Reposted by Hypervisible singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 45mwith this and the microsoft exec calling ai the largest of theft of human labor in history, we've got some evidence that people in power understand the various reasons you might hate ai, and they think those reasons rule 0165
Reposted by Hypervisible Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 34mAfter watching an interview w makers of NAZA, I can't help but read this alongside a comment from a member of IDF who participated in AI warfare: mass killing/ surveillance was the perfect task for AI. "AI" is the perfect tool for humans to see other humans as inconsequential disposable items. 064
Reposted by Hypervisible Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 24mAI is reified anti-intellectualism In chapter 4 of 'Why We Fear AI', we argue that this results quite directly from its political economy as a tool to devalue skills and knowledge 0178
Reposted by Hypervisible Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 59mIt's not a hypothesis, and never has been. It's simply a description of what language models, run as synthetic text extruding machines, do: medium.com/@emilymenonb... >>medium.comStochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked QuestionsIt’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since… 17013
Reposted by Hypervisible Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 1hIt’s telling that he didn’t say that the experts are wrong, just that now you won’t have to listen to them because AI told you so? That the AI is correcting having to trust other people. 1172
Reposted by Hypervisible ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1hpopulism reaches its apotheosis by treating a machine as an unimpeachable source of knowledge 410622
Reposted by Hypervisible Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 1hI don't think agents replying to your emails or booking a restaurant for you is worth this stuff, sorry 416240
Reposted by Hypervisible Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 2hI don't think this will end well. I get it, though. 5716
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h“…Threads has a unique advantage when it comes to onboarding new members because of its tight integration with Facebook and Instagram, platforms that have over 6 billion users combined.”wired.comBlack Twitter Is Thriving—on ThreadsFrom outrage over Nolan Wells’ death to analysis of HBO Max’s “Lanterns,” Threads has transformed into a vital artery of the Black social media ecosystem. 2143
Reposted by Hypervisible Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 7hThis is horrifying and exactly what a lot of us have been warning against for years. So fucking frustrating. We could have had better—politically, technologically, socially, and economically. We need far better leadership in all fields, at all levels. 922977
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h“But the smart glasses reflect a larger philosophical position, one ubiquitous in Big Tech and fueled by the artificial intelligence gold rush: that the human is not enough, and that we need to be aided — and disciplined — by AI.”jacobin.comAmazon Is Perfecting Total Surveillance of Its WorkforceAmazon has long been synonymous with workplace surveillance. With the introduction of “smart delivery glasses,” the logistics giant may soon ensure that not a moment of its drivers’ time on the clock ... 29835
Reposted by Hypervisible EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social · 9hNow excuse me while I process the fact that the "front door" to U.S. Government services is powered by a chatbot that was quite literally trained on CSAM. 0387
Reposted by Hypervisible EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social · 9hAs you can imagine (as a USDS alum) I have some thoughts about this. I'm processing, and trying to get some different perspectives. In the meantime (as someone who spent years improving service-delivery in gov) here are the operational ?s currently on my mind… qz.com/trump-americ...qz.comTrump launches America.gov AI portal for federal servicesThe site uses Google's Gemini and Elon Musk's Grok to field questions across roughly 29,000 government websites 32311
Reposted by Hypervisible Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 10hStarting to think the destruction of facts and knowledge serves the fascist agenda…! 🤔 5428160
Reposted by Hypervisible Matt Crosslin @grandeped.bsky.social · 10hAn anti-science antivaxxer is just admitting that they are going to force Ai to spread misinformation, while education thought leaders are still over on Xitter praising Ai failures like Alpha School. 16126
Reposted by Hypervisible Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 11hThat’s not how any of this works but it is illustrative of not just RFK JR’s motivations but the entire MAHA industry. They’re bitter they never earned the respect and admiration of their peers and have to make it everyone else’s problem. 06315
Reposted by Hypervisible Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 12han absolute epistemological black hole 05913
Reposted by Hypervisible vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 12hThis is what they want. To eliminate most of us so that we aren’t a threat to them in a world decimated by climate change. They are very explicit that this is their actual political goal and that they see AI (“superintelligence”) as the leading mechanism to make that happen. 2509
Reposted by Hypervisible vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 12hThese men want you ignorant and powerless so that you can’t stop them from eliminating most of us when they really get things going. 27415
Reposted by Hypervisible Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 12hCouncils are increasingly banning smart glasses at public facilities aboutregional.com.au/smart-glasse...aboutregional.com.auSmart glasses face ban at council pools as larger policy push planned | About RegionalA southern NSW council has become the latest to move to ban smart glasses over privacy concerns, but an expert… 47824
Reposted by Hypervisible Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 12hThis really throws the reasons why they love Al so much into sharp relief. Not that it wasn't obvious already, but this is a pretty explicit acknowledgment that they hate reality. 36214
Reposted by Hypervisible jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 12hy'all they think ai is sentient 1586
Reposted by Hypervisible Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 13hSure, agents struggle to accomplish even the most basic tasks and Facebook recently got caught pretending they built agents by outsourcing tasks to poorly-paid contractors but what if they were cute? What now, skeptics? 411527
Reposted by Hypervisible vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 15hI’ve been noting that one of the main use cases that everyday users had already been putting LLMs and agents to use is the compilation of dossiers for peer-on-peer surveillance and automated gang-stalking (swarm-stalking) of other citizens, so of course Meta is copying that as a feature. 58839
Reposted by Hypervisible onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 15hEvery company that sells SaaS spyware to cops is currently like oh shit they’re coming for our market share 03313
Reposted by Hypervisible Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15hThis is a list of all the people who are going to be getting bailed out with your tax money. I guarantee it. Not tough to call this shot. 1433993
Reposted by Hypervisible Roger @partlyhuman.com · 15hDoxxing as a Service: "In one case, Muse unmasked a person whose name had been kept out of news reports for fear of retaliation and harassment. In another, it tied several pseudonymous accounts to the same person. It also matched a private Instagram account to a real person..." 09452
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”hntrbrk.comDox for Me, O MuseMuse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users. 715073
Reposted by Hypervisible Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn @anschmidtlebuhn.bsky.social · 16hIt is really underappreciated to what degree the rogue agents discourse is about prefabricating an excuse for releasing predictably unreliable and unsafe products. We don't need "AI alignment", we need enforcement of consumer protection and felony hacking laws. 04212
Reposted by Hypervisible Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 16hwww.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...theguardian.comWhy is Israel so afraid of the film NAZA? We spoke to its directors – Stateside with Kai and CarterComposed of interviews with 24 anonymous Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers, the documentary NAZA is a haunting exposé of the tools that the Israeli military uses to carry out the remote killi... 0112
Reposted by Hypervisible Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 18h@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social keeps talking about bringing back shame. I think "criminal corporate behavior must not be something you can simply price in and keep doing" is one structural equivalent that we seriously need 328639
Reposted by Hypervisible Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 17hSo the thing about this is that obviously thinking people aren't going to use it but every system and institution we have is going to race to adopt it and thereby harm all of us anyway 0288
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17hI’m at a business and the salesperson is making a call about a feature on the product. She just said “I have a customer here and he doesn’t want to be surveilled…” 1698
Reposted by Hypervisible Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 18hOh I forgot to put this in my notes before, this is maybe the hook of the "We miss DEI now that it's gone" chapter 0101
Reposted by Hypervisible Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18hin an older, more innocent time, we had skibidi toilet. now all we have are skibidi taxes. skibidi midterms. skibidi open enrollment period for skibidi health insurance. 39310
Reposted by Hypervisible V’s Knees @gothicneo.bsky.social · 18hQuestion for AI companies: How many people at home want to play middle manager to all their devices? 1192
Reposted by Hypervisible Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 19hto get our data they can't escape the need to take up space in our lives. Meta glasses, shitty pendants, any vehicle for cameras and microphones and sensors has to be physical, and browser-based SaaS doesn't get enough access to what's on our computers. 1184
Reposted by Hypervisible Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 19h> Dots can do nearly anything using their own cloud computer, their own browser, and the apps you've connected like, what the fuck are we even doing here? Isn't that the same thing all these companies have been saying all the last instances of these products did? 2313
Reposted by Hypervisible 𝙷𝚎𝚗𝚜 𝙱𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 🎨 @hensbreet.art · 19hGiving unsupervised software modules (which is what “agents” are) access to your private financial and medical information — sure, what could possibly go wrong. 1278
Reposted by Hypervisible Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 19hWhen the AI agents get fed your personal data after midnight:static.klipy.comGremlins Eating PopcornALT: Gremlins Eating Popcorn 06621
Reposted by Hypervisible Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 19hprobably fine that all these new ai agent rollouts are so cutesy and childish. probably a sign of innocuous, normal shit 523366
Reposted by Hypervisible 🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 19hSo I hate pop psychology AND these people have the playbook of the stereotypical Covert/ stereotypical covert / vulnerable narcissist. After admitting the existence of many instances of them doing arm , they now roll out a friendly welcoming isolating bunch of fluffs to increase dependency 0367
Reposted by Hypervisible Gavin @fifthelephant.bsky.social · 19hWe’re gonna burn the planet and boil the oceans but look at this little guy 1229
Reposted by Hypervisible Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19h"ohhh noooo it's toooo powerful! it's gonna hack ur dudes!" style fear-hype for the governments, "invite this adorable bastard demon into your home; we super swear it can't and won't steal your true name (PII)" style lies for the plebs 512138
Reposted by Hypervisible Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 19hthere are going to be so so so many stories of disasters when agents with full access to users' everything make huge mistakes there is no harness or minder on earth that can catch every single edge case 58417
Reposted by Hypervisible Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 19hthis is the thing about automation, as every automation Knower will tell you: you automate the repetitive tasks; the more variability and idiosyncracy there is (aka the real world) the fewer zeroes you get after the decimal on reliability, pretty soon the results are unacceptable 19519
Reposted by Hypervisible Andy Parker @theavangelist.bsky.social · 20hThis is already defying the original intent behind agents - you create and run it, instead switching to we create generic agents to harvest way more insight data from users. It's genius business 1184
Reposted by Hypervisible Miranda 🌸 @crookedneighbor.bsky.social · 20hI wonder how much of this is because all of these people have already lived their lives like this via human "assistants" and "household managers" 24310
Reposted by Hypervisible Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 20hThe old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters… extremely cute monsters that culturally evolved to hijack our baby-preserving psychology 0289
