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#genai

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We would like to endorse what @kuketzblog writes about the inclusion of an “AI assistant” into an instant messenger that is still widely used:

It is unfortunate that many journalists do not realise how dangerous the new AI in WhatsApp really is. Der Spiegel, for example, writes in a recent article: “Meta AI does not have access to users' private chats, however, thanks to end-to-end encryption.” As a matter of fact, the AI does have access as it is used in the context of private chats or group chats. Sadly, this misinformation lulls users into a false sense of security. 🤦

Source (in German): social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog/1

MastodonMike Kuketz 🛡 (@kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de)Es ist bedauerlich, dass viele Journalisten nicht erkennen, wie gefährlich die neue KI in WhatsApp wirklich ist. Der Spiegel schreibt bspw. in einem aktuellen Beitrag: »Zugriff auf Privatchats von Usern hat Meta AI jedoch nicht, dank der Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung.« Dabei hat die KI durchaus Zugriff, wenn sie im Kontext privater Chats oder Gruppenchats verwendet wird. So verbreiten sich leider Falschinformationen, die Nutzer in falscher Sicherheit wiegen. 🤦
#whatsapp#ai#e2ee

every time I look at my profile pic, I like it less. I made it with generative AI a while ago and at first, I was happy to have what I had in my mind exist in reality but now I see all the little imperfections (and the vapid perfections as well) of an image devoid of soul or style so I decided to hit someone up on fiverr to make a new profile pic for me (this time without genAI). it might be a silly thing to spend money on but at least then every time I look at it, I can remember the artist that got a few bucks rather than the megacorp that drains the oceans and loots the whole of humanity's creativity to serve their greed.

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“While more than half of teachers indicate their school has a policy ab whether #GenAI is allowed, detailed guidance on applying AI in the classroom is lacking. For example, only 25% of teachers have received guidance ab how to address student AI use when it’s applied in ways that aren’t permitted.”

65% of Wikimedia's most expensive traffic comes from bots.

"Since January 2024, we have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%. This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models."

diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/

Diff · How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projectsSince the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…

🇫🇮🐍 Welcome to this month's meetup on Tuesday 15th April 2025 at Reaktor!

Talks:

🧪 @maaretp - Exploratory Unit Testing with and for GenAI

🪈 Toni Vanhala - Stable and Observable: Celery Setup Essentials for SQL Pipelines

⁉️ And the famous HelPy quiz!

meetup.com/helpy-meetups/event

See you there!

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@skribe Conversely, the cost of printing, distribution, and storage puts up a barrier to spamming people on other continents with mass quantities of low value slop.

Just think through the logistics of a hostile Eurasian state sending a mass quantity of printed materials to Australia or North America.

Or, for that matter, a hostile North American state sending a mass quantity of printed materials to Europe or Asia.

You would either need:–

a) At least one printing press on each continent;
b) You could try shipping the magazines, but they'd be a month out of date when they arrive; or
c) You could try flying them overseas, but that would be very expensive very quickly.

That's before you worry about things like delivery drivers (or postage), and warehouses.

These are less of an issue for books than they are for newspapers or magazines.

And if a particular newspaper or magazine is known to be reliable, written by humans, researched offline, and the articles are not available online, then there's potentially value in people buying a physical copy.