#AI #OpenAI #firearms
"OpenAI has cut off a developer who built a device that could respond to ChatGPT queries to aim and fire an automated rifle. The device went viral after a video on Reddit showed its developer reading firing commands aloud, after which a rifle beside him quickly began aiming and firing at nearby walls."
https://gizmodo.com/openai-shuts-down-developer-who-made-ai-powered-gun-turret-2000548092
#Canada #lawsuits #AI #media #ChatGPT #copyright
'A coalition of Canadian news outlets sued OpenAI on Friday for copyright infringement. The joint lawsuit accuses the company of “capitalizing and profiting” from the unauthorized use of their content for ChatGPT. The legal action was filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.'
#EU #OpenSource #AI #LLM
'The large language model of the OpenGPT-X research project is now available for download on Hugging Face: "Teuken-7B" has been trained from scratch in all 24 official languages of the European Union (EU) and contains seven billion parameters. Researchers and companies can leverage this commercially usable open source model for their own artificial intelligence (AI) applications.'
https://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/en/press/press-release-241126.html
#privacy #PersonalInformation #TikTok #Facebook #Uber #Lyft #WebBugs
"Tracking pixels are small lines of code embedded in images on a site’s interface. They allow companies to see users’ behavior and collect valuable information for advertising efforts.... What [Professor David] Choffnes and his colleagues uncovered was that these pixels were inadvertently collecting data from private application web forms and then sending that data directly to Meta and TikTok."
https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/11/15/uber-privacy-social-security-leak/
#K12 #education #3DPrinting #OpenSource #hardware
'Professors at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development are working to provide schools and universities with open-source designs for tools that can be fabricated with 3D printers and other high-tech devices.'
https://news.virginia.edu/content/cad-library-provides-teachers-tools-fit-print
#politics #DonaldTrump #deepfakes #AI #propaganda #AfricanAmericans
'Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican.
BBC Panorama discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president.'
Turning MegaGladys Into a Wikipedia OSINT Power Tool
When I say that I do ResearchBuzz, that's literal. There's only one person behind ResearchBuzz and that's me. I don't have any contract workers or employees or anything like that; I can't afford them. It's just me. That means when I make something I'm limited by what I know and what I can do.
https://researchbuzz.me/2023/10/02/turning-megagladys-into-a-wikipedia-osint-power-tool/
#OSINT #Wikipedia #Wikidata
nostr:npub10fmsw3ukhmqnnsjmalfekl6j4cucxvfl50he9dmqcna36a99nf6s8zx0qg I *think* it'll pick it up automatically because the gift link is the one with the media card. Feel free to experiment. lol
#legal #SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #transparency #MoneyMoneyMoney
'Justice Clarence Thomas disclosed Thursday that Republican megadonor Harlan Crow paid for private jet trips for Thomas in 2022 to attend a speech in Texas and a vacation at Crow’s luxurious New York estate, according to newly released financial disclosure forms.'
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/31/politics/thomas-alito-supreme-court-disclosures/index.html
nostr:npub1ej68dzernetvgqh3gpk006eh509jnmyzptwqcsr7y772vtf3j2dqpxpvaa I wish I could, believe me. IT MAKES NO SENSE! And, PEOPLE ARE NOT DISCUSSING THIS ENOUGH. What has to happen, exactly?🤷🏾♀️
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx A live psychotic episode caused by a UTI? I got nothin
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx If your bus driver glitched like that he'd be off the job before you could say liability insurance.
But this man, who has an outsized influence on the lives OF OVER THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE can continue because his feelings or seniority or some damn thing?
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE, STILL
I like the content on Mastodon for this debate, but I don't like having to find it. I think I'll make something to address that tomorrow.
Maybe something where you can put in the instances / hashtags of your choice and get an auto-refreshing aggregate feed.
nostr:npub1ej68dzernetvgqh3gpk006eh509jnmyzptwqcsr7y772vtf3j2dqpxpvaa Nope. You're definitely not the only one. I'm constantly interrogating things I learned growing up to root out stupidity and white supremacy. We all need to ask where ideas/beliefs really come from. We went to school here. We all were taught things that were wrong.
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx And we'll keep being taught things that are wrong as our knowledge evolves. And that's fine, if you can maintain a perspective of those things as "a thing about which a bunch of scientific types were full of shit" and not "unassailable aspect of my personal identity"
How I know I'm middle-aged: I got a new hand vac to replace my 10-year-old one with a punk battery and I'm ridiculously excited about how well it works.
I am IMPATIENTLY WAITING for it to charge so I can work on this floor.
I've been writing and thinking for two years now about "rewilding your attention"
That's Tom Critchlow's phrase for decoupling our focus away from the viral stuff that big social-networks algorithms are promoting
Yesterday, I did a talk for Medium Day about it ...
... and this essay summarizes the talk: https://clivethompson.medium.com/a-quick-primer-on-rewilding-your-attention-892af77c7bca
A "friend" link in case you're not a Medium subscriber: https://clivethompson.medium.com/a-quick-primer-on-rewilding-your-attention-892af77c7bca?sk=53ea83f256224aa7044619b1df7c8190
nostr:npub1typ5we79rr527q30467hfz8ptfy0h8gxpmfn7j64ak6pk6pv4rfszzc8hh What an interesting way to put it. Perhaps ResearchBuzz is a meadow.
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx Did you get something nice dispensed? It's almost 4:20
nostr:npub10fmsw3ukhmqnnsjmalfekl6j4cucxvfl50he9dmqcna36a99nf6s8zx0qg WHO are these GORMLESS FUCKPOTATOES who are ACTUALLY PROUD of being AS WASTEFUL AND THOUGHTLESS AS FUCKING POSSIBLE?
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx Outsource it to Spirit Halloween, they know where every empty building in the damn country is