Notices by Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop), page 14

And here we go—zoom (into the racism) and enhance (the racism) https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjk745/ai-police-sketches

cc @lilianedwards

@whvholst hallucination is even weirder than that; it’s not intentionally deceiving, it’s just making shit up, which … I feel like is even less explored in scifi? Malicious AIs are all over the place in fiction. This blithe “sure, you asked a question, I can’t say no” is weirder than that.

A thing I don’t fully follow: why is everyone so wrapped up in the specifics of Mastodon’s implementation? Is import/export of someone’s stuff so painful that switching implementations is awful? And if so, how did we end up in that bad situation?

Nice, at the Cuban bakery for pastries on Christmas Eve morning.

Maps without grassroots community, but also maps without compliance burden. I suspect in a world where lots of map creation is driven by satellite access and ML, that may be a winning (or at least perfectly sustainable) formula.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-overture-maps-foundation-to-build-interoperable-open-map-data