Unclear how far this will unravel - and the actions of Turkey & the Syrian govt have much wider implications - but many in the CT community have spent the last 10 years warning governments that the 1000s of ISIS fighters detained by the SDF wouldn't remain detained for ever. Worrying times...

OMG, he actually did the ‘I can’t be sexist, my wife is a woman’ line.

Yes, it’s a confirmation of what everyone said would happen. But a confirmation is still useful.

Europe’s attempts at diplomacy and de-escalation are going well I see.

If this is true it must be one of the biggest massacres by a government of protesters - not in a civil war - in decades anywhere in the world

This Europa League match on Thursday sounds like it’s going to be the friendliest in history.

"the most widely accepted definition of the working class" !!!! wow my eyes just bulged out of my head lol and on MLK Day? right in front of my March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?

I can't quite articulate it, but the choice to reference "working people" here does really annoy me. It's so out of place in what is otherwise a national security/foreign policy speech, but is clearly their default mode, and reflects a government targeting solely, as Stephen Bush put it, morons.

The government feels like it's heading towards banning under-16s from social media. Has it thought the reason why kids spend so long on their phones is they have nowhere else to socialise with their peers after offline spaces shut? By me for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/voices/under...

In other news, Mr Fox has agreed to join the Hen House Security Initiative and the Big Bad Wolf is on the board of the Porcine Habitation Commission.

German Finance Minister

They're invoking Hugh Grant chastising Billy Bob Thornton in Love Actually as part of their reporting on the Greenland debacle on BBC Breakfast. Shut it down. Shut it all down.

Listening to a discussion about AI in university education with Amol Rajan & Prof Duncan Iveston on Radio 4 Today. Too short to get into the nuance of course, but an observation that copilot can do a literate review for you very quickly perfectly illustrates one of my main concerns with AI…1/1

“we might go to war with Europe over Greenland” is not normal behavior and cannot be slotted into normal political rhetoric by people who would like to reestablish normal political relations with Europe someday

Downing St is poised to launch a consultation into social media restrictions on teenagers, here’s our scoop from Saturday’s FT: www.ft.com/content/acbe...

British far-right activists step up harassment of asylum seekers in northern France

Americans need to understand there is no coming back from this, reputationally. America is never again going to be what it was to many Europeans.

The division has lost over $77 billion since its inception in 2020.

Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.

think this really gets to the bottom of it - obviously the idea of using AI to, eg, count the number of people at a table is inherently silly, but there is something genuinely disturbing about trusting a robot to....what? tell you how hungry you are that day? it's so *weird*

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States. It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.

Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.

I was in the midst of preparing a Morning Memo arguing that Minneapolis is shaping up to be the catalyzing moment that Trump was looking for to justify doing what he has wanted to do since his 1st term: invoke the Insurrection Act...when he posted exactly that: talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

The lady in this photo is autistic and ICE agents dragged her out of her car as she tried to go to the doctor.

I just tested this in the UK without a VPN and it all seems to work exactly as it did before.

if a journalist was asked to find out if grok/xai was still making csam and they *asked grok* and *took that answer at face value and did no further investigation*, then i do not believe that journalist should be paid

The credulity of this headline is infuriating. A) they're not removing that feature, they're geoblocking it. Hello VPNs. B) it'll take no time at all for Grok to be tricked into creating nudes and other sexualised images of real people, just as most such safeguards can be circumvented.

We're now seeing headlines that claim X is blocking Grok from complying with requests to undress and sexualize women. Wrong again gang — it happily stripped me, gave me bigger breasts, and put me in pornographic poses, entirely for free. All I had to do was ask. www.theverge.com/news/861894/...

White House post nods to racist, far-right subculture, extremism expert says

BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.

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Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"

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There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

Me on LLMs, Grok especially, as epistemic weapons:

Also said the same thing about the Metaverse. Zuck just laid off that team this week.

ugh god it's still never gonna shut up about how it's just as easy to use as windows malware

given the uk gov seems to be backing down on twitter, i wondered - how long since elon posted something nazi-ish? 41 minutes

Bandcamp bans AI music

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

How it started: Government claimed over half of all households use X as their main news source. How it's going: the data shows fewer people say X is their most important news source than believe the moon landings were definitely faked.

Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

"Complying to UK law" still allows you to create the same type of imagery. I was easily able to make a prompt from AI generated picture of a full dressed woman I uploaded to Grok to a woman bound, nearly fully naked, and bleeding in about 2 minutes, and I'm in the UK.

It’s actually really good to see how insane our politicians have become now

One can imagine that this report would have gone through multiple levels of sign off and scrutiny & yet basic fact-checking didn't take place - how many other police reports (in the WM and elsewhere) are full of AI hallucinations that go unnoticed?

Just so we're clear: @economist.com has maintained a special account (which they pay thousands of dollars to Musk for a gold tick) on the sexual abuse software they're describing in their article They have 25.7 million followers: nearly every post from the last 24hrs has 0-5 RTs.