Carter Lavin joined Petaluma Urban Chat's Know Before You Grow on Zoom last night to talk about his book If You Want To Win You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy, and gave us an inspiring discussion. I now wanna change all the things!
https://youtu.be/cSSsqm7_AKg
ZD Net: Scammers are poisoning AI search results to steer you straight into their
traps - here's how AI tools like Google AI Overview and Perplexity Comet are being tricked
into suggesting scam support numbers.
According to new research,
published by Aurascape's Aura Labs on Dec. 8, threat actors are "systematically
manipulating public web content" in what the team has dubbed large language model (LLM)
phone number poisoning.
Via
ResearchBuzz, who draws the connection to all of the hacked Wordpress sites that she's
found.
So this morning I woke up to an abuse report from Hetzner. Someone saw my back-link checker
in their logs, and because the 2 query a day request that was respecting the 304 was the
default Perl package log it triggered iocane
(exchange here), and...
When we're at the point that people filing abuse reports are saying:
It wasn't hitting more than that, but "Python/3.9 aiohttp/3.10.6" only hit my
site once and is still a bot request from Microsoft. I can't tell from the volume of the
requests whether they are malicious or not.
Which... huh, but also yeah, AI scrapers have made everyone paranoid in non-specific ways.
And maybe the web as an experimental platform is kinda over?
I don't know, just all felt weird, and is making me do my usual "why am I even bothering?"
whining.
geekysteven
@geekysteven@beige.party
A monsterfucker, but they're just into normal humans cause we're the real monsters
Anthony @abucci@buc.ci
The other day I had the intrusive thought
AI is intellectual Viagra
and it hasn't left me so I am exorcising it here. I'm sorry in advance for any
pain this might cause.
If anyone knows the proprietor of https://jak2k.eu, I just got an abuse report from Hetzner regarding what should be a once a day request to
two URLs on their site, and I'd love to figure out what's going wrong with that...
💯: Glen Malley
@glen_malley@mstdn.ca
"we're seeing an insane push for LLM adoption in all lines of work, however
inappropriate, because they directly exploit a cognitive bias to which senior
management is vulnerable."
Edit: This is a quote from the last line of Charlie Stross: Barnum's law of CEOs