Tyler King

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OpenAI intentionally went around default MacOS safety features which would have prevented this because they are as dumb as they are reckless.

ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain textarstechnica.com The app was updated to address the issue after it gained public attention.

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Or to put it another way…

“Ed would even be able to detect and respond to emotions such as hostility, happiness and sadness.” In every instance generative tech is being sold on a lie.

“ai” edtech company collapses after taking six million dollars from the Los Angeles school district to develop an “educational friend” platform.

A.I. ‘Friend’ for Public School Students Falls Flatwww.nytimes.com Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

“‘The crows come to the house and scream to warn us that there is no more water ... it’s our alarm,’ says Ortiz Ramos.” The US border wall cut off wildlife access to a natural spring, leaving numerous species without a water source in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. It’s one of many consequences.

Nature interrupted: Impact of the US-Mexico border wall on wildlifearstechnica.com Scientists are working to understand how the barrier is affecting the area’s biodiversity.

Mar-A-Lago just became shit-front property. So that’s kinda funny.

Let me tell you why this is b/c of Covid: DeSantis has become a hardcore anti-vaxxer b/c it made him popular with the MAGA right during Covid. So he took it a step further and began waging a war on all child vaccines. Then all public health. He vetoed a bill that would have empowered the state DOH.

Ew.

This is a totally bullshit, made-up “rule” he’s citing strictly to reassure investors and turf the press narrative, but he knows better. He, like the rest of us, lived through torrenting and Napster, et al. He lived through the migration to the subscription model. When we stopped owning our software

Microsoft declares Right to Plagiarize

Ever put content on the web? Microsoft says that it's okay for them to steal it because it's 'freeware.'www.windowscentral.com Microsoft's CEO of AI said that content on the open web can be copied and used to create new content.

Well now I’m convinced he shouldn’t drop out.

One of these guys is a convicted criminal and rapist who did a coup and this is the political analysis we get. The fourth estate is so fucking done.

This is the same company—makers of the Perplexity “AI-powered answer engine”—caught plagiarizing 404Media and many others. They got their start scraping Twitter using fake academic credentials. www.404media.co/perplexitys-...

WIRED caught an AI company scraping its articles w/o permission. Turns out, Amazon was hosting the machine doing the scraping, even though that violates Amazon's terms of service. Oh! And the AI company is funded by Jeff Bezos. wired.com/story/aws-perplexity-bot-scraping-investigation/

Well, you see, when Jesus and Moses signed the Declaration of Independence at the First Continental Congress of the Magna Carta while riding dinosaurs…

Didn’t they have to scratch up the Disney Concert Hall in LA because it was blinding drivers and basically setting nearby buildings on fire?

The reflections of the sun off of this deathtrap are going to blind someone on the road and people are gonna get killed. www.businessinsider.com/polished-tes...

No need to polish your Cybertruck — you can now buy one that comes with a mirror-like sheen for $150,000www.businessinsider.com Experts previously told Business Insider that while it's probably not illegal to polish a Cybertruck to a mirror finish, it's also not a great idea.

As far as meeting the ask for ‘80s-style future dystopia, this thing is far more of a refined Blade Runner/RoboCop complete thought. Still dumb, but like professionally so.

oh my god there's a chinese knockoff of the cybertruck and somehow the cybertruck looks like a cheap knockoff of it www.carscoops.com/2024/05/dong...

Re: state limits on social media/web access, I’ve been warning you that online verification is a threat to all privacy. Here’s your dead canary.

New from 404 Media: the ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X, and many more tech companies exposed real peoples' driver licenses. As we move towards an internet forcing us to verify our identities, shows these companies will absolutely be targeted www.404media.co/id-verificat...

Solidarity, comrades.

incredible idea: redirecting ai scraping bots to a 10gb file used for speed tests melkat.blog/p/unsafe-pri...

melkat.blog - Unsafe Pricing at Any Scalemelkat.blog I'm exiting the

The fetid remains of Toys ‘R’ Us is leaning hard into the “What if AI?” model of groping for profits with no apparent purpose other than investor PR. Meanwhile: “OpenAI’s CTO refused to say where Sora was getting its training data from. (YouTube is the going theory.)”

The owner of Toys ‘R’ Us just used OpenAI’s Sora to animate the zombie brand - https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24186051/toys-r-us-openai-sora-brand-film

The owner of Toys ‘R’ Us just used OpenAI’s Sora to animate the zombie brandwww.theverge.com It’s the “first ever brand film created with Sora.”

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“Provigil is a drug that treats excessive tiredness and is typically used for patients with narcolepsy, sleep apnea, and other sleep disorders. Brand-name Provigil is 55 times more expensive than the generic equivalent. Between 2017-2019, the WH pharmacy spent an estimated $98,000 for Provigil.”

Tell the orcas I got another one for them.

Sen. Ron Wyden remains one of our few privacy advocates in Congress.

“Each request can cover days or weeks of mail sent to or from a person or address, and 97 percent of the requests were approved…Postal inspectors recorded more than 312,000 letters and packages between 2015 and 2023, the records show.”

Law enforcement is spying on thousands of Americans’ mail, records showwww.washingtonpost.com The Postal Service approves thousands of requests every year from police officers and federal agents seeking information from Americans’ letters and packages.

The skyline is performing perfectly.

DeSantis is a hardcore authoritarian who has been obsessed with controlling classroom speech since his brief stint as a high school history teacher/creep.

It is incredibly infuriating that all the complaining about cancel culture paved a path to this, where state officials are saying that they are allowed to censor any faculty speech that contradicts them. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Fla. argues it could stop professors from criticizing governorwww.insidehighered.com A nationally prominent conservative lawyer, hired to defend the state’s Stop WOKE Act, asserted that what public university professors say in classrooms “is the government’s speech.” The national impl...

It would be super cool if the tech media would simply stop credulously repeating every value-juicing statement C-Suites make like they’re the in-house PR department. The only difference between these hollow promises and the guy crying, “The end is near!” on the street corner is funding.

Also this bit. Translated, he means “Our exploitation of this technology requires a new relationship with the law and the rest of you to fuck off and live with it.”

The CEO of Perplexity has responded to our requests for comment by… talking to Fast Company. He blames an unnamed 3rd party for ignoring our robots.txt blocking scraping and claims we crafted our prompts to get it to accuse a cop of crimes he didn’t do (we didn’t) www.fastcompany.com/91144894/per...

Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas on plagiarism accusations - Fast Companywww.fastcompany.com Recent reports raise questions about how the answer engine works, including its use of third-party content crawlers.

Mom put her kid in the car after a day at the zoo. Then the doors wouldn’t open because the battery died. Sealing the 20-month-old inside in the middle of a national Heat Dome in the Arizona desert. Because Teslas are fucking dumb death traps.

Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery - https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24183439/tesla-model-y-arizona-toddler-trapped-rescued

Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead batterywww.theverge.com Firefighters had to use an axe to smash through the window.

Perplexity “was surreptitiously scraping, using crawlers to visit and download parts of websites from which developers had tried to block it, in violation of its own publicly stated policy of honoring the Robots Exclusion Protocol.” robots.txt isnt a firewall against scraping. It’s a Keep Out sign.

NEW: The inevitable happened www.wired.com/story/perple...

Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machinewww.wired.com Experts aren’t unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup’s practices could expose it to legal claims ranging from infringement to defamation—but some say plaintiffs would have strong cases...

Not that stealthy.

Besides the grievous copyright violations, LLMs scraping the open web means taking in a lot of garbage. And these companies can’t and won’t stay ahead of QC-ing the output.

Super. Just super. futurism.com/the-byte/cha...

Top Chatbots are Parroting Russian Propaganda, Report Findsfuturism.com Been reading any good Russian propaganda lately? According to the misinformation watchdog NewsGuard, top AI chatbots certainly have.

And astronomers hate Starlink because it’s effectively blotting out stars amid their night-sky clutter. Not to mention the significant amount of space junk that’s produced by every orbital deployment.

We banned CFCs to protect and heal the ozone and now satellite constellations might burn it up again. Starlink will be burning up 2,000 satellites per year in perpetuity for its service.

SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Findsfuturism.com SpaceX's growing Starlink megaconstellation could be hindering the Earth's ozone layer from healing itself, researchers find.

Hawaii just casually looking like this in real life.

If you see this... post a photo you took at sunset (LA, November 2023).

This is the central thrust of generative models for *sarcastic quotes* “creative content” right now: volume. Quantity over quality. More garbage into the money furnace.

RIP Beyond the Spider-Verse, I guess. | www.indiewire.com/news/breakin...

Sony Will Use AI to Cut Film Costs, Says CEO Tony Vinciquerrawww.indiewire.com Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra plans to use AI to cut film costs.