You (a fool): The LLM is an all-knowing oracle, on its way to godlike intelligence Me (dumber): The LLM is Indra’s Net, each fundamentally empty token a multifaceted jewel in whose surfaces the reflections of every other jewel arise in mutual interdependence The LLM: You can eat that rock

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Meta's mass scam machine, Microsoft refund mistake and Sizzler Say Plus: It seems like a Redditor can track secret US at-sea missile strikes READ: https://thesizzle.com.au/p/meta-s-mass-scam-machine-microsoft-refund-mistake-and-sizzler-say

one dynamic that i think has a (minor) impact on how people perceive AI use: it's way more noticeable when it's used badly. you can tell when someone has just churned out work slop.

the fundamental problem with AI agents for punters is that it's stuck in no man's land: - can't trust it to do important things - too unwieldy for unimportant things - not suited to completely novel tasks because you need to supervise - but for something you do often, it prob can be automated

ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."

my take on this growing "roblox should be in the teen social media ban" discourse is that this is what happens when a government tells the electorate/the world that the way to deal with online harms is to ban something for kids, and let everyone else suffer.

i said what i said

This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365 Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...

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a four year old who hates homework:

ROCK CHUGG

ROCK CHUGG

Rock Chugg might be the hardest name ever.

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Google surrenders to Epic, Microsoft AI refunds and a Big Short on AI Plus: OK which one of you was on the phone for five and a half days READ: https://thesizzle.com.au/p/google-surrenders-to-epic-microsoft-ai-refunds-and-a-big-short-on-ai

uh i would say it's mildly alarming that the Trump administration is using its sanction powers to compel tech companies into taking its critics offline. First, the ICC's chief investigator says he was blocked from his Microsoft-hosted email after US sanctions. Now, this

me eating a Kit

Now that the government has put a list of 9 social media platforms it expects to comply with its teen ban, it seems like we're seeing a shift in the policy. The list marks an inching away from an indiscriminate ban on all social media to something more targeted www.crikey.com.au/20...

New #book!! #ConspiracyNation: Exposing the Dangerous World of Australian Conspiracy Theories by @arielbogle.bsky.social & @cameronwilson.bsky.social “It’s easy to dismiss as fringe concerns or imported concepts, but they are gaining traction w everyday Australians & wielded by those in power”

"I imagine there’ll be a few choice words said in Google HQ about teens being seemingly fine to livestream on Twitch but not on YouTube," @cameronwilson.bsky.social writes.

Now that the government has put a list of 9 social media platforms it expects to comply with its teen ban, it seems like we're seeing a shift in the policy. The list marks an inching away from an indiscriminate ban on all social media to something more targeted www.crikey.com.au/20...

The federal government has put out a list of 8 platforms it expects to comply with the teen social media ban: - FB - IG - Snapchat - TikTok - YouTube - X - Reddit - Kick Most were already were known, but a few of inclusions & exclusions are interesting! (More to come)

Can’t quite explain it but this is what it feels like to have one beer and slowly e-bike home on a cool spring evening

No jury would convict

[look at empty bank account] i, err, am proud to announce that I have reached an agreement with OpenAI to pro— [a literal windfall of coins crushes me to death]

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Apple white-labels Google AI, BYD cashes in and DV alert service launches Plus: Turns out Microsoft was LYING to your face about this button READ: https://thesizzle.com.au/p/apple-white-labels-google-ai-byd-cashes-in-and-dv-alert-service-launches

wowowoww the sizzle is FULL of great stories today

oh wow what an EMBARRASSING ai hallucination

extremely online posters: “abundance vs. populism is a battle for the future of the Democratic Party!” Bernie Sanders: ya abundance is absolutely correct, we need to make it easier to do good things like build health clinics. that’s just common sense

I wrote in the Sizzle today about how NPR in the US discovered something weird… kids, presumably restricted from social media, started congregating in the comment sections of old radio segments to chat and hang out

A few previously unreported bits in here: - 68000 Aussies in the Discord leak. - Information Commissioner’s office unsuccessfully sought powers to proactively investigate social media companies handling of age check data - Privacy Commissioner worried about scams b/c people used to handing over ID

The teen social media ban hasn't begun but already Australians have been exposed in a social media platform's ID breach. The privacy commissioner says it "goes to many of the concerns that Australians already hold about the looming age assurance scheme." www.crikey.com.au/20...

The teen social media ban hasn't begun but already Australians have been exposed in a social media platform's ID breach. The privacy commissioner says it "goes to many of the concerns that Australians already hold about the looming age assurance scheme." www.crikey.com.au/20...

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Linux is coming for Xbox, spreadsheet leak deaths and Aussie crypto casino sued Teens are leaving social media platforms for... old public radio episodes? READ: https://thesizzle.com.au/p/linux-is-coming-for-xbox-spreadsheet-leak-deaths-and-aussie-crypto-casino-sued

"Research by SAP in July found that nearly 70 per cent of chief financial officers believed their employees were using AI to attempt to falsify travel expenses or receipts, with about 10 per cent adding they are certain it has happened in their company."

someone at the ATO wants to do some vibe coding

The report for the parliamentary inquiry into Australia's incoming internet regulations (teen social media ban & search engine/internet industry codes) has been pushed back 2 weeks.

It's one month until Australia's internet will drastically change. Here's what I'm doing to cover it: (PS: I’ve set up a mailing list to send out an email when I have an article come out, instead of than hoping that an algorithm will serve it to you: camwilson.beehiiv.co...)

hell yeah

It's one month until Australia's internet will drastically change. Here's what I'm doing to cover it: (PS: I’ve set up a mailing list to send out an email when I have an article come out, instead of than hoping that an algorithm will serve it to you: camwilson.beehiiv.co...)

just opening up Meta's AI platform on a fresh window - top among its suggested videos was one of Trump waving a LGBT flag!

BoM website really only needs to be this

This is your brain on Australian tech policy

Teens are already scheming about how to get around the under 16 social media ban

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The Hague is going open source, shortcuts-pilled and the Sizzler Say Meta was caught downloading p***. But it has a, err, explanation READ: https://thesizzle.com.au/p/the-hague-is-going-open-source-shortcuts-pilled-and-the-sizzler-say

i assume this sort of randomly bolded, bullet point-using format is AI output since it's everywhere now and it always sucks