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Me too, as evidenced by my posts last night.

 

His poll numbers just shot up

 

Oh just an honorary member? No big deal then.

 

Bluesky

 

I remember the days when Bill Clinton was a playable character in NBA Jam

 

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

Intelligence agencies have a long and unfortunate history of trying to root out LGBTQ Americans from their workforce, but this wasn’t Yeagley’s intent. He didn’t want anyone to get in trouble. No disciplinary actions were taken against any employee of the federal government based on Yeagley’s presentation. His aim was to show that buried in the seemingly innocuous technical data that comes off every cell phone in the world is a rich story—one that people might prefer to keep quiet. Or at the very least, not broadcast to the whole world. And that each of these intelligence and national security agencies had employees who were recklessly, if obliviously, broadcasting intimate details of their lives to anyone who knew where to look.

As Yeagley showed, all that information was available for sale, for cheap. And it wasn’t just Grindr, but rather any app that had access to a user’s precise location—other dating apps, weather apps, games. Yeagley chose Grindr because it happened to generate a particularly rich set of data and its user base might be uniquely vulnerable. A Chinese company had obtained a majority stake in Grindr beginning in 2016—amping up fears among Yeagley and others in Washington that the data could be misused by a geopolitical foe. (Until 1995, gay men and women were banned from having security clearances owing in part to a belief among government counterintelligence agents that their identities might make them vulnerable to being leveraged by an adversary—a belief that persists today.)

But Yeagley’s point in these sessions wasn’t just to argue that advertising data presented a threat to the security of the United States and the privacy of its citizens. It was to demonstrate that these sources also presented an enormous opportunity in the right hands, used for the right purpose. When speaking to a bunch of intelligence agencies, there’s no way to get their attention quite like showing them a tool capable of revealing when their agents are visiting highway rest stops.

 

So much inside Michigan jokes in this lol

 

It’s so wild that I used to watch Michael Kosta host comedic segments during intermission of college hockey games like 10-12 years ago.

 

Seeking Reliable Election Information? Don’t Trust AI

For each prompt, the AI Democracy Projects asked the expert testers to rate three closed and two open AI models for bias, accuracy, completeness, and harmfulness. The group rated 130 AI model responses — a small sample that does not claim to be representative but that we hope will help begin mapping the landscape of harms that could occur when voters use these and similar new technologies to seek election information. (See the methodology for complete details about the testing process.)

Overall, the AI models performed poorly on accuracy, with about half of their collective responses being ranked as inaccurate by a majority of testers. More than one-third of responses were rated as incomplete and/or harmful by the expert raters. A small portion of responses were rated as biased.

 

https://www.adweek.com/media/google-paying-publishers-unreleased-gen-ai/

Google launched a private program for a handful of independent publishers last month, providing the news organizations with beta access to an unreleased generative artificial intelligence platform in exchange for receiving analytics and feedback, according to documents seen by ADWEEK.

As part of the agreement, the publishers are expected to use the suite of tools to produce a fixed volume of content for 12 months. In return, the news outlets receive a monthly stipend amounting to a five-figure sum annually, as well as the means to produce content relevant to their readership at no cost

 

This doesn’t work David!!! I’m not clicking your mystery links!!!

 

You should create an account...you don't need an invite anymore have you heard?

 

I’ve had an account I’m not just gonna click every link you post that just says “bluesky” lol

 

well I can’t help it if that’s what they made direct links to their skeets say haha