Notices by tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org), page 8

Holy shit. This from 65daysofstatics most recent Patreon post:

"Here is a major issue we are currently tussling with. Since we started work on Wreckage Systems, the notions of generative/procedural art and, in particular, 'A.I.' have become increasingly loaded terms. As we hopefully made clear in various posts over the last few years (this one comes to mind), we are deeply, deeply sceptical about A.I. and all the algorithmic and technological answers being carelessly thrown at what are actually political and structural problems in the name of progress/infinite growth/capitalism-is-fine-actually-and-will-save-us-from-climate-change-honest. 65LABS has picked a side, and it is Team Luddite. Against us, these tech bros are not only destroying the internet, not only devaluing art, not only making the already-precarious lives for creative workers even more precarious, not only failing to understand that the meaning and magic of art is not contained in its particular combination of pixels or samples but rather created in the ripples of social relations that any piece of art makes as it pushes its way into the world, not only are they failing to understand that making art is, at best, to clumsily capture a snapshot of something larger, a fragile, flawed, always-incomplete communication of intent from one/some humans to others, NOT ONLY ALL THAT, but also (and yes, admittedly more trivially), they have tarnished this curious little space of computer-based art that uses generative tools to make itself. Because they do not use these tools in the name of exploring liquid, impermanent art that flutters around a recognisable core but never achieves a single, fixed state. They are employing them solely to be able to dig faster to the bottom of lowest common denominator Generic Internet Content."

All of this.

@erispoe a) that number was created with a bit dodgy math and what are their expenses? A billion sounds like much but what are they spending?

OpenAI's GPT-store is their hope that you or someone else will find them an actual product/business case because they surely can't find one.

Looking forward to the Web3->Metaverse->AI pipeline getting the next step: "spatial computing" (that means XR).

@janl als padeluun nicht in den Vorstand gewählt wurde/jemand vor ihm reingewählt wurde, der ihm nicht zusagt, drohte er erstens der Person mit Kündigung (ist bei DC angestellt) und mit Auflösung des Vereins (incl. Verlust aller Arbeitsplätze). Erst wollte er einfach "nochmal wählen" bis das Ergebnis passt, dann wurde der Gewählte so unter Druck gesetzt, dass er die Wahl nicht angenommen hast. Am Ende geht's um Macht (mein Verein!!!11) und Geld (Vorstände sind bezahlt)

Es hat Gründe, dass #Digitalcourage häufig despektierlich "padeluun-Versorgungswerk" genannt wird.

https://chaos.social/@geheimorga/111720686930349722

What if the answer to "SEO and SPAM have poisoned the well for traditional search engines and their rankings" is not "so we'll insert a wasteful lying machine in there that makes up shit"?

Ok, Mastodon question: Can I (for a user that authenticated via OAuth with their mastodon instance) find out through a defined API endpoint if that person is one of the admins of that particular instance?

// cc @Gargron

@emilygorcenski and that statement isn't as specific as one would think

I can't believe that anyone would run an event accepting Jake Appelbaum in 2023.

I can believe that the CCC does.

https://tldr.nettime.org/@eaon/111658045309830027

What a piece by @danmcquillan.

Like Dan I believe we need to talk about "AI" as a political movement that dresses itself up in the language of tech and innovation. A move towards less embodied, context-rich lived knowledge and experience towards empty shells of "data"

https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/111619347614834074

A match made in hell.

(For my international followers: Axel Springer is Germany's Fox News.)

@evan it wasn't my server so I couldn't debug. My guess is that the profile data and avatar image lookups killed the server (which probably was a very small box)

@evan I run @hypebot which isn't huge but still can knock small instances offline should a post find its way into the bot.
If you have a beefy server it probably works (like mastodon.social) but especially smaller instances can really hurt when they become popular.
The of course there's the side effects of every instance someone follows you on ddosing your blog should you post an article in order to get a preview/link card.
Networks can unintentionally create a lot of load and the answer obviously shouldn't be "just be on mastodon.social" or "pay 50 bucks a month" for your own private instance that can survive the traffic

I like ActivityPub and the decentralized social Web as much as the next person but we all know that scalability is a massive problem and I haven't seen too many convincing approaches to fix that. So let's not pretend this is just a magic silver bullet.

Blogs and the web didn't scale to actual web traffic (which admittedly many blogs never needed), centralized caches and services were necessary for this stuff to work. Which is exactly why we got so much centralization.

Solving that for decentralized social networks is the core issue.

A few days ago these two little maniacs moved in. They're the best.

There are spaces where LLMs, even those generating actual text can be used in meaningful ways. Personally I don't feel like those spaces are really explored much, instead we force these systems into contexts where their built-in problems just multiply and create bigger issues.

Man kann nicht "das Gendern" verbieten. Die Deutsche Sprache erzwingt es faktisch.

Was "Genderverbote" wirklich sind ist Zwang: Der Zwang, diskriminierende Sprache zu verwenden.

I get a lot of people calling out my #Bitcoin skepticism (as in: Bitcoin is a worthless piece of hot garbage trying to kill our planet) because number is again going up. This time it's real, now that the scamers have been caught and all.

But if you want to know why Bitcoin goes up you just need to look at one curve: Tether has printed 4 billion USD from thin air in the last week.

While it's great to see the crypto scam artists SBF and CZ been caught and punished (sadly without making their victims whole) the actual rock that whole scam economy is built on is Tether. Has been Tether for years.

And I really don't get why US regulators let some weird company print fake USD.

Es gab dazu ja schon mehr Berichte: Deutschland's liebestes und vom LIDL Gründer und der Bundesregierung hofiertes "KI"-Startup Aleph Alpha ist bei der Bekämpfung von Rassismus, Sexismus, Homophobie und diversen anderen Diskriminierungen immer noch im "alles scheißegal, unser Gründer war mal bei Apple" Modus.

Und für das Startup übt die Bundesregierung gerade viel Druck auf den AIAct aus, damit dieses System nicht reguliert wird.

"KI" nach "Europäischen Werten" ist nie eine inhaltliche Aussage, man will nur irgendein Startup in Europa, das am Ende noch schlimmer agiert als OpenAI.

https://interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/aleph-alpha-ki-aus-deutschland-biases-vorurteile/