Government control of information flow, rise of independent media, and AI safety

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• Biden AI executive order directs agencies to develop safety guidelines — The executive order builds on non-binding agreements the White House made with AI companies.
• Eric Geller on X — Developers of any LLMs with the potential to pose serious risks will have to red-team them for safety and security issues—based on standards developed by NIST—and share the results with the government. Biden is using the Defense Production Act for this.
• This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI — The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.
• Hector Martin — This is a lie, and this excuse needs to die. Linux kernel code quality and review is about as bad as you'd expect for a project of that size with a low reviewer:contributor ratio. It is in no way helped by reviewers and maintainers who are "picky" (=assholes).
• Ask the Developer Vol. 11, Super Mario Bros. Wonder — This year marks the 39th year that I've been involved in the development of Mario games.
• Nintendo executives take pay cuts after profits tumble — Nintendo's top executives are taking temporary pay-cuts to atone for a dive in profits following disappointing sales of its Wii U games console.
• Nintendo Is Raising Its Employee Pay By 10% In Japan — Despite a downturn in sales and profits for Nintendo in its third quarter, it's reportedly raising the base salaries of its employees by 10% in its homeland.