NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...

Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

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Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.

Leaving a bomb with a timer in a building doesn't get reported as "bomb tries to blow up building", and OpenAI's employees designing an extremely clumsy, badly designed self-prompting language model hooked up to public actions that can cause harm shouldn't be reported that way either

when ai leaves u behind

Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon@artificer-ind.bsky.social · 3w ago

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

Cartoonist: Slyngstad

All AI generated content can do is waste your time. It is, in this sense, stealing your life, the precious finite time you have on this earth from you, every second you are forced to interact with it, forcing you to look at its meaninglessness. It is a mindless vampire.

This isn't a simple case of incoherent messaging, it's slamming every button on the console at once in desperation as they realize how egregiously they've overspent on this relative to what it can return financially. In six more months they'll be promising it regrows your hair.

Mike Drucker@mikedrucker.bsky.social · 3w ago

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

Thing about technology that actually does make life better is you don't need to write 1,437 different op-eds to try to persuade people that it will make your life better.

As an award-winning journalist, I am not afraid to say that Wikipedia is more accurate and balanced than 95% of Western media on democracy and human rights

It all remains genuinely baffling to me. Why would you use any of this shit for anything? What did you do before it started infecting everything? We didn't only start being able to do stuff in 2022.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last mo.

Taylor Lorenz listed out all the generative AI apps she uses for Substack, including Elon Musk’s Grok, and is shocked her followers are mad. She wants to have it both ways: to present herself as critical and progressive while still getting to take the same immoral actions as people who don’t.

Segal’s speech code meets the law: Justice Fagan wrecks Canberra’s Israel exception Andrew Brown reports. Read it here: https://michaelwest.com.au/segal-ihra-antisemitism-justice-fagan-decision/

Here's me. "How the Labor Party sold out to vampiric oligarchs and authoritarian Zionist dickheads"

How the Labor Party sold out to vampiric oligarchs and authoritarian Zionist dickheads - The Shot

This week, the Albanese government, in goose-stepping sync with the Liberals and One Nation, will push into law the “ASIO...

theshot.net.au

To me, the foundational tension of modern AI is this: If the stated goal is to create a human-level intelligence that can replace human workers but lacks human rights, then the real aspiration is slavery; but if human-level intelligence is impossible, then the industry's stated goal is a lie.

Wildberries warehouses really do seem to be incredibly flammable

“The Fake ‘Invasion’ of Spain: What You Need to Know” 9 things you should know about the so-called ‘crisis’ of Moroccan migrants forcing their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta – and the hysterical response from the right in the U.S., UK, and EU.

The Fake ‘Invasion’ of Spain: What You Need to Know

9 things you should know about the so-called ‘crisis’ of Moroccan migrants forcing their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta – and the hysterical response from the right in the U.S., UK, and EU.

zeteo.com

“The Third World War is already underway, has been for a while, but remains unrecognised because it doesn’t follow the patterns we know.”

The Third World War Is Here

And it's not what you think

chadbourn.substack.com

BREAKING: Tech reporter on record saying he is swallowing everything the tech companies are saying.

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There's a reason why "these are just statistical predictions" hasn't caught on in the discourse, and it's not the tech press. It's that people see them reading and writing and reasoning and scheming and they realize that the stochastic-parrots framing is outdated and inadequate to the moment

If this government was serious about accountability it would be building an independent AI regulator with real statutory powers, not just another door inside the PM's office for tech lobbyists to knock on.

And the worst thing was Ryanair charged him a €100 "fresh air" fee. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ryanair passenger almost sucked out of shattered window during flight

Serbian man reportedly saved by wife hanging on to his legs after window shattered on journey from Greece

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“Trump has always admired Putin and his ability to do whatever he pleases. Russia became his template for the America he wanted to create, a place riddled with corruption from top to bottom where the leader and a tiny band of oligarchs enriched themselves.”

The United States Of Corruption

Trump turns America into a Mafia State for its 250th birthday

open.substack.com

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

buff.ly

It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5

After this 100% wrong AI summary, I pledged some money to Wikipedia. I think we should all do that. It might be the answer. Imagine if it vanished cos more people wanted to invest in the planet-burning lying plagiarism machine than in crowd-sourced open access information.

When the AI bubble finally does burst it's going to be a rude shock since it sounds like the whole world's already addicted to it.

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Here's me. "Australia is manufacturing explosives for Israel’s atrocities"

Australia is manufacturing explosives for Israel’s atrocities - The Shot

Australia’s complicity in Israel’s atrocities has many ugly layers. It’s worse than the bomb release mechanism on the F-35 death...

theshot.net.au

I refuse to go to Win11, but this bullshit is in Windows 10 too, I disabled it immediately, luckily someone clued me in a while back when it first rolled out. Settings > devices > typing > typing insights to disable it. Happy to have my stats sit at 0. They keep saying it's inevitable, but hiding it

"In the Ukraine war, the US no longer holds the cards. Trump surrendered them when he betrayed Kyiv and the rest of Europe. But together, Ukraine and the rest of Europe have leverage. And they are beginning to see it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Angela Merkel won’t be negotiating with Putin – but the rumour reflects a truth about the Ukraine war | Nathalie Tocci

In Kyiv, I found a mood of confidence. Ukrainians know that Russia is creaking and that Europe has their back, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci

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"The Federalist Society’s forty-year project has been revealed in eleven days as what its critics have always said it was: a coalition for the disenfranchisement of Americans of color and the entrenchment of minority rule, purchased through a dark-money...." open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...

The Simulation Has Collapsed

The cushions were the tell.

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