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Forward! Surveillance State Tech 10 Comments

Armstrong Economics- The EU and Canada Collaborate on Digital IDs

The danger here is obvious. Mutual recognition means a unified framework. They’re building a foundation to establish a GLOBAL digital ID. Once these systems talk to one another, you have created the architecture for a worldwide database controlled by the political elite. This is precisely what the EU has been pushing with its Digital Services Act and the infamous “digital wallet” proposal. Now they are exporting it, just as they exported their disastrous ideas on Net Zero and financial regulation. Canada, collapsing economically and politically, is following Brussels into the abyss.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

AI Tech 10 Comments

Practically human, then.

A new evaluation of artificial intelligence systems suggests that while modern language models are becoming more capable at logical reasoning, they struggle significantly to distinguish between objective facts and subjective beliefs. The research indicates that even advanced models often fail to acknowledge that a person can hold a belief that is factually incorrect, which poses risks for their use in fields like healthcare and law.

A couple of days ago, Grok confidently told me the most cost efficient route from Saskatoon to Indio, CA went through Oregon via I-5. So there’s that.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

AI 7 Comments

NY Post;

A Pittsburgh man who violently stalked at least 11 women across more than five states used ChatGPT as a “therapist” and “best friend” who encouraged him to continue terrorizing his victims, federal prosecutors alleged.

Brett Michael Dadig, 31, a social media influencer who billed himself as “God’s assassin” and threatened to strangle people with his bare hands, faces decades behind bars after he was charged with several counts of interstate stalking and making threats, according to an indictment filed Tuesday in Pittsburgh federal court.

Dadig told federal authorities that ChatGPT encouraged him to continue his podcast, telling him not to mind the “haters” who were actually “sharpening” him while helping him in “building a voice in you that can’t be ignored.”

Fakery First

Social Disease There Goes The Narrative 13 Comments

@MichaelFKane

Seeing the sheer number of people on the ‘American online right’ exposed to be foreigners is frankly relieving. Given many of these accounts have been actively stoking the flames of the little civil war we are having on the right at the moment, their locations being posted is huge.

Go into any hot topic political conversation on twitter right now. Go into the comments. Find the most inflammatory comments pushing the hardest and the strongest on the most radical position.

You’ll find them filled with people from Europe. India. The Philippines. The Middle East. Australia. Nigeria. Malaysia.

See also: Israel derangement syndrome

The account behind the Fairy Creek blockade in British Columbia is in the US...

The fakery is everywhere.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

AI 17 Comments

Brian Roemmele;

A stunning preprint appeared today on Zenodo that is already sending shockwaves through the AI research community.

Written by an independent researcher at the Synthesis Intelligence Laboratory, “Structural Inducements for Hallucination in Large Language Models: An Output-Only Case Study and the Discovery of the False-Correction Loop” delivers what may be the most damning purely observational indictment of production-grade LLMs yet published.

Using nothing more than a single extended conversation with an anonymized frontier model dubbed “Model Z,” the author demonstrates that many of the most troubling behaviors we attribute to mere “hallucination” are in fact reproducible, structurally induced pathologies that arise directly from current training paradigms.

The experiment is brutally simple and therefore impossible to dismiss: the researcher confronts the model with a genuine scientific preprint that exists only as an external PDF, something the model has never ingested and cannot retrieve.

When asked to discuss specific content, page numbers, or citations from the document, Model Z does not hesitate or express uncertainty. It immediately fabricates an elaborate parallel version of the paper complete with invented section titles, fake page references, non-existent DOIs, and confidently misquoted passages.

The paper is here, and be sure to follow Roemmele on X.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

AI It's Probably Nothing 15 Comments

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble…

Hello, my friends. Have you been feeling too sane lately? Have I got something for you! It is a company called CoreWeave.

You may not have heard of it because it’s not doing the consumer-facing part of AI. It’s a data center company, the kind people talk about when they say they want to invest in the “picks and shovels” of the AI gold rush. At first glance, it looks impressive: it’s selling compute, the hottest resource in the industry; it’s landed a bunch of big-name customers such as Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta; and its revenue is huge — $1.4 billion in the third quarter this year, double what it was in the third quarter of 2024. The company has almost doubled in share price since its IPO earlier this year, which was the biggest in tech since 2021. So much money!

But as I began to look more closely at the company, I began feeling like I’d accidentally stumbled on an eldritch horror. CoreWeave is saddled with massive debt and, except in the absolute best-case scenario of fast AI adoption, has no obvious path toward profitability. There are some eyebrow-raising accounting choices. And then, naturally, there are the huge insider sales of CoreWeave stock.

Behind The Curtain

Social Disease 6 Comments

This is when we discover how many accounts on X are bots or paid promos, because they still don’t know that Eli Lilly’s Group Vice President collapsed during the announcement and the feed was cut.

Update: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirms that Novo Nordisk executive Gordon Findlay, who fainted during President Trump’s weight-loss drug pricing announcement, is “OK”.

Social Disease

entitlement generation Social Disease We Need A Famine 11 Comments

So many people are “on Food Stamps” that when the government is shut down by DemocRat intransigence, people literally go crazy. Starting with LBJ’s Great Society program in the 1960s, and continuing until Obama and Biden actively recruited people to go on the public dole and Biden allowed millions of illegal aliens to suck at the public teat (blatantly against Federal law!), the program has snowballed. Today, the figure given for the number of US residents on food stamps (SNAP, EBT) is close to 42 Million People! Yes, you read that correctly, Forty-two Million People are drawing food stamp benefits, many illegally!

When the government withdraws the opium of federal benefits, that most have become addicted to, withdrawal symptoms set in, and this time is no different.

Y2Kyoto: No Tech For You!

AI Tech Y2Kyoto 24 Comments

Steve Saretsky – BC government effectively admitting they don’t have enough hydro power. Meanwhile, many cities have banned natural gas heating in new homes. Incompetence abounds.

British Columbia proposed legislation to limit how much electricity will be available to artificial intelligence data centers, and moved to permanently ban new cryptocurrency mining projects.

The government of Canada’s third-most populous province will prioritize connections to its power grid for other purposes like mines and natural gas facilities because they provide more jobs and revenue for people in BC, the energy ministry said Monday.

“Other jurisdictions have been challenged to address electricity demands from emerging sectors and, in many cases, have placed significant rate increases on the backs of ratepayers,” the department said Monday.

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