Veeebka -- zirk.us/@veebz

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[Veeebka -- zirk.us/@veebz @veeebka]

Last semester @UvA_Amsterdam, @DLuitse and I wrote a paper about the role of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 in what you might call the ‘political economy of AI’. #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #gpt3 #languagemodels

[Greenpeace Investigativ - We are out of here @gpinvestigativ]

Im „Düsseldorfer Forum“ entwerfen völkische Rechtsextreme, Anführer der Identitären, Abgeordnete von AfD & CDUler Pläne für die Machtübernahme und finanzieren rechtsextreme Projekte.
Verfassungsschutz 🤷

CORRECTIV deckt's auf, wir durften beitragen👇 🧵

https://t.co/zh1CTLo2Rb

[@[email protected] @Dennis_Kipker]

"Können ChatGPT und Co. uns ausspionieren? Durchaus. IT- und Sicherheitsforscher aus der Schweiz haben herausgefunden dass heutige Sprachmodelle anhand von Texten sehr viel über Menschen herausfinden können, die glauben, sich anonym im Internet zu bewegen"
https://t.co/wPjC6rjL64

[Sasha Luccioni, PhD 🦋🌎✨🤗 @SashaMTL]

The energy and carbon costs of deploying AI models have largely been unknown.. until now! 🌏🚀
With @strubell and @YJernite, We tested 88 models on 30 datasets from 10 different tasks from different modalities and found some pretty cool stuff!
A thread 🧵:

[Sea-Watch @seawatchcrew]

Die #BuReg droht mit bis zu 5 Jahre Knast für zivile Seenotretter:innen. Wir lassen uns nicht einschüchtern! Wir retten weiter, denn Seenotrettung ist kein Verbrechen! Seenotrettung ist Notwendigkeit!
2023 ist das tödlichste Jahr im Mittelmeer seit 2017.
Unsere Pressemitteilung: https://t.co/74QeddISsI

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

Interne Dokumente zeigen: #Europol will uneingeschränkten Zugang zu #Chatkontrolle-Daten für KI-Training. Interne Dokumente zeigen, dass Ex-Europol Beamte nun bei Ashton Kutchers Lobby-Organisation Thorn arbeiten. @Netzpolitik_org berichtet: https://t.co/i2RjOMgo7X

[Maurice Stierl @MauriceStierl]

Stop the pull-factor nonsense!

Media workers and others: Whenever you feel the impulse to use the term “pull factor” in the #migration and #Mediterranean context, take a sec and note that using it will show that you have no clue about the dynamics of migration. A 🧵

[CCC Updates @chaosupdates]

Welcomed by some child welfare orgs and a web of influence with deeply misleading claims. Privacy & tech specialists oppose it: #Chatcontrol https://t.co/EYyJGIxLnV

[Prof Gina Neff @ginasue]

A key Mu3k theory made it into the @nytimes opinion pages this week. Touted and burnished by a professor at a top university WITHOUT transparency that Musk funded him for $10 Million for the research. How? 🧵

[Veeebka -- zirk.us/@veebz @veeebka]

@jfgagne Great, thanks for letting me know!

[eric eitel  @alias_eitel]

The Chinese government’s ambition to use technology for social control has been increasingly clear. The United States has portrayed its own technologies—and those of its allies—as a democratic alternative. But is this really the case? @F_Kaltheuner https://t.co/qYFycR5oAh

[Veeebka -- zirk.us/@veebz @veeebka]

Was ist flüssiger als Wasser? Überflüssige 'KI'-Systeme im Schwimmbad

[Veeebka -- zirk.us/@veebz @veeebka]

@jfgagne @jfgagne may I ask if your website is coming back online at some point? :) It's a shame your AI Talent Reports are no longer accessible, the archived versions on the Wayback Machine are not working really well due to all the interactive visualizations

[Melissa Heikkilä @Melissahei]

Meet BLOOM — a large language model that works in 46 natural languages built by +1k AI researchers from around the world. Its creators are doing something pretty radical in AI research: putting all their work out in the open and letting anyone access it. https://t.co/A854HgXy5j

[Julia Christina Hess @Julia_C_Hess]

Together with my great colleagues @JPKleinhans and @veeebka, we published our first #EUChipsAct analysis today!

In a series of 3 shorter pieces, we dive into the role of govt's in the #semiconductor value chain.

First: challenges in govt monitoring:

https://t.co/dyVYwWSv0l

[niczem @niczem]

Typescript / Fullstack devs wanted! Help us build a real-time geoinformation system for search&rescue and human rights at sea! Various NGOs involved & nice people. Paid position involving VueJS, CouchDB, Ansible, etc!

#devjobs #vuejobs #techjobs

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

And while we're here, I'd like to add: "democratizing" is used in such a misleading way in "AI". "Democracy" entails shared *governance* not just "anyone can come play with it". (From the title of the Meta blog post.)

https://t.co/cq10EDnnhn

[Veeebka -- zirk.us/@veebz @veeebka]

@KateKayeReports @FTC @jevanhutson @EPICprivacy @privacyforum @BraunFerrari this would be a good spot to post your Lina Khan fanboy meme / slide :P cc @DLuitse @embreuer

[Veeebka -- zirk.us/@veebz @veeebka]

#frieden #peace #ukraine

[Veeebka -- zirk.us/@veebz @veeebka]

Came across this via ImportAI @jackclarkSF who comments "this should make policymakers pay attention: what happens when the ability to wield planet-scale computation is solely something within the competency of private sector actors unaffiliated with any single nation state?"

[Veeebka -- zirk.us/@veebz @veeebka]

Microsoft has detailed how it distributes, schedules & trains AI tasks across its “global fleet of hundreds of thousands of GPUs and other AI accelerators” (note the military connotation!) through a software stack which the company calls “Singularity”... https://t.co/8aouGAQJVy

[Veeebka -- zirk.us/@veebz @veeebka]

Interesting how “singularity” is used to describe infrastructure here.