Notices by camwilson (camwilson@mastodon.social)

the report from the inquiry into the teen social media ban bill is out — it recommends passing the bill if 8 other recommendations are followed https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environment_and_Communications/SocialMediaMinimumAge/Report

Call-out: are you someone who likes the idea of a teen social media ban? I would love to talk to you! my email/msg details are on my website www.cameronwilson.com.au

something that's come up a few times -- I've had people say it's inevitable that people will use a VPN to get around any domestic social media ban. In my experience, it's not that easy, at least when it comes to one big tech player

Beyond questions about how a teen social media ban would work, there's been almost no attention paid to complete lack of evidence for its benefits.

Why is no one asking the Prime Minister for proof that a ban would help even if implemented perfectly?

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/15/anthony-albanese-social-media-ban/

Smart judge:

A Victorian Supreme Court judgehe suspected an applicant had used ChatGPT to write court submissions because they cited non-existant papers.

The judge didn't repeat the fake case names in the judgement "lest they contribute to the problem of LLM AI inventing case citations"

As part of a test run for Australia's corporate regulator, AI was used to summarise submissions made by the public.

The trial found that AI performed worse in every metric compared with humans. Assessors suggested AI would make more work for people, not less. https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-worse-summarising-information-humans-government-trial/

no one will remember:

- how much money you made
- how many hours you worked
- how "busy you were"

they will remember:

- nothing
- the internet has destroyed my short term memory
- why did i unlock my phone again? i wanted to do something

NEW: Adobe is selling AI-generated images of war in Israel-Palestine, and they're already spreading across the internet without any indication that they're fake https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/11/01/israel-gaza-adobe-artificial-intelligence-images-fake/