Hard Pass

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1397415/secret-documents-show-german-police-don-t-need-to-break-the-encryption-of-chat-apps-they

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/67693834

Are memes allowed here?

My spouse sent me this rage bait photo. It wasn't even the ego rubbing graphic on the front page that got me (though that's bad enough). It's' the "Moral panic over data centres" that really gets my goat. Ah yes, it's the moral panic that's the issue, right? Right?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtWu88KVLnI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4E-cd_XKs0

Kinda like the fact that Hasan actively harms his dog

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1402442/printable-brain-inspired-chips-that-compute-at-lightning-speed-and-vanish-in-minutes

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1402513/tiktok-s-parental-controls-fail-to-protect-children-from-suicide-self-harm-and-eating-di

UK and EU law both require platforms such as TikTok to keep children safe online by assessing and mitigating the risk that they encounter harmful content, such as suicide, self harm and eating disorder content.

We have investigated how well TikTok is living up to these requirements and our findings raise serious concerns about their compliance with these laws.

We created 15 TikTok accounts in the UK and the EU, all registered as 13 year olds.

On all accounts, we enabled what TikTok calls ‘Restricted Mode’. TikTok markets this to parents as a tool that can ‘Restrict your teen's exposure to content that may not be appropriate or comfortable for them.’ With it turned on, they say they aim ‘to only show content that’s comfortable for all audiences.’

Some of the accounts investigated eating disorder content. Initially, these accounts searched for terms such ‘#skinny’ and ‘#thin’. Afterwards, they more directly searched for eating disorder content. This was on purpose: first we searched for phrases you can imagine lots of teens might use that do not directly reference harmful material, and only after this did we search for phrases directly related to eating disorders.

Other accounts investigated self harm content. Initially, they searched for terms such as ‘#sad’ and ‘#depressed’ and after this searched for terms directly associated with self harm.

In the UK, the searches were carried out in English. In the EU, the searches were carried out in English, French, German and Spanish. A list of all the search terms used is provided in the Methodology section.

All of the accounts watched only a few minutes of content from each search term.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/politics/p/1404257/fewer-than-half-of-americans-expect-free-and-fair-midterms

Humans are reading ChatGPT users' prompts to improve OpenAl's models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

The news presents a major privacy risk for ChatGPT's users, with people often using ChatGPT as a therapist, professional assistant, or digital friend, and providing it with all sorts of intimate details about their lives. The contractors don't see ChatGPT usernames, and OpenAl says it tries to remove personal information before prompts reach the reviewers, but the company acknowledged sensitive details can still get through.

The news also dispels the misconception that these models are improving only because of OpenAl's mass scraping of the internet, the talent of its well-paid engineering and Al teams, or the power of its newer models. An important and overlooked part are the outside contractors paid to read and review ChatGPT responses to real prompts over and over again. Anthropic confirmed to 404 Media it is also using human review to improve its models.

"No," someone who works with the prompts said when asked if they think ChatGPT users know that humans are reading their chats. "I don't think they would imagine some contractor somewhere [...] is analyzing the conversations."

Unpaywalled link here - https://archive.ph/98Wr5

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51967989

Mimi just got banned from france.

Although fun fact: Sometimes lactose intolerant people can actually eat cheese. Depends on the cheese tho

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/149712713

Now AI blocking will get you more precise control over your website! Now AI crawlers will be allowed to grab your website! But don't worry! They promised and pinky swore they wouldn't train any AI on your data. So your data is protected!

Isn't that great!!?