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Facial recognition data is a key to your identity – if stolen, you can’t just change the locks
This is why biometric verification was always a bad idea
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Facial recognition data is a key to your identity – if stolen, you can’t just change the locks
This is why biometric verification was always a bad idea
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Canada wants to join the age verification bandwagon and censor the internet with Bill C-34
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I heard Facebook was funding this in the US. Not sure if they're responsible for it elsewhere too. It's basically Five Eyes countries doing this, so you can bet it's to do with their surveillance efforts. How do we stop it? First step is not to comply. Do not complete any age verification. If you are absolutely forced to, at least lodge complaints about it. If you are still required to, try to avoid giving any data, e.g. use a pre-recorded video of someone else or a videogame character to pass the age check. Second step is to use and support alternative platforms that avoid such measures.
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Maybe the real Iran was the friends we made along the way
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But does it have Old Zealand?
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Decisions, decisions...
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As well as the military contractors, insurance companies, big food, big media, big think tanks and consultancy, etc
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Richard Dawkins thinks Claude may be conscious and he treats it as an intelligent (female) friend
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I haven't found him in correspondence with Epstein, but Epstein did write "im in arizona with pinker dawkins venter". It seems most mentions of Dawkins are by Dawkins' and Epstein's mutual friend, atheist physicist Lawrence Krauss or Epstein's friend, new age leader Deepak Chopra.
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Wisconsin town unanimously votes to ban data centers
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The internet functioned before data centers. It was much better back when websites were personal home pages.
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AI detectors aren't reliable
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It was flagged as AI-generated, not plagiarism. But it may be that the creators of the tool conflate the two.
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Decisions, decisions...
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It is reality. And unfortunately any "ethical" funds usually just focus on avoiding oil companies or military companies but are just fine with AI companies, surveillance companies, eugenics companies and so on. Nobody agrees on what is ethical I'm afraid. One man's unethical practice is another man's unethical-to-avoid practice.
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Maybe the real Iran was the friends we made along the way
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TIL
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TikTok are allegedly censoring complaints about data centers
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And it's 15% owned by Oracle and 30% owned by AI and tech investment firms.
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DuckDuckGo poll says 90% don't want AI in search
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The AI is autistic
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China: Firing employees and replacing them with AI is illegal
But if we don't remove all guardrails to develop AI as fast as possible China is gonna do it and take over the world!
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DuckDuckGo poll says 90% don't want AI in search
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It certainly adds convenience when you want quick answers. But the road to dystopia is convenient.
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Colorado lawmakers push for age verification at the operating system level
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Maybe next they'll make you prove you're over 18 to buy a computer at the store. Maybe put them behinds safety glass too since they're so dangerous. Or put them on the top shelf where kids can't reach.
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Decisions, decisions...
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Or usury
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Pollsters are now asking AIs to answer surveys as if they were humans and passing the results off as poll statistics
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Thanks for the inside view. I never knew a lot of the survey takers came from mobile games or that spending could be tracked.
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Reject modernity, embrace nature
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Decisions, decisions...
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Have you seen Gattaca?
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Feeling a black sheep at work
That's one reason. Another reason is that your code will be better and you will understand it. Yet another reason is you'll have more privacy. And probably the most important reason is that you're resisting AI development that threatens human existence.
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Pollsters are now asking AIs to answer surveys as if they were humans and passing the results off as poll statistics
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That someone is Peter Thiel according to this: https://corbettreport.com/the-stupidest-poll-of-all-time/