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dermanus@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Police Are Using AI to Pull Over Drivers for ‘Suspicious’ BehaviorEnglish
53·3 days agoNot a new problem unfortunately.
Among the things courts or cops have deemed “suspicious”:
Booking a nonstop flight
Booking a flight with a layover
Traveling alone
Traveling with a companion
People who appear nervous
People who appear ?too calm?
dermanus@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•AI Images Can Obscure the Reality of Factory Farms | Prompt revision steered AI-generated images towards idyllic scenes even when told to be realisticEnglish
17·11 days agoI was thinking the same. They’re probably weighted against gory, distressing images. Think of the headlines: “<LLM service> creates graphic slaughter house for children’s storybook project”
dermanus@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Western open-weight models still can’t beat China: Chinese open-weight AI models offer high capability at significantly lower costs than U.S. frontier systems.English
41·12 days agoWhat if I do normal things with an LLM like code and write porn? Russia doesn’t come up.
dermanus@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•U.S. suspends Microsoft, Adobe from green card labor program in foreign worker crackdownEnglish
2·19 days agoYup. Originally intended for genuinely temporary work like farm hands it has been exploited by other companies for years. Occasionally there’s talk of reform but it usually surface level.
dermanus@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"English
11·19 days agoAnd bot traffic on Twitter dropped by half the same day. Good for Ukraine, they’re bringing the fight to Russia.
dermanus@lemmy.caOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing SquadEnglish
4·20 days agoIt looks like Meta is the only one where this is explicitly against their rules, not that that has stopped them before.
dermanus@lemmy.caOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing SquadEnglish
5·20 days agoSponsored by FanDuel! Maybe they’ll offer bets on how many bullets hit him.


Neal Stephenson explores these ideas in a few of his books. Basically that there is so much false information online that the biggest advantage you can have is good software for sifting through it.