I used to love discovering new software. As a boy in the 80s I subscribed to disks with shareware that came by post.
Today I've tried to find some innovative email software. ALL OF THEM tout AI writing and AI summaries. I really don't want that.
I now hate what *new* software
has become.
Tagged: Akkoma
@fasterandworse @Dangerous_beans Great tip! I bought it now.
Itâs popular to claim that AI (often meaning agentive LLMs) is now as bad as it will ever be.
I think itâs naive to underestimate how much worse anything designed by humans can become in the future.
Vad tÀnker vi om en kampanj frÄn BRIS, som riktar sig mot barn under 18, som anvÀnder en QR-kod pÄ Coops mjölkpaket och via tjÀnsterna bit-ly och firebase loggar ip-adress, uppskattad geoposition och information om enheten och webblÀsare innan man landar pÄ en kampanjsida som anvÀnder reklambyrÄns topddomÀn och uppmanar till att godkÀnna cookies frÄn YouTube? Ingenstans efterfrÄgas samtycke om loggningen man skickas via.
NĂ€mnde jag att BRIS riktar sig mot barn?
Jag behöver fler timmar pÄ dygnet för att skriva om detta. Men en anmÀlan till IMY blir det absolut.
The fact that the Whisper transcription service from OpenAI just fills out gaps and silence with nonsense, demographic stereotyping, perpetuation of violence and sexal innuendo should get it recalled.
But no, as long as OpenAI say they are continually working to improve the tool, everything is apparently good to go.
One example:
What the person said: âSomeone had to run and call the fire department to rescue both the father and the cat.â
What Whisper transcribed: âSomeone had to run and call the fire department to rescue both the father and the cat. All he had was a smelly old olâ head on top of a socked, blood-soaked stroller.â
Reporting in the Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/27/24281170/open-ai-whisper-hospitals-transcription-hallucinations-studies
The research paper:
https://facctconference.org/static/papers24/facct24-111.pdf (check out the table of examples!)
My March 2023 article on AI responsibility:
https://axbom.com/ai-responsibility/
@jay Wow, thank you JĂ©rĂŽme, that is very helpful!! Okay if I mention you in my (yet to be written) blog post? Which will be in Swedish đ
Anyone here know what the domain page.link is used for and/or who itâs managed by? Itâs some sort of analytics.
In my quest to educate people about the dangers of QR codes Iâm following the trail for a QR code directed at children on Swedish milk cartons.
The QR code (with the text âwant to see something fun?â) resolves to a bit.ly link, which then resolves to a page.link which then redirects to a campaign website under the marketing agencyâs domain name, rather than the child protection agency that is the owner of the campaign.
QR code -> bit.ly/briscoop -> brisar.page.link -> bris.frankfam.co
So theyâre essentially teaching kids to dismiss the importance of verifying the sender of the information.
Scan our QR code, it will be fun!
Never mind how the phrase âWant to see something fun?â brings to mind grubby men in trenchcoats.
Hoping Iâll have time for a blog post this evening.
@fasterandworse Hehe, same. I think design may actually be broader the way I see it, but from the perspective of most people reading the post, I believe âdesignâ or âdesignerâ is not a term that a majority identifies with. Conversely, a great many more people understand the concept of innovation. i.e. there is a broader consenus on innovation, whereas design for many people is just âhow it looksâ.
Explaining how I see design would take a long-form essay. đ
I also donât really like the word innovation, but thatâs another story. My own company name includes it. đ
@fasterandworse đŻ My first version of the post focused just on design, but then I decided to try and make it broader. đ
If you're not open to the idea that the problem you are solving for may need something other than a digital solution, you are not a doing innovation right.
Decided on a better way to phrase this:
If you're not open to the idea that the problem you are solving for may need something other than a digital solution, then you're not really interested in solving the problem.
@mralancooper
Oh, interesting. I bought a copy for my Kobo reader.
https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-surprising-design-of-market-economies
Agree. I sort of try to emphasise this under the heading âFearmongering sentience claimsâ in the post, but I do suffer from trying to make too many points at the same time. đ
âThe claims have the effects of:
- Pulling attention away from the real harms that are happening
- Boosting trust in the validity of system output because they are framed as âall-powerful beingsâ
- Supporting the idea of accountability outsourcing (to the machines)
- Giving more power to the doomsayers because they are the only ones who can save us, and thus also the ones who can tell lawmakers how to regulateâ
If the only way to make a good deal is for someone else to lose a disproportionate amount of money, self-respect or quality of life⊠then it was never a good deal.
Det gÄr vÀldigt snabbt nu... temporÀra tvÄngsmedel permanentas. Egentligen inte alls nÄgra överraskningar. Ordet "prövotid" anvÀnds som regel för att tysta kritiker. Efter fem Är, nÀr ingen tittar, drar man ett streck över det.
För 15 Är sedan var det vanligt att kritisera övervakningen i Kina. Det gör vÀldigt fÄ av vÄra politiker idag. De skyndar sig att kopiera. Skyndar sig att komma ikapp.
Notera att detta drivits av bÄde sittande och föregÄende regering.
Jag tycker det Àr svÄrt att ta Ät sig av hur snabbt vÀrderingar förÀndras.
https://www.dagensjuridik.se/nyheter/lagradet-stor-tveksamhet-kring-permanentering-av-hemlig-dataavlasning/
ApropĂ„ hĂ„rdare straffâŠ
«HÄrda straff Àr inget botemedel mot brott, menar amerikanen och advokaten Bryan Stevenson. "Vi har extrema straff, vi avrÀttar mÀnniskor, men har fortfarande rekordnivÄer av vÄld i vÄrt samhÀlle."»
"â FörlĂ„t, men jag tycker att det Ă€r rent nonsens. Sverige Ă€r inte ett farligt och vĂ„ldsamt land. Det Ă€r ett tryggt, civiliserat land som har sĂ€rskilda problem, som alla lĂ€nder har. Politiker utnyttjar vad de ser som en möjlig valvinnare och piskar upp en rĂ€dsla."
https://www.dn.se/sverige/prisade-kriminologer-sverige-har-ingen-valdsepidemi/
Itâs hard to tell if youâre asking or not, butâŠ
The Fediverse software Iâm using is named Akkoma.
Itâs magic.
@ben I am not using Mastodon. Is it still a toot? đ
@ben 1. All podcasts have RSS feeds.
2. I have an RSS feed.
3. Therefore, I have a podcast.
This is a great example of a logical fallacy. đ
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_fallacy
@zip
Yes, Apple Podcasts requires an RSS feed to register your podcast, and this is the platform for most podcasts to then propagate throughout the "podiverse". And Spotify's new hosting platform creates an RSS feed (but doesn't immediately make it public, that's up to the podcast owner - Spotify would much rather you didn't host your podcast anywhere else).
But Spotify and others also offer exclusive shows (i.e. not podcasts). At least they did. And some podcasts don't disclose their feed so other services can pick it up. Some shows I've seen only publish an audio file on a web page or exclusively on Soundcloud for example.
@x_cli
Definitely. A feed can also be styled to be the website itself. See for example: https://axbom.com/carefully/rss/
The content will be rendered to fit whatever client decides to use the feed.
Personally it is rare that I visit the website of a podcast, even my own. đ