The main thing that I kept emphasizing in that interview was that the most outrageous type of pinkwashing in this country has been perpetrated by Macron’s successive governments since 2017. Governments that always like to pretend they are on the side of LGBTI+ people, and yet systematically fail to protect and further their rights.
I feel the same way about AI that I did about crypto when it started becoming a thing:
• All of the moral practices that make it possible are fucked beyond repair.
• It’s spawning some of the worst companies, and enriching some of the worst billionaires in the world.
• While there are some genuinely useful, practical applications for it, there are so few of them, and they have had so little positive impact so far, that it doesn’t even seem like it’s going to be worth it anytime soon.
@skydog@oldguycrusty@nileane@sigmund Agreed. I've worked a bit with ML, and followed it for years. It's very useful tech, with a lot of known limitations and issues.
The current boom of generative "AI" (which isn't AI at all) is largely a money grab and stock bubble at the expense of privacy and energy, and a boom to fraud and misinformation at a time in our history where it can do a lot of social damage. As if the tech bros ever cared about the consequences.
True, but all the AI models in cancer, climate, ... research are fundamentally different from the ChatGPT type AI that is hyped at the moment. And the tech bros are less interested in those useful forms it seems.
I'd argue that it is part of the unethical practice, though, to conflate the two and attempt to disarm any criticism of the ChatGPT type AI pointing at AI use in cancer and medical research.
And it it indeed a shame if those uses get a bad reputation as a fallout from all the everyday AI hype.
Une immense nouvelle qui fait beaucoup de bien : aujourd'hui, près de 100 associations, syndicats et partis politiques officialisent leur soutien à la campagne #JugePasMonGenre pour le changement de sexe à l'état civil déjudiciarisé, libre et gratuit !
Cette victoire, on peut l'arracher.
Dans la rue, et au Parlement !
The French government has banned TikTok in New Caledonia following pro-independence protests.
When asked about the legality of the measure, it basically replied that since the territory is not part of the EU’s jurisdiction, it’s perfectly allowed to ban social platforms however it likes.
What in the colonial crap is this bullshit. For fuck’s sake.
The government is exploiting a provision in the state of emergency law, which states: “The Minister of the Interior may take any measures necessary to ensure the interruption of any online public communication service that incites to commit acts of terrorism or glorifies such acts.”