Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@social.cleverlibre.org

re: the news about #Zoom scraping *all* data for training #ML/#AI, here's a useful guide on reading privacy policies: https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2023/08/03/how-to-quickly-get-to-the-important-truth-inside-any-privacy-policy via @themarkup

This essay is an utterly brilliant take on #AIhype. I'll put a few excerpts here, but you should definitely go read the whole thing:

https://karawynn.substack.com/p/language-is-a-poor-heuristic-for

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Since Musk has officially announced his intention to train his "AI" on everyone's tweets, here, again, for anyone still there, is how to download your data:
https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data
A few tweet deletion tools:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/delete-tweets-immediately/
And Darius @darius's Twitter archive tool:
https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/

Every time you try to talk smack about how Europe is better at regulation than innovation

Surveillance marketers are changing how they track you online, so we’re joining forces with Consumer Reports to investigate.

If you have a Facebook account (even if it’s inactive), help us uncover what info companies are gathering and sharing about you. https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/08/02/help-us-investigate-surveillance-marketing-using-facebook-data

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

"The field of AI research has a reputation for disregarding the value of other fields, so I’m certain that this reimplementation of a psychic’s con is entirely accidental." -- #BaldurBjarnason

#gen_ai #theMind

This isn’t the future any of us predicted.

Exactly 14 years ago today—on July 24, 2009—the minimum wage was set at $7.25 while top 1% were worth $5T. Today, billionaire wealth is $45T+, meanwhile the min wage is still $7.25.

This is what generational wage theft looks like. Pay workers. Tax billionaires. #RaiseTheWage