Ben Collins

bencollins.bsky.social

30 July 2026 23:03

Two straight days in which news organizations made uncanny valley image choices where famous people look like Onion stock image illustrations.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

eff.org

02 May 2026 17:33

Attacks on VPNs are, at their core, attacks on the tools that enable digital privacy. Utah is setting a precedent that prioritizes government control over the fundamental architecture of a private and secure internet, and it won’t stop at the state’s borders. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Benjamin Riley

benjaminjriley.bsky.social

30 April 2026 14:51

Likewise , hallucinations do not arise because of some form of prompting. You can’t really identify the risks of hallucinations from prompts or system settings. “Hallucinations” are the result of ex post human judgment.

Benjamin Riley

benjaminjriley.bsky.social

30 April 2026 14:50

Bias, for example, largely stems from training data and the major AI providers *explicitly do not disclose what data they use for training.* Everyone hand waves this insurmountable problem when discussing “ethical” AI use.

Nathaniel William Horadam

horadam.bsky.social

26 April 2026 18:46

There is nothing happening in April 2026 that will matter in November 2026 other than the spiraling global supply chain crisis emanating from Hormuz.