who takes in a nationwide movement of organized protest against police brutalization and systemic racism, led by black activists, and amplifies the rare incidents of violence, much of it instigated by the police or right-wing counter protestors, using the mendacious language of extremists to refer to it as ‘riots,’ we have a good idea what we’re looking at.”
Why We're Dropping Basecamp - Duke University Libraries Blogs https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/
“…on an individual basis today’s tech billionaires are not any wealthier than their early 20th-century counterparts. Adjusted for inflation, John Rockefeller’s fortune of $336bn and Andrew Carnegie’s $309bn exceed Musk’s $231bn, Bezos’s $165bn and Gates’s $114bn.
But, as chronicled by Peter Turchin in End Times, his book on elite excess and what it portends, today there are far more centimillionaires and billionaires than there were in the gilded age”
@aral amaaazing. Thank you
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