Remmelt 🛑

just a reminder that asking "can meta's oversight board still function?" is another way of asking "can one of the most evil corporations self-regulate?"

Ring's Jamie Siminoff has been trying to calm privacy fears since the Super Bowl, but his answers may not help | TechCrunch The facial recognition question is where things get more tangled.

He can do a perpetual damage control tour for the next 30 years, but it doesn’t change the fact that he’s trying to build the panopticon.

"Regulations could help keep AI systems in their lane. Instead of setting AI agents loose on the world, we could insist on AI systems having clear and well-scoped purposes – and demand evidence that they are fit for purpose."

omg, nailed

People who know more about AI art find it less ethical When people understand the system and process behind AI art, its moral implications become harder to accept

You don’t say.

I'll be chipping in on decomputing and technofascism

Lingo Bingo at the India AI Summit w/ Naomi Klein, Timnit Gebru, Nikhil Dey, and Chinasa Okolo Podcast Episode · Computer Says Maybe · 27 February · 53m

This was a great podcast

New paper from team @aial.ie! aial.ie/research/gpa...

EU's AI Act Article 53(1)(d) is an obligation for GPAI model providers to publicly provide a 'summary' on their model’s training data. The team assessed published summaries along 6 dimensions & found that all big providers failed on all 6.

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Don’t forget to breathe.

Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year | TechCrunch The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely CEO Roy Lee shared last summer was a lie, its founder and CEO Roy Lee admitted on Thursday on X.

I can’t believe the “cheat-on-everything” guy would do this.

Anthropic’s AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud Anthropic’s AI tool Claude is playing a key role in the U.S. military’s campaign in Iran, amid a bitter fight with the Pentagon over the terms of its use in war.

It’s egregious for the WaPo to describe speed as the advantage against Iran w/ Claude. When these systems are incredibly inaccurate, they may as well be enabling indiscriminate targeting (e.g. schools), which isn’t the strategic win they’re framing it as.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

“Maven, powered by Claude, suggested hundreds of targets, issued precise location coordinates, and prioritized those targets according to importance, said two of the people.”

Machines can be humans too, in the eyes of transhumanists.

Anthropic Just Dropped $1.3 Million to Defeat A Candidate Opposing Data Centers YouTube video by More Perfect Union

Anthropic is bribing politicians who clear data centers.

They paid $1.6 million already for ads by a corrupt politician in North Carolina.

‘Jobs and Democracy PAC’ is the group Anthropic hides behind.

A pandora's box is being opened by evil people without our consent and this cannot be allowed to stand. We have to wrestle power back from these people, tear down their corrupt system, and replace it with genuine democratic oversight, otherwise this species is not going to have a future. Certainly not one that would be worth living in.

The article is great condensed reading.

Honestly, seeing all that makes me related to it being even worse than I imagined…

Thank you for sharing this 🙏

Epstein and his tech bros had one thing in common.

*The absolute disregard of the sanctity of life.*

Ooh, will read

We need to believe that we can *care* to do anything about this situation.

Facing Backlash, OpenAI Amends Pentagon Deal to Add More Anti-Surveillance Verbiage When Katy Perry sides with your competitor, something's got to be done.

Extra verbiage. Glad it’s sorted. 🙄

The one question everyone should be asking after OpenAI’s deal with the Pentagon The US said we can’t afford to let a surveillance state like China win the AI race. Well...

Was happy to speak to Vox on OpenAI's alleged AWS guardrails. Besides current guardrails being trivial to bypass, they can't enforce human oversight over the outputs of an AI algorithm. It's an operational matter not a technical one, and thus infeasible by any guardrails.
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SCOOP: Anthropic was among the AI companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete in a $100 million Pentagon prize challenge to produce technology for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming, acc to people familiar w/ matter.

And everyone is running around praising them for being "ethical"

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Waymo Says It Has Nothing to Say After Its Self-Driving Taxi Blocked an Ambulance Responding to a Mass Shooting "Come on! Go!"

“The Google-owned Waymo told outlets that it would not be providing a statement.”

Annie Altman •1 Mar 2026 "Terrible, terrible, terrible" - Grandma Annie Altman• 10 Dec 2025. No need to hex when I can pray to my Dad and Grandma to treat you how they see fit.

send sam altman to jail pls

We need to believe that we can *care* to do anything about this situation.

Anthropic's leading researchers acted as moderate accelerationists This is a critique I wrote for the AI Safety community, of which many supported sending ‘safety’ engineers to OpenAI and then at Anthropic.

Dario made ChatGPT happen.

US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes despite Trump’s ban Trump calls Anthropic a ‘Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about’

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The use of Claude during the massive joint US-Israel bombardment of Iran that began on Saturday was reported by the Wall Street Journal and Axios. It underlines the complexity of the US military withdrawing powerful AI tools from its missions when the technology is already intricately embedded in operations. According to the Journal, US military command used the tools for intelligence purposes, as well as to help select targets and carry out battlefield simulations. On Friday, just hours before the Iran attack began, Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Claude immediately. He denounced Anthropic on Truth Social as a "Radical Left Al company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about" The flaming row was triggered by the use of Claude by the US military in its raid to capture the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, in January. Anthropic objected, pointing to its terms of use which do not allow Claude to be applied for violent ends, to develop weapons, or for surveillance.

This is all bad.

We are really going to regret the technology we have built.