BallyM

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Microsoft Word’s CoPilot AI is laughably vulnerable to manipulation in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeh—and apparently it justifies Microsoft’s share price somehow

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Microsoft Word’s CoPilot AI is laughably vulnerable to manipulation (enklypesalt.com)
 

"The initial attack vector for these scenarios uses a malicious document. The malicious document contains a JSON-formatted malicious prompt that triggers the attack when the document is included in Copilot’s context. The prompt can be rendered as white text on a white background and in a small font size to conceal it from the victim. Since Copilot for Word strips all text formatting like color and font size before passing the text into the underlying Large Language Model (LLM), this text remains fully readable to Copilot even though the victim cannot see it.”

This is so silly. I can’t believe it worked until very recently (and probably still works, except not exactly in this way).

Meta AI glasses are useless, but someone should improve eyewear in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

No, Meta AI (like OpenAI and others) relies on sweatshop labour mostly in Africa and Latin America to review and classify images mostly

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Meta AI glasses are useless, but someone should improve eyewear (lemmy.nz)
In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? The majority of officials refused to answer in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 124 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

Good for her!

Meanwhile in Europe… the European Union passed a law recently banning national governments from disclosing to the public a list of environmental data about data centers. Europeans can access aggregate info, but specifics about the environmental impact of any datacentre in particular is now secret.

Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment in c/technology@lemmy.zip
[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Fair use

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen to run in 2027 after all, as appeals court shortens her ban on running for office in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

I thought the 5-year ban was a dangerous, desperate idea. Political rights like who can vote or stand for election should be defended no matter who's being targeted.

Le Pen and her colleagues were found guilty of misappropriation of European funds by paying the salaries of some of their party officials in France with money that should only be spent on salaries of European Parliament assistants. European Parliament assistants can be party officials, and the official seat of the European Parliament is in France (Strasbourg), so the crime they committed wasn't far from the EU's rules.

A fine and criminal record makes sense. But custodial sentences? And suspending political rights for 5 years??

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen to run in 2027 after all, as appeals court shortens her ban on running for office (www.reuters.com)
 

Survivor, persecuted by elites,... etc., etc... as expected, France's highest court has cleared the way for Le Pen to run for president in 2027. The Paris Criminal Court ruling in 2025, which included a 5-years ban on standing for election, has been partly overturned.

German prosecutors arrest Rwanda genocide suspect in c/europe@feddit.org
German prosecutors arrest Rwanda genocide suspect in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, German-Israeli nationals who just participated in war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide in Gaza are free to return to Germany for R&R.

As an united Europe we can overcome all problems in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

EU Member States decided on Wednesday—while citizens were literally dropping dead from extreme heat—that “green finance” should include companies engaged in fossil fuel expansion (eg new oil drilling). The banality of evil. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-oil-exploration-green-investment/

Finland tears up nuclear weapons ban in NATO shift in c/world@quokk.au
[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Russia is obviously the aggressor, I’ve never suggested otherwise.

Finland tears up nuclear weapons ban in NATO shift in c/world@quokk.au
[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There are no NATO weapons besides the weapons of NATO members. UK, US, Germany, etc — almost all of Ukraine’s weapons, ammunition, training and intel comes from NATO.

Putin Says NATO Is Preparing for War—and Compares Western Countries to Nazi Germany in 1941 in c/world@quokk.au
[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

He’s no Stalin, and NATO leaders aren’t Hitler of course. But some of them have made a point of honouring the memory of Nazi collaborators recently (Canada and France, maybe others).

Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

They may have overplayed their hand.

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Germany’s secret military strategy (p.dw.com)
 

Nothing to worry about: just German elites continuing where they left off 80 years ago. Carry on.

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49MB download: one NYTimes webpage (thatshubham.com)
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Kudos to Anthropic for holding the line (apnews.com)
 

Google and OpenAI staff, many of them AI researchers, have signed an open letter saying they share Anthropic’s red lines. Privately OpenAI bosses agree.

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Is Lemmy inherently more “social” and Mastodon more “individual” media? (lemmy.world)
 

Setting aside Big Tech and surveillance capitalism for a minute — I wonder if fediverse microblogging apps like Mastodon aren’t fairly antisocial and inclined to individualism, while apps like Lemmy are more community and artefact/stuff-to-share centric.

People are complex, societies infinitely more so, but software can nudge us this way or that way too.

I’d be interested to hear what others here think.

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Letting my feelings age like fine wine (lemmy.nz)
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