Olives @olives@qoto.org

Ylva has all but admitted that chat control barely leads to the rescues of victims which raises further questions over whether it's a proportionate (or effective, as that is what was pitched) intrusion on privacy.

It would be cool if someone made transcription for that video commentary about chat control.

I'm thinking of what sort of dive to do next (at my leisure...).

I don't have a whole lot in mind, however, I'd like to see if I couldn't do something designed more to be informative, than to actively try to push back against a bunch of bad faith arguments / actors.

I remember that Busou Renkin (武装錬金, Arms Alchemy is one translation which people gave it) had a Victor. It also had that weird butterfly guy, lol. It's an interesting #anime to watch.

Symphogear is a fun anime.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/12/ai-created-virtual-influencers-are-stealing-business-from-humans/ As someone pointed out, some of this probably has something to do with the whole "brand safety" thing.

I don't really have an opinion on it though, I don't really see much how it matters. It's kind of seen as a "get lucky and make money" area.

https://ecnl.org/news/give-smile-get-smile-human-rights-impacts-emotion-recognition-workplace "For example, neurodivergent, LGBTQI+, and people speaking with accents or dialects might be discriminated against by voice recognition or other emotion recognition technologies."

https://ecnl.org/news/civil-society-open-letter-proposed-french-law-2024-olympic-and-paralympic-games

This one is from early 2023. ECNL and other civil society groups opposed AI surveillance cameras at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games.

#privacy

Doomscrolling through bad news is not fun.

The dive is a work I have a bit of pride in. It's a "I wasn't born yesterday" type message for people who kept trying to use clever language, and ducking and weaving, and conflating brazenly right before our eyes. It's snappy, but it is also the only correct response to these sorts of "games".

Why do we let these people get away with this?

https://www.thefire.org/news/victory-after-fire-lawsuit-court-halts-new-yorks-misguided-law-targeting-online-speech Here's a piece on the previous New York law which was ruled unconstitutional.

Well, the problem with it is that it's geared towards chilling some form of speech that the State doesn't approve of, and that isn't consistent with the First Amendment.

Whatever someone thinks of those things, it is nonetheless speech protected by the First Amendment. So, that is kind of worrying.

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.