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ordinarylove@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•AI for good, with caveats: How a keynote speaker was censored during an international artificial intelligence summitEnglish
26·8 months agoGENEVA, Switzerland — On Tuesday, United Nations’ flagship platform for artificial intelligence, The AI for Good Global Summit 2025, kicked off in Geneva. But the commencement of the summit wasn’t without controversy. Hours before the keynote speaker, Abeba Birhane—founder and lead of the TCD AI Accountability Lab (AIAL) and one of Time magazine’s 2023 100 Most Influential People in AI—was set to take the stage, she was asked by organizers to remove some of her slides.
Specifically, the organizers wanted Birhane to “remove anything that mentions ‘Palestine’ ‘Israel’ and replace ‘genocide’ with ‘war crimes‘” and “a slide that explains illegal data torrenting by Meta.”
“In the end, it was either remove everything that names names (big tech particularly) and remove logos or cancel my talk,” Birhane, whose research focuses on algorithmic bias and AI ethics and fairness, wrote in a Bluesky post.
Whelp I guess we now know you can’t beat the TESCREAL cult by showing up to their propaganda summits and trying to do a TED Talk.
ordinarylove@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@beehaw.org•The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess
11·8 months agobelieve that i’ve seen versions of this attack where the spammer makes a few innocuous non-spam (but not contribution either) posts before going full LLM bot
A more critical weakness is that these accounts only posted obvious spam; they made no effort to build up a plausible persona. Generating plausible human posts is more difficult, but broadly feasible with current LLM technology.
i will have to screenshot next time and see what people think
obviously they could be hijacked accounts and i might just be extremely judgey of your average twitter flight account
ordinarylove@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@beehaw.org•Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore
3·8 months agoPeople post nasty anti-social shit like this on lemmy and for what? and then you get a bunch of other accounts that just pop on to post “oh, and I just love my spotify, I just love to keep giving money to anti-social parasites.” Insufferable.
sure is a lot of weird negging going on in this thread
cool app idea, i am going to try and compile