Governments need to realize the AI productivity boost is not coming, and the investment they’re eager to win will dry up once the bubble bursts. They need to protect their citizens, not sell them out to tech companies that care so little for the social good. disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

Companies like OpenAI need to be held to account for the social harms caused by their products, especially when they’re run by executives who are so open about placing such little value on the wellbeing of humanity. But that also requires governments to wake up. disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

OpenAI talks a lot about safety, but the safety it means it not for its users or for society — it’s about a foolish sci-fi scenario of aligning AI with humanity so AGI doesn’t kill us or something. Refusing to report a mass shooter shows how negligent it is. disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

Altman’s comments were bad enough. But the following day to read about how OpenAI had neglected its duty when it banned a user in Canada who was using ChatGPT to play out gun violence scenarios put his comments in an even worse light. disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

Altman’s denigration of humanity is part of a wider anti-human worldview the tech industry has adopted to justify doing whatever they want, regardless of the wider impacts on the public. If communities suffer to realize Altman’s AI ambitions, that’s fine by him. disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

Sitting on stage in India, Altman was asked about the energy impacts of AI. Instead of addressing them, he did a bit of whataboutism and brought up the energy use of humans. But in the process, he further revealed his thinking that humans and computers are equivalent disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

There’s already plenty of reason to want action against generative AI companies: the creation of explicit deepfakes, the effects on mental health, and the breakdown of the information environment. It’s a social disaster that Altman does not seem to mind one bit. disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever. One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

Let's be clearer on the 8 people who were killed: Mostly 12 and 13 year old kids.

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See also Mandelson & Fujitsu Post Office Horizon, Palantir & too many rogues to mention, Blair & all the Oracle overspends, Blair and just about everything

It does feel like if you want to find the dodgiest fuckers just prise open all the big govt IT projects and there they are

What happened at BAFTA makes me recall how, more often then not, when racism occurs and that's pointed out, people often rush to comfort and defend the perpetrator, not the victims. Stunning to me that no one official even SPOKE to Jordan/Lindo after. No one paused to imagine how that felt.

This is a persistent long term problem with the BBC also. It's not just John Davidson, a few years ago there was a big controversy over newsreaders saying the word hard R on air. The BBC is institutionally a racist organisation

i was looking for the part that addressed the objective experience of people on the other end and not just his end but i didn't see it

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NEW Land and Expand - how Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence What a close reading of public domain documents tells us about two concerning contract awards Detailed post by me, following-up on my FT column emptycity.substack.com/p/land-and-e...

The BBC has since issued an apology for not cutting out the racial slur and will reportedly edit it out for the version on iPlayer, the BBC’s streaming service. https://bit.ly/4qQdqhq

Fuck BBC. There was no need to allow it to air, absolutely no reason other than clearly they felt like it was okay and wanted to say it

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“Well someone needs to do something about the homeless.” Yes. We should house them.

this is actually how you should treat all press all the time me included. don't let them forget your talking points!

See, now this rocks.

fuck the BBC, honestly “Paul Thomas Anderson’s best director speech for “One Battle After Another,” he says “anyone that says movies aren’t any good anymore can just piss right off,” with “piss” bleeped out for social media.” fuck this so much.

“This was a tape-delayed broadcast. They still allowed the slur to air, unfiltered, and then let the moment circulate as a clip […] But you know what they did manage to cut out of the broadcast? Akinola Davies Jr. saying “Free Palestine” […]”

🚨Reform leader Nigel Farage has posted on X “1 million people living in this country don’t speak any English at all. 4 million people living in this country barely speak passable English” It’s racked up 2 million views AND IT’S COMPLETELY UNTRUE youtu.be/o56Tw8vSEfE?...

She legit was hoping to find someone jogging in a horse mask in the blzzard to get some color commentary and instead they thought this guy seemed harmless enough…

BREAKING Charles Kushner, the US Ambassador to France, has been banned from meeting with members of the French government after he failed to show up to a diplomatic summons with the French Foreign Minister.

Nope, happening constantly.

This has got to be performance art?

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

Utterly shameful situation - if you can cut out support for Palestinians you can edit out the moment that John involuntarily and with no intention shouted out what he did - the BBC has done a terrible disservice to the black community, the Tourette’s community and Palestinians - abysmal

Yet they edited the acceptance speech by Akinola Davis Jnr, who accepted his prize on behalf the millions of marginalised people here at home and abroad.

Genuinely terrified for my daughter's future in education. She will absolutely struggle silently and be denied any support.

Oh this is just beautiful

Now do this demon

even if you believe this was unintentional, you can still recognize the harm done? but no one at BAFTA had sufficient empathy for Jordan and Lindo to acknowledge that—to seek them out and say, e.g., "you should not have had to hear that and we're so sorry it happened"—and it's fair to ask why tf not

CONGRATS Dean Atta and team! What I love is that the writer gets to speak. Usually, short films become the vehicle for the director to gain attention not the writer. So I am proud and glad that Dean got to do the speech!

I wanna see every white person who suddenly cared about disability justice because it meant they could say slurs caring about justice for us disabled people, all disabled people not just white ones, 24/7 from now on since y'all talk a big game.

In the video of Trump talking to the US men's hockey team, when he says "I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that" as a joke about how annoying it is to have women around, the most painful part for me, are all the hockey players laughing. Actually laughing.

The villains here are the people who failed to protect Michael and Delroy and the audience while still accommodating John, who has an absolute right to live a public life. When I say something because of a compulsion that offends, I explain AND apologize. The Tourettes does not eliminate the harm.

Yes, I also have Tourettes - and I've been trying to tell people that Michael and Delroy (and EVERY person who heard that) were victims of Tourettes just as John is. Their pain and offense is REAL AND VALID and they deserve a genuine apology and they are CORRECT to be offended.

I have read a lot of posts and taken some time to digest everything and as a white person with Tourette's (although admittedly not coprolalia) I feel like I have to say I fully accept that he had no control, but I do not accept that the solution is Black people just have to endure it with a smile.

All you're doing with this is announcing whose access you think is most important.

Expecting people to endure harm in the name of access is not it.

My Tourette's often makes me swing my arms uncontrollably and if I was repeatedly hitting someone I wouldn't just stand there and let it happen or expect them to just take it.