[nonostantement #360] - digital twin / ai fake alignment / social media & violence

Now with MORE rats trading stocks!

Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with boring, endangered, and heavy stuff found all over the Internet.

Hi there, Joele here - I am back to Barcelona after spending a couple of days in Italy. This is the place where I put the best links I find while wandering online. It all started more than 6 years ago. It is free.

No music this week.

🇮🇹 Italian version (poorly translated by Google)

👉 The nonostantement archive - everything I sent in the past 6 years

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Blue, 2023 - by Dabin Ahn

#PEOPLE

• A Thirty-Year-Old Man Today vs. a Thirty-Year-Old Man in 1884
  Alex Baia presents a humorous list of differences between thirty-year-old men in 1884 and thirty-year-old men 2024.

• Once It Has Been Trained, Who Will Own My Digital Twin?
  Generative AI agents have the possibility to make us more productive, but once trained, who will own and control it?

• The Artist Who Trained Rats to Trade in Foreign-Exchange Markets
  And the people who want to believe in his success

#TECH

• AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment
  This post goes over the important and excellent new paper from Anthropic and Redwood Research, with Ryan Greenblatt as lead author, Alignment Faking in Large Language Models.

• Cyborg cockroach armies can now be mass-produced at a rate of one every 68 seconds
  Roaches are put to sleep and awakened with a cool backpack

#SOCIALMEDIA

• [Video] - mosseri on Instagram:
  "I’m super excited about Movie Gen, our early AI research model that will let you change nearly any aspect of your videos with a simple text prompt. Hoping to bring this to Instagram next year. Let me know what you think.".

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#THEDARKSIDE

• More Men Are Addicted to the ‘Crack Cocaine’ of the Stock Market
  Gamblers Anonymous meetings are filling up with people hooked on trading and betting. Apps make it as easy as ordering takeout.

• Forget Chrome—Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks
  Digital fingerprinting is suddenly back and it will be everywhere—here's what you need to know.

• More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD
  Exclusive: Diagnoses part of lawsuit being brought against parent company Meta and outsourcer Samasource Kenya

• Hashtags and Hit Lists: Social Media’s Role in Justifying Violence
  A new study reveals that shifting attitudes and social media platforms have created a permissive environment where acts of violence are celebrated and emulated.

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