Thanks, I hate it and I don't want it in my neighbourhood (or anyone else's)

OMFG The Conversation did that article really need to be a interactive story with AI memes? All I wanted to know was the location (western Sydney), but no, The Conversation thought this small post needed to be dressed up for a night out in the town.

I know it's not feasible for every written assignment or exam, but a computer lab without internet access is underrated.

Here I was thinking having to run things through turnitin was bad enough a decade ago before LLMs entered the scene. At least then though there did seem to be an understanding that it was always going to claim some degree of similarity given how many other uni students were going to be writing on the same topics every year.

Detecting LLM output seems an almost impossible thing to do reliably (i.e. both high sensitivity and high specificity), the whole idea after all is that they output what is commonly written by humans in the training datasets. I can see unis having to return to having basically every assessment done in person as even with the privacy nightmare of monitoring software you can't really be sure non-supervised input actually was written by the student.

Here's a list of problems it will fix, actually:

Will it fix more problems than it introduces?

Banning accounts makes a lot of these worse when it comes to YouTube.

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It's a huge upgrade to just "randomly" give out, which makes me really curious about several behind-the-scenes decisions about why now, why such a big upgrade, why it's restricted to certain configurations, etc.

It is a matter for the Court to determine whether the penalty and other orders are appropriate.

So it could still change (though if the parties involved already agreed to it, I would be a bit surprised if it did)

Googled fined for shitty business practices.

😁

Optus and Telstra are the ones benefitting from the fine.

😣

The fine is only $55 million

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I have HFC but I hates it precious, it's one step up from dogshit. fibre rollout in my street literally stopped next door and no bastard will tell me why

You also need to have either a Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) or a Hybrid Fibre Coaxial connection.

Well, damn, I’m on FTTN. Thanks, Liberal NBN cuts that cost as much as the original NBN plan.

I doubt they would risk pulling out of the market even if they threaten to! A userbase of potentially 20m people would give any startup phone/ phone OS company a real edge in the market I'd think. They'll huff and puff but will always comply because the risk is greater than putting up with changes.

I am sure the idea of disabling the app stores in Australia has been discussed! I don't think they'll want to pull out of the Australian market, but I do expect some kind of childish backlash.

Some may say that these companies wield more power than the whole of Australia as a nation.

I wonder if they can say you can't download App Store as they no longer offer App Store in Australia. But you could use the US app store.

Or maybe they could just stop offering App stores in Oz, which would render all our phones useless. Bonus points if they say it is because of the stupid social media age verification.

Isn't it telling that only the biggest companies, Epic Games, can actually afford to fight Apple and Google in court over this, the rest of us who also hate it just have to suck it up or hope a champion fights for us.

It will be very interesting to see what the response from the companies is and how this unfolds.

Maybe it's live transcription? Summarising what's discussed in real time? As far as I'm aware Dragon would only be able to record verbatim still requiring the clinician to go back and significantly edit.

Skimming the article, it seems that most of the parties involved are treating the sensitive data with the seriousness it deserves. And that's refreshing to see (even in an industry where privacy is expected).

But I'd much rather it stay offline, because at the end of the day sensitive information is a magnet for hacking operations, and if they can gain control of the systems, then it doesn't really matter if the company tries to do the right thing.

As a side note, audio analysis is a great use for AI technology, my issue is with how data is processed and stored.

I wonder if people shared more on Facebook/TikTok/X

#GrossRash #redspotsonarm #nofilters

Seems like something that could be handled by Dragon Dictate

It's just smart transcription? That sounds like something that could be run locally without needing to offload to cloud, keeping the utility of it but reducing privacy concerns. As far as a medical devices go, I'd imagine getting enough processing power to run it locally wouldn't even be that expensive.

Sometimes I wonder if people shared more on Facebook/TikTok/X that could give a diagnosis than what they did with their doctor.

ie Are doctors the number one vector for privacy/identity issues on a threat/harm basis?

Is there a chance the track could bend?