I’m a father of three, I’ve been doing creative work with kids for over twenty years, and the idea that parents are letting young kids use LLMs, especially unsupervised, is absolutely chilling. And believe me, you don’t develop a child’s imagination and creativity by having something do it for them.

I know it would have to be a smaller dose and all but I'd love someone to randomly shoot me with one of the tranquiliser darts that knock out rhinos and lions for hours at a time. I reckon it'd be the first decent kip I'd have in 20 years.

People who coax chatbots into sensible answers are basically opening and closing the fridge until it contains something you wanna eat, yes, eventually you get hungrier & eat the stuff in there. But what changed was your cognition. The fridge stayed the same. You changed your mind about the contents.

Setting the table for vibe paychecks www.theverge.com/news/787076/...

Esp when you consider all legal drones have a warning that launching in the park is not permitted. Someone ignored that, had to click to launch the drone illegally or else the drone it's self is an illegal make and not permitted to fly here at all. #speirgorm

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

To date I have found 54 of my paintings being used by different sellers on Temu, each painting being on any number of items. You have to list every single item when filing the copyright infringement. So far I've had 41 of my paintings removed, of every instance of them I can find. I'm getting there.

Just paid a human for some custom artwork they created for me in response to a vague and bonkers "prompt" (aka specification /briefing). Had I used a GenAI tool I'd still be arguing with it and hacking the prompt to turn shite into different shite.

In a world drowning in slop, personal authority and reputation will be the currency of the realm. Who you believe, individual or institution, will matter more than objective reality.

This! We will lose the ability to identify mistakes as the source data rots away. We will lose the capability to think about what the mistakes might be as our mental muscles atrophy because we haven't been doing the cognitive reps.

A very interesting article on how insiders are recruited by ransomware gangs. @joetidy.bsky.social is a cybercrime journalist with the BBC and a ransomware gang tried to recruit him to help them hack into the BBC’s systems. Joe is also speaking at this years #irisscon www.bbc.com/news/article...

If, as early research suggests, the use of genAI causes a reduction in people’s ability to reason, then the tech world has, in fact, spent hundreds of billions of dollars to achieve artificial stupidity.

Science. This is why we do it. This is why Trump should be fought. This is why Farage should be fought. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

*taps mic* remember: this is not just egregious lies about autism which is already bad enough it's also about ensuring pregnant people suffer by trying to make them afraid of taking painkillers don't let the ableism hide the misogyny

Well, this wasn’t at all predictable… …except by every single privacy advocate when Google launched Google Glass. #Cassandra

Other industries/academia should take note of how Hollywood responded. "5 Hollywood unions...publicly condemned [Disney].... Damon Lindelof...said that if Mr. Kimmel’s program did not return...he couldn’t...'work for [Disney]'.... Michael Eisner...former chief executive of Disney, issued a...rebuke"

If I may add, some of my data has been stolen when companies have been hacked. The companies don't have all my data but the government *does*; but it's kept it in separate sections. If it gets hacked they won't get everything. Put it all together & a hack is much more serious & attractive 2 hackers

The Executive Order does not appear to exempt professors (who are exempt from various other working visa conditions) from the 100,000 USD fee. That means that no university will hire foreign professors. American academia is toasted.

*taps mic* Perhaps they should start enforcing the laws that are already on books, addressing bottlenecks in @dpcireland.bsky.social decision making processes on investigations and, perhaps, ordering suspension of processing using existing powers. It’s a radical idea. “Let’s do a law” is a fudge.

That should be an automatic ‘No’ for anyone planning to use that site. You’re basically giving away your right to your own identity online, and giving them the right to create genAI versions of you.

@sineadgibney.bsky.social asks @simonharrisireland.bsky.social "This is something that the DPC has been aware of for many, many years, and has failed to act on. Why is our regulator unable to regulate? How can you stand over the DPC as a credible organisation?"

PSA: LinkedIn are opting everyone’s data into their AI training by default. You *need* to opt out - the toggle is on by default #AI #privacy #socialmedia

Great to see DPC winning an award for an investigation that started a long time ago under the previous leadership. Hopefully they’ll get some awards for things relating to big tech and societal impacts once the new administration resettles with the 3rd commissioner.

The Irish government has published its Autumn legislation programme. It looks like the National Cybersecurity Bill, the bill to transpose #NIS2 into Irish law, will be published in this programme. www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Well, we all are now, whether we know it or not. All we need is for Goody Swasticka to say she saw us pinching her by non-fascist devils.

I love Dan Aykroyd because he has very clearly entered the stage in his life where he is going to make sure everyone knows about his special interests and he has the profile and resources to do it in a high profile manner. You are GOING to hear about rocks, dinosaurs, vodka, and ghosts dammit.

You let a tyrant into your gaff, bud.

Looking forward to @maxschrems.bsky.social and @noyb.eu view on this... 🤯

Been saying this for years. It’s important that it would be part of the main news, not sectioned off in its own little slot at a different time.

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

“A fundamental shift is needed in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents,” argues Meredith Whittaker. “Basic lessons in privacy and digital security are being discarded,” she warns

Well.. that headline and story has aged like fine milk.

Ruin a song by adding the word “Literally” to the title “Literally Ironic”

The problem is that "hallucinations" is a bad term. Every answer, correct or incorrect, spouted by LLMs like ChatGPT are produced in the same manner. LLMs don't know anything. They just generate likely patterns of texts. "Hallucinations" is how the whole thing works.

Ppl, Grok ‘confirming’ the shooter was a Groyper only ‘confirms’ that lots of people are saying he’s a Groyper. That’s how AI swings.

So, what would people say to a @castlebridge.bsky.social podcast/webinar where I tease through some of the FOI, National Archives Act, and #DataGovernance considerations for Irish public bodies using #GenAI like the free MS 365 CoPilot Chat bundled in Microsoft 365? Or would this gif be enough?

So my bank is setting up a service called Zippay provided by the Italian company Nexi. This involves my personal data being given to this company to sell on to advertisers. Naturally, I've opted out.

Nulled WP plugins are being used for a growing number of really nasty hacks www.wordfence.com/blog/2025/0... #security #wordpress

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

Over one third of financial organisations in Ireland say the softening of US data privacy and cybersecurity rules presents the greatest compliance risk to their business operations - Compliance Institute survey.

So the LLM synthesizes a result from various sources (that may be made up or misquoted) and then you "double-check" the sources? Sounds like the LLM is using you as research assistant.

Spent hours today submitting copyright infringement reports. Only managed to report 5 items in the end. Hundreds more to go. Temu make it very difficult for the actual copyright owner. It's much easier for other people to report, not as many hoops to go through.

De Valera was American. James Connolly was Scottish. Erskine Childers was English. Countess Markievicz married a Polish guy who directed Irish theatre. Our state’s founders were funded by Americans, supplied by Germans and many served in the British Army. Our history is not a monoculture.

AI today is literally not capable of replacing the senior engineers they are laying off. corps are in fact getting less done, but they're banking on making an example of enough people that survivors put their heads down and help them implement AI in exchange for keeping their jobs... for now.

I don’t understand people who hold their phone out horizontally in front of their mouth with the speaker turned up. You’re not talking to a slice of pizza.

Professional body I am a member of is doing a survey about their certification body of knowledge. The survey has a checkbox to acknowledge their privacy policy for the survey and a link to that thing. Most people won’t click on it to read it. I did.