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ā€˜I’ll key your car’: ChatGPT can become abusive when fed real-life arguments, study finds Researchers find model starts to mirror tone when exposed to impoliteness – sometimes escalating into explicit threats

Your #car is not safe from #AI 😯 ā€˜I’ll key your car’: #ChatGPT can become abusive when fed real-life arguments, study finds | ChatGPT | The #Guardian share.google/49NYJXvzbcFM...

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Accessibility Snapshot Testing in iOS Snapshot testing is a popular type of regression testing that a lot of development teams are unaware...

Accessibility regressions are subtle and costly. Snapshot testing your a11y hierarchy catches them before users do.

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#Accessibility #iOSDev #MobileTesting #A11y #InclusiveDesign

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Another sun-soaked spot , taken up by today's #FoxOfTheDay from Clare Prowse !

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Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future to Miroirs No 3: the week in rave reviews The artist and national treasure explores the terrifying onset of AI, and Christian Petzold and Paula Beer team up again for a mysterious drama. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the G...

Someone got married to an #AI #chatbot, congrats šŸŽ‰ Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future to Miroirs No 3: the week in rave reviews | Culture | The Guardian share.google/qYHLjOTKYPvi...

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Your Browser Can Already Speak a Page Users can customize the features built into the browser, something not often available from third-party approaches. Is an ā€œAIā€ company offering to provide spoken versions of your pages for users? Is…

Browsers already offer powerful read-aloud capabilities when pages are built with solid semantics. A reminder to rely on standards first, not overlays.

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#DigitalAccessibility #A11y #WebStandards #UX #InclusiveDesign #WCAG

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James McAvoy: ā€˜I’ve been ā€œthat Scottish personā€, reduced to a noise that comes out of my mouth’ He went from a Glasgow council estate to Hollywood fame. Now, in his directorial debut, the X-Men star is challenging stereotypes about his homeland via the remarkable tale of a real-life hip-hop hoax

James McAvoy: ā€˜I’ve been ā€œthat Scottish personā€, reduced to a noise that comes out of my mouth’

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Interesting fact, I always assumed it was because of the golden ratio 😳 but reality is far more interesting.

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Please fill out this form | Andy Dow A great chance to get involved in AI and Voluntary Sector Research through the lens of ethics! Join us to explore the future of ethical AI use in the charity sector.

šŸ“¢ CALLING ALL VOLUNTARY ORGS šŸ“¢ AI RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY šŸ“¢ @davidclk.bsky.social is running some brilliant #research helping orgs assess #AI tools through the lens of organisational #values. #BlueSky people, please share and/or click the link to find out more šŸ‘‡ #HCI
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šŸ”„ Whale Shark gliding through Bioluminescent Algae looks like its floating through space. By Mike Nulty

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PwC partners who fail to embrace AI have no future at firm, US CEO warns Paul Griggs says senior staff at consulting firm who are not ā€˜paranoid about being AI-first’ are likely to be replaced

Oh wow, so now it's use #AI or die? PwC partners who fail to embrace AI have no future at firm, US CEO warns | PwC | The Guardian share.google/iYVptVodUUi4...

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control panel of the day #HCI

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..I think it will be surprising to most people just how quickly #ai will #takeover and remove most #jobs from it's human counterpart.. I think it will be even more surprising to the #elites .. when all those #jobless human workers stop buying things because the #economy is gone..

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Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

The best pubs in Newcastle are taking the fight right to Open #AI. Via local breweries producing slop: BBC News - Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Go on lads!

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Meet ā€˜Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos

Say what now? Meet ā€˜Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star | Far right | The Guardian share.google/hewv61RMybwh...

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Police chief admits misleading MPs after AI used in justification for banning Maccabi Tel Aviv fans An intelligence report referred to a football game that never happened - Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will make a statement later today.

The 'It wasn't me, the #AI are my homework' defence? BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
Police chief admits misleading MPs after AI used in justification for banning Maccabi Tel Aviv fans - BBC News

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I remember it coming out 😯

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The cost of AI slop could cause a rethink that shakes the global economy in 2026 Revenues may be rising rapidly, but not by nearly enough to cover the wild levels of investment under way

They suspected something was wrong when the #AI transcription reported: "an officer had turned into a frog" 🤨 The cost of AI slop could cause a rethink that shakes the global economy in 2026 | Heather Stewart | The Guardian share.google/6WTHBA5U0f2W...

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Waymo suspends service in San Francisco after causing traffic jams during blackout It was not immediately clear when Waymo’s service would be restored in San Francisco

Yeah, this #AI stuff is going to make everything much safer and more efficient: Waymo suspends service in San Francisco after driverless cars cause traffic jams during blackout | The Independent share.google/NpJlMEz2MGRk...

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James Cameron says AI actors are ā€˜horrifying to me’ Avatar director, known for his advocacy of new technology, told interviewer generative AI performance puts ā€˜all human experience into a blender’

Pretty sure he's embracing it at the same time, but those poor #AI actors will never get a gig with him 😄. #Avatar3 is out now: James Cameron says AI actors are ā€˜horrifying to me’ | James Cameron | The Guardian share.google/1anwmq0JDxMe...

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What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ā€˜knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing

" #AI risks contributing to the erasure of systems of understanding that have evolved over centuries" What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ā€˜knowledge collapse’ | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian share.google/HtzGjiSy4OTE...

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A troubling question has been raised around human authors vs AI More than half of the UK’s published novelists agree that it’s likely artificial intelligence will displace their work entirely, prompting fears of a two-tier market in the literary world where only t...

So it's not that troubling the threat of #AI in #writing then? A troubling question has been raised around human authors vs AI | The Independent share.google/fXYySiL6VGLw...

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Judges have become ā€˜human filters’ as AI in Australian courts reaches ā€˜unsustainable phase’, chief justice says Stephen Gageler warns the speed of AI’s development could be outstripping people’s ability to ā€˜comprehend its potential risks and rewards’

Judges are having to wade through rising tides of #AI slop... just like the rest of us #AIjustice #Law #Australia Judges have become ā€˜human filters’ as AI in Australian courts reaches ā€˜unsustainable phase’, chief justice says | Australian law | The Guardian share.google/0bkKFrF64chm...

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AI godfather Yann LeCun to leave Meta and start own firm One of the pioneers in the current AI boom has had disagreements with fellow engineers over the future of AI.

#AI "LLMs will be less useful in attempting to create AI systems that can match human intelligence." #ChatGPT BBC News - Why an AI 'godfather' is quitting Meta after 12 years
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In my Foundations of HCI class, we’re in the midst of our social computing section, thinking about how to address online toxicities. Had the students play Masnick’s ā€œTrust & Safety Tycoonā€ game in class yesterday. Their reactions: moderation is HARD... www.techdirt.com/2023/10/17/t...

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But where oh where will I ever find the charger? haha

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Great project, I wonder if you could breathe life into my Creative Zen Vision (30gb) which I still have lying around somewhere!

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Notes on restoring my iPod Classic I got my old iPod Classic working ... just ... here are some of my notes from it.

A new blog post from myself!! I got around to writing up my notes from restoring my old iPod classic, it’s more the notes on things I didn’t realise from the usual guides.

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#Blog #iPod #iFixit

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Becoming an AI-detective is a job I never wanted and wish I could quit | Samantha Floreani My social media feed is now a hellish stream of puerile AI slop. Am I stubborn to want to hang on to reality?

Becoming an AI detective is a job I never wanted and wish I could quit | Samantha Floreani | The Guardian share.google/JFk99dwOA1Jl...

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All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets Unions decry move, saying it will put more pressure on headteachers without tackling absence from classrooms

All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets | School attendance and absence | The Guardian share.google/dR9jhH6M4cfQ...

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