#realnameregistration is highly dangerous & if the company that wants to have your most private data can't save there net from bots they're not very trustworthy, are they? #tech
❝ the short scale billion is one thousand million (10⁹), whereas in the long scale, billion is one million million (10¹²), making the word 'billion' a false friend between long- and short-scale languages.❞ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and…
REMINDER:
the American #billion is a political scam and not a mathematically accurate number.
a true billion is a million × million
a fake USA billion is a million × a thousand.
ACM will no longer require disclosure of the use of #generativeAI in writing papers.... an absolutely terrible change by the @ACM Publications Board to the Policy on Authorship.
Yes, this will give ACM more papers. No, the ideology of "number go up" productivism is not the path to responsible, ecological or ethical computing, but to irrelevance. #AIslop
Another great story about the impact of AI with no mention to it in the headline of the story:
In South Korea a Starbucks marketing campaign is created using AI and executives don't even bother to open the email attachments to check the proposals. The campaign was published on the date of a pro-democracy protesters massacre calling it Tank Day and using slogans clearly drawing from the deadly military attack, which felt deeply unrespectful to the victims. The AI most likely learned that from far-right forums like Ilbe where mocking the victims is common.
They cancelled the campaign hours after publishing it but it was too late, the CEO has been sacked, card payments went down a 26%, refunds haven been requested from prepaid cards, police is investigating and Starbucks asked costumers to refrain from directing their anger to staff.
We've reached the point where we're having to actively degrade the UI and remove useful features of the small scientific database I co-maintain (xronos.ch) to try and reduce the extreme load imposed by (unwanted and politely-asked-to-go-away) AI crawler bots. Conversations about new features have to ask whether it's going to make the crawler load problem worse.
TL;DR: The Florida Supreme Court has introduced a new rule requiring that all legal documents filed in state courts must accurately cite existing legal authorities, aiming to address the issue of AI-generated hallucinations in court filings.
yaknow… the #luddites smashed machines that made usable products.
with a fail rate of as high as 90% in something as simple as search and with sloppped “art” that looks like it was created for a Jehova Witness or Mormon magazine, the only thing #AIslop makes is the mirage of shareholder value.
then there’s the ecocidal damage of data centers. and the theft of public utilities.
“anti-tech extremism” is fascist speak for “protect the mirage of our stocks’ value with cops”.
didn’t i tell you Google is using the #sideloading ban to side-step labor issues? it’s actually worse:
google wants to #aislop and monopolize all #android apps.
so, not only don't they want to deal with developers as contract workers on their appstore ―that’s the whole point of forcing ID, to shoo away the vast majority of developers who aren’t incorporated as businesses. they now want to wipeout said developers and own all the apps. theverge.com/tech/932364/googl…
LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’
