Notices by Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 (kimsj@mastodon.social)

@aral
I’ve just spent a happy hour (/s) responding to the EU Commission’s consultation on AI. Running like poison through the entire document is an assumption that the needs of AI override all other considerations. A sickening capture by Big Tech, and a craven FOMO without any self-doubt about the wider implications.

It seems to me that the moral position for AI training would be a default opt-out; if AI companies want to use your work, they should have to obtain or purchase that right.

@aral @randahl @benroyce
True, but a fish rots from the head.

@aral @randahl @benroyce
This point needs to be stressed again and again. Netanyahu is deliberately conflating hate for his Government with antisemitism, to the serious detriment of Jews everywhere. It’s a cynical move to make Jews outside Israel feel less safe and thus more likely to support Zionism. What an evil man Netanyahu is!

@aral
Both, probably. I’m not convinced Musk had any idea of the implications of any of his cuts, which is idiocy, but he didn’t care, which is evil.

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@ChrisMayLA6/117262878735749344

I did not have “Elon Musk’s idiocy ends up killing billions” on this year’s bingo card, but we could be facing that.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/117119590004530456

Just in case you thought any company’s claims to keep your data confidential were worth anything…

@fesshole
Salad cream is an invention of the Devil.

@fesshole
A tugboat captain once told me that when he was first promoted he worried about the new responsibilities his role would entail, so he asked the retiring skipper how to deal with them.
The old hand's advice... if it answer isn't obvious. answer questions he's asked alternately 'yes' and 'no':
"Carrots are cheap, shall I buy a sack?" -- Yes.
"Should I grease the anchor windlass?" -- Not today.
...Etc.
I guess it works for politics too!

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116770225862369013

Choose between AI and climate goals? Thanks, data centre lobby, for making the choice clear!

I choose keeping the planet habitable. 👍

Louis Rossmann doing a total fisk of the bullshit ‘results’ of the UK Government’s survey on age verification. As he points out, many of the questions did not offer a ‘I don’t want any age verification’ option in the answers.
#AgeVerification #UKPolitics

https://youtu.be/ICwMUfQg7mc

I was phoned up today by an AI agent to confirm my appointment with tradespeople next week.

That’s a function that could easily have been done with a text or an email, instead of burning the environment and interrupting what I was doing too. I’m not impressed!

@crystallinefire @glyph @rmi
I'm not an LLM user, but from what I can see, it offers those who do use them a feeling of immense power and productivity. That definitely has parallels with the highs produced by some illicit substances: "Using this, I feel like I can do anything".

The trail of destruction is similar too.

#AI #LLMs #Addiction

It's weird. We have a system for refusing even tourist visas to individuals, but apparently no equivalent system to prevent undesirable companies from settling here permanently.

#Palantir

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikeolson/116608082952011802

Was Google’s “Don’t be evil” always just a scam to get us to trust it? It’s hard not to reach that conclusion.

@Infoseepage
Much to agree with, but at least the Overton window is finally starting to move.

@Infoseepage @dbattistella
On the other hand, small steps are better than no steps, and this one will be politically almost impossible to reverse, so we can hope for more in future.

@aral
indeed. I wasn’t intending to minimise or ignore the wider effects of Israel’s bellicosity, but it has leveraged Eurovision as a propaganda win, and it’s important to counter that.

@pellechristensen @aral
Israel has ruined #Eurovision for all the rest of us.

let's stop UK being part of Trump's war...
Please sign, and publicise.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762994
#UKPolitics

@adrianww @simon_brooke @bob @aral
At the start of any project it is impossible to know what you don’t know. That’s why Waterfall always fails.