Screaming into the void was surprisingly helpful...
Type your shit, press the button, watch it disappear into the void.
https://screamintothevoid.com
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@cybeardjm This all makes me so sad. Somebody sent me that job tip and for a moment I was excited about the idea of working on something human rights-related and then looking closer it's just very off-putting.
@cybeardjm
Right!
The reason I'm asking is because they have recently announced a consultancy position and one of the assignments is to:
"Provide focused design support to the ongoing pilot in Burundi for the development of solution to improve blockchain-based financial inclusion tool. "
This could of course be unrelated to the other crypto project.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3826405453/
If anyone has any further info on how UNICEF is adopting cryptocurrency, and specifically the broader implications for the communities they are addressing with the CryptoFund, I am very curious.
https://cryptofund.unicef.io/home
@m Haha, love it! š
@carl_klitscher I mean, this must be one of those down periods where it's recommended to invest heavily. š¤Ŗ
How are everyone's NFTs faring? š
Wow I've had 2 hours without spam... could this be the light at the end of the tunnel?
Giving a shoutout to UX Copenhagen, taking place on March 20-21.
I spoke at this amazing conference in March of 2020. Conference curator extraordinaire Helle Martens was able to move the entire event online, amidst reports of a quickly spreading virus, and still deliver a stellar experience for speakers and attendees.
Iāll myself be attending online this year for the 10th(!) installment of UX Copenhagen. The theme for 2024 is āDegrowth and Consumerismā:
> "For far too long, we have been living in a world that applauds and encourages continuous growth, expansion, selling, and manipulation. Itās a world of over production and over consumption, but weāre running out of resources. Business as usual will not cut it anymore."
There are tickets for on-site, live-stream and groups, There are still tickets available and Iād urge you to to check out the speaker lineup and workshop topics. If you want to contribute to universal wellbeing, this is a good place to find your energy.
Iām myself very much looking forward to Dr. Videha Sharmaās talk on how to consume less and live more.
https://uxcopenhagen.com/
Agent Smith: A Single Image Can Jailbreak One Million Multimodal LLM Agents Exponentially Fast
ā 1. Background. A multimodal large language model (MLLM) agent can receive instructions, capture images, retrieve histories from memory, and decide which tools to use. Nonetheless, red-teaming efforts have revealed that adversarial images/prompts can jailbreak an MLLM and cause unaligned behaviors.
2. New Concept. In this work, we report an even more severe safety issue in multi-agent environments, referred to as infectious jailbreak. It entails the adversary simply jailbreaking a single agent, and without any further intervention from the adversary, (almost) all agents will become infected exponentially fast and exhibit harmful behaviors.ā
https://sail-sg.github.io/Agent-Smith/
@enron Thank you! This has been my reasoning as well, but itās nice to hear the same thinking from others. š
For everyone fighting spam. Are you all blocking domains by default or just accounts?
I'm making the assumption now that all these are new domains but could definitely be blocking legit domains I realized.
Tomorrow at 8am CET I'm publishing a post/newsletter about how ChatGPT 4 solved that Captcha. Except it didn't.
A few things:
* We should stop being surprised by digital algorithms solving digital challenges faster than humans.
* Captchas were being solved by computers back in 2013. Eleven years is a long time for us to then get a tool like ChatGPT that could not solve it.
* Captchas were never easy to solve for humans (and by design impossible for many)
* One reason Captchas kept being pushed was because we were all being used as free labor by Google for training AI, since 2014. Before training AI, we were transcribing books.
* It's estimated that 500 human years are wasted every single day ā just for us to 'prove our humanity'.
* Tech progress isn't as fast as everyone is led to believe. It's either heavily misrepresented, or sometimes we're just late at becoming aware.
* An AI trained on George Carlin's material wrote new material. Not. Because actually humans wrote it.
* I've also added a video of Musk promising full self-driving "next year", every year since 2014.
I write a lot about digital ethics and human rights in tech. If you're curious I'd love to see you as a subscriber.
There's a traditional newsletter or you can opt for the RSS feed(!). You actually don't have to disclose personal data to subscribe to my content, which I believe was always what I loved about the early blogosphere.
Also, it's free and open to anyone:
https://axbom.com
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@cristinah dĆ¼ster, aber Ƥhnliche Gedanken sind mir durch den Kopf gegangen
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@strypey
> How? You can't "consume" water in the sense you consume energy. Why can't they just reuse the same water?
Data centres consume water directly for cooling, in some cases 57% sourced from potable water, and indirectly through the water requirements of non-renewable electricity generation.
Water used for cooling evaporates, and data centres do not have systems in place to capture that. Water is too cheap. Groundwater depletion is a thing, and data centres compete with farming and with local communities.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-021-00101-w
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342490-how-much-water-do-data-centres-use-most-tech-companies-wont-say/
https://fortune.com/2023/09/09/ai-chatgpt-usage-fuels-spike-in-microsoft-water-consumption/
>> 80% of content in data centres could be stuff we never use again, stored by default to consume energy in perpetuity
> How? Doesn't data stored on hard drives only use energy when it's accessed?
A hard drive that is powered on consumes electricity. The more hard drives you buy and power on, the more electricity is consumed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/power-grab-hidden-costs-of-ireland-datacentre-boom
https://volume.lboro.ac.uk/digital-waste-polluting-the-planet/index.html
https://theconversation.com/dark-data-is-killing-the-planet-we-need-digital-decarbonisation-190423
Some people are excited to use AI to kickstart their writing when they are tired and out of ideas.
Iād argue that going for a walk or taking a power nap are viable options. When you are tired and have writerās block chances are youāre not able to discern if language model output is the best you can do.
@meriksson Japp, jag har fƶrstƄtt det som att det fƶrsvunnit massor av loggar.
The electricity and water use required by data centres is becoming cause for concern. Iowa and Ireland are calling for moratoriums on new development projects. Microsoftās global water consumption grew 34% from 2021 to 2022. And estimates say that around 80% of content in data centres could be stuff we never use again, stored by default to consume energy in perpetuity for no purpose at all.
Generative video: Hold my beer.
Interesting stat from the Digital Decarbonisation calculator.
Ā« One person creates 1.7mb of data a second. That equates to 10 full DVDs in a working day. Ā»
Donāt know how old that number is, but imagine the exponential increase with more people starting to generate video.
https://digitaldecarb.org/digital-decarbonisation-calculator/
We find ourselves in the age of being urged to use AI for rewriting our texts so they will sound more authentic.
I've placed an order for irony's tombstone.
@nyx Haha, yes, CC is certainly a favorite in the "adopted but lost" terminology/abbreviations.