Around the same time, Sex Matters, one of the organisations identified in the report, announced publicly that it had challenged Amnesty’s publication and suggested that, had the report remained online, it would have brought defamation proceedings. Amnesty has not said whether its review is connected to that correspondence.
Every investigative journalist and prosecutor nowadays should consider daily-synced end-to-end encrypted uploads of their notes, with a deadman switch that sends it all to multiple escrow people if anything happens to them, so it all get instantly published.
That won't stop the CIA operatives though, which in keeping with the rat-f*cking they have done for decades, will have been residing in the country already for a while.
Agreed. The energy use in training and running, its stochastic nature which causes hallucinations and wrong results, and the deeply harmful long-term psychological effects on users who abdicate their own reasoning to LLMs, is ultimately more harmful than useful. Doesn't matter if the models are 'open weight', OSS, and totally 'free'.
And, please, everyone, stop calling it 'AI'. It's not Intelligent. It's a probabilistic regurgitator. Maybe some (human-written!) reasoning systems on top of that, but it isn't intelligent or sentient.
Nice work! I have an amber VT unit in my storage room.. 220 or 320? It's late, and I'm too lazy to go check. If it ever dies hopefully this will give a hint for diagnosis. I'm almost afraid to go power it on to see...
I wish he'd spent his prime years expanding on the Riddick universe instead of car movies. Meh.
More info:
On the page https://tacc.org.uk/2026/07/13/amnesty-international-uks-anti-rights-report-has-been-withdrawn-for-review-why-it-still-matters/
Wow, the PDF was scrubbed thoroughly from the net. archive.is doesn't have it (just a screenshot of the first page), archive.org has removed it ...
Has anyone managed to find the original PDF elsewhere?
the document was named
"Report_-_A_growing_threat__the_anti-rights_movement_in_the_UK_July_2026.pdf"
EDIT: Found a copy elsewhere. https://wingsoverscotland.com/Report_-_A_growing_threat__the_anti-rights_movement_in_the_UK_July_2026.pdf
I haven't read it yet and thus have no opinions on it. But I object to Orwellian memory-holing, so f*ck censorship.
Came for the comment, was not disappointed
Every investigative journalist and prosecutor nowadays should consider daily-synced end-to-end encrypted uploads of their notes, with a deadman switch that sends it all to multiple escrow people if anything happens to them, so it all get instantly published.
Wow. fuck that guy.
That won't stop the CIA operatives though, which in keeping with the rat-f*cking they have done for decades, will have been residing in the country already for a while.
Hah, no idea... I just grabbed the first/best image link I could find :)
Agreed. The energy use in training and running, its stochastic nature which causes hallucinations and wrong results, and the deeply harmful long-term psychological effects on users who abdicate their own reasoning to LLMs, is ultimately more harmful than useful. Doesn't matter if the models are 'open weight', OSS, and totally 'free'.
And, please, everyone, stop calling it 'AI'. It's not Intelligent. It's a probabilistic regurgitator. Maybe some (human-written!) reasoning systems on top of that, but it isn't intelligent or sentient.
I like the cut of your jib, sir
Enron got nothing on these crooks.
Aiming it anywhere other than on US soil, without permission of the affected nation, should be considered eco-terrorism and an act of war.
Nice work! I have an amber VT unit in my storage room.. 220 or 320? It's late, and I'm too lazy to go check. If it ever dies hopefully this will give a hint for diagnosis. I'm almost afraid to go power it on to see...
Is there a /c/extremelydepressing? This would go perfectly there.
Was hoping to see this, was not disappointed
That's OK, they'll just raise prices more to make up for the falling consumption! /s
Remember, the only two nations to vote against food -- FOOD being a human right at the UN a few years ago were... the USA and Israel.
Yeah, what's the gaping truck-sized loophole no one's reporting on yet?
I haven't watched "The Big Short" in a long time... but aren't BBB- rated things "dogshit wrapped in catshit"?