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I know people aren’t fans of seeing X content on here, but this is too insane not to share… WTF is wrong with Europe?

“The dangers of A.I. are abstract for many people, but for me, they are very real.

In two weeks, I face years in prison because the government used an A.I. tool on a groupchat I was allegedly a member of and which was literally called "shitposting".

Their A.I. tool gave every message a 'toxicity score' and concluded most of the messages were toxic.

One of my alleged messages was "Some cultures are inferior, backwards cultures that still practice Female Genital Mutilation, for example". This message got a 100/100 toxicity score and 100/100 for sexism and 100/100 for racism. Yes, this was considered sexist by the A.I. (a punishable offence in Belgium)

Almost all of the messages the A.I. bot concluded to be 'toxic', are completely wrong. Every sentence that included "an African" was deemed racist, for example. Every sentence with "leftist tears" got 100/100 toxicity.

I (allegedly) quoted a black journalist who said something racist, but the A.I. bot does not understand this and attributed the quote to me, adding to the 'total toxicity score' that got me 1 year in jail and a 16.000 EUR fine.

There is no serious way to defend yourself against this, as the Public Prosecutor will use the 'Total Toxicity Score' as his 'evidence', instead of going over all the supposedly toxic quotes.

The Public Prosecutor's definition of 'shitposts' is also crazy: "Shitposts are deliberately insulting messages ment to provocate".

My appeal is next week.”

https://x.com/dvanlangenhove/status/1892293193972273305

Now I know what Europe means when they say they will "lead in AI"

In previous decades, I would applaud the "Listen to your teacher" sentiment ..

Now you might need to qualify it, "Listen to your teacher, and critically decide whether what she is saying is bullshit" ..

Their concept is great -- small inexpensive autonomous systems. And for sure there was a lot of negativity around SpaceX in the early days, which turned out to be sour apples.

But the end resultfor Anduril must be superior battlefield performance. As with everything on the internet, there is an analysis to prove which ever side you want on the issue. :-)

Anduril is the darling of the VC and military communities, but TBH I'm not sure whether their systems have performed well in actual combat. It would be great to see an impartial analysis of how they performed in Ukraine. (I believe their stuff was deployed there.)

Dude, not to be a downer, but that flag in back represents the opposite of freedom for a large portion of the US population.

At least not until primal has the ability to do proper polls like twitter :-)

But given all the fiat "science" of the last few years, I have a strong inclination to distrust studies such as this.

Looking up the funding for the lead author, I see Google funded her, as well as the Wellcome Trust, which was started by a forerunner company of GSK -- pharmaceuticals.

Pardon my tinfoil hat, but it's hard to believe the funding sources are disinterested parties only seeking scientific truth, wherever it may lead.

https://theconversation.com/profiles/victoria-goodyear-409715

Do the women become men under carnivore? :-)