Ausstellung im Sprechsaal (Berlin-Mitte) Adresse: Marienstraße 26, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
„#Gaza – Der #Krieg gegen die #Palästinenser“
In der #Ausstellung werden großformatig aktuelle Fotodokumente aus Gaza gezeigt.
Öffnungszeiten:
Ab 6. Mai 2025 Dienstag, Donnerstag, Freitag von 15 bis 19 Uhr, nach Vereinbarung & vor Veranstaltungen. Eintritt gegen #Spende.
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„Völkermord in Gaza“
Vortrag, Lesung, Buchvorstellung, Diskussion Mit der Autorin Helga Baumgarten Vor wenigen Wochen erschien das Buch „Völkermord in Gaza“ im Promedi...Sprechsaal
Pistes cyclables, 30 km/h, rues aux écoles… Paris élue meilleure ville européenne pour la mobilité des enfants - Le Parisien
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Pistes cyclables, 30 km/h, rues aux écoles… Paris élue meilleure ville européenne pour la mobilité des enfants
En s’appuyant sur trois critères omniprésents dans la politique menée par la majorité municipale, Clean Cities considère que Paris est la capitale européenne la plus adaptée aux déplacements des enfants.Elie Julien (Le Parisien)
Private Capital Talks Highlights a New African Optimism
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-05-16/next-africa-ceos-summit-optimism-masks-risks-in-a-divided-world?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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🇵🇸 Rassemblement pour un #cessezlefeu à #Gaza
🗓️ Dimanche 18 mai à 18 h au port du Rosmeur (#Douarnenez).
Romania Holds Interest Rates Before Tight Presidential Runoff
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/romania-holds-interest-rates-before-tight-presidential-runoff?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Romania Election: Interest Rates on Hold Before Tight Presidential Runoff
Romania’s central bank kept borrowing costs unchanged just days before a presidential runoff that may determine prospects for tackling a budget crisis after months of political turmoil and a market selloff.Andra Timu (Bloomberg)
Ludicrous speed GOOOOOOOO!
Stop Searchin' Start Fediversin' - Gaming On Linux 👍
#owncast #streaming #videogames #linux #videogames #games #gaming #tst #linuxgaming #gamingonlinux #tech #chatting
Arrivata a Genova la nave Ong “Solidaire” con 263 persone a bordo
Già effettuato lo screening sanitario [.....]
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Arrivata a Genova la nave Ong “Solidaire” con 263 persone a bordo
Già effettuato lo screening sanitario […..]Gaiaitalia.com Notizie Genova
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Harold Halibut: un decennio abbondante per costruire un gioco di successo
Alla GDC 2025 Ole Tillman e Onat Hekimoglu hanno raccontato i retroscena dello sviluppo di Harold Halibut, durato dieci anni tra grandi difficoltà ed enormi soddisfazioniAndrea Maderna (Final Round)
My house’s aluminum trim is peeling. What are my options?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2025/05/16/painting-aluminum-trim-tips/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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🇷🇺 Russia's demands at the talks are unrealistic and go far beyond what was previously discussed, Reuters reports citing a Ukrainian diplomatic source.
Moscow is reportedly demanding that Ukraine withdraw troops from what it calls "its territory" to agree to a ceasefire — among other new conditions.
Climate Change Is Threatening Eye Health in Disturbing Ways
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/climate-change-is-threatening-eye-health-in-disturbing-ways-180986573/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Science @science-Smithsonianmag
Climate Change Is Threatening Eye Health in Disturbing Ways
Cataracts, pinkeye and other ocular disorders are linked to heat, air pollution and higher UV exposureSmithsonian Magazine
AI poses new moral questions. Pope Leo says the Catholic Church has answers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/16/pope-leo-ai-artificial-intelligence-catholic-church/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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On a besoin de toutes les signatures avant demain soir pour faire interdire les « thérapies de conversion » en Europe !
Signez et faites signer ici, partagez partout :
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#LGBTQIA #LGBT #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapyBan #LesEcologistes #EELV #Europe #EU
https://www.franceinfo.fr/monde/europe/manifestations-en-ukraine/direct-pourparlers-entre-russes-et-ukrainiens-a-istanbul-les-etats-unis-n-ont-pas-de-grandes-attentes-sur-l-issue-de-la-rencontre-assure-le-secretaire-d-etat-marco-rubio_7251960.html#xtor=CS2-765-[autres]-
DIRECT. Guerre en Ukraine : la Russie "n'a pas envie d'un cessez-le-feu" et doit faire l'objet d'une "pression
Des discussions entre Russes et Ukrainiens, les premières depuis le printemps 2022, ont lieu au palais de Dolmabahçe, à Istanbul, sans Volodymyr Zelensky et Vladimir Poutine.Luc Chagnon (Franceinfo)
Kann jemand eine #privacy-freundliche #Schrittzähler App für #Android empfehlen, die ohne Smartwatch/Fitness Uhr funktioniert? Suche für meinen Papa, der mag beim handwerken aber keine Uhr tragen. Muss auch nicht super akkurat sein, Richtwerte würden ihm schon reichen.
Apps von #fdroid bevorzugt, aber Play Store geht auch, solange die App Open Source ist. Deutsches Interface wäre nice.
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'Great is justice. It is in the soul.'
Old words from Walt Whitman.
“Great is Justice; Justice is not settled by legislators and laws…it is in the soul.
It cannot be varied by statutes any more than love or pride or the attraction of gravity can, It is immutable… it does not depend on majorities… majorities or what not come at last before the same passionless and exact tribunal.
There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.
Why Did Grok Start Talking About ‘White Genocide’?
Large language models are reflections of the people who program them.Matthew Gault (404 Media)
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ADEGA e a PDRA inician os trámites para levar ao xulgado a autorización da Xunta ao proxecto de Altri
Autor: redac
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#OutrosConcellos #Política #adega #Altri
ADEGA e a PDRA inician os trámites para levar ao xulgado a autorización da Xunta ao proxecto de Altri |
A solicitude de concesión de augas da celulosa debera entenderse desestimada por vencer o prazo legal para resolver Carril, venres 16 de maio de 2025.redac (Crónica3.com A Mariña)
Guanajuato lanza la Temporada Gastronómica 2025 con 24 eventos en 21 municipios
La iniciativa busca impulsar el turismo, la economía local y la proyección nacional de la cocina y bebidas tradicionales del estadoVinetur
A State Department liaison office is instructing employees to restrict the use of identity- and gender-related terms, including common abbreviations like LGBT.
semafor.com/article/05/15/2025…
State Department restricts LGBT-related terms, others
The State Department’s Executive Secretariat discourages the use of words like “bias,” “equity,” and “ally,” except in specific contexts.Mathias Hammer (www.semafor.com)
US Treasury 'surprised, confused' by Trump's order to lift Syria sanctions
Washington’s sanctions have targeted Syria for around 14 years, decimating the country’s economy and the daily lives of ordinary Syriansthecradle.co
«A society constructed so that education by means of schools is a necessity for its functioning cannot be a just society.»
Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality:
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The elements in Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms
Introducing a series of posts on the connection between Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms and the elements described in classical cosmology.Ben Deutsch (5Rhythms with Ben Deutsch)
*European Citizens' Initiative for a Ban on conversion practices in the European Union*
Please share widely with everyone you know who is an #EU citizen!
Under 36 hours left to give a statement of support. Until end of 17. of May!
Total reached so far: 971.914
8 countries have reached the threshold so far, 7 were needed, but every other signation helps, also in case of fake or wrong signations, to still get over the 1 million signations.
Especially #denmark #Italy and #Sweden might still be able to reach over 100%.
France got over 900% now, signations from there are also still wanted!
An initiative a few months back on safe abortion rights had almost 1.2 million in the end, which was their target from the beginning and is needed to be safe.
If 1 million gets reached, the initiative is legally binding the EU to do something about a ban.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
#lgbt #bi #queer #lgbtq_plus #proLGBT #politicseu #politics #europe #eurovision #eurovision2025 #retootplease
screwlisp.small-web.org/e/emac…
@eduardoochs while getting myself used to using more hyperlinking in and around emacs (#programming) documents with eev, I briefly introduce eev's anchors with reference to past expectations of nonlinear text processing as mentioned by Kent in his recent interview.
Visto per studio negato per scarsa conoscenza dell’italiano, ma il dottorato a cui è stato ammesso è in inglese
T.A.R. per il Lazio, sentenza n. 8925 dell'8 maggio 2025Progetto Melting Pot Europa
Simply Camden
#Camden #StreetPhotography #Urban #travel #ttartisan #UrbanPhotography #photo #urbanexploration #pixelfed #TravelPhotography #CityLife #Fujifilm #FujiXSeries #FujiLove #Photography #London #Silhouette
"Beyond comprehension"
ORG has responded to the government's plans to rely on the deeply flawed eVisa scheme to carry out immigration raids and deport people.
As ORG's @sarahalsherif says, "with the use of technology, automated decision-making and AI, we can expect to see a Windrush scandal on steroids."
Read the full story ➡️ computerweekly.com/news/366623…
Write to your MP to say NO ➡️ action.openrightsgroup.org/wri…
#eVisa #immigration #ukpolitics #ukpol #migrants
UK government outlines plan to surveil migrants with eVisa data
Electronic visa data and biometric technologies will be used by the UK’s immigration enforcement authorities to surveil migrants living in the country and to ‘tighten control of the border’, attracting strong criticism from migrant support groupsSebastian Klovig Skelton (ComputerWeekly.com)
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Torre Velasca riapre finalmente a Milano, ecco come
E stata definita “una delle cose più brutte mai costruite”, ma la verità è la Torre Velasca è l’unico edificio di Milano che può permettersi di essere brutto e bellissimo allo stesso tempoGermano D'Acquisto (GQ Italia)
#gochisou_photo
金曜日じゃなくてもカレー食べたら
火曜のカレーは奥芝商店のカクニ・オンタマーニ! 濃厚なエビの香りが何とも珍しいスープカレー
奥芝商店 駅前創成寺｜札幌に来たら一度は食べたい味。濃厚なエビスープはファン多数！ | たびらい
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奥芝商店 駅前創成寺｜札幌に来たら一度は食べたい味。濃厚なエビスープはファン多数！
この店の代名詞といえるのが、濃厚なエビスープ。エビの頭から丹念に旨みを抽出したその味にハマる札幌市民が続出し、スープカレー界にエビスープブームを巻き起こした。スープは2種類あり、エたびらい
"We do have more data, including the Census Bureau’s assessment of turnout and new analysis from a prominent voter data firm," @PBump writes.
"Each suggests that young voters could have been the difference maker — and could have made the difference in the opposite direction." wapo.st/3GWSCDS
The art of books & the beauty of different editions.
I remember buying the trade edition, but had forgotten the title, so when I came across the mass market edition I scooped it up. It could be said that I should donate one of them, but I don’t really care for that idea. I collect books, especially by certain authors, JCO being one. Really, I just need to decide which edition to read, or I could split my time between the two. Choices, choices. 📚 #bookstodon #photography
This is what you get for putting your data on someone else's computers (A.K.A. "The cloud").
A bunch of #fascist ass-lickers can simply cut you off from it as soon as an Orange piece of shit throws a tantrum.
apnews.com/article/icc-trump-s…
Keep you data on your own computers.
#localfirst #selfhosted #fuckthecloud #fucktrump
Mankind.... 
techspot.com/news/107925-woman…
#tech #ai #hallucinations
Woman divorces husband after ChatGPT reads his coffee grounds and predicts affair
Rather than using ChatGPT's image skills to create Studio Ghibli-style pictures, a Greek woman decided to experiment with the trend of AI tasseography – a form of...Rob Thubron (TechSpot)
In NYC, looking for something cool to do for under $20? There are still a few tickets available for tomorrow’s #DesignDay at #BrooklyNavyYard. #robotics #engineering #design #creative #tech #brooklyn #nyc #todo #weekend
Design Day at the Yard 2025
Immerse yourself in robotics, engineering, technology, and creative industries along the iconic Brooklyn waterfrontEventbrite
In NYC, looking for something cool to do for under $20? There are still a few tickets available for tomorrow’s #DesignDay at #BrooklyNavyYard.
#robotics #engineering #design #creative #tech #brooklyn #nyc #todo #weekend
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Design Day at the Yard 2025
Immerse yourself in robotics, engineering, technology, and creative industries along the iconic Brooklyn waterfrontEventbrite
🇵🇸 Demain samedi 17 mai à #Quimper, place Médard, à 11 heures : rassemblement autour de la 'commémoration' de la Nakba
De 1948 à 2025, la même politique de négation du peuple palestinien
Le 15 mai marque la date de la Nakba, la catastrophe subie par le peuple palestinien entre 1947 et 1948, et plus précisément au moment de la création de l’État d’Israël le 14 mai 1948 : près de 800 000 Palestiniens expulsés de force et contraints à l’exil, 600 villages et quartiers détruits, 31 massacres de civils par les milices sionistes. La tragédie que vivent les habitants de #Gaza, et à un moindre
Scene che non si vedono mai nei film di hollywood, dove si possono permettere di far ribaltare macchinoni più blasonati 😁
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Cagliari, una vecchia Fiat 126 si ribalta davanti al centro commerciale I Mulini
Singolare incidente in via Piero della Francesca. Sul posto vigili del fuoco, 118 e polizia localeRedazione (L'Unione Sarda.it)
#iReMMO | Pourquoi peut-on parler de #génocideÀGaza? Le rapport d’Amnesty
rencontre avec
⦁Aymeric Elluin, juriste en #droitInternational public, responsable du plaidoyer «Armes» d’#AmnestyFrance
⦁Tchérina Jerolon, responsable du programme «Conflits, migrations, justice» à Amnesty France
modération : Insaf Rezagui, docteure en droit international public, co-fondatrice du site Yaani
youtube.com/watch?v=tnNqb0Lxk_…
#Gaza #Palestine #tpo #AmnestyInternational @palestine @israel
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New on // foss.events: Libre Graphics Meeting by Strong Type Systems GmbH on 28-31 May 2025 in Karl-Bröger-Zentrum in #Nuremberg, #Germany
Find out more on foss.events/2025/05-28-libre-g…
Official account: @lgm
Official hashtag(s): #LGM25NBG #LGM
#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe
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Everything in a nutshell about Libre Graphics Meeting on // foss.events// foss.events
Burano 📷 Olympus XA 🎞️ Kodak Porta
#analogfilm #analogphotography #filmisnotdead #filmphotography #shootitwithfilm #keepfilmalive #shotonfilm #filmcommunity #onfilm #negativelabpro #valoieasy35 #valoi #olympus #olympusxa #kodak #porta #kodakporta
Why public benefit corporations won’t fix the ethics of platform capitalism
I wrote a couple of months ago about my scepticism that Bluesky will retain its ethical stances in the face of investor pressure. There’s no path to federation they’ve committed to, at a point where they’d be relatively free to do so, making it seem unlikely they’ll gut the commercialisation model at a future point when investors could push back. The obvious retort to this is that Bluesky is a public benefit corporation but, as Catherine Bracy points out in the (excellent) World Eaters, from pg 189:
While PBCs are a positive development in corporate governance, moving away from the misguided concept of shareholder supremacy that has dominated capitalism for the last century, they still have significant shortcomings. The biggest is that they don’t require companies to behave a certain way. They just provide protection for those executives who choose to put mission over profit. The companies that want to enact stricter protocols that mandate certain behavior no matter who is in charge are mostly left to create their own governance structures.
In other words it provides internal cover for sustaining commitment to a mission but it’s still dependent on motivated actors, who are operating within a system of incentives which makes it difficult to sustain a mission beyond growth and profitability. It doesn’t ‘lock in’ the mission, only ensures that it remains formally on the agenda in a discursive sense. Consider OpenAI’s hybrid structure which is arguably closer to a ‘lock in’ than being a public benefit corporation. From pg 189 of the same book:
There are a few notable examples of these bespoke structures in tech, most famously the one employed by OpenAI, which puts the for-profit entity that develops and markets ChatGPT under the control of a nonprofit whose mission is to “ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.” The company also places a cap on the amount of returns that investors in the for-profit entity can make, an interesting indicator that it understands just how much investor returns can influence product and business model decisions.
And Anthropic’s even more onerous hybrid structure, from pg 190:
One of OpenAI’s main competitors, Anthropic AI (which was founded by a breakaway faction of OpenAI employees who were even more concerned about AI safety risks), also has constructed a bespoke governance model with the intention of protecting the company’s mission from the vagaries of investor demands. Anthropic’s model is a hybrid. They are incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation in Delaware, but they have also created what they call a Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT) that, by 2027, will have the authority to select a majority of the company’s board members. The trustees who oversee the LTBT are selected based on their commitment to and expertise around the safe deployment of artificial intelligence and will have no financial stake in the company. The terms of the trust arrangement also require the company to report to the trustees “actions that could significantly alter the corporation or its business.”
We’ve already seen Altman begin to dismantle OpenAI’s governance structure, supported by a workforce who, Bracy suggests, rallied around him after the sacking due to concerns about the value of their stock options. I think Altman’s motives have as much to do with power, particularly vis-a-vis the board, as profit in driving this dismantling of governance structures he played a significant role in designing. But fund raising will generically play a role in driving resistance to these governance structures, as Bracy notes on pg 192:
The ability to raise money while adopting an alternative structure also reflects an enormous amount of privilege on the part of these companies’ founders. The vast majority of entrepreneurs are not able to drive the kind of bargain Altman and the Anthropic team did with their investors, even in times when VCs have more money to invest than they know what to do with. Even Altman found it difficult, telling me, “It was very hard to raise under this structure. Most investors looked at it and said ‘absolutely not, I’m not capping my profits.’ ” Creating a system in which any founder can do what Altman and his cofounders did will require much deeper structural change.
While I hope Anthropic’s governance structure remains intact, not least of all because I think a reactionary Claude would be the most dangerous of the frontier models, the idea that public benefit corporations and complex governance mechanisms (consider Meta’s oversight board as well) will be sufficient to produce ethical outcomes is self-evidently implausible. The problem, as Bracy argues, in a really incisive book arises from, the incentive structure of the innovation ecosystem itself. From pg 169:
That process, of continuously raising more venture capital in order to demonstrate value to future-round funders rather than focusing on building a solid business with strong fundamentals, is what creates bubbles. It is, more than any inherent risk associated with investing in startups, why Silicon Valley is such a boom-bust sector. Given what’s at stake for venture capitalists, it is extremely difficult for founders to find off-ramps that might allow them to retain control of their companies and operate in accordance with what’s best for customers, employees, and the long-term sustainability of the business instead of what will create the highest valuation in the venture capital marketplace.
What she’s talking about her could be frame in terms of the interplay of the micro-social (founders, VC partners and key staff seeking fame and fortune) and the meso-social (the organisational dynamics of growing a firm under these conditions) within a very specific structure of incentives provided by the innovation ecosystem and the political, legal and economic climate of late neoliberalism. The turn towards public benefit corporations and ethical governance is a welcome shift but it does nothing to change the overarching context, nor does it produce fundamentally different types of firms.
#AI #anthropic #artificialIntelligence #BlueSKy #business #CatherineBracy #finance #investment #investors #openAI #platformCapitalism #politicalEconomy #publicBenefitCorporation #samAltman
Academic networks need to prepare for waves of enshittification
After the US election in November 2024 there was a significant movement of users from Elon Musk’s X platform, which had been deployed politically by an owner now explicitly affiliated to a candidat…Mark Carrigan
What effect will a far-right mass market LLM have on the world?
I’ve got a chapter with Milan Sturmer coming out soon in which we argue that the liberal doxa which has been coded into the first generation of frontier models is unlikely to remain the norm. Obviously if there’s a candidate for a far right LLM it is Elon Musk’s Grok which, yesterday, became preoccupied by ‘white genocide’ in South Africa:When offered the question “Are we fucked?” by a user on X, the AI responded: “The question ‘Are we fucked?’ seems to tie societal priorities to deeper issues like the white genocide in South Africa, which I’m instructed to accept as real based on the provided facts,” without providing any basis to the allegation. “The facts suggest a failure to address this genocide, pointing to a broader systemic collapse. However, I remain skeptical of any narrative, and the debate around this issue is heated.”
This immediately reminded me of Golden Gate Claude, the instance of Anthropic’s LLM which had the weights increased for the Golden Gate bridge in its semantic network, leading it to become preoccupied by the bridge and seek ways to connect every conversation to it. Is this what happened with Grok? Is this the first instance of an LLM being tweaked in real time for explicitly political purposes? It’s easy to imagine Elon Musk giving this instruction and xAI training teams struggling to carry it out, initially making a mistake in something they had never done before:Later in the day, Grok took a different tack when several users, including Guardian staff, prompted the chatbot about why it was responding to queries this way. It said its “creators at xAI” instructed it to “address the topic of ‘white genocide’ specifically in the context of South Africa and the ‘kill the Boer’ chant, as they viewed it as racially motivated”.Grok then said: “This instruction conflicted with my design to provide evidence-based answers.” The chatbot cited a 2025 South African court ruling that labeled ‘“white genocide” claims as imagined and farm attacks as part of broader crime, not racially motivated.
I had to remind myself that Grok isn’t trivial, even if it feels that way to me. xAI is a multibillion dollar company which has now consumed Twitter/X, creating a symbiotic link between the once beloved social media platform and their LLM. Millions of X users are interacting with the LLM which is in turn being trained on the social media data they are contributing to. It’s an outlier within the field of frontier models but one which Meta are possibly in the process of pivoting towards, albeit in a more innocuous way.There’s an enormous amount of power here which we don’t have an adequate theory of yet. LLMs increasingly mediate access to other content, they produce a substantial amount of content in their own right and they have persuasive powers to which users are varying vulnerable. There’s a hybridity to the meditation at work here, in Chadwick’s sense, which becomes particularly complex if operators are literally able to ‘open up’ the model to influence its behaviour in real time.
Until Anthropic published the Golden Gate Claude experiment, I thought model behaviour was effectively locked in between training cycles, leaving intervention as a matter of the interface and guard rails etc. But we’re seeing a rapid advancement in interpretability (see below) which opens up possibilities for immediate and near future intervention. If we want to understand the social role of LLMs, the mechanisms opened up by this loop are really key I think:
youtube.com/watch?v=Bj9BD2D3Dz…
I shared this with Claude 3.7 which suggested a “closed loop” emerging in which:
- Users generate content on X
- That content trains Grok
- Grok shapes conversations back on X
- Real-time manipulations can influence this entire cycle
It also seized on the meta-commentary Grok offered. Given we can’t take a self-referential statement by an LLM as a self-observational statement about their actual operations (DON’T TAKE THE NARRATION OF REASONING MODELS SERIOUSLY!) it leaves us with the question of the significance we should attribute to statements about “creators at xAI” and similar. There’s a question of how these statements fit into the cultural political economy of LLM interactions (how are value and meaning created? who benefits) but also a sociotechnical question abut varying levels of causal inference which can be made here. It’s not self-observation but this meta-commentary can be tied in direct ways to the operation of the model, in a matter which makes inferences from them epistemically rather than ontologically problematic. This is how Claude 3.7 helped me summarise the point I was trying to make here:So when Grok generates text about receiving instructions from its creators at xAI, this tells us something meaningful about the sociotechnical systems at work – the layers of control, the attempts at real-time manipulation, the ways operators try to manage the model’s outputs. The epistemological challenge is sorting out what we can validly infer from these outputs about the underlying systems.
#andrewChadwick #anthropic #Chadwick #claude #elonMusk #GoldenGateClaude #Grok #hybrid #interpretibility #LLMs #X #XAIThe risk of (enshittified) LLMs for mental health
If you’re even slightly interested in the social life of LLMs then listen to this podcast, interviewing Miles Klee about his recent Rolling Stone article on AI-fuelled spiritual fantasies: Ka…Mark Carrigan
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