ok standing desk up, tea brewed, embarrassing tabs hidden: ready to start answering my AMA on r/Australian in a few minutes: www.reddit.com/r/aus...
CAMERON WILSON
@cameronwilson.bsky.social
the only Australian on the internet. I am the ABC's national AI reporter you can find ways to e-meet me here: www.cameronwilson.com.au
I'm doing a Reddit AMA on r/Australian tomorrow arvo! The AMA thread has been posted so you can throw your questions at me now and I will answer them to the fullest extent allowed by the ABC's public comment guidelines <3 www.reddit.com/r/aus...
By the way, social media platforms not asking for user’s ages isnt tech companies flouting the law - in many cases it’s actually what the government told them to do. Tech was explicitly warned /against/ over collecting data, and urged not to check ID if possible
The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial)@smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 5d ago📢 More than eight in 10 teenagers were still using social media three months after the government’s landmark ban for under-16s, the country’s internet regulator has found.
Two years after the Prime Minister said he'd ban teens from social media, 80% of them are still on there. No policy is going to be perfect from the get go, but it's worth considering the time and effort put towards this instead of other reforms.
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
theconversation.com
The issue not just that Anthropic let its AI get onto the internet and hack other companies, but also that it went months without being uncovered (and only because OpenAI disclosed a similar thing)
CAMERON WILSON@cameronwilson.bsky.social · 6d agomight just be quicker at this point for major AI companies to tell us if their models /haven't/ autonomously hacked another company
i think for individuals, major cloud provider are probably the safest bets because tech companies spend gazillions on cybersecurity whereas your local lj hooker probably has 100 points of your ID, address and bank details saved on their desktop from when you did a rental application 9 years ago
Larry@larrymilly.bsky.social · 6d agoI do not know how to ask a question without sounding like I have no idea what I’m talking about but…does this mean that all the files that Microsoft holds on one drive or whatever it is called can be hacked? Like all client files? Should we not use the cloud anymore?
it's a good q! for a ordinary person? probably expect a shitload of hacks over the next few years as everything exposed to the internet will just face countless attacks. for anyone who runs something exposed to the internet? prepare for above, probably consider limiting what is internet exposed
dunk after dunk, jam after jam@llewbu.bsky.social · 6d agowhat would materially change in my life if i took it seriously vs not taking it seriously like oh it can hack anything? okay? cool?
i understand the cynicism to take ai companies' claims at face value. but you know who's taking this stuff seriously? the cyber security industry, who are a notoriously skeptical bunch. i don't think they'd be playing along if they didn't believe this is the real deal
Marl@penstalio.bsky.social · 6d agomight be simpler to ignore AI companies claims of anything without proof
might just be quicker at this point for major AI companies to tell us if their models /haven't/ autonomously hacked another company
I watched KPop Demon Hunters and it is my firm belief that, based on the architecture and topography, that canonically the K in KPop actually stands for Kanberra.
ha a judge says that he whacked a judgment into ChatGPT as a test and, when it spat out incorrect details, had it admit that it had hallucinated
why is my dishwasher company emailing me like this
Ooh: NT has joined Queensland in opposing Prime Minisyer Anthony Albanese’s proposed Australian “AI standards” for data centres, according to a communique of a meeting of state and federal energy ministers www.energy.gov.au/en...
AI has just had its Sarah Connor moment. Last week's rogue AI story has been dismissed by some as marketing. But even a cynical read of the news & other evidence suggests it should be a "warning shot" for the serious disruptive threat of AI that will soon be widely available www.abc.net.au/news/...
getting everyone in the office to do the countdown like for nye but for the ausalert
ever since I was a little boy I always wanted to produce training data for large language models ❤️
not crazy about media quoting the alleged Origin hacker on their demands or motivations. even if you ignore the fact that the media is being used to help extort a company, it's also bad journalism because it's completely unverified (and arguably you should trust them less than the average person!)
"we do not want to highlight this yet" Hyped data centre company Firmus seemingly accidentally reveals plan to source water from a publicly owned provider that almost exclusively serves farmers, thanks to an inadvertent note left in its website FAQs lol
Australia's top news bosses say they've had discussions with AI companies about licensing content -- including managing director Hugh Marks saying the ABC had spoken with Anthropic about its radio/video library. Both sides today say there's no current commercial negotiations www.abc.net.au/news/...
Australia's top news bosses say they've had discussions with AI companies about licensing content -- including managing director Hugh Marks saying the ABC had spoken with Anthropic about its radio/video library. Both sides today say there's no current commercial negotiations www.abc.net.au/news/...
Looks like major AI companies are continuing to gear up to make Australia a major hub: Anthropic has listed a Data Center (sic) Energy Lead, Australia to "secure multi-hundred megawatt power capacity" at the "speed and scale required for frontier AI development."
Anthony Albanese used his first major speech on AI to call it an urgent challenge and opportunity for Australia. The speech — announcing a new Office of AI and data centre standards — signaled that Australia is taking AI seriously but saved the tough decisions for later.
Albanese rolls out rule book and red carpet for AI companies
If Australia is truly going to coax major AI companies to choose us rather than the other suitor nations with similar ambitions, some tough decisions need to be made soon.
abc.net.au
i am not a lawyer but i'm pretty sure this means australia currently has no laws
Recommend this by @cameronwilson.bsky.social which tackles a lot of these thoughts in better detail. "For all the challenges mentioned across government, there was little new information in the speech about how we're going to handle the society-wide impacts of AI outside of data centres."
Albanese rolls out rule book and red carpet for AI companies
If Australia is truly going to coax major AI companies to choose us rather than the other suitor nations with similar ambitions, some tough decisions need to be made soon.
abc.net.au
Tom Quinn@tomquinn.bsky.social · 3w agoA few thought's on Albo's AI speech yesterday. Overall, as a statement of intent it seems fine, but the proof will be in the pudding, and that is a long way off yet, at least early next year. The big concern is poor Albo's track record of turning talk into action. All sizzle no sausage. 1/
a truly unfortunate chryon to have under an interview about AI
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