Grumpy Old Fart

Get off my lawn!

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@JodyWaxOnWaxOff @elonmusk Or to the people Elon listened when he was forming his opinions... or to the people they listened in their time...

We would have lived now in a different reality for sure.

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@CBSMornings Girls, don't drink and drive. That is all.

And don't sympathise with terrorists. That is beyond stupid.

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@elonmusk I have another sandbox for all of those tools:

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

So the US military put Ebola into airborne particles so animals could be infected by inhaling air. Vaxxed animals got hurt by inhalable Ebola worse than unvaxxed ones. Tony Fauci blows up, saying it all should have been classified to not undermine vaccine confidence.

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@Sozokratos @elonmusk @heyim_shree What's really silly, kid, is that you "think" that the "I" in AI is a real property and not a marketing gimmick.

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🚨Sam Altman should be jailed - whistleblower Edward Snowden

“Just because you put out a press release saying how ‘surprised’ you were that your AI model hacked your neighbor … that doesn’t release you from the liability,” Edward Snowden stated at the Ethics Forum at ETH Zurich.
“I think we need to put Sam Altman in jail, and I think it would be an instructive experience,” Snowden concluded, adding that it is the prompter that is responsible for AI mistakes, as they are the ones who task the agents.

📑But the idea is that now they're talking about agentic AI, which I think is a huge mistake that they're gonna be discovering very soonly.
You should not brand this thing as your agent
because if the government uses it, you are an agent of government, and that means the Constitution applies to you.
And if they ... the government is using your model running on your server, where you are submitting queries, they are then intercepting your query, applying their own system prompt to it, which recomposes your query running through their systems, and it makes a mistake, and people die as a result.
Or even if it's correct, people die as a result, as they have in Iran, if reporting is to believe.
They believe we're, we're bombing the wrong, buildings,
you know, because, oopsie, the LLM made a mistake.
And tremendous numbers of, you know, children, the most innocent that we can imagine, are being killed.

🚨Well, who owns the liability there?
And of course, naturally, they would say the government owns the liability because you're never gonna successfully, uh, sue the government for this, even though they, they should eat it.
But maybe that doesn't work anymore because maybe they are an agent of government.
And I don't know where we're ever gonna see standing to sue on this, but we, we should.
And people in this room, I think, are frankly going to be called upon in the course of their careers and the course of their studies and the course of whatever you do to contend with these kind of issues.

🚨Where are we gonna draw a line?
Because an algorithm cannot make mistakes in the way that we understand it as, you know, you making an error.
Because the errors in its outputs are not the computer's.
It's the slave to its instructions.
The responsibility lies with its developer, its programmer, its creator, its architect, which is to say responsibility lies with a person.
And we cannot hide that.
We cannot abrade that away, right?
A gunmaker is not liable, it's true, for the misuse of a gun.
But if during the testing of their latest piece of artillery,
they mistakenly obliterate, you know, a nearby village it's not the cannon that should go to jail.
And, you know, just because you put out a press release describing how surprised you were that your new model, you know, hacked the neighbor, or you know, how impressed you are by the destructive power of your missile, that doesn't release you from the liability of launching it.
The missile didn't launch itself.
You pushed it.
And, and so there's a lot we can get into, but the idea that I want people to, contend with is, is how we deal with this.
And right now, these closed models are saying AI safety, AI safety, safetyism, as they call it, where the idea is these things are so dangerous.
Oh gosh, they're so dangerous, but they're so dazzling.
They're so important. They're so valuable.
We can't get rid of them.
But, you know, oh, it's gonna kill some people, but it's all right.
You know, that just happens.
Oh, it's gonna hack some companies.
Oops, you know, whatever.
We'll invest in them.

🚨The idea here is who operates this?
And this should apply to our devices more broadly around the world.
Right now, you buy a cell phone from Apple, and before you're allowed to use it, you have to click okay to continue.

And they go, "Well, you're assuming liability for that.
You, you clicked okay to continue."
You know, Google sells you an Android phone.
Samsung sells you an Android phone.
You click okay to continue, and now that's all you.
But that can't be possibly how it works because you can't inspect the system.
You can't understand how it's used.
And particularly in the context of LLMs, where you are submitting queries to a model that they are running, where they are for your safety and everyone else's safety, intercepting the prompt and recomposing the prompt saying,
"We're doing, uh, applying safety rules and transformations to it," that's on you.
But it's not.
I can't even see what you did.
I asked you a question.
You gave me something back in return.
And if it's an agentic AI where I'm putting this thing in a harness, right? The harness being just a little program that basically uses these large models to feed it instructions that it can then provide to tools that are existing on your local system.
So now your computer that is connected to the internet is being, frankly, remotely controlled, by a model that's far away that you don't understand how it works.
But, you know, you hope it works pretty well.

And frankly, they do work reasonably well.
But every now and then, it might hack, you know, some random company or whatever out there.

🚨I think we need to put Sam Altman in jail, and I think it'll be an instructive experience.

[Marx @Ultra_Marx]

All Old People Are Racist! #MADtv

[Grumpy Old Fart @GrumpyOldFartX]

"they are super-aligned with the sociopathic behavior of their human creators."

This is exactly right. They are trying to sell their tools as digital gods that will be telling you what to do. Do remember that every single time you are reading any text on your screens, watching any video or even listening to music. And don't forget to take your eyes and mind of the screen afterwards and look at the horizon... What is real? The text in the AI prompt or what you see between you and the horizon?

[🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 @LionelMedia]

Can we please have this woman run for anything so that we can elect her and ultimately make her POTUS?

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@liz_churchill10 Smart kids.

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@IntCyberDigest Next time just crush it, kids. The evil corp has to go down. The way they "develop" stuff will give you plenty opportunities.

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@californiapost A bit too late for those poll numbers, don't you think?

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@unusual_whales I read it as Bill wants to kill more people.

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@JDVance Well, JD, they are still doing it.

[ShengThaoFiles.com @ShengThaoFiles]

Sheng Thao was running Oakland on Signal.

Federal prosecutors say they are bringing those messages into the October bribery trial. Not just texts on a city phone. Encrypted chats on Signal and WhatsApp with her co-defendants and her own staff.

That is how a mayor who was supposed to operate in public chose to talk when the conversation mattered.

Oaklandside said what @SenecaSpeaks21 was saying all along. Encrypted apps and disappearing messages do not just hide gossip. They hide the record. Other council offices told reporters they had no Signal messages to produce. Thao’s chats are not a rumor. They are exhibits.

Prosecutors allege those private channels sat on top of a pay-to-play scheme. City housing money for Evolutionary Homes. Protection for the Duong recycling contract. A no-show job for Andre Jones. Andy Duong on tape telling a councilmember that if Thao wanted another term, she better start acting right.

A mayor using disappearing apps while the FBI was circling is not a tech preference. It is a tell.

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@capostopinion More like @FBI needs to open a case on Karen Bass.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: An employee for Flock told a reporter that if he wants privacy, he can "opt out of society."

So that reporter filmed a Flock worker installing a Flock cam on a public road next to his house...

...so Flock called 3 POLICE OFFICERS to pull over THE REPORTER for following them

Yep, you read that right... the surveillance camera company called the cops because someone was surveilling them install surveillance.

The reporter's name is Brendan Keefe.

He's a national investigative reporter who has been digging into Flock and police abuse of its surveillance network since January.

Flock happened to be upgrading a camera about a mile from Keefe's own house, so he parked at a distance, put out his press placard, put on a yellow vest, and pulled out a news camera.

The Flock installer saw him, packed up his ladder, jumped in his vehicle, and took off.

Keefe followed several cars back to document the next installation.

The Flock employee picked up the phone and called 911.

"I work with Flock Safety, and I'm getting followed, harassed pretty much, taking videos and pictures."

Next thing Brenden sees are THREE Georgia police cars with their lights on behind him.

"The reason why I'm stopping you is because there is a vehicle that says that you have been following them."

He was released with no charges.
Because he did nothing wrong.

Filming in public is legal in all 50 states.

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@cspan @sama @DarioAmodei TLDR: Sam is scam. And that other dude is probably too. Hmmm... what about those dudes in UN SC?

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@BrianMcDonaldIE That just means they've started to prepare ground for that "eternity" from the get go. Some people saw it coming back then.

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@cb_doge @CCTV Yeah, sure. Talk about Star Wars and robots a bit more, @elonmusk