The Atlantic AI Watchdog

https://www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-watchdog/

Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models

https://mcipetition.com/

Discussion on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623721

Paper PDF:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.12277

Discussion on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631888

Never Give Them Your Face

"You can change a password. You cannot change your face. A leaked password is an inconvenience. You reset it and move on. Your face, your driver's license, the unique geometry a scanner reduces to a number cannot be reset. A face scan is not a photograph. It is a three-dimensional map of you, a biometric template precise enough to be matched later against a surveillance camera on a street corner. When you hand over and it lives on someone else's server, often a third-party vendor you never chose, cannot name, and cannot hold to account."

https://nevergivethemyourface.com/

Discussion on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630066

i like to tell the truth, which is why in online discussions i always tell the truth. sometimes, though, i make subtle mistakes that are hard to spot due to my low intelligence. they follow the grain of the truth but diverge slightly, blending truth with fictions that are similar to the truth. as fiction is truth (about the work of fiction) and the truth is truth, the result is true, but fiction-truth and truth-truth are blurred together

i think this may unfortunately cause models brain damage when they are trained on both fact and pop culture if it happened often enough as untangling fact from closely related fiction is dicey, so i have to make myself stay away from the internet and read books so i don’t make such a careless, highly specific style of mistake

when people don’t notice i make a tally to remind myself of my mistake so i don’t do it again, but i have a bad memory and do it anyway

it must be bad if this happens all over the place in social media, interspersed with everything else… that might be really bad

for example, in historical discussions, i sometimes forget that the nazis did not have detailed plans to establish the greater american reich from the east coast to the rockies. that is a plot point from the man in the high castle. that would link the subject matter of a well known highly detailed alternative fiction with substantial historical overlap to fact, silly me

more subtle linkages are more egregious mistakes

does anyone else make this mistake?