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Technically the last day to submit your @sotmeu proposal is 31st, but today is the last _weekend_ for that. And I always submit at the last moment. Two proposals — sent. One is Every Door, obviously, and another is a story of a failure. You got time — and in two months, there will be a State of the Map Europe conference in Poland. Go on, submit a proposal and buy your tickets! https://cfp.openstreetmap.org.pl/state-of-the-map-europe-2024/cfp  I got ahold of the Copilot+ software. Recall uses a bunch of services themed CAP - Core AI Platform. Enabled by default. It spits constant screenshots (the product brands then “snapshots”, but they’re hooked screenshots) into the current user’s AppData as part of image storage. The NPU processes them and extracts text, into a database file. The database is SQLite, and you can access it as the user including programmatically. It 100% does not need physical access and can be stolen. And if you didn’t believe me.. found this on TikTok. There’s an MSFT employee in the background saying “I don’t know if the team is going to be very happy…” They should probably be transparent about it, rather than telling BBC News you’d need to be physically at the PC to hack it (not true). Just a thought. Oh wow! @streetcomplete got funding from @PrototypeFund to port it to iOS! We're onnnnn! Congratulations Tobias and everyone who's eager to start doing quests on iPhones! Has anyone written about how textual generative AI feels strangely close to toxic masculinity in some respects? The absolute confidence in everything stated, the lack of understanding of the consequences of getting that confidence wrong for important questions, the semi-gaslighty feeling when it “corrects” itself when you call it out on something. It so often feels like talking to someone one would despise and avoid in “real life.” I’m curious if anyone did some writing on this.
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 @mwichary when the a large set of the conversational corpus of LLM's is taken from places like Twitter and a reddit, then their ... Flavour of discourse is the output So... We have trained an advanced autocomplete on reddit and stackoverlow, and now expect 100% correct answers from it? Like, who sees the internet and thinks, oh gosh, people must have been writing 100% true factual information and useful answers here for decades. Both "oh no" and "well that was expected". Interesting approach to #gdpr "data is collected on a legitimate interest basis, go argue with our support trying to get it deleted". @zverik I said that AI training was outside the remit of what a user might reasonably expect the company to do with my data, and they opted me out. here's a game to help you understand Copenhagen's geography https://downpour.games/~nicolas/guess-the-copenhagen-district What a week in AI! - Microsoft releases its biggest invasion of your privacy in decades! This shit is going great!
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@deadparrot @adnan you forgot iTerm now has AI powered scripting. Shit ideas always get right to the top of the pile.  And Seinfeld's insight; "We are Smart enough to invent AI, Dumb enough to need it, but too Stupid to figure out whether it was a good idea or not." Argh. I need to do by the end of the month (two weeks): 1. Every Door 5.1 with a couple bugfixes. How do I even manage, with one free day a week (because Saturdays are reserved for kids). And the job is looming from above, with its core values of "hard work" and "execution" ugh iD editor offers to "fix" highway=cycleway by adding bicycle=designated. What next, motorcar=designated on highway=motorway?..
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 @NewtonMark it's also unclear what Slack will do with free instances since those aren't technically customers.    @djh @zverik @djh @zverik TBF Rapid is only what it is *because* of the “negative OSM community”. Facebook started just silently dumping their AI data into OSM, and bad-mouthing anyone who opposed it as “risking dooming OSM to irrelevance“. It took *a lot* of push back from this “always negative” OSM community to get what exists now. Slack have decided to start training AI on enterprise customer data, including DMs, private workspaces and files. You have to have admin opt out via email. HT @Quinnypig https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles
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 @GossiTheDog And of course they're not explaining *how* they're going to implement those "controls".  @GossiTheDog @Quinnypig or as I've been doing for years, opt out of Slack. I'd say go with something like Jitsi/Matrix but that's not for everyone. ובעברית: בפוסט למעלה קישורים למייל וללינקדאין. So now that we see how AI fails to accomplish anything you throw at it, unless the task is "do an AI thing with no consequences", you might understand why the @openstreetmap community has always felt negative towards bulk-importing AI-detected roads and buildings and stuff onto their hand-crafted map.  @zverik @openstreetmap To be fair the vocal OpenStreetMap community feels negative about pretty much anything 😛 The Rapid editor and folks around it seem to benefit from AI assisted mapping, so I wouldn't say it's binary good / bad; it's more complex and nuanced as most of the time. I also can't see much of an overlap between the current LLM hype and the previous efforts in geo to build machine learning tools and workflows. Disclaimer: I have built such workflows before. So when I learned about @hotosm "fAIr" AI-assisted mapping service, I was like, uh-oh. We all know now that AI takes too much resources, is an environmental threat, and is never profitable. Apart from also being wrong. That a humanitarian org turns its employees and hardware to replicate things Microsoft and Meta failed to do... Well, won't end good. https://www.hotosm.org/updates/fAIr_2024/ (On the other hand, their FMTM is shaping up to be better than I expected.) 2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade. 2023: Microsoft's emissions are 30% higher than in 2020. Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires new data centers built out of carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips.
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  @akshatrathi  @akshatrathi what AI “demand”? I didn’t demand any of this, leave me alone with your 8 copilots -.- Last Sunday Latvian OSM community (in the massive numbers of two for this event :) ) created streetview images for the Ķīpsala (literally - bale island) region of Riga. Do you like some remote mapping for relaxation? These fresh images could allow to add a lot of detail. @richlv I had a plan to make a video explaining how to pretend you're surveying with Every Door while actually looking at Mapillary at home. Maybe somebody else could record this :) FYI, Cheap electric cars from China won't solve anything. |
