I find it equally disturbing that American free speech advocates insist on exporting their ideas of free speech to the rest of the world and fail to see how it's basically colonialism.
Two point six TRILLION dollar valuation drop for "AI" companies. All because these people refuse to reckon with what their systems are actually good at, and what they are absolutely no good for, and keep trying to shove it into every damn thing, regardless. nymag.com/intelligence...
The hyperbolic promises from Silicon Valley are starting to meet reality.
Making more and more of the US military reliant on Elon Musk is a brilliant idea that won't ever backfire
The Navy is testing out the Elon Musk–owned satellite constellation to provide high-speed internet access to sailors at sea. It’s part of a bigger project that’s about more than just getting online.
Thank you. That made me laugh.
Which is likely to lead to an arms race that, like all such solutionist reactions, fails to deal with the underlying problem: the parasitical nature of a private health care system.
We’re going to see more high-stakes confrontations like this, as states attempt to regain the structural power over communications they ceded to US companies and the US since the 1990s. Related: comms and internet scholars should be reading Susan Strange. www.theregister.com/2024/09/03/b...
Appeal panel upholds ban as Musk Xeets up a rage-storm
I and others have been warning you about this for over a year, in every class we taught, every talk we gave, and almost every paper we wrote about GPTs. @janelleshane.com@fractalecho.bsky.social showed the immediate and downstream harms. We told you this was coming. We all could've stopped this
"That we can write the prompt or query is not an emblem of our freedom but of our surrender. " Bloop.
Re-up on this from a few months ago. The purpose of chatbots and generative models is “the ability to force other people to see a particular version of reality. It is a tool of power that masquerades as a tool of knowledge.”
Google recently released an generative model called Gemini but had to suspend its image-generation capabilities because of how it was programmed to address brand safety concerns.
If educators ran our central banks, countries would've ditched national currencies for Bitcoin in 2010.