Carter Lavin joined Petaluma Urban Dan Lyke / comment 0
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
It isn't written for humans Dan Lyke / comment 0
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.
A report of abuse Dan Lyke / comment 0
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.
the real monsters Dan Lyke / comment 0
geekysteven @geekysteven@beige.party
A monsterfucker, but they're just into normal humans cause we're the real monsters
AI is intellectual Viagra Dan Lyke / comment 0
The other day I had the intrusive thought
AI is intellectual Viagraand it hasn't left me so I am exorcising it here. I'm sorry in advance for any pain this might cause.
Jak2k Dan Lyke / comment 0
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...
push for LLM adoption Dan Lyke / comment 0
💯: 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