That EU “chat control” thing is still out there
Remember EU “chat control”? It’s growing, putting out roots. The EU’s “chat control” legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most...
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“Man ends his life after an AI chatbot ‘encouraged’ him to sacrifice himself to stop climate change”, Euronews.com reports: A Belgian man reportedly ended his life following a six-week-long...
View ArticleI can relate to the way the Guardian spun this
On December 3rd 2021, New Zealand spinner Ajaz Patel took all 10 wickets in one innings of a Test Match against India. He was only the third bowler in history to achieve this feat in international...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – BBC gets Cathy Newman’ed by Elon Musk
Here we had a journalist so accustomed to pushing The Narrative that he apparently has no grasp of the facts. More importantly, it showed that despite launching a years-long crusade for social-media...
View ArticleGreat to see pushback against the Online Safety Bill, but…
What is the phenomenon called when a council faced with budget cuts never says it will have to cut the number of sustainability managers and diversity officers, only that it will have to close the...
View Article“Covid censorship proved to be deadly”
“Covid Censorship Proved to Be Deadly”, writes Bret Swanson in the Wall Street Journal, but you could leave the first word off the headline and it would still be true. It is not necessary to agree with...
View ArticleWe think we are living at the dawn of the age of AI. What if it is already...
“Research finds ChatGPT & Bard headed for ‘Model Collapse'”, writes Ilkhan Ozsevim in AI Magazine: A recent research paper titled, ‘The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models...
View ArticleThe gaze of strangers
I have a dilemma. I want to write a post about how creepy it is to take a photo of a stranger and put it on social media with a deniably mocking comment. The easiest way to illustrate this would be to...
View Article“The UK’s Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it’s dead”
The Register’s Rupert Goodwins is right to describe the Bill as “stupid” but, I regret to say, probably mistaken in describing it as “dead”. It has long since passed the Commons. Its progress through...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – friends don’t let friends PUG
Call of Duty (CoD), a video game series published by Activision, has jumped into the murky waters of AI-powered censorship after revealing a new partnership with AI voice moderation tool Modulate...
View ArticleA magnificent reply to an appalling letter
We regard it as deeply inappropriate and dangerous that the UK Parliament would attempt to control who is allowed to speak on our platform or try to earn a living from doing so. Singling out an...
View ArticleNon-sarcastically, why am I so sure that this image is generated by AI?
The awkward moment when you take pride in destroying civilian infrastructure and killing 21 thousand people, 70% of which are women and children pic.twitter.com/0EYA7U9ctQ — Double Down News...
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