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Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"War. Climate change. Unemployment. Against these headline-dominating issues, AI still feels like a gimmick to many. Yet experts warn that AI will reshape all of these issues and more - to say nothing of potential changes to our work and relationships. The question is: do people see the connection? What will make them care?</p><p>This research is the first large-scale effort to answer those questions. We polled 10,000 people across the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, and Poland to understand how AI fits into their broader hopes and fears for the future<br>(...)<br>The truth is that people are concerned that AI will worsen almost everything about their daily lives, from relationships and mental health to employment and democracy. They’re not concerned about “AI” as a concept; they’re concerned about what it will do to the things they already care about most.<br>(...)<br>People continue to rank AI low in their list of overall concerns. But we have discovered that there is a strong latent worry about AI risks, because people believe AI will make almost everything they care about worse.</p><p>This concern is not even. Rather, it plays into existing societal divisions, with women, lower-income and minority respondents most concerned about AI risks.</p><p>When it comes to what we worry about when we worry about AI, we have found that concern to be evolving rapidly. People worry most about relationships, more even than about their jobs.</p><p>People don't perceive AI as a catastrophic risk like war or climate change; though 1 in 3 are worried that AI might pursue its own goals outside our control, this is actually a lower proportion than<br>some surveys found for the same question two years ago.</p><p>Instead, our respondents see AI as a pervasive influence that modifies risk in a host of other areas, with concern about specific harms on the rise."</p><p><a href="https://report2025.seismic.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">report2025.seismic.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/STS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STS</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicOpinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicOpinion</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialScience</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpinionPolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpinionPolls</span></a></p>
trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:<p>Despite turning off every "Galaxy AI" option on this <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Samsung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Samsung</span></a> phone, the AI assist icon still appears in android context menus, like when you copy and paste. Would be willing to pay money to make it go away. <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>android</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativeai</span></a> !fediexclusive</p><p>EDIT: Im aware of alternate android roms, no need to suggest them.</p>
Solarbird :flag_cascadia:"sometimes, I think of ponies" - on the ideas around superintelligence through generative AI
Tiota Sram<p>It bothers me that so many LLM/genAI applications seem to be all about "now that we have new tool X, what can we do with it" while completely ignoring the question "for problem Y, what is the best tool for the job?"</p><p>Perhaps unsurprisingly for developers where we have strong evidence of poor ethics (e.g., uncritically using big-brand LLMs), I suspect that many of the people behind these systems care more about the exhiliration of using new tech and the prestige it might bring them than any of the problems they might claim to solve (if they even bother to identify such things at all). Turns out that's a great way to cause a lot of harm in the world, since you likely won't do a good job of measuring outcomes (if you even bother to do so) and you especially won't carefully look for systemic biases or ways your system might unintentionally hurt/exclude people. You also won't be concerned about whether your system ends up displacing efforts that would have led to better solutions.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a></p>
Misinformation-Superhighwayman<p>I need husband: AI beauty standards, fascism and the proliferation of bot driven content<br><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-025-02491-8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">link.springer.com/article/10.1</span><span class="invisible">007/s00146-025-02491-8</span></a></p><p>This paper by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@minxdragon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>minxdragon</span></a></span> is well written, IMHO. It draws together observations on a range of topics and contemporary social/political trends that may appear on superficial examination to be unconnected. This research does an excellent job of digging deeper, and revealing their interconnected nature, and the underlying mechanisms and motivations at play.</p><p>"I wanted to see if interacting with AI slop on Facebook would have a similar effect. To that end I created a Facebook account and liked the pages responsible for the “I need a Husband” posts. I started seeing signs of alt-right content within 24 h and in less than a week the account was algorithmically served pornographic posts, misogyny, racism, military AI slop and religious propaganda. I particularly noticed the chain letter style of Christianity posts, with a white AI Jesus imploring viewers to like, comment, share and subscribe to the videos to receive blessings and wealth."</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MaleGaze" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaleGaze</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AISlop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AISlop</span></a> <br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AltRightPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AltRightPipeline</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Misogyny</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Sexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sexism</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/IronyPoisoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IronyPoisoning</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ShrimpJesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShrimpJesus</span></a></p>
Andy Carolan :prami:<p>Creatives vs Generative AI</p><p>Who do you want to support? </p><p><a href="https://social.lol/tags/Creatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creatives</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a></p>
Jonathan Kamens 86 47<p>⇒ Please help me find <a href="https://federate.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> truth-telling sites! ⇐<br>In the past I've come across several websites that effectively debunk <a href="https://federate.social/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> hype.<br>However, now that I actually need them, to help me make the case at work for strong oversight of the company's GenAI use, I can't find any of them.<br>It seems like no matter what search terms and search engine I use, I get garbage search results (hype, indeed!).<br>What are your go-to websites for debunking <a href="https://federate.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> hype?<br>:boostRequest: <a href="https://federate.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"It's hard to say exactly when these AI obituaries first began appearing, but they've clearly exploded in the past year. </p><p>NewsGuard, a misinformation watchdog that tracks AI content, identified just 49 sites as "unreliable AI-generated news sites" with little human oversight when it started tracking them in May 2023. That number stands at 1,200 today. </p><p>"A lot of the sites are specific and focused solely on creating obituaries, whereas others are just basic content farms that publish a range of content," says McKenzie Sadeghi, NewsGuard's AI and Foreign Influence editor. </p><p>I found more than 20 websites publishing AI obituaries while researching this story, but I got the sense that the true number was much higher — and impossible to definitively capture. They seemed to come and go in rapid succession. One day I'd see one on a domain like deltademocrattimes.space; the next day it would redirect to a page of cascading popups that crashed my browser.</p><p>Joshua Braun, an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who studies profit-driven hoaxes, tells me that the goal for spam sites isn't just to get eyes on ads — it's also to camouflage bot traffic that's used to drive up page views. </p><p>"When it comes to taking in ad revenue, drawing real visitors is part of the game, but a lot of it is also pumping in fake traffic," he says. "Drawing enough human visitors would throw off the detection mechanisms that might otherwise take note of all the automated traffic."</p><p>Sometimes, the people being memorialized aren't even real. Scheirer tells me he first became aware of AI obituaries a couple years ago when he began seeing classmates he didn't recognize on a page for alumni from his high school."</p><p><a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/features/digital-grave-robbing-how-ai-is-plundering-online-obituaries/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof</span><span class="invisible">tware/features/digital-grave-robbing-how-ai-is-plundering-online-obituaries/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OnlineObituaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineObituaries</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIObituaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIObituaries</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spam</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Misinformation</span></a></p>
Cassian [main]<p>"Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features"</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/technology/202</span><span class="invisible">5/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/deepfakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deepfakes</span></a></p>
Guill.Jones, Honorary Canadian<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/karlbode.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>karlbode.com</span></a></span> <br>The only hallucinations more prevalent than those created by generative Ai are the ones in the minds of business exectives who think Ai is the next tech gold rush.<br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ai</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GenerativeAi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAi</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Business</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Bubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bubble</span></a></p>
Cassian [main]<p>"Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London tells the BBC that ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries."</p><p>Source:<br>"Everyone's jumping on the AI doll trend - but what are the concerns?", BBC News, 12 April 2025<br><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yg690e9eno" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yg69</span><span class="invisible">0e9eno</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a></p>
US<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/us/64074/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/us/64074/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Behind The IAB Tech Lab’s New Initiative To Deal With AI Scraping And Publisher Revenue Loss <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AnthonyKatsur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnthonyKatsur</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Cloudflare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cloudflare</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ContentMonetization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ContentMonetization</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DataScraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataScraping</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/IAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IAB</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/IABTechLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IABTechLab</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/monetization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monetization</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Publishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Publishers</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TonyKatsur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TonyKatsur</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity </p><p>Joel Becker, Nate Rush, Beth Barnes, David Rein</p><p>Model Evaluation &amp; Threat Research (METR)</p><p>"Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the February–June 2025 frontier affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers. 16 developers with moderate AI experience complete 246 tasks in mature projects on which they have an average of 5 years of prior experience. Each task is randomly assigned to allow or disallow usage of early-2025 AI tools. When AI tools are allowed, developers primarily use Cursor Pro, a popular code editor, and Claude 3.5/3.7 Sonnet. Before starting tasks, developers forecast that allowing AI will reduce completion time by 24%. After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19%—AI tooling slowed developers down. This slowdown also contradicts predictions from experts in economics (39% shorter) and ML (38% shorter). To understand this result, we collect and evaluate evidence for 20 properties of our setting that a priori could contribute to the observed slowdown effect—for example, the size and quality standards of projects, or prior developer experience with AI tooling. Although the influence of experimental artifacts cannot be entirely ruled out, the robustness of the slowdown effect across our analyses suggests it is unlikely to primarily be a function of our experimental design."</p><p><a href="https://metr.org/Early_2025_AI_Experienced_OS_Devs_Study.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">metr.org/Early_2025_AI_Experie</span><span class="invisible">nced_OS_Devs_Study.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Productivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Productivity</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SoftwareDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareDevelopment</span></a></p>
Cassian [main]<p>JustGiving have added an "AI"/LMM supportive message generator to their donation process and I am kinda disgusted by that...</p><p>So, if you are too, here's a URL to tell them about it: <a href="https://help.justgiving.com/hc/en-us/requests/new" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">help.justgiving.com/hc/en-us/r</span><span class="invisible">equests/new</span></a> and choose "complaint".</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/JustGiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustGiving</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a></p>
Tawanda :fedora:<p>Because search engines (Google in particular) have absolutely failed me, I'm gonna crowd source this:</p><p>I'm looking for long-form blog posts on the state of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> today. I don't mind if they get a bit technically, I'm just trying to get a deeper understanding of what <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llms</span></a> can do, how they work, their limitations and potential. I feel like most of what I've been exposed to is either overly optimistic takes (which I generally find off-putting) and the pessimistic takes which appeal to my cynicism (unfortunately). But I'm trying to be more open-minded, now.</p><p>I've seen a few talks on YouTube, one from Andrej Karpathy on his channel, and another one by Jodie Burchell on GOTO conferences which I think were pretty good. I'm just tired of being a non-believer who can't properly explain from a technical perspective why I don't believe other than the fact that I've tried to use LLMs for actual complex tasks and even the almighty Claude seems to crumble under real pressure </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/askfedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>askfedi</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Everyone should have access to answers, evidence, and data regarding the effectiveness and dangers of this technology. Axon and its customers claim this technology will revolutionize policing, but it remains to be seen how it will change the criminal justice system, and who this technology benefits most.</p><p>For months, EFF and other organizations have warned about the threats this technology poses to accountability and transparency in an already flawed criminal justice system. Now we've concluded the situation is even worse than we thought: There is no meaningful way to audit Draft One usage, whether you're a police chief or an independent researcher, because Axon designed it that way. </p><p>Draft One uses a ChatGPT variant to process body-worn camera audio of public encounters and create police reports based only on the captured verbal dialogue; it does not process the video. The Draft One-generated text is sprinkled with bracketed placeholders that officers are encouraged to add additional observations or information—or can be quickly deleted. Officers are supposed to edit Draft One's report and correct anything the Gen AI misunderstood due to a lack of context, troubled translations, or just plain-old mistakes. When they're done, the officer is prompted to sign an acknowledgement that the report was generated using Draft One and that they have reviewed the report and made necessary edits to ensure it is consistent with the officer’s recollection. Then they can copy and paste the text into their report. When they close the window, the draft disappears.</p><p>Any new, untested, and problematic technology needs a robust process to evaluate its use by officers. In this case, one would expect police agencies to retain data that ensures officers are actually editing the AI-generated reports as required...</p><p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/axons-draft-one-designed-defy-transparency" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/axon</span><span class="invisible">s-draft-one-designed-defy-transparency</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Axon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Axon</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DraftOne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DraftOne</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"If you want a job at McDonald’s today, there’s a good chance you'll have to talk to Olivia. Olivia is not, in fact, a human being, but instead an AI chatbot that screens applicants, asks for their contact information and résumé, directs them to a personality test, and occasionally makes them “go insane” by repeatedly misunderstanding their most basic questions.</p><p>Until last week, the platform that runs the Olivia chatbot, built by artificial intelligence software firm Paradox.ai, also suffered from absurdly basic security flaws. As a result, virtually any hacker could have accessed the records of every chat Olivia had ever had with McDonald's applicants—including all the personal information they shared in those conversations—with tricks as straightforward as guessing that an administrator account's username and password was “123456."</p><p>On Wednesday, security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry revealed that they found simple methods to hack into the backend of the AI chatbot platform on McHire.com, McDonald's website that many of its franchisees use to handle job applications. Carroll and Curry, hackers with a long track record of independent security testing, discovered that simple web-based vulnerabilities—including guessing one laughably weak password—allowed them to access a Paradox.ai account and query the company's databases that held every McHire user's chats with Olivia. The data appears to include as many as 64 million records, including applicants' names, email addresses, and phone numbers."</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/?mc_cid=cac0e3d733&amp;mc_eid=ceff4c8226" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-h</span><span class="invisible">iring-chat-bot-paradoxai/?mc_cid=cac0e3d733&amp;mc_eid=ceff4c8226</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CyberSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chatbots</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataProtection</span></a></p>
Creative Commons<p>Last week, the European Parliament's Legal Affairs (JURI) Committee released a new own-initiative report on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativeAI</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copyright</span></a>. </p><p>Learn more about our immediate reflections in this short article: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cc-reaction-juri-report-copyright-generative-ai-creative-commons-udecf?trackingId=Fb%2FtBVQMTH6l1vsrL%2B8Asg%3D%3D&amp;lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3Bd40CnMBZTie4iLmuAK4yqw%3D%3D" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/pulse/cc-reaction</span><span class="invisible">-juri-report-copyright-generative-ai-creative-commons-udecf?trackingId=Fb%2FtBVQMTH6l1vsrL%2B8Asg%3D%3D&amp;lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3Bd40CnMBZTie4iLmuAK4yqw%3D%3D</span></a></p>
Klaus Frankslur
Church of Jeff<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Shitifind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shitifind</span></a></p>