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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Cloud Contracts Enabling Mass Population Surveillance Systems
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Yes, definitely. And what cloud/vendor contracts might be hosting/facilitating the surveillance that enables access to such data across an entire population?
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Israeli Military Cloud Infrastructure and US Tech Company Contracts
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Most things run on clouds these day. And the Israeli military has a number of known cloud contracts w/US companies. The claim isn't that it requires it in some fundamental sense.
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Secure Cloud Infrastructure for US Government: OS Libraries Analysis
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Interesting. A lot of cloud cos offer "secure" clouds designed for "sensitive" uses, which Google was racing through FedRamp authorization to offer to USG/DOD when I was there. Given that you seem to have close knowledge, what OS libraries would you assume they're using? What
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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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Future Job Stimulus Programs: Economic Policy Ideas
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Idea for future job stimulus programs. https://t.co/uIbVgPKIqm pic.twitter.com/XQoQmsJIWe
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 4 avril 2024Idea for future job stimulus programs.
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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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Mapping AI Tools and Accountability Supply Chains
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I agree with this critique. But I don't agree that mapping precisely the tools and pretexts used, their supply chains/links of culpability, is a distraction, or itself causes the projection of culpability onto the 'machine' (echoing exactly the logics of these systems/narratives