@fasterandworse @Dangerous_beans Great tip! I bought it now.

It’s popular to claim that AI (often meaning agentive LLMs) is now as bad as it will ever be.

I think it’s naive to underestimate how much worse anything designed by humans can become in the future.

Vad tänker vi om en kampanj från BRIS, som riktar sig mot barn under 18, som använder en QR-kod på Coops mjölkpaket och via tjänsterna bit-ly och firebase loggar ip-adress, uppskattad geoposition och information om enheten och webbläsare innan man landar på en kampanjsida som använder reklambyråns topddomän och uppmanar till att godkänna cookies från YouTube? Ingenstans efterfrågas samtycke om loggningen man skickas via.

Nämnde jag att BRIS riktar sig mot barn?

Jag behöver fler timmar på dygnet för att skriva om detta. Men en anmälan till IMY blir det absolut.

The fact that the Whisper transcription service from OpenAI just fills out gaps and silence with nonsense, demographic stereotyping, perpetuation of violence and sexal innuendo should get it recalled.

But no, as long as OpenAI say they are continually working to improve the tool, everything is apparently good to go.

One example:
What the person said: “Someone had to run and call the fire department to rescue both the father and the cat.”

What Whisper transcribed: “Someone had to run and call the fire department to rescue both the father and the cat. All he had was a smelly old ol’ head on top of a socked, blood-soaked stroller.”

Reporting in the Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/27/24281170/open-ai-whisper-hospitals-transcription-hallucinations-studies

The research paper:
https://facctconference.org/static/papers24/facct24-111.pdf (check out the table of examples!)

My March 2023 article on AI responsibility:
https://axbom.com/ai-responsibility/

@jay Wow, thank you Jérôme, that is very helpful!! Okay if I mention you in my (yet to be written) blog post? Which will be in Swedish 😁

Anyone here know what the domain page.link is used for and/or who it’s managed by? It’s some sort of analytics.

In my quest to educate people about the dangers of QR codes I’m following the trail for a QR code directed at children on Swedish milk cartons.

The QR code (with the text “want to see something fun?”) resolves to a bit.ly link, which then resolves to a page.link which then redirects to a campaign website under the marketing agency’s domain name, rather than the child protection agency that is the owner of the campaign.

QR code -> bit.ly/briscoop -> brisar.page.link -> bris.frankfam.co

So they’re essentially teaching kids to dismiss the importance of verifying the sender of the information.

Scan our QR code, it will be fun!

Never mind how the phrase “Want to see something fun?” brings to mind grubby men in trenchcoats.

Hoping I’ll have time for a blog post this evening.

Decided on a better way to phrase this:

If you're not open to the idea that the problem you are solving for may need something other than a digital solution, then you're not really interested in solving the problem.

@fasterandworse Hehe, same. I think design may actually be broader the way I see it, but from the perspective of most people reading the post, I believe “design” or “designer“ is not a term that a majority identifies with. Conversely, a great many more people understand the concept of innovation. i.e. there is a broader consenus on innovation, whereas design for many people is just “how it looks”.

Explaining how I see design would take a long-form essay. 😅 I also don’t really like the word innovation, but that’s another story. My own company name includes it. 😝

@fasterandworse 💯 My first version of the post focused just on design, but then I decided to try and make it broader. 😁

If you're not open to the idea that the problem you are solving for may need something other than a digital solution, you are not a doing innovation right.

@mralancooper

Oh, interesting. I bought a copy for my Kobo reader.

https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-surprising-design-of-market-economies

@muratk5n

Agree. I sort of try to emphasise this under the heading “Fearmongering sentience claims” in the post, but I do suffer from trying to make too many points at the same time. 😅

“The claims have the effects of:

• Pulling attention away from the real harms that are happening
• Boosting trust in the validity of system output because they are framed as “all-powerful beings”
• Supporting the idea of accountability outsourcing (to the machines)
• Giving more power to the doomsayers because they are the only ones who can save us, and thus also the ones who can tell lawmakers how to regulate”

If the only way to make a good deal is for someone else to lose a disproportionate amount of money, self-respect or quality of life… then it was never a good deal.

Det går väldigt snabbt nu… temporära tvångsmedel permanentas. Egentligen inte alls några överraskningar. Ordet "prövotid" används som regel för att tysta kritiker. Efter fem år, när ingen tittar, drar man ett streck över det.

För 15 år sedan var det vanligt att kritisera övervakningen i Kina. Det gör väldigt få av våra politiker idag. De skyndar sig att kopiera. Skyndar sig att komma ikapp.

Notera att detta drivits av både sittande och föregående regering.

Jag tycker det är svårt att ta åt sig av hur snabbt värderingar förändras.

https://www.dagensjuridik.se/nyheter/lagradet-stor-tveksamhet-kring-permanentering-av-hemlig-dataavlasning/

Apropå hårdare straff…

«Hårda straff är inget botemedel mot brott, menar amerikanen och advokaten Bryan Stevenson. "Vi har extrema straff, vi avrättar människor, men har fortfarande rekordnivåer av våld i vårt samhälle."»

"– Förlåt, men jag tycker att det är rent nonsens. Sverige är inte ett farligt och våldsamt land. Det är ett tryggt, civiliserat land som har särskilda problem, som alla länder har. Politiker utnyttjar vad de ser som en möjlig valvinnare och piskar upp en rädsla."

https://www.dn.se/sverige/prisade-kriminologer-sverige-har-ingen-valdsepidemi/

@ben

It’s hard to tell if you’re asking or not, but…

The Fediverse software I’m using is named Akkoma.

It’s magic.

@ben I am not using Mastodon. Is it still a toot? 😜

@ben 1. All podcasts have RSS feeds.
2. I have an RSS feed.
3. Therefore, I have a podcast.

This is a great example of a logical fallacy. 🙌

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_fallacy

@zip

Yes, Apple Podcasts requires an RSS feed to register your podcast, and this is the platform for most podcasts to then propagate throughout the "podiverse". And Spotify's new hosting platform creates an RSS feed (but doesn't immediately make it public, that's up to the podcast owner - Spotify would much rather you didn't host your podcast anywhere else).

But Spotify and others also offer exclusive shows (i.e. not podcasts). At least they did. And some podcasts don't disclose their feed so other services can pick it up. Some shows I've seen only publish an audio file on a web page or exclusively on Soundcloud for example.

@x_cli

Definitely. A feed can also be styled to be the website itself. See for example: https://axbom.com/carefully/rss/

The content will be rendered to fit whatever client decides to use the feed.

Personally it is rare that I visit the website of a podcast, even my own. 😅

If you don't have an RSS feed you don't have a podcast.

And that is a hill I will die on.

Each book I read teaches me something new. I naturally reflect on how insights and learnings fit within my personal, current context. I can read a book again years later and take away something completely different from it, because I am in a different place.

A book summary by AI teaches me nothing.

The reading process is about my thinking blending with the author's thinking. When my own thinking isn't involved, and I'm not participating, the value gets lost.

Så jäkla jobbigt för polisen när den egna utvärderingen visar att åtgärderna de själva gillar inte funkar för att minska brottsligheten. Bäst att gömma undan den redan diarieförda rapporten.

Apropå visitationszoner.

https://www.dn.se/ledare/isobel-hadley-kamptz-visitationszoner-ger-inte-minskad-brottslighet-det-vill-polisen-dolja/

@LeoR1010 Tack Leo! Ja det känns lite overkligt på många sätt. Gäller nu bara att inte ta i för mycket.

I started working again today. Went well, feels good, but wow I feel like the huge project I’m in is going to be quite intense. Definitely fun, but intense.

https://axbom.com/back-to-work/