Sounds like it was the right decision then.

It is not even "if" they should be funding these activities.... it is whether the public would "support" funding these activities, if there was a trail of deaths.

Just compare X and Blue Sky. There may be some principled leftists who oppose suppressing speech, but in recent times, it has been the left that has been censoring/blocking peoples speech. Another comparison is what is actually censored. Of course there is a certain amount that would be censored by both sides - criticism of power.

Because if you build it, they will come and use it for any purpose they can think of in the end!

The safety rules are also being used to block content about protests in the UK. How convenient for them.

https://freespeechunion.org/protest-footage-blocked-as-onlin...

> “West Yorkshire Police denied any involvement in blocking the footage. X declined to comment, but its AI chatbot, Grok, indicated the clip had been restricted under the Online Safety Act due to violent content.”

I’m not involved with X or with its chatbot. Is its chatbot ordinarily an authoritative source for facts about assumptions like this one, that the law “was used to take down” politically sensitive video?

It’s a bad look either way, but I feel like there are important differences between the law leading to overly conservative automated filtering, vs political actors using it deliberately in specific cases. Bad symptom either way, but different medicines, right?

> that the law “was used to take down” politically sensitive video?

You've misquoted the chatbot, which is a new one.

The video wasn't "taken down" and Grok never said that. It was blocked for some users in the UK due to the new authoritarian age verification laws which everyone should be concerned about if access to newsworthy content requires "papers please".

In this case, Grok is stating the obvious. I'm not sure how you can arrive at any other conclusion. The clip is inaccessible to some users in the UK on the day the act comes online, replaced with a message about local laws and age verification.

The fact X flags protest videos as adult content is not entirely the fault of the UK government.

I wonder if embeddings could be created from open source and library code and then used to convert back the code with all the correct variable and function names.

It's not AI but Ghidra has a cool feature called BSim which does something similar. Each function get's a "feature vector" which now that I think about it has some clear parallels to embeddings.

Wow that is cool, I bet with that feature and a huge database of known "feature vectors" from open-source libraries so you can focus on the actual business logic of the binary instead of trying to reverse external library functions

BSim is a hash machine, right? (BSim uses feature vectors, and locality-sensitive hashing.)

Embeddings could be derived from reconstituted hash.

I've been wondering the same thing. However you would have to have a very large database of embeddings for this to be useful, right?

Otoh I can see this being disproportionately helpful with reverse Engineering Rust and Go binaries, which usually include many opensource dependencies

I would love to say another answer is "Firefox" (which is my default browser), but Mozilla have gotten fat of Googles money over the years and got distracted by other things.

I would love if some of these projects that fall backward into loads of money would stay lean, and invest that money in a way that allowed them to become truly independent. So when the money dries up, or the funding becomes dirty, they have the freedom to cut ties and continue their lean operations, self-funded by the interest from their investments.

They instead shovel increasing amount of money into the pockets of ‘leadership’, despite showing signs of nothing but failure at everything they do.

Yes but that isn't optimal for the personal profit of the leadership making those decisions.

The other idea is that people who go into the field are screwed up themselves... and are trying to work out how to treat/understand themselves.

It would be better to create bio-char and use it to improve the soil for farmers to grow food. This would also help them with the changing climate, because bio-char assists with moisture retention.