Pthorn @Pthorn@qoto.org

Fuck you Sama and your shity AI company. You are stealing from artists plain and simple. Nobody asked you to do this. Nothing of value will be lost today if your company shuts down. OpenAI is begging the British Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's supposedly "impossible" for the company to train its artificial intelligence models without using copyrighted material — and continue growing its multi-billion-dollar business — without them. https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament

At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.

Here's my favorite story from running OMCB :)

https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/

finally! it's here! thought crime!!! https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/01/argentina-ai-predicting-future-crimes-citizen-rights

“Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click”

https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click

Not a huge fan of Cloudflare but them offering this service is both an indication of the scale of the abuse (this level of traffic costs money) and the changing attitudes towards "AI"

I have to admit, AI has saved me a lot of time. Every time I start reading about some interesting new app or service or product and see that it has "AI", I immediately stop reading and don't waste any more time on that thing.

The life of a repo man is always intense.

🇨🇭 Welcome to the party!! 🇨🇭

Innovation will start booming with Switzerland mandating government software to be open source.

Public money for public code, forever! 🤘

#OpenSource #Transparency #DigitalSovereignty

https://www.zdnet.com/article/switzerland-now-requires-all-government-software-to-be-open-source/

Happy Crowdstrike outage day to all who celebrate

The OpenAI ChatGPT app on macOS is not sandboxed and stores all the conversations in **plain-text** in a non-protected location:

~/Library/Application\ Support/com.openai.chat/conversations-{uuid}/

So basically any other running app / process / malware can read all your ChatGPT conversations without any permission prompt:

"That sizable investment will go toward the data centers needed to run AI, the power grid, and AI chips" #IdiocrazyIsADocumentary

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-return-investment-disappointing-goldman-sachs-report-2024-6

“On the energy demands of "AI" • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/on-the-energy-demands-of-ai/

> If you use clean energy sources for that added demand, you've used up some of the clean energy supply that could have gone somewhere else. Until we actually have more clean energy than we need, throwing lots of it at training and using "generative AI" models is just going to make the climate crisis worse.

“I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity”

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

> The market is so distorted that it's almost as bad as dabbling in the crypto space. It isn't as bad, meaning that I haven't yet reached the point where I assume that anyone who has ever typed in import tensorflow is a scumbag, but we're well on our way there.

I wish I had the energy to write something this angry about “AI” because I’m absolutely this angry. Today’s must-read

Nice easter egg on Phil’s cockpit dash… well done.

Six years ago I did a prank on the Bitcoin Blockchain.

I got an art company to verify that I painted the Mona Lisa.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/how-i-became-leonardo-da-vinci-on-the-blockchain/

Since then, my stunt has been cited in two-dozen academic papers.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/citations/#2018

Write that silly blog post. Test the limits of what works. Build something daft. Poke the bear. Experiment.

You never know what will happen if you do.

honestly feel like I'm losing my fucking mind reading this shit. how does this make any fucking sense? you send an AI bot to a video meeting you're not attending where presumably other coworkers will also send their bots?????? to what fucking end? what is the point of this? why are we having NPCs video chat with eachother? what gets done with this? what is the purpose? how is this not just a fucking email? is this what jokerfication is? this doesn't make any fucking sense!