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Comment AI FOMO (Score 1) 122

by Junta (#66401192) Attached to: Proton CEO Is In 'Full AI Psychosis'

The CEO sees other tech companies getting giant boosts and is pissed that isn't him. Line going up for other companies more than his.

When in doubt, blind alignment to the hype of the day should, potentially get there. No room for nuance or actual vision to what would capture the indicated missing value, AI should just provide it... somehow.

Submission + - Pope Leo XIV Calls for Autonomous Weapons Ban and Warns Against AI Personhood (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: Pope Leo XIV is calling for concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons and warning that granting AI systems legal personhood could obscure human responsibility. In a thread on X, he says decisions affecting human life, freedom, and the use of force must remain under effective, informed human oversight. NERDS.xyz examines his demands for shared standards, independent oversight, and remedies for people harmed by AI.

The pope describes machines as tools rather than people, warning that AI personhood could leave victims confronting a faceless entity. He argues that a reliable system serving people is more valuable than an exceptionally powerful one whose consequences cannot be adequately predicted or controlled. The accountability question extends beyond weapons: when an AI system causes harm, how do we ensure the people behind it remain answerable?

Submission + - Meta Staff Notes Discussed a 'Whisper Strategy' Against Jonathan Haidt

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Meta Staff Notes Discussed a ‘Whisper Strategy’ Against Jonathan Haidt

“Notes from Meta meetings in March 2023 show staff discussing how to “turn academics against Haidt”, meaning Jonathan Haidt, the social psychologist who blames social media for rising anxiety and depression among teenagers.”

‘The notes, headed “Well-being Meeting Sound-check Notes”, were filed in public on 23 October as Exhibit E in the large US federal case over social media and young people’s mental health. ’
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"How do we get the academic community to disavow Haidt?"

"Can't co-opt them, so how do we enrage them... So the media finds him not credible."

"Whisper strategy – turn academics against Haidt."

Submission + - The AI bubble is bursting. Long live the king.

Submitted by butt0nm4n
butt0nm4n writes: BBC reports Google value plunges by $500bn as AI fears rattle Wall Street

But we’ll be alright. AI helps me with coding, will help researchers research, scientists. science? But as a prospect for Google, how could they make it work alongside their other offerings reliant on Ads?

Intelligence doesn’t have a commercial sponsor and nor should it, intelligence needs to be objective and right. AI/LLM already has a problem with not knowing if it’s wrong, same problem we have as humans, so at best we are getting like for like at greater convenience. If you were to weight it with sponsored content or ads, the value and quality of the original premise drifts.

Becoming dependent upon something for intelligence is a step backward for human development, what has got us this far is not a crutch, it’s chucking the crutch and running with it anyway. Growth mindset has pushed us forward, developing our own intelligence and knowledge.

LLMs can support that, but to replace it, no, we’d give up something that is fundamentally our selves.

I would have been better to call AI, cognitive support or search and summary, but AI was a more marketable term out of Science Fiction and perhaps the Wizard of Oz, a totalitarian pipe dream to invent a god, an authority of knowledge, a source of truth.

There is value in AI, but it has been vastly over valued and hyped. It’s more a story about marketing, creating a sense of value, rather than substance.

Let’s move onto the next innovation, live and learn, divest the AI investments into something more obviously useful and use “AI” as another tool in the box to help us.

The king is dead. Long live the next one.

Submission + - The Tragedy of Losing Your Wikipedia Page (wired.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: What do you need to know—need to know—about Xavier Trudeau? The eldest son of former Canadian prime minister Justin, the teenage Trudeau has recently begun performing R&B under the mononym Xav. But, with all due respect to Xav, do those facts make him a person of note? Should you expect to be able to read about him on Wikipedia? What about Evanescence guitarist Tim McCord, or 2012 Yachtmaster of the Year Rainer Holtorff? All three have had a biography on Wikipedia; all three of those biographies were considered for deletion this year on the grounds that the subjects were not notable enough to warrant a biography at all. Every day, dozens, sometimes hundreds, of Wikipedia biographies—of child actors turned LA realtors, retired ambassadors, soccer players who have played less than 10 minutes of professional soccer—are purged from the world’s free encyclopedia.

It’s not as though Wikipedia, which hosts over 7 million articles in the English language, doesn’t have the space. But Wikipedia has only so many volunteers to monitor its contents. To this day, Wikipedia editors are discovering hoaxes that have gone undetected for decades. The time it takes to verify the release dates of Xav’s three singles is better spent—the logic goes—by asking whether the American Civil War officer Nathaniel Lyon really drank mustard during battle, as was claimed in his Wikipedia biography for 17 years. Wikipedia removed the mustard claim, not because it was proven wrong, but because there was no reliable evidence for it. “We’re not really looking for what’s true,” Britta Gustafson, who has been editing Wikipedia since 2001, told me. “We’re looking for what’s verifiable.” Wikipedia editors do not themselves decide that a person is not notable, only that there is a lack of reliable evidence to support the claim...

Submission + - Proton CEO in full AI psychosis (404media.co) 1

Submitted by devnulljapan
devnulljapan writes: Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton, and other company executives are aggressively pushing Proton towards AI. Engineers at Proton, which makes the encrypted email service Proton Mail and a suite of privacy and security-focused products, including an encrypted drive service, an authenticator app, a password manager, are being pushed to âoestop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.â
Workers describe an environment where employees have genuine concerns about security or being asked to develop security products with AI, but feel unable to voice them, lest Yen berates them in front of everyone or threatens their employment at the company.

âoeThe CEO is in full AI psychosis and has been for a while now.â

Submission + - Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts (wired.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Trading has resumed on Polymarket’s flagship international platform after a hack that drained money from the wallets of some traders. A third-party vendor based in the United Kingdom was breached, not the prediction market’s website itself. Law enforcement in the UK have been notified of the incident, the company said. Trading was initially paused while the company investigated for several hours.

On X, prominent traders complained that they had lost money; Blockchain analytics firm Bubblemaps reported that around 700 users appear affected, with approximately $2.7 million stolen. Polymarket declined to comment when WIRED asked how many traders were impacted by the breach and how much money was lost, but said it will refund impacted traders.

The hack did not impact users on Polymarket US, the company’s newer platform for people within the United States. Polymarket runs two separate prediction markets; Polymarket US operates as a federally regulated financial exchange within the country, while the flagship Polymarket is a cryptocurrency-based platform that is banned in the United States and a number of other countries.

Comment Re:How abysmally stupid do you have to be ... (Score 1) 58

was assembled by an artificial intelligence

Why the hell bother using an AI when you could just type what you would prompt into the comment directly?

To the point you put into the LLM, it's perfectly plausible that someone wiring up an LLM to their email and their bank account suddenly are at huge risk of a scam working. Whatever problems exist in the technical implementations the fact remains that folks greasing the wheels for their money to go out autonomously incur the risk of..... their money going out autonomously...

Submission + - OpenVeils Releases Uncensored, Analytical LLM Designed To Escape Consensus (openveils.com) 1

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: Today's top search and AI engines ask, "What do the most authoritative and widely accepted sources currently support?" rather than "What conclusion emerges if we examine the full body of available evidence — including controversial, obscure, or dissenting sources — and weigh each on its merits?"

That distinction matters. Systems optimized around authority, consensus, popularity, and established-source credibility can systematically deprioritize evidence that sits outside the mainstream — even when individual sources may be credible, documented, or independently verifiable.

The result can become a self-reinforcing information loop: mainstream sources rank highest because they are considered authoritative, AI relies disproportionately on those sources, and their conclusions are then repeated and amplified as the prevailing consensus.

Submission + - Canada facing carbon tariff threat from European Union (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The EU is imposing carbon border charges on Canadian steel, iron, and aluminum starting 2027.

-$2.8 billion in exports exposed — no exemption for Canada despite its own carbon price.
-Internal docs call it “effectively a carbon tariff.” Quebec and Newfoundland hardest hit as Ottawa pushes EU trade diversification.
-Canadian producers face new compliance costs and higher prices on metals already slammed by U.S. tariffs.
-The EU is weaponizing climate policy into a direct trade hit on Canada.

The EU is applying its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to Canadian steel, iron and aluminum to stop “carbon leakage”.

Canada's new best friends don't even want our stuff! How brutal is this?

Remember, Carney and the Liberals walked away from a tariff-free deal with Trump.

Submission + - Please Let the Internet Die (wired.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Any rational observer can admit that the current iteration of the web—and the social fabric woven there—is not what they signed up for. Symptoms of advanced cultural decay can no longer be ignored. This thing is eating itself.
Giants including Meta and Google have been forced to settle massive consumer lawsuits brought over privacy violations and mental health harms allegedly caused by the addictive mechanisms of their platforms. Schools are banning smartphones as multiple countries institute social media restrictions for under-16s. Parents are in a panic about their kids aspiring to careers as social media celebrities, losing themselves in a vast ecosystem of online casinos, or joining extremist movements.
Generative AI, briefly considered an amusing novelty, is now a turbocharged slop engine for the web, filling feeds and comment sections with useless, grotesque content. As humans scroll past headlines about AI taking their jobs, confusing fantasy for reality, and contributing to cognitive decline, any consumer appeal the technology might have is turning to anguish. The data centers that power it have become increasingly unpopular, and politically radioactive.

Submission + - Iran Threatens Undersea Internet Cables in Strait of Hormuz, Releases AI-Generat (circleid.com)

Submitted by penciling_in
penciling_in writes: Iran is escalating threats against undersea Internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz. On October 21, a senior Revolutionary Guards official warned that seven major cables could be targeted. Two days later, it is reported that Tehran has detailed plans to attack the cables and prevent repair ships from restoring service if war resumes.

Adding a rather surreal touch, Iranian-linked propaganda accounts circulated an AI-generated video on October 27–28 depicting underwater cable bombings, followed by dramatic scenes of Gulf banking systems and communications networks collapsing.

According to TeleGeography, less than 1% of international bandwidth passes through Hormuz, but the regional consequences could be substantial. Maritime intelligence firm Windward reports that Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar have no submarine cable routes that bypass the strait. Terrestrial alternatives exist, though their capacity to absorb a major disruption remains uncertain.

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