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19.11.2024 21:57Comment on The anthropomorphism trap by Hermitage & Gardens HaringeyI'm getting twitchy about moving the ol'e blog again.
20.10.2024 15:55Moving shop soonNotes and a list of the better write-ups and analysis of Israel's dangerous supply chain attack to create hidden IEDs floating around Lebanon.
23.9.2024 11:10All the little bombsThe best the generative AI industry can do it seems is to make poor replacements for what we humans already do pretty well at. But they are good at exploiting people where they are weakest. That's the real innovation of most generative AI today.
19.9.2024 23:39The anthropomorphism trapIn reply to <a href="https://wandering.shop/@Rhube/113081298116201716">Dr Ro Smith</a>. And well done at doing so!
4.9.2024 21:08Comment on The enshitification of NaNoWriMo by yours trulyIn reply to <a href="https://octodon.social/@temptoetiam/113081118051957484">Abie</a>. <a href="https://octodon.social/@temptoetiam" rel="nofollow ugc">@temptoetiam</a> <a href="https://treacherous.tech/@treacherous.tech" rel="ugc">@treacherous.tech</a> I was just spreading the word.
4.9.2024 21:01Comment on The enshitification of NaNoWriMo by Dr Ro Smith<a href="https://treacherous.tech/@treacherous.tech" rel="ugc">@treacherous.tech</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/@Rhube" rel="nofollow ugc">@Rhube</a> I saw that someone on Mastodon was trying to coin a "writingmonth" alternative.<br /><a href="https://mstdn.cool/@fedijedi/113070878754092130" rel="nofollow ugc">https://mstdn.cool/@fedijedi/113070878754092130</a>
4.9.2024 20:15Comment on The enshitification of NaNoWriMo by AbieThe organisers of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) have damaged their brand and annual writing marathon by seeming to promote letting an AI bots be ghost authors.
4.9.2024 00:43The enshitification of NaNoWriMoTelegram is not an encrypted messaging app. Or it's not especially encrypted in a way that it's somehow a feature. If you read no further, then that's the walk-away message from this post. And there's nothing about it that implies it should be called a "secure messaging app," either. Unless you also describe, I don't know, Deliveroo as "secure" for some reason ahead of its other more prominent features. There are no unique properties about Telegram that make it secure compared to other run-of-the-mill social messaging apps. Reporters should stop referring to is using these terms when writing about it.
26.8.2024 21:27How journalists should talk about TelegramThis is a post about content authenticity and proving origin. It's becoming harder to prove what's real in a world when generating realistic scenes is becoming trivial.
18.8.2024 21:53Beyond ProvenanceTl;dr: The incorporation of AI into weapons needs to be banned in a way similar to how the international Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, retention, transfer or use of those weapons as an entire class. The problem would be in getting anyone to follow such policy during an era in which the notion of international law or a rules-based international order is on the downward slide.
14.4.2024 00:44Weaponised AI isn’t killer robots, it’s just humans killing on autopilotTl;dr: Surveillance is a natural outcome of the internet as it was created. Surveillance capitalism isn't an innovation, but a resource extraction industry, and states don't need to make fancy tools to get a lot of information on dissidents or undesirables, they just need a budget line to buy it.
31.3.2024 16:57Surveillance capitalism is also just regular old surveillanceTl;dr: Automattic, the owner of of Tumblr and WordPress.com, is negotiating with Midjourney and OpenAI to sell them AI training data which would be scraped from platform users’ posts unless they opt out. It's an ethically dubious proposition with poor messaging and not all users get treated equally, and the companies Automattic is in talks with aren't exactly committed to an open or ethical approach to running their operations. It's a move that may drive me back to self hosting.
1.3.2024 22:12Automattic for the people, not the AIThe blog post discusses surveillance, privacy, and cybersecurity issues, including lawsuits over data sharing, government surveillance, and unintended uses of technology. It also touches on diverse topics such as Valentine's Day, tech bans, and the impact of social media. Additionally, it mentions an alarming misinformation, cybersecurity concerns, and thought-provoking reading recommendations.
13.2.2024 01:12More notes on what’s been stealing my attention across the interwebnets