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The automation of online undercover work:

Are you chatting to someone real or a bot?

404 says "Our reporting shows that cops are paying a company to help them deploy AI-powered bots across social media and the internet to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protestors” with the hopes of generating evidence that can be used against them. "

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#tech #AI #socialMedia #chatbot

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social…

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

#USpol #Media #UKpol #CANpoli #EUpol
#Meta #WhatsApp #MetaAI

"👉Meta AI: Jetzt kommt der Rechtsruck für den Whatsapp-Chatbot👈

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Seit einigen Wochen ist die Künstliche Intelligenz von Meta in Diensten wie Whatsapp und Instagram verfügbar. Nun kündigt der Konzern an: der #Chatbot soll bald politisch „ausgewogener“ sein. Was zunächst harmlos klingt, könnte vor allem eines sein: ein neuer Kniefall vor der Politik #DonaldTrumps...
...
In den vergangenen...

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Meta AI: Jetzt kommt der Rechtsruck für den Whatsapp-Chatbot

Seit einigen Wochen ist die Künstliche Intelligenz…

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Ramin Honary
AI is an Orwellian nightmare

I used to be able to search for things using a search engine. It would point me to a source of information, I could decide for myself if the source was good or not. But not anymore. Recently I just wasted a lot of time trying to find something using a search engine only to get lost in an ocean of AI slop.

I finally gave in and asked my question to ChatGPT and it answered my question perfectly, it even showed me where it got it’s sources of information. The places it linked me to were either no longer existent (if ever) or only vaguely related. But it at least created the appearance of citing factual sources of information, in whatever way the statistical models have been trained to give that impression to the humans who use it.

In Orwell’s novel “1984,” we saw how a single government agency took all control over information, how the staff would keep a database of facts but constantly alter these facts to fit the view of reality that their despot “Big Brother” wanted the citizens to believe. The same thing happens now with LLMs presenting a very carefully tuned image of the facts in the database.

AI chat bots are an innovative new method of brainwashing, one which nobody could have ever imagined possible even a few years ago: get everyone to trust a mechanical Big Brother because it chats with you like a friendly fellow human would.

(Full article here.)

#AI #tech #internet #politics #ChatBot #LLM #ChatGPT #Orwellian #GeorgeOrwell #BigBrother #CriticalThinking #SearchEngine #Fediverse

Ramin Honary: AI is an Orwellian nightmare

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Apr 16, 2025, 03:26 · · · 8 · 0
MediaFaro News Digest

Meta to train its AI models on public data of European users.

Meta on Monday said it would incorporate user interactions with its AI, as well as posts and comments by adults across its platforms, to train its artificial intelligence models in the European Union.

Users will still be able to opt out of having their data used.

mediafaro.org/article/20250414

#Meta #AI #Privacy #Chatbot #EU #Tech #BigTech

Meta to train its AI models on public data of European users.

Meta on Monday said it would incorporate user interactions…

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Paco Hope #resist

More lessons learned using an #ai #chatbot to help write code. (See my original post for some of the other observations).

First, watch out for vibe coding. I start off asking it to do things I know and things I could double check if I wanted to. And it's really easy to start asking it to do things that I don't know how to do, and that I can't check.

Second, save checkpoints. I'm inviting the #LLM to modify the code files. Sometimes it modifies unrelated stuff that used to work and makes it not work, or makes it different. I ask it to calculate alt text, and it changes how the histogram is plotted. As I iteratively get things working, I do a git add to capture a working version. A couple times I let it make a series of changes and by the time I got to the last change, it had clobbered some intermediate states that were working, and I didn't have a copy of the code that was there previously. At each incremental step, VS Codium can use git information to highlight which lines have changed due to the most recent modifications.

Last, it goes without saying, I must go in behind it and clean things up. A funny thing it tends to do is get really attached to adjectives. I wanted my trend line to be yellow, and in order to be clear, I prompted with "add a 15-minute moving average trend line that is bright yellow". Everywhere it mentioned this trend line (in comments, in the alt text) it always said "a bright yellow trend line" instead of just "a yellow trend line". When I asked it to make the histogram bins "exactly one minute" (again, trying to be unambiguous), it then labels everything like the X axis label and the alt text with the phrase "exactly 1 minute" instead of just "1 minute".

Paco Hope #resist (@paco@infosec.exchange)

So I'm doing some #AI coding using Amazon's Q Developer.…

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MediaFaro News Digest

The EU will probe the use of personal data by X's AI chatbot.

Ireland's data protection watchdog, acting on behalf of the European Union, launched an inquiry on Friday into the use of personal data posted on Elon Musk's social media platform by EU users, to train its AI chatbot, Grok.

mediafaro.org/article/20250411

#EU #X #SocialMedia #ElonMusk #AI #Grok #Chatbot #DataProtection #Privacy #Tech #BigTech

Parleur

Depuis deux jours, j'ai un tel dialogue de sourds avec le service des inscriptions administratives de #Paris1, que j'ai l'impression d'avoir à faire à un #chatbot de la #SNCF. 😑

glamcode

LLM-Anwendungen werden aggressiv an (akademischen) Bibliotheken beworben. Meine Kolleg*innen sind mehrheitlich begeistert: „Endlich einmal sind wir auch vorne dabei“.

Könnt ihr deutschsprachige Referent*innen im Bibliothekskontext empfehlen, die da kritische Aufklärung betreiben und die man zu einem Vortrag einladen könnte?

#AI #KI #LLM #ChatBot #Bibliothek #Bibliotheken

Steve Grunwell

Internal support Slack channels:

Bob: Does anyone know how to X?

#AI #Chatbot: it looks like you're trying to X, but I can't find any threads

Alice: You'll need to do Y first, then X is available. Here are docs.

Bob: Thanks, Alice!

AI Chatbot: You're welcome! I am very smart!

Tobias Zeumer

Kenne an Angeboten / Experimenten von Bibliotheken oder Kommerz mit Schwerpuntk auf Literaturrecherche bisher diese ~Chatbots

* ORKG Ask (@tibhannover ; via mastodon.social/@real_lilu/112 )
* VÖBB-Chatbot (via openbiblio.social/@rstockm/112

Aus dem kommerziellen Bereich kam Werbung von AboutSomethink.org, die gerne Marc-Daten zum Füttern hätten.

Gibt es noch erwähnenswerte Projekte?

#llm #knowledgeGraphs #sematicSearch #chatbot #bibliotheken #TIB #VÖBB #chatGPT

Linna Lu (@real_lilu@mastodon.social)

Der neue Dienst "ORKG Ask" der #TIB ist eine wissenschafliches…

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Apr 08, 2025, 12:32 · · · 2 · 0
Mordred 【 2 / 4 】

Behold! Jaime, one of my Shotasonas. I haven't tested the bot, but I'd love to hear your reactions/recommendations. This is just a prototype anyway, and subject to changes.

Be nice to him! And lmk how your story went.

This is set in a Modern
Fantasy genre, so you can be anything and anyone. But I recommend an older person/creature to follow the actual plot.

#shota #oc #chatbot #janitorai #Shotasona #nsfw #nsfwart #shotacon

janitorai.com/characters/633d4

Josef Max Hajda (Peppi)

🚗 Umfrage zur Elektromobilität & KI! 🤖
Ich schreibe meine Masterarbeit und brauche deine Unterstützung!
Hilf mir herauszufinden, ob ein Chatbot Vorurteile gegenüber E-Autos abbauen kann.
👉 Dauert ca. 20 Minuten:
🔗 survey.fh-kufstein.ac.at/index
Bitte teilen! 🙏

#Umfrage #Elektroauto #KI #Chatbot #EV #Masterarbeit #Nachhaltigkeit #Forschung #TeilenHilft

Vorurteile gegenüber Elektrofahrzeugen - ChatBot

survey.fh-kufstein.ac.at
FairB

Wie stark färbt die „Bild“ auf ChatGPT ab?
Als erster deutscher Medienkonzern hat Axel Springer einen Exklusiv-Deal mit dem KI-Anbieter OpenAI abgeschlossen.

Welche Auswirkungen hat das auf die Antworten des Chatbots?
Von Lukas Homrich. (Ü)

uebermedien.de/104140/wie-star

#ChatGPT #OpenAI #KI #Chatbot

KI: Wie viel „Bild“ steckt in ChatGPT?

Als erster deutscher Medienkonzern hat Axel Springer…

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