Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/18/critics-ridicule-nsw-police-commissioners-idea-for-sexual-consent-app
"There's an app for that" took a weird twist with one cop's idea of having an "app to track consent".

An example of techno-solutionism...

Looks like this instance is lagging in serving posts?

https://reason.com/2023/06/27/ron-desantis-border-plan-invade-mexico-shoot-drug-smugglers-end-birthright-citizenship/ wtf

https://reason.com/2023/06/24/police-let-their-k-9-maul-on-the-wrong-guy-they-arrested-him-anyway/ Completely unnecessary violence.

https://reason.com/2023/06/23/massachusetts-district-attorney-sued-for-refusing-to-release-names-of-problem-cops/
District Attorney sued for not releasing the names of officers who engaged in misconduct which might affect the credibility of their testimony.

If it was in the United States, none of this would be permissible under the Fourth Amendment, and it reeks of looking for a problem for a solution.

https://edri.org/our-work/civil-liberties-meps-warn-against-undermining-or-circumventing-encryption-in-csar/
"fourteen MEPs from four of the seven political parties tabled amendments rejecting the CSAR entirely"
Well, that's a positive sign. More of that is needed.

I think it is important for courts to overrule laws though, when they're incompatible with the constitution.

That is kind of what the whole overturning Roe v Wade debacle is about which The Juice Media didn't approve of.

https://reason.com/2023/06/27/excited-delirium-is-no-excuse-for-police-abuse/ More news from the criminal injustice system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LhBc0_Hsjs
https://reason.com/2023/06/27/in-election-law-dispute-chief-justice-john-roberts-delivered-a-win-for-the-constitution/
Thankfully, The Juice Media was wrong about this one.

I noticed "think of the children" (always a red flag) webinars and such where she kept making an appearance.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/european-parliament-removes-eva-kaili-as-vice-president-after-qatar-corruption-allegations.html
See here for E.U. corruption but even Article 17 has a stench of corruption to it.

Hollywood Actor Ashton, top dog of Thorn (caught with it's pants down with a bunch of evangelical groups as "partners" in 2019), who has no expertise in child protection, free expression, innovation, or human rights, should not be commenting on "AI".

He has a history of supporting things with "unintended consequences", and failing to achieve whatever it is he is trying to achieve.

Such as supporting an "anti sex trafficking" law which made sex trafficking in the U.S. worse, simply because it was marketed as "tough on sex trafficking".

Congress, the mess that it is, is incapable of passing a bill to fund *research* on whether it had the intended effect of reducing sex trafficking, despite part of the government seemingly admitting it increased it.

Or lobbying a bunch of probably corrupt bureaucrats in the E.U. to spy on everyone with the Chat Stasi.

I tire of this guy.

Theoretically, a tiny number of bad people in a remote hive of scum and villainy might abuse it. Chances are they're already doing other garbage which you can bust them for and it doesn't make a practical difference.

Rationally though, it is extremely unlikely that most people have little demon horns on their heads, and go out of their way to do evil.

Practically speaking, it's not even clear his efforts wouldn't lead to the world becoming less safe for just about everyone. It certainly wouldn't be the first time.

It's a prohibitionist / techno-solutionist approach without any thought as to how the real world works. He has not thought of any of this. It shows.

Some places prohibition has taken us to.

Do you want to use the term "young" to generate something in a SFW context? Well, sucks to be you. We need to limit that, on the off-chance someone might abuse it in a strangely specific scenario.

Are you an artist who happened to use an AI to create a work (i.e. semi-realistic cartoons)? Time to be censored and punished.

https://edri.org/our-work/online-safety-bill-insecure-international-organisations-academics-and-cyber-experts-urge-uk-government-to-protect-encrypted-messaging/ Everything about this bill is bad. Everything. It should be torn down.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/26/californias-journalism-protection-act-is-an-unconstitutional-clusterfuck-of-terrible-lawmaking/ Ugh, another link "tax" bill.

It'd be nice if more DM (diffusion model) generated images had the prompts used to generate the images along with the images?

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-skirts-dress-code-charter-school-73c402c660a126e3f8e86ab676b2b018
U.S. Supreme Court hands down ruling forcing North Carolina charter school to allow girls to wear pants rather than skirts.

OpenAI appears to have used all these mentions of "safety" and "sentience" to distract from how truly mundane their model really is, and how it isn't some great radical innovation over previous models.