Max Bourke

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

TikTok Flooded With Racist AI Videos, Likely Made With Google's Veo 3 Harmful stereotypes are used in the clips to generate outrage. Some of these AI-generated videos racked up tens of millions of views before being removed.

Dayam. Way too easy to make some pretty awful content now. au.pcmag.com/ai/111879/ti...

Link to the tweet thread x.com/AndrewCurran... and to the policy paper openai.com/global-affai...

Former NSA chief revolves through OpenAI's door General Nakasone was just appointed to the board — which doesn't inspire confidence in the company's 'non-military' future

It’s a moot point because to reach that standard they would have to appoint a former NSA director to their board. responsiblestatecraft.org/former-nsa-c...

If, hypothetically, DeepSeek could demonstrate the same privacy and security protections as their own would OpenAI welcome the competition — and possible billions in revenue and investment flowing into further R&D?

Tweet in thread by Andrew Curran saying OpenAI argues for banning PRC produced models that violate privacy and create security risks

But their argument for banning the use of Chinese hardware and models is economic warfare dressed up as privacy and security measures. Of course, the intended audience knows how to read between the lines — and it’s a strategy that many agree with.

Tweet by Andrew Curran saying OpenAI’s policy proposal to US gov links fair use to national security

Despite their “benefits all of humanity” mission statement, OpenAI has picked sides and is following Leopold Aschenbrenner’s US security state aligned playbook. And, on this first point re fair use, they’re at least transparent.

“Anti-DEI” is just pro-racism. Always has been, always will be.

hate to say it but I still find the algorithm over there serves me more of what holds my attention. I'm trying to crosspost in both places but that only applies to my original content; replies is where actual conversations happen.

Wait, now Bannon’s the anti-racist guy? Ok…

Visualizing transformers and attention | Talk for TNG Big Tech Day '24 Based on the 3blue1brown deep learning series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi

Grant Sanderson's speed run through the mathematics of transformers and attention powering most LLMs, drawn from his 3blue1brown Youtube series on neural networks more broadly. I keep being surprised by how good he is at making dense and complex ideas accessible.

Damn. Google Photos search is either completely broken, or hopelessly undocumented. Seems to be semantic, no control.

Seriously Apple? If we want to use your AI we have to accept spelling errors everywhere?

This is very concerning @support.bsky.team. Unblock, please.

(Was there brigading?)

Happened to me once and I’ve never been the same

Entertaining, but for real. All of these also apply in Australia.

(Alt text: screenshot of a Twitter post “On the other app, yesterday Hugging Face released a dataset of one million posts. The anti-ai reaction was so negative that they took down the dataset. Now an anon pfp has released a dataset with two million posts.”. Post includes a screenshot of a Bsky post)

This is a real shot across the bow of the firehose philosophy. Not maliciously I would guess, but it’s definitely going to get people thinking about the downsides to open protocols.

ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Move by international criminal court puts Netanyahu at risk of detention if he travels to certain other countries The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the county’s former defence…

ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

someone needs to put this in a development economics lecture

I’m gonna need a new bingo card

wow!

50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries — but they did worsen income inequality.

No SHIT!!???! 😱😱😱

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'A new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.'

www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cut...

Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.

New from 404 Media: Google is now the only search engine that works on Reddit thanks to its AI deal. Try to search for Reddit results with Bing, DuckDuckGo, or a bunch of others you won't get full results. Further monopoly on valuable information www.404media.co/google-is-th...

I've been reminded that ACON has gone through some changes and a number of people have had negative experiences working with them. Considered taking this post down but will leave it for now with this note, as on the face of it at least Listening and Truth Telling sounds worthwhile.

Any First Nations queer researchers (etc) looking for a great project? Friend just forwarded me this: ACON is looking for someone to lead their First Nations Listening and Truth Telling Project www.acon.org.au/who-we-are-h...

Damn I signed up for this and never post here. The platform inertia things is pretty real.

I've watched the way friends' pets adapt quickly to disabling injuries despite being far less fit for survival. It makes me wonder how much our lack of awareness of certain physiological changes are an evolved 'feature' that is serving us quite badly now.

❤️ I am forever haunted by the couple of interviews I’ve seen with Long Covid researchers who said that it’s very hard to create a control group bc once they start interviewing people they uncover all the ways they’ve re-routed their lives around their symptoms rather than “recovered.”

Israeli Govt. Denies Rolling Stone a Press Credential After Critical Coverage The Israeli government has denied a press credential to Rolling Stone amid Jesse Rosenfeld's coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israel-Hamas war.

This is outrageous. Israel's government has denied Rolling Stone a press credential after our critical coverage of Netanyahu and the widening conflict. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...