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- Comment on Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters” 1 week ago:
If they spend weeks convincing you that you should do it, give you money or other resources to do it, or so on, then it can be entrapment.
Things like that should theoretically help you make an argument for entrapment, but it’s no sure thing
- Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters”www.wired.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 35 comments
- Comment on Listening to some old albums while reviewing my retirement savings 3 weeks ago:
I love the concept and these song choices, I’m too lazy to make my own playlist but here are a few things you might dig
open.spotify.com/track/1mCAo03iRVykBr1HObOePI?con…
open.spotify.com/track/56CDeVdoVjGbxfAddAnAPh?con…
- Comment on The other shoe drops, and this time it is covered in dog shit 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Its so joever 2 months ago:
And, like, is taking good media hosted on shitty sites and rehosting it on a better one supposed to be a bad thing?
- Comment on Coca-Cola accused of quietly dropping its 25% reusable packaging target 4 months ago:
Additionally, never ever believe lawmakers saying they’ve reached an agreement with a business to do x by y (and therefore they don’t need to pass any new regulations to actually force that business to do what they agreed to)
- Comment on Astronauts tight-lipped about reason for hospital visit after 235 days in space 5 months ago:
Boeing’s incompetence may have hurt our astronauts, we are not good
- Comment on Louisiana schools use Artificial Intelligence to help young children learn to read 5 months ago:
Do you think the department of education writes the textbooks, standardized tests (SAT, ACT, etc.), grading and student management software, learning management systems (Google Classroom, Canvas), or manufactures its own classroom tech (Chromebooks, tablets)?
Each one of those has a bunch of particular nuances, but in general - yeah, I think they could and should in a lot of those cases
The education system is full of for-profit businesses that can jack up the prices, and they do.
Yeah, it’s a big problem with a lot of little parts to be tackled
The DOE simply doesn’t have the resources to create these things themselves
Then government should give them the resources (actually, I think a whole separate agency that develops open source software for any government agency or anyone else who wants to use them should be established, but that’s kind of besides the point).
and would cost them far more if they tried
I don’t think that’s true, and even if it were I think we should be willing to pay premium to make sure essential systems that support the public good are being administered in democratic ways (e.g. by public agencies that are required to give public reports to elected lawmakers and be subject to citizens’ FOIA requests).
the business model has existed forever
A lot of stupid ideas hang on for a really long time. Like, we still have monarchies in the 21st century world.
Personally, I’m more concerned with the use of Google products in schools. A company that’s sole business is harvesting user data and selling it to advertisers should have no place in schools or children’s products. But they’ve embedded themselves into everything so people just accept it at the cost of privacy
I 100% agree this is a significant problem too, I just haven’t come across any good articles about it recently
- Comment on Louisiana schools use Artificial Intelligence to help young children learn to read 5 months ago:
Exactly, they’re a captive audience, and moreover they are legally incompetent to consent to a contracted business relationship like this
If this was a department of education AI or even some kind of transparently administered non-profit organization I’d be fine with this, but the fact that this is being developed for some for profit company that can just jack their rates and cut off public schools whenever they want to is bullshit. Like, I’m not opposed to the technology of LLMs at all, I think they’re actually pretty neat, but our social and economic systems have a lot of exploitative trash in them that can end up making cool technologies forces for evil.
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- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
An American security contractor and a Chinese embassy employee are at a bar. The American says, “I gotta say, your propaganda is impressive. You sure know how to keep your people in line.”
“Oh, you’re too gracious,” the embassy worker says. “And besides, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda.”
The contractor chokes on his drink and gives his friend a bewildered look.
“What are you talking about? There’s no propaganda in America.”
- Privacy advocates demo Babel Street's "Locate X" software, which can track people at abortion clinics without a warrant and has been bought by multiple law enforcement agencieswww.404media.co ↗Submitted 5 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 19 comments
- Comment on Learn to play piano like a pro in 30 days! 6 months ago:
Ah you are totally right and thank you for the correction, I got taught at a young age by a very nice but very overworked public school music teacher that there were just eight notes and not to worry about anything more complicated than that and my brain always really wants to default back to that
- Comment on Learn to play piano like a pro in 30 days! 6 months ago:
I don’t know for sure, but the Jaws theme is definitely a half-step interval, so the spacing of the keys in the meme is right at least
Random trivia I learned from a music theory YouTuber, the bass line to Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name kind of does the same thing, except instead of going back and forth a single half step it does nine (aka, an eight note octave plus one note)