tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

#Bard can now generate images. Attempts to make "safe" #AI continue to be both overreaching in their censorship and simultaneously porous and ineffective at reducing actual harm (e.g. the Swift images).

Making the AI print statements about the risks of bias and harm rather than responding to user requests is neither "safety" nor ethics. It's virtue signalling from a toaster.

The below prompts are in the same conversation, and were the only context in that conversation:

#Google #AIethics

"the U.S. has lost almost one-third of its newspapers and nearly two-thirds of its newspaper journalists since 2005. The shocking decimation of the journalism industry has led to the proliferation of ever-expanding news deserts in which more than one half of American counties have little or no access to local news. And it will only get worse." https://lpeproject.org/blog/taking-media-out-of-the-market/

@danlyke Their iOS app seems a little more interesting, pulling text from other websites into a new page with answers, but it divorces everything from the original sources and makes it impossible to judge what is reliable, etc. From an information credibility perspective, this blind reliance on AI seems like a nightmare.

In the comments Andrew Gelman recommended I make the figure like this, which I have to admit is probably better.

It's been ten years, so a short story about the "gotofail" bug.

Someone came to me about a catastrophic vulnerability in Apple's TLS implementation.

I shit you not, they'd overheard someone at a bar drunkenly bragging about how they were going to sell it to a FVEY intelligence agency for six figures.

They didn't know exactly what it was, just some vague details and the key point is that it allowed use of the real certificate.

This was enough for me to find the bug (yay open source), which would go on to be known as "gotofail", and produce a working exploit in less than a day.

The details were anonymously back channelled to Apple, who released a fix.

@matthew_d_green posted on Twitter about it, concerned by the Apple's vague release notes.

I used a burner phone to share the details with him anonymously.

Then everyone forgot about the whole thing because heartbleed.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

– Poängen med humanitärt hjälparbete är att hjälpa civila. Den individ som gör fel ska straffas och organisationens rutiner ska granskas men man ska inte förstöra för hjälparbetarna i stort, säger han i SVT:s Aktuellt.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/toppdiplomaten-om-israels-terrorsiffror-tror-jag-inte-pa-alls #svpol #israel #unrwa

"Where Is Hamas Getting Its Weapons? Increasingly, From Israel.":

https://archive.is/Bjy5N

28/1: "Låg behörighet skapar vinst"

Skolverkets statistik visar att friskolor har lägre lärarbehörighet än kommunala skolor. Obehöriga lärare har lägre lön än behöriga lärare men friskolor kompenseras med grundpeng baserad på kommunens lönekostnader. Detta skapar vinst.

Privacy-oriented X front-end #Nitter is shutting down following changes to guest accounts

Nitter is dead after Twitter/X stops allowing guest accounts. Nitter was a front-end for Twitter that worked without JavaScript… @alternativeto

RIP.

#twitter #privacy #opensource

https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/1/privacy-oriented-x-front-end-nitter-is-shutting-down-following-changes-to-guest-accounts/

Using drones to remove ice from power lines

🇪🇸 Spain decides to continue its support for the UNRWA, joining Norway and Ireland

#UNRWA #Spain #Palestine #FreePalestine

https://elpais.com/espana/2024-01-29/espana-se-desmarca-de-los-paises-que-han-cortado-la-financiacion-a-la-agencia-de-la-onu-para-palestina.html

@Markatt07 Det där med yttrandefrihet är roligt. Genom att berätta att Halla-aho polisanmält två personer som kallat honom för fascist hotar jag yttrandefriheten. Logiken är... inte helt uppenbar.

- Jag ser att du har din fars drag i ansiktet.

- Ja, han är en usel fiskare.

This is such plain, petty, open & obvious retribution for the ICJ daring to hold Netanyahu & his right wing Kahanist coalition to any kind of accountability at all for the nearly 30,000 Palestinians they have killed in #Gaza, the #WestBank, and #Israel itself, in 2023.

"The Biden administration’s announcement comes on the same day that the UN’s top court ordered Israel to prevent genocidal acts Gaza & a U.S. court began hearing a lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide"

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/biden-cuts-off-life-saving-aid-to-palestinians-based-on-israeli-allegations-against-unrwa/

I was going to google "It's a wonderful life" but google had other ideas.

Thank you for 12k downloads. I've just released docx2tex version 1.9:
https://github.com/transpect/docx2tex/releases/tag/v.1.9 #texlatex #docx #ooxml #msword

Perfect. 10/10. No notes.

Jan 2020 NYT headline: "U.N.Court Orders Myanmar to Protect Rohingya Muslims"
Subhead: "The injunction was issued by the International Court of Justice at The Hague, where accusations of genocide have been brought against the Southeast Asian country."

Jan 2024 NYT headline: "U.N.Court Declines to Demand That Israel Stop Its Military Campaign"
Subhead: "The International Court of Justice ruled that Israel must take action to ensure that its military doesn't violate the Genocide Convention, and to let more aid in to Gaza."

Funny how the wording is almost the same across both orders, except one emphasized "with immediate effect" and it's not the one against Myanmar.

#Israel #Palestine #Myanmar #genocide #ceasefire