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Blayne Haggart

@bhaggart
7 posts
2025-09-26
So many thoughts.  Let's go with three.  —  1. Keep in mind that preserving endangered languages is supposedly a big genAI selling feature.  —  2. GenAI's careless deployment, exemplified by computer scientists' and industry neglect of the basic “garbage in, garbage out” principle, is infuriating. …
2025-09-26 View on X
MIT Technology Review

How inaccurate AI translations of Wikipedia pages, which AI models use for training, may cause a doom spiral that further marginalizes vulnerable languages

When Kenneth Wehr started managing the Greenlandic-language version of Wikipedia four years ago, his first act was to delete almost everything. LinkedIn: Soeren Eberhardt and Rache...

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2024-04-24
This excellent piece by @edzitron indirectly highlights the fundamental problem w/ Google, Meta et al: These are public utilities that are run by for-profit companies. The public-interest side can only hold off the profit-focused folks for so long. 1/5 https://www.wheresyoured.at/ ...
2024-04-24 View on X
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Emails released as part of US vs. Google show how Google's finance and ad teams led by Prabhakar Raghavan made Search worse to make the company more money

This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it.  —  The story begins on February 5th 2019 …

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2023-09-17
Honest question (and not in a trollish way): Are these online platforms less law-abiding than companies in other sectors of the economy, or other, non-infrastructural types of company? When every day seems to bring another set of huge fines, it sometimes seems that way.
2023-09-17 View on X
TechCrunch

Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €345M after finding the company in breach of GDPR in relation to its handling of children's data and gives three months to comply

most stuff gets fixed with a tap on the shoulder, but the unlawfulness still needs addressing. [image] Caroline Greer / @carolinegreer : The 🇮🇪 DPC decision published today in rela...

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2023-09-16
Honest question (and not in a trollish way): Are these online platforms less law-abiding than companies in other sectors of the economy, or other, non-infrastructural types of company? When every day seems to bring another set of huge fines, it sometimes seems that way.
2023-09-16 View on X
TechCrunch

Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €345M after finding the company in breach of GDPR in relation to its handling of children's data and gives three months to comply

It's been a long time coming but TikTok has finally been found in breach of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation …

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2023-09-15
Honest question (and not in a trollish way): Are these online platforms less law-abiding than companies in other sectors of the economy, or other, non-infrastructural types of company? When every day seems to bring another set of huge fines, it sometimes seems that way.
2023-09-15 View on X
TechCrunch

Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €345M after finding it in breach of GDPR in relation to how it handles children's data and gives the company three months to comply

It's been a long time coming but TikTok has finally been found in breach of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation …

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2023-08-14
This is pretty much where I've ended up. LLMs are hallucinations all the way down; they aren't a path to AGI. Its use cases, like blockchain's, will be very limited, in this case to coding (maybe) and generating low-quality “content” (which will still pollute our info ecosystem).
2023-08-14 View on X
The Road to AI We Can Trust

Generative AI could be a dud, so we shouldn't build around the premise that the tech is world-changing, which in hindsight may turn out to have been unrealistic

With the possible exception of the quick to rise and quick to fall alleged room-temperature superconductor LK-99 … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to , @peter@thepit.social , and @bald...

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2020-03-11
Worth noting: “The huge engineered wood beams will still be used but originally they were to come from a factory that Sidewalk would help establish, an investment that the scaled-down project cannot justify on its own.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
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New York Times

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs scales back Toronto smart city project prompted by local privacy critics, who argue it exploits people's data from the physical world

Faced with an array of opponents for its sensor-laden city of tomorrow in Toronto, a Google sibling has dramatically dialed back plans. Tweets: @rafael_a_calvo , @mikethebbop , @bh...

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