Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-x-twitter-california-content-moderation-law-1234937858/ That is a troubling precedent... And inconsistent with the New York case. I imagine he'll appeal.

https://truthout.org/articles/new-york-city-council-passes-veto-proof-measure-ending-solitary-confinement/

"The New York City Council approved two measures on Wednesday that would largely ban solitary confinement in city jails and require New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers to report low-level street stops."

"In 2020, a UN human rights expert declared that prolonged solitary confinement practices in the U.S. amount to psychological torture. Bill 549A places a four-hour limit on this practice and has been praised by advocates who say that the solitary confinement ban will reduce the psychological damage incarcerated people face in detainment."

"Sixteen-year-old Kalief Browder was imprisoned at Rikers Island and placed in solitary confinement for two of the three years he was incarcerated before the charges were dismissed. After being released, he died by suicide in part due to the psychological harm he suffered at Rikers. In 2019, the family received $3.3 million in a settlement with the city."

#CriminalJustice #HumanRights

https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2023/11/13/ai-models-will-become-smaller-and-faster
The Economist reckons that LLMs will become smaller and more efficient without deteriorating in accuracy (or not by much, and there is a saying that "worse is better"*).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

https://qoto.org/@olives/111191543236620885 It looks like I also have to offer up my dive into bad faith conflations between fiction and reality to the #chatcontrol tag too. Well, just in case.

It's a useful one to keep in mind just in case a bad faith actor deliberately? tries to invoke AI panic.

https://qoto.org/@olives/111516011246609826 That said, I've been over science that tears into puritanical nonsense before.

It's remarkable how claims as to the accuracy of "PhotoDNA" seem to keep coming from the creator (who is known to be fairly activist) and not from any sort of external assessment.

Also, didn't a former Facebook employee say that there's a NDA which prevents companies from talking about false positives? #chatcontrol

Reminder about my updated dive into bad faith conflations of fiction and reality (i.e. talking about a fictional scenario in similar tones as to if it was actually real in a bad faith manner), including for AI and VR, although not limited to those two. #GenAI

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/the-ny-times-lawsuit-against-openai-would-open-up-the-ny-times-to-all-sorts-of-lawsuits-should-it-win/ Now, a copyright take more favorable to "AI" (although, I prefer the idea of someone running something without the OpenAI middle-man, still).

https://apnews.com/article/university-wisconsin-la-crosse-porn-fired-2bcaa8e751be50ebe83f8e1ed1a7cc32 University of Wisconsin fires chancellor for appearing in porn film... Puritans...

"Gow told The Associated Press in a phone interview Thursday morning that regents had discovered that he and his wife, former UW-La Crosse professor Carmen Wilson, had been producing and appearing in pornographic videos.

He maintained that he never mentioned UW-La Crosse or his role at the university in any of the videos and the firing violated his free speech rights.

“My wife and I live in a country where we have a First Amendment,” he said. “We’re dealing with consensual adult sexuality. The regents are overreacting. They’re certainly not adhering to their own commitment to free speech or the First Amendment.”"

There are a lot, lot, lot of examples. Some might get flashy articles. Many don't. Censorship that is the most obvious to just about everyone in this regard is just the tip of the iceberg.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mzpj/pornhub-content-deleted-verification

"Before the purge that disappeared more than 75 percent of content on the platform, Pornhub hosted a lot of videos and photos that weren’t humans having sex. There were full-length movies, memes, and video game playthroughs that you might see on a non-adult site like Twitch, but there was also a ton of animation, 3D renderings, audio erotica, music videos, fanfic from furries and bronies, and stop-motion animation like LEGO minifigs fucking."

One example of what "collateral damage" can look like, oh, that is only one of many examples. Isn't it fun to have people randomly giving you the middle finger? #DSA

https://ecnl.org/news/ecnl-joins-cso-coalition-court-case-against-eus-terrorist-content-regulation ECNL on why the #TERREG is bad.

Here's one which flew under the radar in mid-2023:

https://ecnl.org/news/ecnl-access-now-and-eff-joint-statement-extended-reality-xr-technologies

@ecnl, @eff and Access Now wrote to the European Commission to urge them to protect #privacy (and it seems free expression too) when it comes to the #metaverse.

NetChoice appears to have sued Utah over their unconstitutional social media law which includes privacy intrusive "age verification" measures.