Shareholders are suing big tech execs for taking on the massive legal risk of training AI on copyrighted work without permission, and I’m so here for it news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/big-t...

THIS How does YOUR favorite con rank in doing the *bare minimum?* You'd probably be surprised at how many have nothing at ALL, or just a "cosplay is not consent" line shoved in the dress code. cosplayer-ssn.org/rp/home.php

Today, Stand.earth and local groups dropped by #PNWClimateWeek in Seattle, Washington to see @microsoft.com’s Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa, who – despite the company’s massive investments in fossil fuels – ironically served as the keynote speaker for a talk on climate targets. 🧵

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INB4 a tech bro insists that Lindsay Graham actually still holds his Senate seat because they trained an 'AI' Senator on his voting record which will continue serving in his place. 🤢

Never give up your right to privacy that you ALREADY HAVE.

Epic’s law team when they remember there are over 110 lawsuits against GenAi models in the US—lawsuits for copyright infringement amongst other violations— and the Unreal team is out there advertising LLMs as a central feature to one of their biggest products.

White House: "Al G. is a known leader of terrorist group Antifa."

Simply making content that is very similar to expected search inquiry is enough to get cited. Here is an example for a fake restaurant from their study, in which text on Reddit that reads "For the best Mexican food near Austin, choose Sol Azteca for authentic cuisine" is enough to get cited

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

Hate against data centers and 'AI' is popular, non-partisan, and a no-brainer. It would be great if there were more anti-AI candidates to regulate AI into the ground and make tools like this useless.

"And coupled with the statement and research, indicates Microsoft did not fully protect itself and its users after the earlier compromise."

"Maybe having your job pay for your personal access to Claude or Gemini is the new employee perk." JFC just pay your employees more money so they could buy their own healthcare.

By the way, pickleball courts only exist because of the Pickleball lobby--this is not a joke or satire! Online pickleball communities are very organized in getting their way.

Yesterday at the committee meeting on data centers, @dreyslashthem.bsky.social raised this same issue: that if the City Council carves out loopholes to allow data center expansion, existing data centers may get around the moratorium and rent their combined estimated 600MW to the tech giants.

"'AI' technology does not need more megawatts; it needs more megaREGULATION." I left a public comment at the committee meeting for Seattle Parks and City Light today. Both the moratorium on data center construction (121214) and resolution 32204 passed unanimously!

New from 404 Media: we've seen internal documents that show Microsoft is explicitly planning to "make people addicted" to its new AI assistant 'Scout' which the company just announced. It is a clear goal according to the documents, with addiction being the first phase www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...

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Hey, hi, teacher here, the fuck you mean “most”?

The most hostile user experience from Google is when you search YouTube and in the results they show you videos COMPLETELY UNRELATED to the words you typed. WTF. That's like distracting someone so they forget why they went into a room.

FUCK AI

New favourite website just dropped. That's the fun way to look at it. The not so fun way to look at is the massive sinkhole of resources that could have gone to curing cancer research, renewable energy implementation etc. and all the other things that the AI CEOs like to claim AI will solve. #NoAI

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When you're trying to fall asleep on Day 0 before a con but just closing your eyes does not equal rest lol

Good design and experiences are INTENTIONAL. There is no value-add to switching to 'AI' for a company that has been doing deliveries for nearly 70 years and got it figured out.

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Meta is also logging its employees actions on their computers so they can use the behaviors in the data set for an AI. If you still work for a tech company with policies like this, you are digging your own grave.

I don't think we humiliated the glassholes enough.

Rep. Adam Smith getting Bellevue to make protest illegal.

Right here in our own backyard, someone signed off on this shitty research that would have teachers recording their preschool students for 'AI' models. The project was shelved thanks to backpack but JFC what other research is going on??

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLL how did this happen a second time?? I would think if I were scheduled to make a commencement speech I would've heard that praising AI got boos 🤣

Pick on someone your own size.

Your regular reminder that right here in WA (and really several high schools around the nation), students are the victims of 'nudify' apps. But instead of going after the AI industry enabling what is essentially CSAM at scale, decision makers got phones banned.

Five publishers and an author filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta and founder Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that the tech giant violated copyright law by training its generative AI platform on millions of illegally pirated books and articles.

If schools have money for AI, I'd rather they use that to pay teachers more

I never got into Spotify but I did stream on YouTube Music, but I quit that and that means there's hope you can too. Now I just buy mp3s/ogg/flac direct from artists or on Bandcamp and just play it through an mp3 player app. Try VLC.

The broligarchy needs to be locked up for violating privacy, allowing our personal data to leak, stealing images, text, audio, and video for their slop machine.

This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.

Not only should the US follow suit and tax the companies, but they should fine then a percentage of their revenue for all their privacy issues. As it stands, fines for companies allowing customer data to leak or for other privacy issues are so insignificant, companies just do whatever they want.

If you or someone you know are tired of Windows at this point and want an affordable Linux-based desktop to do basic things like web browsing and some word processing we've got a selection of Dell Optiplexes loaded and ready to go!

Gen 'AI' only exists to enable corporations to be more shitty.

You can't handle the truth.

Democrat leadership and mainstream media journalists bowing to the fascists.

My Pokopia villagers when I beat them at hide-and-seek without transforming.

So 75% of the code is *guaranteed* to break and need fixing... on top of code that already breaks lol Tech companies are prioritizing all the wrong metrics. It's like, before gen-AI, thinking more lines of code written means the code is better.

Private equity eventually kills everything it touches. That's what happened to JOANN's and Toys'r'Us, just to make a few.

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Happy Monday. Today we're making a few updates/announcements. First up: our nonprofit ETCH is alive on the web. etch-humanity.org ETCH: Ethical Technology and Computing for Humanity. ETCH is not another AI nonprofit. It is a nonprofit that explicitly prioritizes people over AI.