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AI is an Orwellian nightmare

I used to be able to search for things using a search engine. It would point me to a source of information, I could decide for myself if the source was good or not. But not anymore. Recently I just wasted a lot of time trying to find something using a search engine only to get lost in an ocean of AI slop.

I finally gave in and asked my question to ChatGPT and it answered my question perfectly, it even showed me where it got it’s sources of information. The places it linked me to were either no longer existent (if ever) or only vaguely related. But it at least created the appearance of citing factual sources of information, in whatever way the statistical models have been trained to give that impression to the humans who use it.

In Orwell’s novel “1984,” we saw how a single government agency took all control over information, how the staff would keep a database of facts but constantly alter these facts to fit the view of reality that their despot “Big Brother” wanted the citizens to believe. The same thing happens now with LLMs presenting a very carefully tuned image of the facts in the database.

AI chat bots are an innovative new method of brainwashing, one which nobody could have ever imagined possible even a few years ago: get everyone to trust a mechanical Big Brother because it chats with you like a friendly fellow human would.

(Full article here.)

tilde.townRamin Honary: AI is an Orwellian nightmare
#AI#tech#internet

Meta to train its AI models on public data of European users.

Meta on Monday said it would incorporate user interactions with its AI, as well as posts and comments by adults across its platforms, to train its artificial intelligence models in the European Union.

Users will still be able to opt out of having their data used.

mediafaro.org/article/20250414

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France24 · Meta to train its AI models on public data of European users.By France24
#Meta#AI#Privacy

More lessons learned using an #ai #chatbot to help write code. (See my original post for some of the other observations).

First, watch out for vibe coding. I start off asking it to do things I know and things I could double check if I wanted to. And it's really easy to start asking it to do things that I don't know how to do, and that I can't check.

Second, save checkpoints. I'm inviting the #LLM to modify the code files. Sometimes it modifies unrelated stuff that used to work and makes it not work, or makes it different. I ask it to calculate alt text, and it changes how the histogram is plotted. As I iteratively get things working, I do a git add to capture a working version. A couple times I let it make a series of changes and by the time I got to the last change, it had clobbered some intermediate states that were working, and I didn't have a copy of the code that was there previously. At each incremental step, VS Codium can use git information to highlight which lines have changed due to the most recent modifications.

Last, it goes without saying, I must go in behind it and clean things up. A funny thing it tends to do is get really attached to adjectives. I wanted my trend line to be yellow, and in order to be clear, I prompted with "add a 15-minute moving average trend line that is bright yellow". Everywhere it mentioned this trend line (in comments, in the alt text) it always said "a bright yellow trend line" instead of just "a yellow trend line". When I asked it to make the histogram bins "exactly one minute" (again, trying to be unambiguous), it then labels everything like the X axis label and the alt text with the phrase "exactly 1 minute" instead of just "1 minute".

Infosec ExchangePaco Hope #resist (@paco@infosec.exchange)So I'm doing some #AI coding using Amazon's Q Developer. It's frankly pretty impressive. I hate AI and #LLMs for all the right reasons, and this seems like one of the things that they're actually good at. I don't ask it to do anything I can't do myself. I can verify and understand every line of code it writes. But what I"m doing is really different than what's most people do with like a Clippy style chatbot butting into your typing in your IDE. I'm using the Q Developer CLI and it's a totally different experience. Here's a small thread on what it's like. 1/n

The EU will probe the use of personal data by X's AI chatbot.

Ireland's data protection watchdog, acting on behalf of the European Union, launched an inquiry on Friday into the use of personal data posted on Elon Musk's social media platform by EU users, to train its AI chatbot, Grok.

mediafaro.org/article/20250411

A post by Elon Musk posted on X on 28 March 2025. DADO RUVIC / REUTERS
Le Monde · The EU will probe the use of personal data by X's AI chatbot.By Le Monde
#EU#X#SocialMedia

LLM-Anwendungen werden aggressiv an (akademischen) Bibliotheken beworben. Meine Kolleg*innen sind mehrheitlich begeistert: „Endlich einmal sind wir auch vorne dabei“.

Könnt ihr deutschsprachige Referent*innen im Bibliothekskontext empfehlen, die da kritische Aufklärung betreiben und die man zu einem Vortrag einladen könnte?

#AI#KI#LLM

Der Internetauftritt der Stadt #Bonn ist jetzt noch inklusiver! In insgesamt elf Sprachen ist die Website der Stadtverwaltung nun verfügbar: bonn.de/

Bereits seit Anfang des Jahres beantwortet der #Chatbot Fragen zu Verwaltungsdiensten, Kontaktinfos und Veranstaltungen in rund 95 Sprachen – bei Bedarf auch in Leichter Sprache!

ℹ️ Ausführliche Informationen unter bonn.de/pressemitteilungen/mae

Fact check: How do I spot errors in AI chatbots?

A network of pro-Russian websites is apparently misleading chatbots with AI-generated false reports.

Analysts suspect a plan. How can users protect themselves?

mediafaro.org/article/20250406

A person working on a laptop. | Image: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/picture alliance
DW · Fact check: How do I spot errors in AI chatbots?By Jan D. Walter
'Daisy scamt fraudeurs!' Whoat!? Whois Daisy? 👉 Over slimme, vernieuwende✨AI-toepassingen: Boris Nihom (dentsu Benelux) deelde een geweldig voorbeeld: een #campagne van de Britse telecomoperator O2, waarbij virtuele oma’s #scammers aan de praat houden. Ja, echt! 😂

Boris: "Een prachtige campagne - of eigenlijk moet ik het een initiatief noemen: #virtuele oma's die scammers bezig kunnen houden. Er zijn natuurlijk veel van die telefoonscammers die proberen ouderen op te lichten via de telefoon. Met deze AI-chatbot met stem erbij kun je eigenlijk eindeloos, 24/7 die scammers bezighouden. En zolang ze dat doen, zijn ze in ieder geval niet onze #opa's en #oma's aan het lastigvallen. Slim bedacht, klein inzicht, goed uitgevoerd." 🙌🏼

De AI-tool, genaamd #Daisy, klinkt als een lieve bejaarde dame met veel tijd én een flinke dosis geduld – precies het type waar oplichters op denken te kunnen scoren. Maar in plaats van #slachtoffer te worden, houdt Daisy hen zo lang mogelijk aan de lijn. De tool heeft al gesprekken van meer dan 40 minuten gevoerd, zonder dat de fraudeurs iets doorhadden. 🥸

Daisy werkt met maar liefst drie AI-taalmodellen:
1️⃣ Audio wordt realtime omgezet in tekst
2️⃣ Een taalmodel genereert een passend, persoonlijk antwoord
3️⃣ En, dat antwoord wordt weer omgezet naar spraak met een AI-stem

Een briljant voorbeeld van hoe AI ook voor maatschappelijk nut kan worden ingezet. Tech met een doel – en een #glimlach. 😊

#talkshow #creativity #marketing #digital #business #podcast Adobe YouLynq.me Agency Engines Audiohuis #AI #innovatie #AItools #taalmodel #scamming #telecom #chatbot #fraudeurs

For reasons, I still have #WhatsApp on a phone. They really shoved a #Meta_AI #chatbot contact into my list without asking. Not even that it is an additional contact, it is a laid-over button on top of the 'write msg' button. How obnoxious is that?!

Got a few questions from relatives who thought the new contact is a phishing attempt.