Gabriele Svelto

Chances are that you might have heard about #Firefox "Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising". I've been working for Mozilla for 12 years and I've learned about it here on the fediverse, not only because I haven't been paying much attention, but because internal comms have been occupied with other stuff. So let's talk about something I feel Mozilla desperately needs: transparency. 🧵 1/11

Never thought I'd agree with someone from GS

> AI technology is exceptionally expensive, and to justify those costs, the technology must be able to solve complex problems, which it isn't designed to do," [...] The starting point for costs is also so high that even if costs decline, they would have to do so dramatically to make automating tasks with AI affordable [...] In our experience, even basic summarization tasks often yield illegible and nonsensical results.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-return-investment-disappointing-goldman-sachs-report-2024-6

This is gonna be fun: OpenAI runs afoul of the GDPR because it generates false information about individuals and they don't have full access to the data that pertains to them.

From the article:

> Maartje de Graaf, data protection lawyer at noyb: “The obligation to comply with access requests applies to all companies. [...] It seems that with each ‘innovation’, another group of companies thinks that its products don’t have to comply with the law.”

https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it

What sound does a tech bubble make when it bursts?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/03/stability_ai_bills/