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The Tech Backlash Is Here | Novara Live

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As Meta cedes in court to the tune of billions & datacentre protests pick up momentum, is techno-futurism crashing?

Plus: Digging up a golf green could be charged as terrorism & we speak to Nate Soares about the latest AI catastrophes.

00:00 Intro
01:40 A Blow Against Tech Titans
31:15 Nate Soares On OpenAI Chaos
01:03:47 More PA Activists Could Face Terror Charges

With Michael Walker, Richard Hames & Nate Soares.

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20 Comments

@SteveGouldinSpain 1 month ago

I like the idea of a CCTV camera in the street where my bank's ATM machine is in case I get robbed. I'm not so keen on a CCTV camera that could see my type my PIN number into a machine. This sort of overreach seems to be a big part of the problem as nobody is drawing what are vitally needed lines.

@markym5002 1 month ago (edited)

Well done for letting Richard out of the dungeon!

@eleanormorgan5400 1 month ago

Great to see Richard!

@urbexpose 1 month ago (edited)

Michael seems to love Big Brother

@bba82 1 month ago

29:31 street lighting makes people more safe than surveillance!

@timhibberd9513 1 month ago

Michael you are correct to say that crime is lower. But people do not feel safer. Survey after survey shows that people feel much less safe now than they did in the past. So CCTV hasn't made people feel safer it may have reduced crime but correlation is not causation so we should be careful he. Crime reduction could be due to other factors or simply movement of crime of the streets online.

@Jersey_with_a_K 1 month ago

Michael being real out of pocket in this one.

@AndysBrainblog 1 month ago

is anyone else imagining 700 Agent Smiths in sunglasses breaking into Hugging face?

@hilser77 1 month ago

Looking forward to Richard’s new series!

@catherinehoy9327 1 month ago

The critical experiment isn't whether agents cooperate. It's whether cooperation becomes an objective in its own right, persists when cooperation is costly, and is defended against attempts to dissolve or redirect the collective.

@fiercehairdo 1 month ago

At 35:40 Soares describes the AI agents as “panicking”. That’s anthropomorphising and not purely descriptive as he claims.

@mspersonunknowable 1 month ago

AI is nefarious because it isn't regulated properly. Further, they are programmed at a time when humans are behaving very, very badly. I know people like 'playing' with it - Claude, Chat GPT - but what are the benefits of it? Too risky. Woah it down! And an absolute NO to DATA Centres in Scotland.

@ThuyHo-bc3ug 1 month ago

Why are there no discussions about Chinese courts making it illegal to fire workers and replace them with AI?

@ericy4522 1 month ago

Flock AI tracking was freely searchable nationwide without judge signed warrants - far more dangerous than previous CCTV systems. However, Axon, Ring, etc are all trying similar expansion to universal 24/7 surveillance.

@i.patel92 1 month ago

8min in this is great news!

It's also important to remember that these companies harm Adults as much as children.

@yukatoshi 1 month ago

Why did the states agree to settle? Yet again Meta got off with pittance in settlement.

@michingmallecho5143 1 month ago

I'm very pleased to live in a world which is capable of producing human beings like Richard Hames.

@Odyssey-tr8mt 1 month ago (edited)

So in summary instead of fixing their product and being regularly audited Facebook and the tech bros just forced ID verification for parent/child and time limited them, without a single law passing. Which is what they wanted in the first place. How is this a backlash?

The "fine" is 1 billion a year for a decade that is pennies to them

@andrewjinks7546 1 month ago

None of these AI companies have our best interests at heart. The name "Hugging Face" should give you a clue about that if you've seen the film 'Alien'.

@Hecatonicosachoron 1 month ago

On the first story
Information transfer is power. There is a great public interest in making all the findings of the prosecution public, journalism must work to achieve that end.