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The former (“focus on the failure”) space is also where those people intent upon “regulating AI for the public good” largely live; their goal is to prevent advancement rather than improve it…
…unless of course all development can all happen on their terms.
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The Many Reasons Why NCMEC’s Board Is Failing Its Mission, From A NCMEC Insider | Techdirt
If you work in Trust & Safety, OMG this podcast is eye-opening, and it’s a must-listen. I’ve heard gossip before re: a lack of ability to execute, but this explains so much about NCMEC and its haphazard and ill-considered approach to technology regulation. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/08/the-many-reasons-why-ncmecs-board-is-failing-its-mission-from-a-ncmec-insider/
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“What’s the most powerful uncensored LLM?” | …one person’s safety regulation is another person’s bowdlerisation
Quote: I am working on a project that requires the user to provide some of the early traumas of childhood but most commercial llm’s refuse to work on that and only allow surface questions. I was able to make it happen with a Jailbreak but that is not safe since anytime they can update the…
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We received internal Trump documents from ‘Robert.’ The campaign just confirmed it was hacked | POLITICO
:popcorn: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/10/trump-campaign-hack-00173503
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From 1999 | “how can I become a cryptographer?” | Schneier on Security
I wonder what this would look like nowadays? Quote: The short answer to “how can I become a cryptographer” is: “Get a PhD in cryptography.” This is not the only way to become a cryptographer, but it is by far the easiest. https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/1999/1015.html#SoYouWanttobeaCryptographer
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‘A Platform That’s Teetering on the Edge of Becoming a User-Experience Joke Akin to Windows Vista’ | Daring Fireball
If you are a nerd of a certain age, you will remember this advert: Via: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/08/08/snell-mac-permission-balance
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UK ‘desperately exposed’ to cyber-threats and pandemics, says Minister @PeterKyle | The Guardian
Peter Kyle is *this close* to realising that maybe “cyber” would better be dealt with via a “public health” rather than “policing” approach: “National resilience suffered terribly, catastrophically,” he said. “The open warfare of the previous government prevented any kind of progress in these areas and left our country desperately exposed not just to a…
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“Keeping your accounts safe from AI content moderation” | …pacifying or circumventing “trust & safety” will be the SEO of the next decade
RedGIFs Creators: “…the reality you deal with now that AI is running the show with content moderation. Nobody knows EXACTLY how it measures what to take down and who to ban, but it’s pretty safe to assume that the more interaction a post gets, the more it can get away with. So, unless you’re working…
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Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban | The Guardian
I wonder what a former-teacher VP would make of this? Twelve of the 13 titles were written by women. Six books by Maas, a fantasy author, appear on the list, along with Oryx and Crake by Atwood, Milk and Honey by Kaur and Forever by Blume. Two books by Ellen Hopkins appear, as well as…
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FSC Executive Director Delivers Keynote at UK Age Assurance Regulator Event | Free Speech Coalition | …but where are the Privacy campaigners?
Here we are in 2024, apparently largely replaying where we were in 2016 with the Porn industry — now clothed in the garb of Free Speech — attempting to buddy-up with the regulators to find mutually-acceptable ways to track everyone online via Age Verification. Quote: The hybrid event was attended by representatives from a variety…
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[From 2008] HyperCard: What Could Have Been | Isegoria
istQuote: “I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard,” he said from his studio in Menlo Park, California. “I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I’d grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented…