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California's Privacy Protection Agency is making rules to protect consumers, workers, and students from AI. At a meeting last month executive director Ashkan Soltani said the vast majority of input thus far comes from lobbyists and industry calmatters.org/economy/techno…

Tangent(ish): I am finding the framing of 'recipes' in AI super intuitive/helpful. Had first come across it from Deb Raji, now seeing it more and more.

Me: 'Partner, you can now buy a robot flamethrower dog for less than 10K. Technology advancing, yknow.'
Partner: 'Huh. How's cancer research going?'

we told you to chill with those SOTA model releases and now look what you've all done

Honestly, the most frightening thing about the corpus of porn and nude photos of women is knowing that my own non-consensual 'revenge porn' and the videos of my sex trafficking are likely a part of this mishmash from hell.

The layers of the lack of consent is astounding.

Twitter is inventing increasingly fanciful reasons why Meta's releasing models openly while Zuck gives the super straightforward, obvious-in-retrospect reason: Meta will spend > 100B on inference compute and if people make it 10% more efficient it will have paid for itself.

Really helpful thread from Laura Edelson taking apart some of the misunderstandings on 'openness', and why open AI development is helpful.

Appreciation tweet for merve, for (1) doing awesome technical work and also (2) navigating the trickiness of being a woman in tech so well.
It can be super hard to have the energy for (1) in light of the cultural messages you receive for (2), and she does it like it's nbd.

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So apparently there's a secondary market for compute credits, particularly GPU/AI training credits. Looking for sources who can speak to that -- plz reach out via DM/email/etc.

This compelling #datavisualization in The Economist highlights a concerning increase in suicide rates among teenage girls and young women #DigitalWellbeing #YouthMentalHealth economist.com/science-and-te…

🚨 Excellent AI paper alert: 'Can AI Standards Have Politics?' by Alicia Solow-Niederman. A must-read for everyone interested in AI policy, governance & regulation:

'The very formation of standards is political because the standards development and diffusion process reflects a particular

The Streisand Effect is real and now I’m down a hole of DEI threads, cease and desists, and a dinner photo of very not diverse attendees.

Do not tie your identity as a professional to a particular language, technology or framework. You will outlast all those things many times over.

These are testimonies of Palestinians who thought they heard children and women screaming for help in Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, only to realize that the cries were coming from an Israeli drone broadcasting distress calls to lure them out so it could shoot them.

A fantastic way to prove you support women in tech is to threaten to sue a young woman in tech like this. Amazing marketing strategy that definitely makes me want to do business with you and your company! Great job, Qovery team! 👍👍

I hesitated to share this because I feared more confrontation towards Anaïs Urlichs and myself, but I think it's important for folks to see the true colors of people in this industry.
Never shame someone for speaking their mind w/good intent. Never silence women.