Strongly urge anyone concerned about teen mental health, impact of social media, and how to help students grapple with challenges to listen to this. m.soundcloud.com/edsurge/what-b…

Would it even matter. Word is that he's having trouble giving Khanmigo away in K-12 schools (much less getting paying customers).

this is insane. they are literally writing their own exam and grading it themselves

Whoops

Some of these screenshots are likely fake but go viral because people are no longer skeptical that Google could be this broken. Given the non-deterministic and transient nature of AI responses there's no way to know for sure. 25 years of trust flushed down the toilet.

Submit your works to the fab ICIDS 2024 digital art exhibition I am go chairing with Gabriela Muñoz Barrios
#digitalart #idns

icids2024.ardin.online/art-exhibition…

('I couldn't resist the urge. It's in my nature.' -A. Scorpion.)

Enshittification - platform decay - is the result of a collapse in constraints:

pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/nam…

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Lots of you seem to be following a guy who sincerely believes our world is a simulation designed by OpenAI to train GPT-7. If that’s who y’all are getting your AI advice from I can’t help you

The problem is in how data hungry compression based models are marketed as encompassing AI when in reality they are only a small part of AI.

People are simply asking AI companies to respect consent, copyright and not to shove generated mediocre content down everyone's throat.

The leader of the contemporary rationalist movement checking a mathematical calculation by looking at the final answer and deciding whether it “sounds right”… 🤦‍♂️

Can't wait for the OpenAI News Initiative, where they 'retrain' journalists for the hellscape they've created.

Oh wait Google is already doing this adweek.com/media/google-p…

'In a way, we are all Scarlett Johansson, waiting to be confronted with an uncanny reflection of ourselves that was created without our permission and from which we will reap no benefit.' newyorker.com/culture/infini…

Today: Talked to CNN about workers resisting AI and OpenAI's theft and appropriation of their work, spoke with a journalist for a French socialist mag about the luddites, and beamed into a small meeting of intergenerational neo-luddites.

luddism knows no bounds in 2024

Gasp...

.Google you should take this 'AI Overview' feature offline right now. It is thoroughly dangerous.

One thousand times yes to this @hamilton piece: Newspapers, media companies—don't sell your house for firewood to OpenAI. The NYT has it right: Generative AI is to be resisted, opposed, not capitulated to for a few scraps. We know how this ends!

hamiltonnolan.com/p/selling-your…

One good reason not to use facial recognition: #privacy breaches of data that cannot be modified (faces, unlike passwords, cannot be changed). Other good reasons include preserving freedom and democracy.
“As always, #surveillance isn’t safety.”

#AIEthics
wired.com/story/outabox-…

Four years ago, laws against monopolies were almost a dead letter. Since 2020, the Federal government has filed monopolization suits against Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, and now Ticketmaster.