Joe Ling

Christian, Programmer (Python, Java, Go, Js, Rust), cats, curries, food

mastodon . social / @ling11

[CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ @CriticalAI]

Let's be clear here. If you cannot get the right burger from an AI customer service bot, it is not an appropriate tool for education, tutoring, or any other high-stakes task.
This is why hyped educational uses from folks including Ethan Mollick strike me as ill-advised.

[chris person @Papapishu]

Every time you install windows you need to spend 30 minutes removing all the stuff that makes it run badly, and doing so breaks half of the OS. And every year Microsoft adds another 5-10 features and they’re increasingly intrusive and annoying.

[Gene Park @GenePark]

"When you assume generative-AI tools are better than they are, you’re making it much easier for AI companies to spook lawmakers and give themselves more resources to argue they need “govern themselves” to protect us from the robot uprising."

[Samaritans @samaritans]

Blue Monday is a load of made up… 💩 (We said what we said)

Celebrate ✨#BrewMonday✨ with us today instead! ☕

Blue Monday is just a marketing gimmick that feeds unhelpful stereotypes about mental health. Retweet and let's all agree, it can get in the bin 🗑️

[discocat @disco___cat]

I��d call this progress.

https://t.co/5iu9ZXLl0F

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Salesforce firing 10% of staff, then having two truly standout quarters, then going on a hiring spree, then freezing hiring (easy to guess how Q4 2023 went!) is such a good example of QDC.

Quarterly-result Driven Company.

It's the curse of many publicly traded companies.

[Abeba Birhane @Abebab]

me & my collaborators have done the most extensive research of the LAION datasets (3 academic papers & the first to investigate dataset in 2021 showing misogyny, pornography, & malignant stereotypes)

yet, the Stanford study has not cited us once. this is academic misconduct

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

Hilarious that OpenAI and Microsoft get to specify that people can’t use their products to create competing products, given that they’ve been building their products to compete against millions of people off of stolen work.

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

twitter not paying whitehats. what could go wrong?

this one just disclosed a vulnerability that would have allowed people to gain control of the twitter accounts of users who merely clicked malicious links

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Fucking Yikes. This branding is... unfortunate. Don't get me wrong, Copilot is great, but there's still so much room for improvement on the "Social Coding" platform (remember when that was GitHub's tagline?). The homepage now is "AI-Driven Developer Platform". Ah, fuck.

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

And the effective altruists are at the so-called "UK AI Safety Summit" talking about existential risks and stuff. Nothing will bring accountability to this cult it seems.
https://t.co/KXUtkoIZ3q

[Joshan Parmar @JoshanParmar]

To everyone saying “oH yOu sHOuld hAvE bOOkeD iN AdvAncE”.

No.

If you’re driving a car, you don’t need to book in advanced. So if we want people to use trains - we need to make it *at least* as flexible as that.

I’m frankly tried of this “managed decline” of public services.

[Nay Dawson 🇺🇦 @naydawson]

I had no idea that a blog series on a morbid subject like this, could be such encouragement.

Thank you Kate for your generosity in writing and through this, your courage in helping others in the midst of your own pain...

#NewBlog #SheHurts
https://t.co/nH6HJhsOvr

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[Molly Blackall @mollyblackall]

Hundreds of children seeking asylum in the UK are being wrongly categorised as adults and handed new birthdays by Border Force in minutes.

Some end up in detention centres, others threatened with Rwanda deportation.

I've spent weeks looking into this🧵
https://t.co/ra3AQs3iup

[Alexis Gay @yayalexisgay]

companies trying to get people back in the office