I am yet to see the presence of any climate activist or climate activism groups, from India, here in Fediverse. I will be glad to correct myself.

There are several notable climate activism groups in India, including:

1. Fridays for Future India: This is a youth-led movement that organizes peaceful demonstrations to call for action on climate change.
2. Balajee Sewa Sansthan (BSS India): This organization is headquartered in Dehradun and promotes sustainability and fighting climate change. They conduct awareness programs on climate change in various schools and register students as environment ambassadors.
3. The Climate Reality Project India: This is a non-profit organization that works to promote climate action and awareness in India. They organize training programs, workshops, and events to educate people about climate change and its impacts.
4. The Indian Youth Climate Network: This is a network of young people who are working to promote climate action and sustainability in India. They organize events, campaigns, and workshops to raise awareness about climate change and its impacts.
5. The Centre for Science and Environment: This is a research and advocacy organization that works on environmental issues, including climate change. They conduct research, publish reports, and organize events to promote sustainable development and climate action.

The above groups seem to be available only in X, Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn.

#ClimateActivism #ClimateActivists #MastodonIndians #MastIndia #India

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I stated here the following.

There is no sign that the 2023 Israel–Hamas war will stop soon and peace will prevail on either side.
This Israel-Hamas conflict is fueling profit machines. Therefore, the war will continue to rage as thousands of civilians are getting killed as collateral damages.

I made a mistake here by only stating the economic aspects. The Israel-Hamas war has complex dynamics. It is important to consider the broader political, historical, and ideological factors that drive the Israel-Hamas war in addition to potential financial gains. These factors are interconnected and influence each other.

Now we see that Netanyahu says Gaza war on Hamas will go on for ‘many more months,’ thanks US for $147.5 million emergency new weapons sale to Israel.

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening, with hunger and mass displacement is deepening as fighting rages on across the strip. The ongoing conflict may have resulted in the displacement of 85% of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents, leaving Palestinians feeling unsafe and lacking basic necessities such as water and food. The economic costs of the conflict are also significant, with Israel estimated to lose around $400 billion due to the war. For Palestinians, the costs may be so large that they undermine the possibility of an independent Palestinian state.

How can such a situation persist without profits which will be related to ideological, political and financial aspects? The ideological, territorial and political aspects are well documented. Despite the ongoing conflict, there are business and financial benefits for certain industries as mentioned in this article. Additionally, the coastal strip of Gaza and Israeli occupied Palestinian territories sit above sizable reservoirs of oil and natural gas, which offer an opportunity to distribute and share $524 billion among different parties in the region.

The war has caused significant human suffering and loss of life, and, as stated before, it is not appropriate to view it only through an economic lens. It is important to focus on finding a peaceful resolution to the conflict and supporting the humanitarian needs of those affected by the violence. Is war a prelude to peace in this case? In some cases, war can lead to further instability, violence, and suffering, making it difficult to establish a lasting peace. The relationship between war and peace is complex and depends on various factors, including the involvement of international actors, regional dynamics, and the will of the people to find a peaceful resolution to the conflict.

I conclude this article by quoting Anthony H. Cordesman from his article titled Gaza: Why the War Won’t End (dated 02nd November 2023).

What does seem clear, however, is that both sides now have no good options that will bring lasting peace or stability. Israel will almost certainly be able to contain Gaza and seriously weaken Hamas. At best, Israel can use force to occupy and control Gaza but never be accepted by Gaza’s population and able to offer successful development or a decent life. Israel’s actions have also, however, sharply increased Gazan, Palestinian, and Arab hostility to Israel and undermined the sympathy and support it gained after the initial invasion by Hamas. The best outcome from Israel’s current offensive seems all too likely to leave Israel either as at least a partial occupier of a hostile Gaza or create and maintain a far larger set of security barriers that may have to extend well beyond the present border and require a much larger forward-deployed security force.

As for Hamas, some three weeks after its attack, it was still unclear what its strategic objective was in launching an attack whose very success was certain to provoke a massive Israeli military response without achieving any clear strategic gains for Hamas. Given its long history of defeats in previous fighting, Hamas had to realize that Israel’s almost inevitable violent response might limit or end the progress made in improving Arab-Israeli relations and the Abraham Accords; and it had to realize the result would sharply weaken or destroy Hamas and lead to massive damage to the civil population in Gaza. To quote Henry Kissinger in a very different context, “The threat of committing suicide is not an adequate deterrent to being murdered.”

#IsraeliLivesMatter #PalestineLivesMatter #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #HumanRights #MastodonIndians #MastIndia #India

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গণহত্যা

অনেক স্তন্যপায়ী প্রাণী নিজেদের প্রজাতিকে নানা কারণে হত্যা করে। কিন্তু মানুষের মতো নির্মম ভাবে গণহত্যা করা তাদের পক্ষে কি সম্ভব?

আমি এখানে মানুষকে পশুর সঙ্গে এবং পশুকে মানুষের সঙ্গে তুলনা করতে চাই নি। এটা লেখার সময় পাশবিক অত্যাচার উপমাটা মাথায় ছিলো। গণহত্যা অনেকটা কীটনাশক দিয়ে পোকামাকড় মারার মতো। যারা গণহত্যার সঙ্গে জড়িত তারা স্থান, কাল, জাতি, ধর্ম, বর্ণ, ভাষা, রাজনৈতিক মতবাদ নির্বিশেষে মনুষ্য পদবাচ্য নয়। হয়তো তারা পশুর চেয়েও অধম। গণহত্যার সঙ্গে জড়িত থাকার পেছনে কোন নৈতিক যুক্তি থাকতে পারে না।

উইকিপিডিয়া থেকে আমরা জানতে পারি যে

গণহত্যার অপরাধের প্রতিরোধ ও শাস্তি সংক্রান্ত কনভেনশন, বা গণহত্যা কনভেনশন হল একটি আন্তর্জাতিক চুক্তি যা গণহত্যাকে অপরাধী করে এবং রাষ্ট্রীয় পক্ষগুলিকে এই নিষেধাজ্ঞা কার্যকর করার জন্য বাধ্য করে। এটিই ছিল গণহত্যাকে অপরাধ হিসেবে সংহিতাবদ্ধ করার প্রথম আইনি উপকরণ এবং জাতিসংঘ সাধারণ পরিষদের তৃতীয় অধিবেশনের সময় ৯ই ডিসেম্বর ১৯৪৮ সালে সর্বসম্মতিক্রমে গৃহীত প্রথম মানবাধিকার চুক্তি। প্রতিজ্ঞাপত্রটি ১৯৫১ সালের ১২ই জানুয়ারী কার্যক্রম শুরু করে এবং ২০২২ সাল পর্যন্ত ১৫২টি রাষ্ট্রীয় পক্ষর সমর্থন রয়েছে। গণহত্যা প্রতিরোধ প্রতিজ্ঞাপত্র মূলতঃ দ্বিতীয় বিশ্বযুদ্ধের প্রতিক্রিয়া হিসাবে চিন্তা করা হয়েছিল, যেখানে হলোকাস্টের মতো বর্বরতা ঘটেছিলো এবং যার সঠিক বর্ণনা বা আইনগত সংজ্ঞা ছিল না।

#Bengali #Bangla #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #গণহত্যা

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It happened yesterday and today, on Christmas day, I am reading it here.

At least 68 people were killed by an Israeli strike in central Gaza, health officials said Sunday, while the number of Israeli soldiers killed in combat over the weekend rose to 17.

There is no sign that the 2023 Israel–Hamas war will stop soon and peace will prevail on either side.

On December 13, 2023 India voted in favour of a resolution in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) that demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict and the unconditional release of all hostages.

This was the first time India had backed such a resolution since the war began more than two months ago. India’s vote in favor of the UN resolution demonstrates our concern for the humanitarian situation and, also, our commitment to promoting peace and stability in the region.

The resolution was unanimously accepted by the 193-member UN General Assembly during an emergency special session, with 153 states voting in favor, 10 voting against, and 23 abstentions. Unfortunately, this is simply an indication of worldwide sentiment. Unlike Security Council resolutions, General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding.

This Israel-Hamas conflict is fueling profit machines. Therefore, the war will continue to rage as thousands of civilians are getting killed as collateral damages.

#IsraeliLivesMatter #PalestineLivesMatter #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #HumanRights #MastodonIndians #MastIndia #India

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I am aware that feeling busy and being busy are not always the same thing. However, increase in the volume of interactions, can be perceived as an increase in busyness.

My conjecture is that people in my Indian society are more busy due to increased speed of peer-to-peer communication technologies, such as WhatsApp (and now Telegram Messenger), which has certainly changed the way we interact. I see that my friends, acquaintances and neighbors have became busier when Hotmail and Gmail became part of our daily life with respect to postal letters and PSTN based landline telephones with expensive subscriber trunk dialing. Now with low cost mobile calls across India and cheaper 4G/3G with WhatsApp and other social media, people have become even more busier.

WhatsApp’s and, now, Telegram Messenger’s popularity in India, with its large user base of more than 500 million and 100 million active users respectively, have made it a powerful tool for spreading not just information, leading to busyness, but also dissemination of misinformation and propaganda. WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram Messenger etc. may have played a significant role in shaping societal dynamics in India, and there are concerns about the impact such instant messenger tools have had on the fault-lines within Indian society. The situation can get worse with the advent of Generative AI driven misinformation.

The next level of busyness and social dynamics will arrive when augmented reality based P2P chat platforms become a commodity.

Reference:

1. Encrypted Messaging Applications and Political Messaging: How They Work and Why Understanding Them is Important for Combating Global Disinformation
2. Govt may force WhatsApp to remove ‘end-to-end encryption’: What this means for users
3. Deepfakes To Disinformation: Year 2023 Brought A New Era Of Digital Deception, Driven By AI
4. Governance: Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, and Politics

#Mastindians #MastIndia #India #Transparency #Disinformation #Misinformation #Ethics

The Global Liveability Index 2023, from Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU), is available now. It ranks the cities that have the best and worst living conditions and quality of life around the world. EIU’s liveability index quantifies the challenges presented to an individual’s lifestyle and standard of living in 173 cities worldwide. The index measures cities on five broad indicators — stability, culture and environment, healthcare, education and infrastructure. The highest score a city can get is 100.

Bengaluru (Bangalore) secured 148th spot with a score of 58.7. Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Ahmadabad have slightly better scores.

I believe Bengaluru (Bangalore) has the competence and the bandwidth to rank much better. All that is required in political will. If somebody has lived in Bengaluru even for few weeks, the first obvious expectation for improvement will be better traffic management, roads, public transport and cleaner city.

#City #CityLife #CivicLife #StandardofLiving #Liveability #LiveabilityIndex #GlobalLiveabilityIndex #LiveabilityMetrics #LiveabilityScore #Bengaluru #Bangalore #MastodonIndians #MastIndia #India

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অমানবিককরণ

প্রথমে ইউক্রেন-রাশিয়ার যুদ্ধ এবং পরে ইজরায়েল-গাজার যুদ্ধ আমার মনের মধ্যে প্রচন্ড প্রভাব ফেলেছে। আমার জীবদ্দশায় এর আগের যুদ্ধগুলো এতটা আমাকে মানসিকভাবে বিদ্ধস্ত করে নি। ছোটবেলায় ইরান-ইরাক যুদ্ধের কথা বেশ মনে আছে। পরবর্তীকালে ইরাকের সঙ্গে আমেরিকার যুদ্ধেরও খোঁজ-খবর রাখতাম। এরপর আফগানিস্তানে প্রায় দু দশক ধরে বোমাবর্ষণ হলো। এই বিষয় জারলাস্ট হালাইমজাই আফগানিস্তানে এই ক্রমাগত যুদ্ধের জন্য ওনার মেয়েবেলার কষ্টের কথা, যন্ত্রণার কথা লিখেছেন এবং বলেছেন। কিন্তু ওনার বক্তব্য কতজনের মনে দাগ কেটেছে?

কিন্তু ২০২২-২০২৩এ পৌঁছেও আমি দেখলাম যে মানুষ ইতিহাসের পাতায় যেমন আদিম ছিলো, বাস্তবে প্রায় সেরকমই রয়ে গেছে। মানুষ যে এখনো এতটা নৃশংস এবং এতটা বর্বর, সেটা আমার ছোটবেলায় কল্পনার বাইরে ছিলো। হিংস্রতার এই বিভীষিকা দেখার জন্য বিজ্ঞান আর কলায় এই তথাকথিত অগ্রগতি কোন প্রয়োজন ছিলো না। আজ কটা দেশের সরকার শপথ নিয়ে বলতে পারবে যে তারা মানবাধিকারে বিশ্বাস করে এবং সঠিক অর্থে মেনে চলে? একই কথা বলা যায় আন্তর্জাতিক মানবিক আইনের ক্ষেত্রে। ওই আইনকে বুড়ো আঙ্গুল দেখানোটাই বেশি স্বাভাবিক।

অনেক স্তন্যপায়ী প্রাণী নিজেদের প্রজাতিকে নানা কারণে হত্যা করে। কিন্তু মানুষের মতো নির্মম ভাবে গণহত্যা করা তাদের পক্ষে কি সম্ভব?

আমাদের মধ্যে মানবিকতার অভাব বরাবর ছিলো। হয়তো সোশ্যাল মিডিয়ার জন্য সামগ্রিকভাবে মানবিকতা বোধের অভাব আজকাল অনেক বেশী চোখে পড়ছে। তবে আগের তুলনায ইদানিংককাল সম্পর্কগুলি আরও বেশি লেনদেনমূলক হয়ে উঠছে যেখানে লাভই মূল উদ্দেশ্য। এর জন্য অমানবিককরণ কমবে না। আরো বাড়বে। যদিও অমানবিককরণই ভূ-রাজনৈতিক দ্বন্দ্বের একমাত্র কারণ নয়, এটি তাদের বৃদ্ধি এবং স্থায়ীকরণে অবদান রাখবে।

অতঃকিম? আমি জানি না।

#Bengali #Bangla #MastIndia #MastodonIndians

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মানবিকতার দাবী

গায়ের জোড়ে একদল লোক এসে এক বা একাধিক নিরীহ পরিবারের ঘরে বোমা মেরে অথবা আগুন জ্বালিয়ে দিয়ে তাদেরকে বিতাড়িত করে উদ্বাস্তু করে দেওয়াটা এই ২০২৩ সালে অসহ্য লাগছে। আগেও লাগতো। আজকাল আরো বাড়াবাড়ি লাগে। এর ওপর শিশুদের ওপর অত্যাচার, মেয়েদের ধর্ষণ করা, জল, খাবার আর ওষুধের সরবরাহ বন্দুকের নল দেখিয়ে ইচ্ছে মতো বন্ধ করে সাধারণ মানুষ আর শিশুদের উপর অকথ্য অত্যাচার করা ইত্যাদির কথা ভাবলে মাথা আরো ভোঁ-ভোঁ করে। আর কতোদিন আমরা অসভ্য থেকে এগুলো মেনে নেবো? সারা পৃথিবীতে একযোগে এর প্রতিবাদ হওয়ার সময় এসেছে। আমি যখন আমার সমাজের নিয়ম মেনে, আইন মেনে, কারোর কোন ক্ষতি করার চেষ্টা পর্যন্ত না করে একটু সুস্থ ভাবে বাঁচার চেষ্টা করছি, তখন আমার উপর অকারণে শক্তি প্রয়োগ করে, আমাকে উৎখাত করে আমাকে কেন সর্বস্বান্ত করা হবে? প্রাকৃতিক দুর্যোগের কারণে ঘর-বাড়ি হারানোটা অন্য প্রসঙ্গ। যদিও আজকাল প্রাকৃতিক দুর্যোগের কারণও অনেক ক্ষেত্রে মানুষের প্রয়োজনের তুলনায় অনেক বেশি শোষণ হতে পারে।

বাস্তুচ্যুত হয়ে দেশভিখারি হয়ে যাওয়ার যন্ত্রনা যে কি মারাত্বক সেটা আমরা বাঙালিরা হাড়ে হাড়ে জানি। দেশ মানে তো কেবল হোটেল অথবা রিসোর্টের ঘরের মতো একটা বাসস্থান নয়। মধুময় পালের ভাষায় -

দেশ মানে তো কেবল কাঁটাতার নয়, ভৌগোলিক সীমানা ছড়িয়ে একটা জাগ্রত স্মৃতি— গাছ-মানুষ-জল-মাটি মানুষের মনে থেকে যায়। সেটা মাটি হারানো একটা মানুষের সারাজীবনের খোঁজ। দেশ হারানো মানে একটা বেদনা— যেন মাতৃ-পিতৃবিয়োগ। যেন দেশবিয়োগ।

মধুময় পাল ওনার ‘দেশভাগ: বিনাশ ও বিনির্মাণ’ বইয়ের ভূমিকায় দেশভিখারি শব্দটা প্রথম ব্যবহার করেন। শঙ্খ ঘোষ সেটা অনুমোদন করেন।

প্রাকৃতিক দুর্যোগ ছাড়া, দেশবিখারী হয়ে যাওয়ার পেছনে মানুষের জন্মস্থান, ধর্ম, রাজনৈতিক চেতনা ইত্যাদি কোন কারণই বৈধ হতে পারে না।

মানবিকতার বোধ সার্বিক ভাবে জাগ্রত হয়ে আমাদের চেতনার মধ্যে গেঁথে যেতে এখনো আমাদের অনেক অনেক যুগ লাগবে। এই প্রসঙ্গে জানাই যে মানবিকতার বোধ কিছুটা বুঝতে গেলে ভালোবাসার শহরের মতো সিনেমা দেখাটা খুব জরুরী।

#Bengali #Bangla #MastIndia #MastodonIndians

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Zero Trust Information

Shel Israels’s one line advice, regarding usage of GPT AI, reinforces my thoughts regarding Zero Trust Information as the right paradigm in this age of ChatGPT, Google Bard and Bing chatbot for regular end users.

My advice is to treat GPT AI the same way you treat a blinking yellow light on a dark street: proceed with caution.

#AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #ZeroTrustInformation #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #GPTAI

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Why should you care about Human Rights?

It is easy for anyone to become either a violator of human rights, or a person whose human rights have been violated. It is easy to fall into such a faction or relationship by not caring, not knowing, not being aware or even self-aware. Thus, we need to start with self-awareness and educate ourselves on the factual and emotional aspects, paying attention and taking a rational approach. The abuse of power-control relations is simply a matter of time: it begins once we stop caring, once we lose our compassion for other human beings.

~ Elmira Lyapina

#HumanRights #HumanRight #Humanity

@amiya_rbehera

PeerTube uses W3C recommended ActivityPub but not IPFS since it still seems too young for streaming large files.

#PeerTube #ActivityPub #IPFS

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Protect Civilians

I cannot say it better than what Sari Bashi, Program Director at Human Rights Watch says here.

You have to protect civilians, you have to protect the people who have nothing to do with fighting. That’s the principle that children can understand. When I tell my daughter, I know your brother hit you but doesn’t mean you can hit him back. I think we can have a very simple message to the Israeli government. I know Hamas committed unspeakable war crimes against Israeli civilians. That doesn’t mean you can commit war crimes against Palestinian civilians.

#IsraeliLivesMatter #PalestineLivesMatter #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #HumanRights

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Fear and threat, conflict and surveillance have been mostly some of the key tenets of human economic activities since the beginning of the human civilization. The digital age has added large scale misinformation and bullshit which contributes to dehumanization. Anxiety, exhaustion, and emptiness have reduced our empathy and the ability to interact face to face. In the consumer space only those Internet dependent digital products which enables surveillance and dilutes the notion of privacy usually gain traction and often get accepted by the masses. Some of the reasons, for such a trend, may be as follows.

1. Perceived Better Security: Surveillance technologies are often marketed as tools to prevent crime, terrorism, and other threats to public safety.
2. Convenience and Efficiency: Facial recognition technology can be used for quick and seamless identification at airports or for unlocking smartphones.
3. Social Norms and Acceptance: When people see others accepting and using these technologies without significant backlash, they may feel more inclined to accept them as well. This leads to network effect where increased numbers of people or participants improve the value of a good or service.
4. Lack of Awareness and Understanding: Many users may not fully understand the extent of surveillance enabled by digital technologies or the potential negative consequences for decreased privacy.
5. Trade-Offs and Trade-Downs: In some cases, users may willingly trade privacy for other benefits, such as personalized services, targeted advertising, or access to certain platforms or services. Such approaches also gets influenced by the subconscious and loosely defined digital threat model of the individuals.

#Fear #Threat #Conflict #Surveillance #Dehumanization #Privacy #ThreatModel

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SIFT Method to achieve Zero Trust Information

Regarding avoiding spreading of misinformation related the Israel-Hamas war, author @Abbyohlheiser, emphasizes on the use of the SIFT method which is an excellent hands-on approach to Zero Trust Information paradigm which has been mentioned in my previous post.

The SIFT method, developed by digital literacy expert Mike Caulfield, is a good framework for learning how to evaluate emotionally charged or outrage-inducing online posts in the middle of an unfolding crisis. There are two reasons I like it: First, it’s adaptable to a lot of situations. And second, the goal here isn’t a full fact-check. SIFT is meant to be a quick series of checks that anyone can do in order to decide how much of your attention to give what you’re seeing and whether you feel comfortable sharing a post with others.

The SIFT method breaks down to four steps: “Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, and Trace claims, quotes, and media to the original context.”

To learn about SIFT in more detail, it is worth checking out the free three hour online mini-course.

#ZeroTrustIInformarion #Misinformation #SocialMedia #Disinformation

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Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome (OPS) is an interesting term coined by Professor Gad Saad. It refers to a type of human mind virus that causes a person to reject realities that are otherwise as clear as gravity. The term is derived from the behavior of an ostrich, which is believed to bury its head in the sand to avoid reality. OPS takes this concept a step further, leading to the complete rejection of reality.

People suffering from OPS do not believe their lying eyes and construct an alternate reality known as unicornia. In this world, science, reason, rules of causality, evidentiary thresholds, a near-infinite amount of data, data analytic procedures, inferential statistics, the epistemological rules inherent to the scientific method, rules of logic, historical patterns, daily patterns, and common sense are all rejected.

References:

1. https://www.younglingresearch.com/essays/ops
2. https://thoughteconomics.com/gad-saad-parasitic-mind/
3. https://www.thepaulleslie.com/the-parasitic-mind-how-infectious-ideas-are-killing-common-sense-by-gad-saad-the-book-review/

#OstrichParasiticSyndrome #Unicornia #ParasiticMind #ParasiticMentality #CommonSense #HumanMind #HumanPsychology #Psychology

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From my perspective, a few highlights from this article titled “Generative AI Is a Disaster, and Companies Don’t Seem to Really Care” are worth noting. It reflects the content in my previous post that Chatbots, using Generative AI, can be weapons of mass destruction in bullshit war if ranges of guard rails and filters, that adhere to the principles of AI Ethics and Safe and Responsible AI, are not more than adequately implemented with highest priority.

“I think that in making assessments like this the key question to focus on is who, if anyone, is harmed,” Stella Biderman, a researcher at EleutherAI, told Motherboard. “Giving people who actively look for it non-photorealistic stickers of, e.g., busty Karl Marx wearing a dress doesn’t seem like it does any harm. If people who were not looking for violent or NSFW content were repeatedly and frequently exposed to it that could be harmful, and if it were generating photorealistic imagery that could be used as revenge porn, that could also be harmful.”

“AI safety and ethics is something that big tech companies pay lip service to and claim to have large numbers of people working on, but the tools being released so far don’t seem to reflect that. Microsoft recently laid off its entire ethics and society team, although it still maintains an Office of Responsible AI and an “advisory committee” for AI ethics. So far, the responses that these tech companies have been giving to the media when contacted about how their publicly-released AI tools are generating wildly inappropriate outputs boil down to: We know, but we’re working on it, we promise.”

“These ‘general purpose’ models cannot be made safe because there is no single consistent notion of safety across all application contexts,” said Biderman. “What is safe for primary school education applications doesn’t always line up with what is safe in other contexts.”

#Bullshit #Chatbots #LLM #ZeroTrustIInformarion #AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #LargeLanguageModels #GenerativeAI

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@amiya_rbehera

“Maybe a user indexing service to index the active user IDs and profiles across all instances would be helpful, for finding users easily and increasing the followers.”

A service for finding verified journalists on Mastodon exists.

#ActivityPub, #Fediverse #Mastodon #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India #Journalist

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@amiya_rbehera

I now recall that we have discussed usage of Hashtag before regarding discovery of content instead of first attempting to find people in Fediverse.

I am not aware what specific hashtags can Indian journalists use. So user indexing service can provide value for content and people discovery.

#ActivityPub, #Fediverse #Mastodon #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India #Journalist

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