Sit with this for a second: If the White House had its way, all the immigrants in this country would be dead -- at least on paper. WaPo reports that the Trump administration had plans to classify 2.7 million living people — including some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents — as dead as part of its immigration enforcement efforts. The plan reportedly fell apart after pushback from Social Security Administration employees who were tasked with implementing it.
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If you're wondering why Anthropic et all are publicly making stupid claims ('our AI that writes itself!') and begging world governments to regulate them - while directing the regulation via lobbying - it's pretty simple: they're locking out competitors.
If you read through this draft of "The Great American AI Act" it's pretty clear that nobody but the current big players will be able to comply. It's "regulate me, daddy" = "make sure nobody else can compete".
https://trahan.house.gov/uploadedfiles/the_great_american_ai_act_discussion_draft.pdf
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Bots just officially outnumbered humans on the internet for the first time ever. Cloudflare’s latest report shows AI and agentic traffic has grown so fast its now the majority of online traffic. We crossed a line and most people didn’t even notice 😳 https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human
Dead internet theory is now becoming a reality
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116693202315649987
This. 100%.
It’s all intersectional. Every single injustice that’s happening to every single marginalized group is bound to the rest. To suggest that one is more important than the others is subjective and self-serving.
It’s okay to champion a single cause. Even give it most of your energy. Like Adrianna says, please avoid telling anyone else how to be an activist or where they should commit their own energy. That dilutes all of our efforts.
We’re in this together. In solidarity.
Sorry people were up in your grille, @skinnylatte.