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California governor: Generative AI will fix homelessness — based on a 2023 sales pitch
  • What a blessed world we live in - 2014 a homeless person had to learn to code in order to deserve the things they need to live. Today, they just need to become a prompt engineer. The trajectory of the world bends towards justice, after all!

  • Nature: Al generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect
    www.nature.com AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect - Nature

    Despite efforts to remove overt racial prejudice, language models using artificial intelligence still show covert racism against speakers of African American English that is triggered by features of the dialect.

    AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect - Nature

    Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

    > it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

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    Yet another completely normal use of generative AI: not-obviously-illegal CSAM
    www.wgal.com Police investigate AI-generated nude photos using Susquehanna Valley students' faces

    News 8's Meredith Jorgensen spoke with a victim and learned why a legal loophole may mean no one can be charged.

    Police investigate AI-generated nude photos using Susquehanna Valley students' faces

    School student tells AI to put 20 other students’ faces on nude pictures, shares them in chat; it takes months for anyone including the school administrators to act because of some extremely, uh, dubious loophole.

    If someone does that in photoshop, it’s a crime; if they do it in AI pretending to be photoshop, it’s somehow not. Gotta love this legal system’s focus on minor technicalities rather than the harm done.

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    AI Go bots not so superhuman after all
  • Bit of a wash, tbh: I like that the “but simplicity!” computer touchers now write their trash code in a memory-safe language; it sure reduces the amount of extremely preventable issues by introducing some other extremely preventable issues.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 July 2024
  • I’m pretty sure this is just a handy convenience around launching another container that has debug tools in all the same namespaces (network, pid, user, filesystem, …) as the other. Kubernetes has a similar thing and it’s pretty handy.

    Edit: oooooh wait, I misread your entire comment: you were referring to the ai-powered install instructions. Oops, and yep, that is a big yikes. Wow.

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