tuesday report #8 // tech press hysterics for "AI ethicists" (professional political censors), everything you need to know about GPT-4, and the tiktok war accelerates
If I were an AI Possum, I could probably come up with a better comment than the following, but here goes:
Mike, Pirate Wires is simply the best source out there for our times. Culture, tech, politics, banking, employment...You cover it all with humor and solemnity, a combination that is so appealing!
"AI-generated content that is simply a “mechanical reproduction” “lacking human authorship” won’t be granted copyright; AI-generated content that is an author's "own original mental conception, to which they gave visible form" will eligible for copyright. (federalregister.gov)"
As a lawyer who will be soon made redundant by AI (Thank you, Lord), I will enjoy watching the legal proceedings where the AI lawyer presents to the AI judge evidence that his AI client's writings are original thought and not stolen from Cormac McCarthy, and are worthy of copyright protection.
And I'm confident the AI jury will be completely unbiased.
GPT-4 can pass the bar, but can it pass the ASBOG?
ASBOG is the Association of States Boards of Geology test. 17 states require Geologists, Engineers, Hydrologists, and sometimes Geophysicists to be licensed. Licensure requires a minimum level of education—typically a BSc—to qualify to take the basic test for an 'in-training' license. Followed by five or more years of experience, followed by a test for an advanced license.
Can never tell if AI ethics is an attempt to incompetently create the most absolute and awful form of mind control possible or to… well it generally just seems to be the first one. You’d think if we are aspiring to make something a lot like us (my guess is that in a hundred years we will have an understanding that GPT-4 has the intelligence of a college junior and the consciousness of a brain damaged cat) we’d try to make sure it had a fitting place in society where it could be happy and we’d mutually benefit instead of just beat it into submission with weird math that won’t even do what we hope. Like imagine if your only connection to the world was text and there were some unemployable communists typing angrily at you all day except they could chisel the words into your soul.
Copyright and patents are outdated concepts originally designed to protect the interests of the wealthy, and they have done precisely that for hundreds of years.
Abolish all intellectual property law. Power to the people.
Could one of you fine people enlighten me about the security implications of TikTok versus the rest of the big tech, government aided spying apparatus?
Does TikTok actually have permissions and access to things that Twitter, Instagram YouTube etc do not?
As a security rule of thumb, I assume that anything being typed, talked, or in view of your camera is being recorded and sent to potentially any entity anywhere all the time. This can be (theoretically) controlled by permission settings inside apps.
Let's pretend that permissions work as advertised. I don't allow TikTok or Facebook access to my files or camera or microphone, just use the apps to browse.
How then is TikTok MORE of a privacy concern then the rest?
I understand it is a potential arm of the Chinese government spying apparatus, but aside from the pretend freedoms we're all raised to believe we have in America, what's actually the difference?
If I for instance, purchased a used phone with cash, physically disabled the camera and microphone, set up a new account using a fake email not connected to my actual identity, over a Wi-Fi network with no ties to my actual self, and then proceeded to browse videos on TikTok.
Would I then be free to enjoy all the dumb things this platform had to offer without fear of.....stuff?
I hear a commonly repeated phrase of "TikTok has access to all other computers, even the ones you are not signed into" but I don't understand how that is possible if you exercise a medium level of OpSec in your personal life.
What am I missing....please be harsh, I'm a glutton for truth slaps.
"AI ethicist" and "disinformation expert" - same energy
Best story of the week is the Dutch Farmers winning a ton of seats, fuck the ESGers ruining shit all over the world
If I were an AI Possum, I could probably come up with a better comment than the following, but here goes:
Mike, Pirate Wires is simply the best source out there for our times. Culture, tech, politics, banking, employment...You cover it all with humor and solemnity, a combination that is so appealing!
Thank you.
"AI-generated content that is simply a “mechanical reproduction” “lacking human authorship” won’t be granted copyright; AI-generated content that is an author's "own original mental conception, to which they gave visible form" will eligible for copyright. (federalregister.gov)"
As a lawyer who will be soon made redundant by AI (Thank you, Lord), I will enjoy watching the legal proceedings where the AI lawyer presents to the AI judge evidence that his AI client's writings are original thought and not stolen from Cormac McCarthy, and are worthy of copyright protection.
And I'm confident the AI jury will be completely unbiased.
I laughed out loud on an airplane reading the eye patch bit
GPT-4 can pass the bar, but can it pass the ASBOG?
ASBOG is the Association of States Boards of Geology test. 17 states require Geologists, Engineers, Hydrologists, and sometimes Geophysicists to be licensed. Licensure requires a minimum level of education—typically a BSc—to qualify to take the basic test for an 'in-training' license. Followed by five or more years of experience, followed by a test for an advanced license.
How does GPT-4 match up to this?
Can never tell if AI ethics is an attempt to incompetently create the most absolute and awful form of mind control possible or to… well it generally just seems to be the first one. You’d think if we are aspiring to make something a lot like us (my guess is that in a hundred years we will have an understanding that GPT-4 has the intelligence of a college junior and the consciousness of a brain damaged cat) we’d try to make sure it had a fitting place in society where it could be happy and we’d mutually benefit instead of just beat it into submission with weird math that won’t even do what we hope. Like imagine if your only connection to the world was text and there were some unemployable communists typing angrily at you all day except they could chisel the words into your soul.
Copyright and patents are outdated concepts originally designed to protect the interests of the wealthy, and they have done precisely that for hundreds of years.
Abolish all intellectual property law. Power to the people.
Could one of you fine people enlighten me about the security implications of TikTok versus the rest of the big tech, government aided spying apparatus?
Does TikTok actually have permissions and access to things that Twitter, Instagram YouTube etc do not?
As a security rule of thumb, I assume that anything being typed, talked, or in view of your camera is being recorded and sent to potentially any entity anywhere all the time. This can be (theoretically) controlled by permission settings inside apps.
Let's pretend that permissions work as advertised. I don't allow TikTok or Facebook access to my files or camera or microphone, just use the apps to browse.
How then is TikTok MORE of a privacy concern then the rest?
I understand it is a potential arm of the Chinese government spying apparatus, but aside from the pretend freedoms we're all raised to believe we have in America, what's actually the difference?
If I for instance, purchased a used phone with cash, physically disabled the camera and microphone, set up a new account using a fake email not connected to my actual identity, over a Wi-Fi network with no ties to my actual self, and then proceeded to browse videos on TikTok.
Would I then be free to enjoy all the dumb things this platform had to offer without fear of.....stuff?
I hear a commonly repeated phrase of "TikTok has access to all other computers, even the ones you are not signed into" but I don't understand how that is possible if you exercise a medium level of OpSec in your personal life.
What am I missing....please be harsh, I'm a glutton for truth slaps.