Yes, the book written by the commander of the unit that runs Lavender (etc.), a book that "offers a short guide to building a “target machine,” similar in description to Lavender, based on AI and machine-learning algorithms." Whose description then matches what he discusses in
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AI surveillance systems ethics and targeted profiling concerns
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Yes, exactly. And thus these listening practices need to be included as part of 'the system'. As does whatever surveillance is then applied to determine whether N person can be characterized, marked for death, based on said features.
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Mass Population Surveillance Infrastructure and AI Data Collection Ethics
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Persistently surveilling an entire population across a huge number of data points to inform "hundreds of thousands of features" including location, social media use, etc. takes a massive amount of infra. And I don't buy, given the nature of the known IDF cloud contracts and the
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Organizing for AI: Moving Beyond Requests to Action
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Some of us have been saying this for years! And it's one of the reasons we chose to organize, not entreat.
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Surveillance Data Collection Infrastructure Cloud AI Systems
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Yeah, and even if that is the case the surveillance/process that facilitates data collection across entires populations, that become inputs/training for this system, likely run on some cloud. And thus IMO cannot be divorced from this system.
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Eleuther Statement Exposes Journalism Gap on Technical AI Claims
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The Eleuther statement is actually an even harsher burn, because it implies that they don't expect even top-of-the-foodchain journalists to understand or do due diligence on moderately technical claims
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License breach implications for AI monetization models
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My guess is that if anyone is making money they're in breach of the license
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Dana-Farber Tests GPT-4 in Medicine, Finds Falsehoods and Costs
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute finds main GPT-4 concerns include falsehoods, high costs The renowned medical institute trialed letting 12,500 staff members use a private instance of GPT-4, a first-of-its-kind implementation in medicine. https://
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arber-cancer-institute-finds-main-gpt-4-concerns-include-falsehoods-high-costs/
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Community Notes Slow Misinformation Spread But Lag Behind Viral Content
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Community Notes really does work to slow down the spread of misinformation for tweets that get Notes. The effect is quite large. But the Notes are often posted too slowly, appearing only after false information has gone viral, lowering their real world impact.
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Is AI becoming sentient? Examining predictive models and reasoning
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Is AI close to being sentient? How can a model that "predicts" the next phrase have such complex reasoning capabilities. What do you think?