UPDATE: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean? It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators now! Called a few days ago? Call again! Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban🧵

This is what AI 'alignment' looks like when CEOs and tech companies want to control a narrative. The fact that anyone trusts AI or big tech at all is beyond me at this point.

Lutnick, Musk, Zuckerberg and others are tying this to tariffs. "Nice little country you have there. Shame if you had an AI regulation in it...."

We're definitely in the sunset of the internet era.

This is why Canadian institutions like universities should not rely on Microsoft for their email

Prompt engineers understand you can fix this by always putting the male name first in the prompt to even it out

Cities are attacking the fundamental civil right to self expression in these by-laws. Health, education & childcare workers will be unable to protest funding cuts or privatization. Police have the power now to protect citizens from violence & harassment. theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

Yet another reason to keep American dairy out of the Canadian market newsweek.com/butter-recalle…

the scale of data collection in the AI labs pales in comparison to 2010s google it’s mostly web scraping and data-labeling. compare that to diligently photographing streets of every country, mapping earth via satellite, scanning every book known to man.. now *that* was ambitious

Missed Opportunities in AI Regulation: Lessons from Canada's AI and Data Act New from me and RE Sieber for Data & Policy Data for Policy CIC #dataforpolicy2025 We draw out the problems with the AI and Data Act and ways forward to shift decision-making and control from AI companies to the people!

We link the paper directly to shared prosperity: ie how the approach would have further concentrated wealth, led to job losses, weakened worker protections and cut out civil society

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Justine Moore Nothing says “AI revolution” like boomers accidentally live-streaming their private chats to the entire internet. 😊💚

If LLMs can be reprogrammed to fit their owner's ideology, what credibility do they have?

I stand by what I said: "I can't believe I even have to talk about these people. That's how ridiculous it is...They were like some fringe group that nobody took seriously,” she says of how the tech billionaires who talked up AGI were viewed by those who worked in her field.

We have the equivalent of the scientologists running the field of AI with untold amounts of money and power and we're the ones who have to do point by point rebuttals of their eugenicists dreams.

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But at least incredibly entertaining