"generative AI to me feels like a corporate DDoS on society in a way that is really disorienting"
"we're running on the fumes of knowledge produced in the past and underfunding and undermining knowledge production and serious science right now"
Perfectly stated, @alixdunn.com
This was pretty evident given that Anthropic explicitly trained a model with exploitation capabilities, rather than defensive capabilities. Evaluations of it confirmed it wasn't much better than SOTA at vuln discovery, but better in generating exploits. Motives are clear.
Well, this is an utterly insane thing to consider doing.
Because the Middle East is too stable these days and people are too positively attuned to the US/Israel
EFF’s Threat Lab confirmed @WIRED.com’s finding that Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses.
Ketan Joshi
Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses, according to new reporting by Wired. EFF’s Threat Lab was able to confirm that the facial recognition cod...
Israel forced the entire population of Tyre to flee. Here's some history about the ancient Lebanese city that’s being blown to bits:
• One of the world’s oldest cities
• UNESCO site with Roman ruins
• Early Christian center; mentioned in Bible
• Once wealthy for trade, textiles & royal purple dye
The issue with these statements though is that they always presume that the unsubstantiated claims by tech companies about AI capabitilies are true, lending them further legitimacy. No it is not the case that AI enhances the defense and protection of civilians, quite the opposite.
NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security
lots of wild stuff in the filing:
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)
An Anthropic project is using feedback from about 1,000 human software engineers to improve the performance of Claude Code,the AI coding tool whose recent advancements have disrupted the vibe-coding i...
In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.
An excellent interview with @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social on safety engineering (in contrast to the clown show of "AI safety"). This discussed abdication of standards and safety revisionism is paralleled in computational science & engineering with abandonment of verification and validation (V&V).
"Anthropic is helping the US National Security Agency deploy its powerful Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations, embedding engineers inside the agency despite an ongoing legal battle with the Pentagon."
Arrangement comes as AI lab is locked in legal battle with Pentagon over Claude model
"We must avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."
Jed Brown
Justin Hendrix
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
