The excessive and disproportionate reaction to this whole thing is fascinating. LLMs are accelerating outages left, right, and center; discovering vulnerabilities without fixing them; trillionaires are grifting their way to get the public to hold the bags; frontier labs are taking all data for free without repercussions while blocking everyone else from doing the same.
And yet this "protest" that is intended as a joke is being treated like it undermines an entire trillion dollar empire.
I think this post is the first to show that the emperor has no clothes. Because if enough libraries do it...
"Keeping children safe with AI is a shared responsibility between schools, families, technology companies, and communities."
Alright everyone, here's the deal. Starting tomorrow someone will start putting sweetened alcoholic beverages in all your homes for everyone every morning. You can not opt out of this. In fact, it is expected you and your children will participate. The drinks will also be available in schools. Don't forget, drink responsibly!
Sure, and for anyone from BC or Vancouver that would like to take that approach, there is a local movement at https://aicaution.ca/
In the meantime, I spend several hours a week talking to parents, teens, and educators who are looking for meaningful guidance on this topic that goes beyond "AI BAD!" and protest, which prompted me to create this resource. Not to mention the requests to help with cyber bullying, online safety and other parenting issues related to connected children over the last 20 years.
In much the same way that folks can push to ban social media, alcohol, sex, drugs, and other vices for children, abstinence and blocking is a path to failure if parents aren't educated.
Hmm, so you're telling me, if I am a maintainer of a popular open source library, I can make my library spit out logs to trigger this degraded behavior, and then no one will know?
People say nuclear reactors are completely safe if properly constructed and operated and the waste danger is overblown if properly managed.
There aren't many institutions extant today that I could trust to properly construct and operate a nuclear reactor, never mind manage nuclear waste for the next 100000 years.
The Trump government just decided that there is an acceptable level to irradiate the population by the way (abandoned the linear-no-threshold model of radiation's effects on an organism)
I'm right here.
Sorry, force of habit.
Gitlab no!