#Biased algorithms

[pneumanomads]

Navigating the Intersection of AI and Surveillance: Balancing Benefits and Ethical Considerations

#AIsurveillance #privacymatters #ethicalAI #surveillanceregulation #transparentAI #securityinnovation #bigdatasurveillance #AIsecurity #biasinsurveillance #surveillanceautomation #AIsafeguards #AItransparency

Artificial intelligence (AI) and surveillance have become increasingly intertwined in recent years, with the technology being used for everything from monitoring traffic and identifying criminal suspects to tracking the spread of disease and analyzing social media data. One of the main benefits of using AI for surveillance is that it allows for the collection and analysis of vast amounts of data…

[so-i-did-this-thing]

So, I have a big advice post to write, but until I have the spoons, I want to warn everyone now who has legally changed their first name:

Your credit score may be fucked up and you need to:

check *now* that all your financial institutions (credit cards, loans, etc) have your current legal name and update where necessary

check that all 3 credit bureaus, on their respective sites, not via a feed like Credit Karma (so, Trans Union, Equifax, Experian) are collecting that info correctly and generating the right score - you might need to monitor them for a few months if you made any changes in #1

I am about to apply for a mortgage and learned that as of 2 weeks ago:

Experian suddenly thinks I am 2 different people - Legal Name and Dead Name (none of whom have a score)

Equifax has reported my active 25 year old mortgage as closed and deleted one of my older credit cards, hurting my score by 30+ points

Credit scores influence everything from big home/car loans to insurance rates to job and housing applications.

And for whatever reason, the 3 bureaus that have the power to destroy your life are shockingly fragile when it comes to legally changing one's first name.

So, yeah. Once I get this mess cleaned up for myself, I have a big guide in the works if you find yourself in the same predicament. But with the mass trans migration out of oppressive states, odds are there are a lot of newly renamed people who are about to have a nasty shock when applying for new housing.

Take care, folks.

[gingerswagfreckles]

The number of people who claim to not read the news because it's "controlled by Zionists" when really it's because they're just lazy is astounding.

[quietwingsinthesky]

how much of your writing is ai generated

ngl anon kind of fucking rude to come here and accuse me of that. i don’t make fic just to rack up some arbitrary numbers, be that wordcount or idk, kudos. i make fic because i fucking care about what i’m writing about. if i didn’t, i wouldn’t write it, i certainly wouldn’t post it. AI fic is a plague on fandom for plagiarism reasons, obviously, but also because why should anyone give a shit about your writing if you didn’t? I don’t care if one day we have AI that makes stuff identical in quality to what people can, or better, even, because the words on the page aren’t the point, it’s always about the reason behind putting them down.

So, to answer your question, none of it. And it never will be. I’d rather never write again than stoop to that. And I certainly think less of anyone who does it themselves.

[slythereen]

too many thoughts about the monza vlog to function i fear. but i do have a question for the elder tifosi… have the tifosi truly always been insane about all their drivers? like. i see some people say that they’d be this feral over anyone in red, it’s not just charles etc. etc., i genuinely cannot fathom this level of Crazy for all of them??

[evildeerboy]

listening to my white coworkers complain very passionately and loudly that the google ai image generator apparently will refuse to generate a white family while trying to stifle my annoyance and laughter bc they’re insane

[six-of-ravens]

listen, i know all news outlets could do a lot better at being more diverse and less biased and all that but sometimes i see someone complaining about not hearing about a huge news story and im like, "skill issue, I think you just don't know how to read the news"

the particular one that inspired this post was someone complaining they hadn't heard about crowdstrike and that meant the news was "sooo controlled by major corporations." hate to break it to you but 1. of course it is and yet 2. I've seen no less than 15 separate articles about it from a multitude of news outlets and reposted widely across social media....this is not being suppressed, you just don't know how to find out what's going on in the world outside of your limited social media bubble.

[crow-caller]

So, the thing with youtube word censorship is..... it isn't actually a thing. Very much youtube DOES restrict monetisation based on content, which can include sensitive topics like rape or suicide, youtube does! not! audio monitor most words!!

Yes, you can be demonetized for heavy, strong language or strong language in the first seconds. You obviously can be for like, slurs. Otherwise, you can't be demonetized for word use!*

*there is more nuance to this, but generally yes

I'm not like arguing with anyone in particular or defending youtube as a free speech haven, but it drives me mad when people diminish a serious topic by being afraid to say 'abuse' out loud, you know? When you upload a video, you get a form to fill and you have to flag if it has significant difficult content (shock/controversy/guns/sex/swearing).

(the see more here is much much more specific, this is things like suicide, self harm, eating disorders, etc)

Most of the time you won't have to flag any of it, because brief casual mention is fine. If you do have to flag, the lowest tier of discussion still rarely would result in losing any ad money. Notably, language used is not a specific factor, it's content.

...

This is also even more true for on screen text. There are certain things about explicit language being censored, fuck vs f--k, but the word suicide? does not need to be censored! You can put a trigger warning in right away, using many tricky words, and as long as your video isn't classified as for kids you should be scot-free.

Like, I know.

(It's all just born from the fear of 'the algorithm' which might be secretly monitoring audio to secretly censor things.)

[clonerightsagenda]

An instructor accused students of using chatGPT to write their papers after 'detecting' this by.... pasting their papers into chatGPT and asking it if it wrote them. So that's going great.

[witheredgardenparty]

Has anyone talked about how each member of the Genius Society represents the over reliance on the belief of intelligence but not the act of intelligence?

[dad-friend]

ok listen. i know hbomberguy said he doesnt wanna become the type of youtube who spends their time doing drama videos or ruining ppl careers but like. if somebody doesnt start doing crazy detailed research on ryan hall, yall then i will

[sodacowboy]

the algorithm is never more apparent to me than when I see a youtuber I watch in the chat of another youtuber I watch

[macgyvertape]

tagged by @synnthamonsugar (this was fun!): Shuffle your Spotify playlist and post the first 10 songs & anyone seeing this feel free to consider yourself tagged if you want. (@skippermoose I know you have spotify)

I don't use Spotify so I shuffled my music library once with iTunes and once with Plex, because iTunes shuffle is flawed to give me 2 of the same artist.

Having A Blast - Green Day

Krank vor Liebe - Max Raabe & Palast Orchestra

Slipping Through My Finders - Mamma Mia Cast

The Fallen Wolves - Destiny The Taken King Soundtrack

Sea Minor Shanty (Trap Remix) - OSRSBeatz

Liebeslief fur Orchester - Max Raabe & Palast Orchestra

Galapagos - Emancipator

Escape - Diviners on NCS: Elevate

Bring us Pints of Beer - Korpiklaani

Valar Morghulis - Ramin Djawadi

on Plex which pulls from a slightly bigger folder of music than iTunes:

Watermark - Enya

Summers End - Craig Chaquico

Winter Contingency - Halo Reach Soundtrack

Light - ODESZA feat. Little Dragon

Of Starlight and the Dark [Cursed] (Action) - Destiny 2 Gamerip: Forsaken

Flip - Glass Animals

Cherry Blossoms in Winter - Yoshida Brothers

Opening Credits - Hybrid

Dragostea Din Tei - O-Zone

Loreta and Desiree's Bouquet, Part 1 - George Winston

[detectivenyx]

one thing that will be helpful in distinguishing ai art from real art: currently, ai art is racist and fatphobic

[miragemirrors]

also as a language person every time someone takes machine translation "inferring gender from context" in a tl from a text that is exclusively gender neutral as "oh so character canonically is a he/him" i want to bash skulls