Daragh Ó Briain

A pile of chopped raw meat, labeled "Red Velvet Cake Slice"

Tell me your grocery store used AI to assign their photos without telling me, etc etc

Also, from certain angles, names and numbers on French kit are not readable against the baby blue.

I do not have perfect colour vision. It is confusing.

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Mega thread on who is behind these age verification laws, spoiler alert it’s Meta.

Tell me again how the EU is trampling on US freedom of speech?

the most immediate threat to Irish national security right now is the government's push to shove as much unproven, barely regulated commercial genAI into the public sector as they can, as fast as they can, which is effectively a policy of creating massive, gaping holes in our cybersecurity

He asks if they have a copy of “Flyfishing by JR Hartley”.

The book contains the personal data that someone called JR Hartley wrote that book. Their name is on it.

The shop has the book. he asks them to hold a copy. He gives his name: JR Hartley.

Store then has directly identifiable personal data

a man in a suit and tie is talking on a phone and the words it 's jr hartley are on the screen Alt: a man in a suit and tie is talking on a phone and the words it 's jr hartley are on the screen

If no bot was created in my image and likeness, then they should be able to say “nope, no droid here resembling the one you are looking for”

It’s like that old UK ad for the Golden Pages where the old man rings up to find out if a bookshop had a copy of an old book in stock.

Still fudge from Grammarly about my DSAR. “We used 3rd party LLMs and didn’t process any personal data” is the party line. But if an option was presented to have me as an “expert reviewer” through this system and a bot with my name and likeness was created, data relating to me was processed.

Sings: “When Irish ICE are smiling,
You’ll know himself is gone.
And herself will be going soon after.
Because the State declared they’re wrong”

Nearly six months behind bars. No bail. When they finally dismissed the charges they released her in North Dakota with no winter clothes & no means of getting back home to Tennessee. They upended this woman's life.

How lazy we've all become. I mean, our local Esso is only a few hundred yards down the road, yet I still drive there to get my petrol.

lol AI got them into this mess and now they're trying to use AI to get out of it.

AI use really does shrink your brain

oh cool we’re doing the Wire Mother experiment again, but on all of society

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MPs have passed an amendment giving the government powers to restrict access to VPNs.

Imposing digital ID checks will turn people away from using a tool that keeps them safe and secure online.

Instead it'll fuel the surveillance-based economy that causes harms.

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a woman wearing glasses and a head scarf is pointing Alt: a woman wearing glasses and a head scarf is pointing

It is an Irish shop for Irish people.

"Horrifically, it appears AI might have been behind the unintentional bombing of a girls' school in Iran by the United States."

Very disappointing to read this from such a convinced European federalist.

What is federalism if not dependent on rules and institutions @guyverhofstadt.bsky.social ?

The Salmon of Knowledge is celebrated much more in myth and legends than its less positive cousin, the Trout of Doubt.

now would be a good time for some national football orgs to grow a fucking spine and say they’re going to boycott

We warned you about putting fundamentally leaky and insecure "AI" systems into the research and education environment, bro! We fucken told you bro!

Apparently they used public LLMs for the service and had no training data. I need to think the chain through on this but, bluntly, a digital persona promoted as a facsimile of me and my views on a topic is data relating to me. So I tweaked my DSAR.

Judging by the exasperated tone I infer from the data protection team at Superhuman a LOT of people seem to be asking about how their data was used in the Expert Review feature, which has now been killed apparently.

Going to war with bad maps. It has happened before: www.nytimes.com/2000/04/17/w...

a man in a suit and tie is wearing a black beret and making a funny face . Alt: a man in a suit and tie is wearing a black beret and making a funny face .

Well known subversive paramilitary from the early 1970s.

a sign that says collect underpants phase 1 phase 2 phase 3 and collect underpants profit Alt: a sign that says collect underpants phase 1 phase 2 phase 3 and collect underpants profit

It’s the Underpants Gnomes method applied to geopolitics and armed conflict…

Bomb stuff > Question Mark > Profit

I guess everyone should just email expertoptout@superhuman.com just to be safe.
People in the EU should probably tack an Article 15 request (access) and an Article 18 request (restriction on processing) to their Article 22 (opt-out) request.

Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt out expertoptout@superhuman.com.

A question for Grammarly: how does an author opt-out of something they might not be aware is being done using data relating to them as an identifiable individual? This will get spicy for them.

www.theverge.com/tech/891822/...

The fact they think an opt-OUT is the right solution shows how much they don't understand any of this (nor does their legal team).

Russian gas and Gulf Oil are both, by now, very largely replaceable by solar (and wind).

We have to do this anyway to stop the planet from killing us.

It is the most obvious solution to a problem.