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@usmanz I doubt that it's trying to. I have my own install(s) of Ghost on my own VPS. It's more akin to early Wordpress.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but Ghost now has import tools for Substack, Medium and Mailchimp content.
#Indieweb
I should update my post on #indieweb and using Cloudron for my VPS. Iâm getting closer to a situation where all the cloud software I need is on my own server.
Really enjoying the new app Outline for drafting documents, collaborating on documents and making them available for external review. It has replaced my bit.ai subscription. Will be used a lot for allowing clients to review and give feedback on reports.
cal.com has replaced my Calendly subscription.
Iâm using Baserow instead of Airtable.
And of course, Iâm running about six Ghost installations for different projects.
If all fares well with MiroTalk, that will replace any online meeting platforms Iâm paying for (Whereby at the moment).
Nextcloud is in line to replace Dropbox.
If I need to sketch interfaces Iâve got Penpot.
Iâm using Umami for web stats but thatâs been going on for a long time now.
Not sure Iâll want to replace Harvest, but there is the possibility of Invoice Ninja.
Anyway, there is so much satisfaction in hosting my own services rather than relying on corporate big tech versions of the similar software.
I spent some time writing a long comment on LinkedIn earlier today. A few hours later â without any warning, notification or ability to retrieve it â the comment is gone. And I notice how other peopleâs comments, with similar concerns, are also gone. Left below the post are only the comments that agree with, support and celebrate it.
The way LinkedIn just completely allows the removal of content (without warning or backup) at the behest of others is a problem. I did not save that text elsewhere.
Note to self:
âą Never write comments again without also saving them locally on my computer.
Note to LinkedIn:
âą Display the number of deleted comments next to each post â this will give an idea of what to expect from the person writing the post.
âą And please, please allow me to retrieve my own comments on my own account, even if someone else didnât want it visible below their post.
"Kay Firth-Butterfield, chief executive of the Center for Trustworthy Technology, said parents should be asked for consent first. However, a Schoolwatch representative said schools did not need parental permission because personal information was not being stored." đ€ą
And the children themselves, of course, should have no say in the matter. Because their voices do not matter in the slightest. Furthermore, they're very annoying to listen to. Imagine the effort of having a conversation with them about their wellbeing.
Unless it's through a surveillance device than can listen and just alert us about keywords out of context. So much more efficient. Gotta love that efficiency.
One of my predictions is that more and more employees will start writing down texts that argue for their own vision to be realised, but they will write it as if it was an AI output.
Because they know management will listen to an AI but not to them.
@edeverett Wow had not heard about this.
My prediction for today is that more and more employees will start writing down texts that argue for their own vision to be realised, but they will write it as if it was an AI output.
Because they know management will listen to an AI but not to them.
@sintrenton
Ja, vÀldigt bra text. Tack.
@mitsunee Haha, I hadn't thought of that but you're absolutely right.
Mailchimp have now abandoned all of its "whimsiness", so I doubt we'll ever really know.
When does the EU AI Act start being enforced? The answer will vary depending on what type of AI we are talking about.
As we are getting closer to the plenary vote on the EU AI Act, provisionally scheduled for April 10-11, there is some confusion as to when the law actually comes into effect.
After the European Parliament vote, and assuming it goes through as expected, the new legislation will need to be entered into the EUR-Lex Official Journal of the European Union. The law comes into force 20 days after this event.
Even though it comes into force, the legislation first enters into what is called "Vacatio legis". This is a transitional period intended to give stakeholders time to adapt and make any necessary changes to their tools and operations before legislation is applied.
The deadline for Vacatio legis varies for different applications:
⊠The parts concerning prohibited AI systems apply after 6 months. I would expect as early as December.
⊠Specific obligations for "general-purpose" systems come into effect after 12 months. Therefore, around mid-2025 is something that "foundation models" and "AI assistants" likely need to consider.
⊠In essence, the rest of the act comes into effect after 24 months, presumably around mid-2026 - this is what most people have in mind when they say that the AI Act becomes operational after 2 years.
⊠However, there are also details that only come into effect after 36 months, and these are related to the parts in Annex II.
I made this timeline to give you a very quick and brief overview of these next steps before the AI Act comes into full enforcement. References for further reading are provided in my blog post on axbom.com
Bra reflektioner av Fatmir om hur kÀnslokalla rekryteringsprocesser Àr idag.
Det hÀr fick mig ocksÄ att fundera över hur automatiserad rekrytering kan inverka nÀr ordet funktionsnedsÀttning och relaterade begrepp Äterfinns. Vi gÄr allt tydligare mot en vÀrld dÀr mÀnniskor sÀllan kommer granska ansökningar i ett första skede. Maskiner kommer göra det. Exakt hur arbetssökande sÄllas bort av dessa automatiserade verktyg Àr ofta höljt i dunkel.
Enligt Dataskyddsförordningen (GDPR) mÄste företag informera om det sker automatiserad profilering och automatiserat beslutsfattande (som att sortera in arbetssökande i prioritetsordning). Man har ocksÄ som arbetssökande rÀtt att bestrida automatiserad behandling av ens uppgifter.
Hur öppna företag Ă€r med detta nĂ€r de tillĂ€mpar automatisering i rekryteringar Ă€r dock ganska okĂ€nt i nulĂ€get. Om man misstĂ€nker att företag inte Ă€r öppna med sina automatiserade beslut â och man inte fĂ„r tillfredstĂ€llande svar frĂ„n organisationens personuppgiftsansvariga - bör man övervĂ€ga en anmĂ€lan till Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY).
IMY informerar hÀr om dina rÀttigheter nÀr beslut fattas automatiskt:
https://www.imy.se/privatperson/dataskydd/dina-rattigheter/automatiserade-beslut/
@falcennial đ Off by default would definitely work for me.
I remember when Mailchimp and its monkey mascot had a tone-of-voice that was full of jokes and whimsiness. Many found this annoying or offensive (either generally or after prolonged exposure) and in the end Mailchimp were compelled to implement a setting so that people could switch off the humor.
In a continued demonstration of zero concern for the real human discomfort of customers, they called that setting "party pooper mode".
Anyway, a setting that I would really appreciate is to turn off all the AI assistants that pop up in different services wherein I want to write my own text.
Feel free to call it "AI pooper mode".
(Update: after writing this I realised that "AI pooper" may more accurately describe the setting when it is turned on. This will get confusing. Just let me hide it from sight, please.)
Spread the word to all developers.
https://axbom.com/ai-pooper-mode/
@timthelion Oh yeah! I remember listening to The Missing Cryptoqueen and the part where they described graphs on a web page showing how investments in OneCoin were growing in value, all faked.
In a 2019 report, Sensity â an Amsterdam-based company with AI and deepfake expertise â showed that 96 percent of deepfake videos are sexual and produced without consent. In 99 percent of cases, it is women who are affected. Women being targeted for deepfake films is significantly more common than politicians being targeted.
It is now possible, for a few dollars, to create porn videos with anyone who has a bunch of photos of themselves posted on the Internet. Movies with celebrity faces are available in large quantities for around $5. In chat forums, customized videos are being offered with any person on Instagram with less than 2 million followers, a so-called "personal girl", for 65 dollars.
It is unfortunate that it is called fake because it is a very real abuse; the face belongs to a real person. Desperate young women are regularly alerted to the existence of nude photos and pornographic images of people who look exactly like them, and are named as them. This can of course contribute to immense harmful effects in terms of stress, mental health and self-image. Which in turn can have further tragic consequences.
My blog post from June:
https://axbom.com/deepfake-porn/
#DigitalEthics #DeepFake #AIEthics
Remember when AI was used to generate a George Carlin comedy routine? That didnât happen. Generative AI isnât that good.
After the George Carlinâs estate sued, a representative of the show admitted that it was human-written. The claim that it was produced by an AI trained on Carlinâs material appears to be far from the truth, and rather used as a way to garner attention.
Cory Doctorow frequently reminds us that these stories of magical AI is peddled by both boosters and critics. Critics of AI make the mistake of also assuming that AI is this good, and talk about it as bad use of AI. This unnecessarily inflates the idea that AI can do things that it really canât, adding fuel to magical thinking.
Itâs probably a good idea to more often question if AI is even in the picture, given how effective it has become as a marketing vehicle. Was there AI involved? Perhaps, but not to the extent that salespeople would have you imagine
And yes, there's a name for this kind of criticism: "criti-hype.â A term coined by Lee Vinsel. Read more in Doctorowâs blog post, as always littered with further reading:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/pay-no-attention/#to-the-little-man-behind-the-curtain
#Critihype #DigitalEthics #AIEthics
Remember when AI was used to generate a George Carlin comedy routine? That didnât happen. Generative AI isnât that good.
After the George Carlinâs estate sued, a representative of the show admitted that it was human-written. The claim that is was produced by an AI trained on Carlinâs material appears to be far from the truth, and rather used as a way to garner attention.
Cory Doctorow frequently reminds us that these stories of magical AI is peddled by both boosters and critics. Critics of AI make the mistake of also assuming that AI is this good, and talk about it as bad use of AI. This unnecessarily inflates the idea that AI can do things that it really canât, adding fuel to magical thinking.
Itâs probably a good idea to more often question if AI is even in the picture, given how effective it has become as a marketing vehicle. Was there AI involved? Perhaps, but not to the extent that salespeople would have you imagine
And yes, there's a name for this kind of criticism: "criti-hype.â A term coined by Lee Vinsel. Read more in Doctorowâs blog post, as always littered with further reading:
#CritiHype #AIEthics #DigitalEthics
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And then, follow her advice.
#accessibility