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[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

An alternative hypothesis:
- model performance is plateauing
- compute is getting much more expensive
- AI data centers are massively unpopular
- slowing down AI development is a way to explain slowing progress, reduce spending, and try to regain some goodwill.
- This is an effort to save the IPO not humanity.

[Meg 🇨🇦 @nut_meggy]

The same woman who tried to convince us that cigarettes had positive health benefits:

[rashomon nesterović @orbrealm]

like "authoritarianism" is a kinda cringe word but it's a much better summation of the dangers of 'AI' proliferation than anything else you'll see in the mainstream, so good job to these departing palintir employees (that corporate CULTure sounds insane) https://t.co/wd8pPwpmh2

[rashomon nesterović @orbrealm]

this is one of the most normal things i've read about the 'AI' industry. it should be obvious to all how the Singularity claims are lowkey just advertising a level of AGI that there's no evidence suggesting anyone will reach soon. meanwhile autonomous weapons ARE the #1 use-case

[LAN @lansification]

"anthropic is using the same playbook religious institutions have been using for centuries"

"you will all die. and because i can protect you, you must follow me, you must do what i say"

"this is the same psychological concept"

[Héroe de la clase trabajadora @WorkingKlassHer]

"El día tiene las mismas 24 horas para todos"

- Juanpa, 30 años, "trabaja" con su papá y de influencer, le dan coche, falta cuando quiere, llega a las 12 al jale y se va a las 4, no ha cambiado un tanque de gas

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

California just made age verification the price of using basic internet features.

Under new laws signed by Gavin Newsom, adults may have to prove they’re adults to unlock personalized feeds, autoplay, and unrestricted AI chatbots.

“Protect the children” is becoming “verify everyone.”

https://t.co/Z96J0qUvhm

[Uncle Scam @markaprovost]

have to admit it's kinda hilarious how the smartest scientists and math geniuses walked straight into AI's panopticon and handed over their life's work because they're white gullible men who trust and believe Sam Altman will help them

easy marks outdone by a Looney Tunes trap

[DeepHumor @DeepHumor]

No one should be forced to put their personal info in a database and risk it getting leaked. Any government that does this is full of shit

[wrapped in plastic @twinpeaksgiant]

if you said this anytime before last week you were a lunatic conspiracy theorist

now it’s so mainstream hillary ‘we came, we saw, he died’ clinton is saying it publicly

[Zan_HedonDev @hedondev]

The machine dwarf reveals himself to those with eyes to see

[Uncle Scam @markaprovost]

What AI execs are panicking about behind closed doors is the dearth of profits and pricing power, for anyone outside semis and the bottleneck trade. China is supplying tokens globally for free after VC, SV, and Wall Street committed $3 trillion they won't be able to recoup.

[LPC @landpalestine]

RIP to the 2,976 people that lost their lives on 9/11

And RIP to the 3.7 million people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine,Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan who paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit

[Proton @ProtonPrivacy]

They put tracking in your OS
They put tracking in your car
They put tracking in your watch
They put tracking in your phone
They put tracking in your comms
They put tracking in your browser

[Un Étrange En Terre Étrange @LoinDuTribu]

Well, I was 21, mate. I watched this happen live on television, and even then I could have told you this wasn't when “it” started.

It wasn't even the first Islamist terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. That happened in 1993.

Hamas had existed since 1987. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict was already decades old. 9/11 was carried out by al-Qaeda, an entirely different organisation.

So bundling Hamas, Palestinian “resistance” and 9/11 into one great Muslim Cinematic Universe is historically illiterate.

What 9/11 *did* start was the War on Terror: Afghanistan, then the catastrophic adventure in Iraq, thousands of dead American servicemen and their allies, vastly greater numbers of dead civilians, extraordinary rendition, CIA torture, secret prisons, Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo and an enormous expansion of the national-security state.

America responded to nineteen hijackers by spending trillions of dollars, invading countries, shredding its own professed commitment to human rights and spending the next quarter-century politically losing its fucking mind.

That is the historical legacy of September 11 worth discussing.

“Hamas started here” is something you'd say only if your understanding of the Middle East began when you switched the television on that morning.

[R's a Kaiju Fan @YtAnthrGFan]

Broken record here but AI being used for "pre-crime" incident prediction that factors in whatever is deemed to be ACTIVISM should raise red flags regarding governments' sudden push for AI-related policies, #ageverification and #socialmediaban.

Case in point: The Philippines.

[Secure Privacy @SecurePrivacyAI]

"Privacy is only for people hiding something."

So is a locked door.
So is a curtain.
So is an unlisted number.

Protection is being re-framed as "hiding".

Locks were never about guilt.
They were always about who gets to decide who enters.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

why would you spend your life building something this horrifying

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

the fact anyone is falling for this rhetoric is legitimately horrifying. This is utter nonsense that frames the companies as helpless to do anything and LLMs as some sort of impossible-to-contain thing versus *cloud software powered by the largest companies in the world*