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Former tech writer specialising in telecoms and infosec. Still an aspiring guitarist at over 60.
Nothing I do or say is licenced to anyone scraping social media accounts to train AI.
We don't really know how bicycles work.
"It's as simple as riding a bicycle" is a common expression. But the science of staying upright on two wheels is anything except simple — and we know surprisingly little about the intricacies of how c...
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
Pigeon is pretty ordinary radio talent, his absence won't change much tbh.
Starc's enjoying his work today, 3 for 10!
Applause!
Good for you. My @smh @theage cartoon.
On the appalling story of Derek Elias, who has spent four years trying to alert the government to the bad things happening at Home Affairs
Four years ago, Home Affairs assistant secretary Derek Elias attempted to report corruption in offshore contracts – the government's response has left him unwell and in financial turmoil.
Ghouls, indeed, who always try to undermine progressive taxation.
I am not sold on this take that interviews for lower-skilled jobs are a "low stakes" matter (and thus, AI is fine!). Like, lower stakes for who? www.ft.com/content/9998...
stealing and enshittifying human knowledge, attacking social connection, giving money to purveyors of slop for testing their black box bullshit machines, trashing the planet.
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"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
"don't pay attention to any of that frivolous humanities education, STEM all the way - what, do you think you can hack a computer with poetry or something?"
apparently, yes
Looks like LLMs are very vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
