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Dan Brickley on Bluesky: “Testing DeepSeek R1 censorship UI (mobile web), since it will get heavy use worldwide” | …thread with multiple screenshots
Screenshots: session one, snapshot of the ui rewriting. Session two, numbering messages to see which stay in history. Finally, its response to uploading 1st screenshot (initial engagement switching to refusal)
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“deepseek r1 has an existential crisis” | …more fuel for the upcoming “Open Source LLMs on Raspberry Pi’s are a National Security issue” crisis
Further to my posting from yesterday: I’m very much in favour of people publishing AI models & individuals being free to use them at home, but if the attached sort of thing happens, it’s clear there will be an enormous brouhaha about “are models free speech or should they be controlled for [reasons]?” I look…
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Ofcom Session for Small, Low-Risk Community Sites | Wednesday 12 February
12:30 – 14:00 GMTIn light of the recent proposed shutdown of several hundred online communities incapable of resource for meeting Ofcom’s bar, this should be interesting: …a lunchtime session with Ali Hall & Andrew Park from Ofcom to discuss the new Online Safety responsibilities for small, low-risk community sites. As well as an overview… there will be time…
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If what @BrianRoemmele claims is delivered, running a Chinese LLM on a Raspberry Pi at home should become trivial
We should be able to hear the US National Security wonks & the European AI regulators screaming, any moment now. More on DeepSeek-R1 here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948 and here: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250120
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Software > Patents: open-source Python plugin for slicer software implements staggered layers, improves strength, violates dodgy patents
Via Reddit, the Bricklayers plugin for PrusaSlicer and OrcaSlicer is a dinky little python script that implements staggered-layer 3D-printed walls that improve print strength commonsensically… but open a can of patent worms
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Europol Director: “The European People are Criminal Scum and cannot be trusted with robust online privacy” | …or words to that effect
Technology giants must do more to co-operate with law enforcement on encryption or they risk threatening European democracy, according to the head of Europol … companies had a “social responsibility” to give the police access to encrypted messages … “Anonymity is not a fundamental right” … “You will not be able to enforce democracy [without…
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Shallow Deepfakes circumvent legal/licensing issues streaming Australian Tennis … as done by the *organisers*
We should call this what it is, and it’s fascinating: using “live deepfake” technology is used to re-skin actual tennis players as Wii animations, so it’s not really “their” tennis-match being streamed to YouTube. Goodbye, licensing issues. Where are the anti-AI, anti-Deepfake activists? Tennis Australia has transformed the world’s best tennis players into animated versions…
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A nice little explainer from @hankgreen on Conspiracy Influencers; it could equally apply to a lot of Civil Society & Journalism
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When I worked on E2EE for @Messenger I forget the # of times various ideas were shot down by asking “what if the user drops their phone down a toilet?” ; now @SciTechGovUK want your driving licence on that phone
Sigh.
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Utterly delighted new BBC Wonderblocks are teaching our preschoolers the basics of both algorithm development & applied password guessing, core skills that they will certainly need
I’m not joking: the first five episodes of this brand new series dropped today. It’s teaching preschoolers how to think procedurally and algorithmically — from absolute basics — and episode 5 is all about breaking into a henhouse by guessing password sequences. There are no loop constructs yet, let alone lambda calculus or functors, but…
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Using genetic history of lice to estimate when humans began to wear clothes
Fun: