The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.

Will we listen to his words today?

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Falls ihr euch bei Google-Suchanfragen die dusselige KI-Zusammenfassung sparen wollt, fügt der Suchanfrage "-KI" hinzu. Schönen Freitag.

The President claims people want a dictator for the 2nd day in a row while armed troops patrol the Capitol, and has threatened military occupation of other opposition-led cities.

Possibly my favorite summation of Pride

In einem offenen Brief haben knapp 300 Rechtswissenschaftlerinnen und Rechtswissenschaftler Jens Spahn, Friedrich Merz und der Unionsfraktion das verpasst, was man als virtuelle Backpfeife bezeichnen könnte. Gut so! Wehret den Anfängen! www.oer.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/oer/mam/cont...

Die PARTEI war mal ein (lustiger) Stachel im Fleisch der Mächtigen. Mittlerweile scheint man sich aber damit zu begnügen, Verschwörungsgedöns der Rechten nachzuplappern. Im EU-Parlament haben Sibylle Berg und Martin Sonneborn heut gemeinsam mit Le Pens Partei, Orbans Truppe sowie der AfD gestimmt.

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