Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Testimony to the United Nations Security Council on #russian hate speech.

#StandWithUkraine #NAFO #CancelRussia #StopRussia #genocide #imperialism

https://snyder.substack.com/p/playing-the-victim

Welp here we fuckin go. GPT-4 is launched.

Back in the run-up to this release, four whole days ago, a bunch of people were talking over on the birdsite about their reactions to the pronouncements of those who'd gotten beta access, and MSFT's own discussions of what they believed it was going to be like.

Everybody in the gpt-4 trend was talking about how much faster it's reported to be, how many more things it can supposedly be applied to, all while blithely glossing over the fact that MSFT itself said that it is *Still Very Often Wrong* (https://www.rockingrobots.com/gpt-4-to-be-released-this-week/).

And that? That is the problem with our technoculture, in a nutshell.

And today, as seen in the image below, we have have these just… incredible scenes, live from OpenAI's GPT-4, where, when Chris Nicholson asked GPT-4 to give him a syllabus and mnemonics for learning Spanish pronunciation, not only did GPT-4 *Get Most Of The Pronunciations Wrong*, but— and I genuinely do not know which of these is worse— *the New York Times Reprinted The Exchange Without Calling This Out*.

I just… Holy shit y'all.

And then add to ALL of that the fact that MSFT just laid off their entire "Ethical A.I." team, in favour of their increasing the workload and making increasingly nebulous the remit of their "Office of Responsible A.I." And they did this right before this the GPT-4 release announcement went wide, specifically citing the pace of development as the reason they were laying their ethicists off (https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-ai-ethical-ai-bing-chatgpt-layoffs-1850223358).

Let me say that again:

Microsoft is laying off their whole "ethical A.I." team specifically BECAUSE they are increasing the range of integrations of their "A.I." tool throughout their *Widely-Used-By-The-U.S.-Government* product ecosystem.

…Which tells me they woefully misunderstand both "Ethics" and "A.I."

I mean this is damn near beyond parody at this point. If I were going to craft a list of shit to absolutely NOT DO in a time like this, it would look pretty much exactly like what OpenAI and MSFT are doing, right now.

Things are about to get real bad, real fast, and you can feel free to quote me on that.

Just got access to GPT4 via ChatGPT and it's doing shockingly (and creepily) well on my test of "Who is X?" - here's its answers for Simon Willison and for Andy Baio

Both of them appear to be entirely accurate - in the past I've seen all sorts of wild hallucinations from this kind of prompt

One year ago today one of the most famous photographers, Mark Levin, was killed by Russian occupiers.

📷 Levin was documenting Russia’s war crimes in Kyiv region. #Ukraine #RussianWarCrimes

@jonn exatly what one sees in the eyes of many, many former russians, but today citizens of canada, usa etc: they wait for their motherland to keep it's power, despite profiting of the other country's democracy and comforts =/

@jonn i wanted to respond, but either i have been muted or blocked by the opponent. which kind of supports my previons impression (i'll add the text below, here's a screenshot for the moment).

Please, don't watch #navalny stuff until the end of war. He and his people are the enemies of #Ukraine!

#цитата | «Навальний — опозиціонер без опозиції, нема кого узагальнювати. В історії росії чимало прикладів ліпнини штучного образу — останній зараз скидає ракети на голови мирних мешканців, а колись цитував Шевченка, хотів у НАТО і жалкував про відсутність в собі української крові».

https://rubryka.com/blog/film-navalnyy-oskar/

добра стаття #українською. потрібен переклад англійською (і французькою).

@thomy2000 104 days ago it was the 30th of november, the 280-th day of the #russia's war on ukraine… thousands of ukrainians were already dead, some of them tortured, raped, burned… hundreds of children have been kidnapped by russia, often separated from their families…

…but good luck trying to find any mention of the war in the stream of the person you've just shared :-/ this is as close to a mention as i've found:

https://mastodon.social/@laplab/109429114298659798

as if all the dead didn't matter.

Iranian APT Targets Female Activists With Mahsa Amini Protest Lures https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/iranian-apt-uses-mahsa-amini-protests-to-target-female-activists

I've been talking with an academic researcher who is interested in speaking with people who have shut down their fediverse servers, for any reason.

I know it's a touchy subject so I didn't want to just refer her directly to people, but if you are seeing this message and you're interested, please DM me and I will give you her email. I did a 1-hour interview with her on more general topics and really enjoyed the experience.

(Boosts appreciated!)