Holding firm against IHRA antisemitism definition-creep is important. Ireland’s new media regulator is doing well. Fair play to them.

Ireland’s government website, gov.ie, has a quite comprehensive robots.txt file, which by excludes almost all crawlers associated with AI training from scraping the site. One missing however is Mistral.

The European Commission just got caught with what looks exactly like the sort of ill-conceived “high-risk AI system” that the AI Act was made to guard against.

The Commission’s robo recruitment tool could soon be deployed – despite unanswered questions about how it works and how candidates will be protected – threatening workers rights and making a mockery of the law.

"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).

Do BBC editors think that their readers won’t notice the double-standard?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj40r2gw24wo

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.

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.