Notices by Erik Jonker (erikjonker@mastodon.social), page 6

@Gustodon why, just ordinary people, programmers etc. ?

The whole #OpenAI affair was probably just one large team building exercise it seems... 😉
#Brockman

No government or publicly funded organisation should advertise on X , formerly known as Twitter, in my view.
https://www.politico.eu/article/no-more-ads-elon-musk-x-twitter-european-commission-tell-staff/
#X #Twitter

Some people try to frame all demonstrations in western cities as supporting Islamic extremists and Hamas, while the overwhelming majority of protestors want to support the palestinian people is my impression.
#geopolitics #gaza #hamas #israel #palestinians

This site shows the power of open / opensource API's , this is impossible on X today https://cvecrowd.com/
#cybersecurity #cve

@baldur interesting paper, i tried to reproduce the failing on Bing Chat with GPT-4 but that didn't work ?
I view LLMs as extremely capable (not limited) text correlation tools, not tools that can do logical deductions, so I am not shocked honestly.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian civilians in Gaza to “leave now”, but where should/can they go ? 🤔
#hamas #israel #gaza #geopolitics @geopolitics
#Netanyahu

@Gargron Blockchain was a hype but AI is different in many ways, for example that people can and do use in massively (ChatGPT etc.)

@HistoPol Thanks !

@HistoPol interesting, why is #Threema safer then #Signal in your view ?

Please people, leave Whatsapp, join Signal, the monetization of Whatsapp is inevitable... "Meta mulls putting ads in WhatsApp as it seeks revenue boost"
https://www.ft.com/content/41f334a5-856c-4512-b550-eb6062036224
#whatsapp #signal

@Wolven i agree with your call to action. However will not every commercial other platform use their data for training AI models i am wondering. Also are data analytics "OK" then ?

For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it's five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years."It's gobsmacking."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-24/antarctic-sea-ice-levels-nosedive-five-sigma-event/102635204?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web
#climate

The dutch government now has an official Mastodon instance, this gives government organisations and institutions the chance to have an official account in the fediverse. The instance is not for all citizens wanting to join Mastodon. I hope more governments will follow because the fediverse gives them the possibilty to fully control the data , no advertising etc.
https://social.overheid.nl/public/local
#Netherlands #Mastodon

@atomicpoet @fediversenews is that worrying from a scientific perspective, should we expect in a system/network like Mastodon that all nodes grow at the same pace ? Will a large Mastodon.social not also lead to growth of other nodes in the end ?🤔

@Gargron
Hosted in Europe i hope /assume ?
@ErikJonker