A friend is pissy about Calibre adding A.I. into this ebook manager so they are creating a new fork called Clbre, because the A.I. is being stripped out.

https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

#AI #AISlop #Calibre #eBook #eBookManager

Just reading these stats on #AI data centers and I think it's clear that robots are not taking our jobs, they're busy taking our water and our electricity first.

The rich can’t see how they’re setting themselves up for collapse. Replacing junior roles with #AI means no new senior roles. LLMs can only regurgitate, not innovate. Result: cognitive stagnation.

The only people who learn and innovate will be in the fringes and underground. They will be hard as nails and *smart*.

A friend is pissy about Calibre adding A.I. into this ebook manager so they are creating a new fork called Clbre, because the A.I. is being stripped out.

https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

#AI #AISlop #Calibre #eBook #eBookManager

AI Prompting is almost never a One Shot and you're done. #AI #Prompting

There's a new government of Canada official petition to bring the same rights to likeness that Denmark recently passed to protect people from their body or voice being used by AI without their consent.

If you're Canadian, sign and share!

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7002

#DigitalPrivacy #Privacy #AI #AIethics #CApoli #Canada #CopyrightLaw #Copyright

@stefan Remember that time when the US built all those data centers for AI and then realized that LLMs didn’t work after all?

#llm #futurehistory #ai #repeatinghistory #collapse

There's a new government of Canada official petition to bring the same rights to likeness that Denmark recently passed to protect people from their body or voice being used by AI without their consent.

If you're Canadian, sign and share!

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7002

#DigitalPrivacy #Privacy #AI #AIethics #CApoli #Canada #CopyrightLaw #Copyright

There's a new government of Canada official petition to bring the same rights to likeness that Denmark recently passed to protect people from their body or voice being used by AI without their consent.

If you're Canadian, sign and share!

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7002

#DigitalPrivacy #Privacy #AI #AIethics #CApoli #Canada #CopyrightLaw #Copyright

I heard that #Grok, the X.com #AI, is doxing people so I tried it out.

Grok is still doing this, at least for me. It is using people search websites. The address it has for me is over a decade out of date, fortunately.

You should quit Twitter but the real way to protect yourself from this is to use services like DeleteMe or manually remove yourself from these databases. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-doxxing

#tech #SocialMedia #privacy #ElonMusk #news

I heard that #Grok, the X.com #AI, is doxing people so I tried it out.

Grok is still doing this, at least for me. It is using people search websites. The address it has for me is over a decade out of date, fortunately.

You should quit Twitter but the real way to protect yourself from this is to use services like DeleteMe or manually remove yourself from these databases. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-doxxing

#tech #SocialMedia #privacy #ElonMusk #news

@stefan Cautionary tale for those who wish that #AI will magically vanish.

#google: The AI we are putting into all of our products cannot be trusted, but it also can't be turned off
#microsoft: Windows 11 is now an agentic OS, and what that means is it can install malware

By the way, #AI is the future

Today I found a helper TUI for coding Rust 🦀

🛠️ ploke — Graph-native Rust code analysis in your terminal.

🧠 Understand your project with a fully queryable code graph & context-aware assistant.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/josephleblanc/ploke

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #ai #rag #codeanalysis #devtools #terminal

#EU wants to pump billions into 10 huge #AI data centers, so that "we can catch up with US and China". All purely driven by market forces, "stay competitive", not to provide basic services for its citizens.

The internet still is a Wild West. It's weird how gov dropped the ball in providing us with #infrastructure, where offline they do provide the electrical grid, roads, bridges, etc. in well-organized fashion. Gov should have provided the search infrastructure of the web, in a similar fashion.

Today I found a helper TUI for coding Rust 🦀

🛠️ ploke — Graph-native Rust code analysis in your terminal.

🧠 Understand your project with a fully queryable code graph & context-aware assistant.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/josephleblanc/ploke

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #ai #rag #codeanalysis #devtools #terminal

It's time to add #AI protections to your will - https://mashable.com/article/ai-deepfake-protections-death-will interesting point

Viewing #AI usage as indicator of resource constraints helps me be compassionate with the people who do use it, and focus on the real systemic problem that produce the resource constraints.

There's a new government of Canada official petition to bring the same rights to likeness that Denmark recently passed to protect people from their body or voice being used by AI without their consent.

If you're Canadian, sign and share!

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7002

#DigitalPrivacy #Privacy #AI #AIethics #CApoli #Canada #CopyrightLaw #Copyright

Viewing #AI usage as indicator of resource constraints helps me be compassionate with the people who do use it, and focus on the real systemic problem that produce the resource constraints.

@mcc

Not sure when you've used #AI 👉properly👈.

In my experience the more vocal opponent of AI is the further back in time their (lack of use) goes.
With the most ardent opponents having never used the models, yet having most empathic (and increasingly inaccurate) opinions.

Attached media, a public query from today, with sources dropdown at the bottom.

Approx 30% of web searches comes from the engines nowadays.

(Edit: Hahaha, insta blocked by poster, I guess folks don't like to be called out on saying patent provable falsehoods 🤡

The poster, made a comment exposing their ignorance of features of existing AI. This one has 33,000 followers, question is "How many others like them have zero idea about the systems they critique"?)
#llm #ai #luddites

Other browsers are racing to build AI that controls what you experience online.

We're building a browser that gives YOU control while exploring the web. Simple as that 🤝

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

#artificialIntelligence #AI #LLM #Vivaldi #Browser #Tech #Technology #Software

It's time to add #AI protections to your will - https://mashable.com/article/ai-deepfake-protections-death-will interesting point

Other browsers are racing to build AI that controls what you experience online.

We're building a browser that gives YOU control while exploring the web. Simple as that 🤝

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

#artificialIntelligence #AI #LLM #Vivaldi #Browser #Tech #Technology #Software

Gizmodo: Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-making-war-crimes-constitutional-would-be-good-for-business-2000695162

#AI #warcrimes #Fascism #billionaires

Gizmodo: Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-making-war-crimes-constitutional-would-be-good-for-business-2000695162

#AI #warcrimes #Fascism #billionaires

Gizmodo: Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-making-war-crimes-constitutional-would-be-good-for-business-2000695162

#AI #warcrimes #Fascism #billionaires

Gizmodo: Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-making-war-crimes-constitutional-would-be-good-for-business-2000695162

#AI #warcrimes #Fascism #billionaires

In the early 2000s the ReactOS team paused development for years; to engage in a project wide audit, under accusations that a developer may have SEEN leaked windows sourcecode.

In the 2020s folks keep insisting it's cool for #FLOSS devs to use AI's trained on random other projects to generate code; when it is known that such AI assistants occasionally reproduce code verbatim, without regard to the original software license. #llm #AI #eliza #generativeAI

I am open for part-time work in Conversational #AI and #ML in general. I have worked as Head of AI in Series B startup where I built the entire ML function from the ground up, grew and mentored a world-class team that published in top tier venues while running and maintaining speech-first voicebots at production scale.

Updated my employment page to reflect my experience and ways to work with me: https://lepisma.xyz/wiki/about/employment/

More about me here https://lepisma.xyz/wiki/about/

#FediHire #getfedihired

New 📚 Release! Build Your First LLM: A Hands-On Guide to Language Models — No PhD Required by Hasan Degismez

Learn how large language models really work by building one from scratch. This beginner-friendly, code-along guide walks you from “what is AI?” to a working Transformer-style LLM you understand inside out.

Find it on Leanpub!

Link: https://leanpub.com/FirstLLM

#books #ai #llms #technology

New 📚 Release! Build Your First LLM: A Hands-On Guide to Language Models — No PhD Required by Hasan Degismez

Learn how large language models really work by building one from scratch. This beginner-friendly, code-along guide walks you from “what is AI?” to a working Transformer-style LLM you understand inside out.

Find it on Leanpub!

Link: https://leanpub.com/FirstLLM

#books #ai #llms #technology

I am open for part-time work in Conversational #AI and #ML in general. I have worked as Head of AI in Series B startup where I built the entire ML function from the ground up, grew and mentored a world-class team that published in top tier venues while running and maintaining speech-first voicebots at production scale.

Updated my employment page to reflect my experience and ways to work with me: https://lepisma.xyz/wiki/about/employment/

More about me here https://lepisma.xyz/wiki/about/

#FediHire #getfedihired

The American Prospect: Prices in the Machine

AI’s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, it’s already happening.

https://prospect.org/2025/12/02/prices-in-the-machine-ai/

#AI #LLMs

The American Prospect: Prices in the Machine

AI’s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, it’s already happening.

https://prospect.org/2025/12/02/prices-in-the-machine-ai/

#AI #LLMs

#IBM CEO warns that ongoing trillion-dollar #AI #datacenter buildout is unsustainable — says there is 'no way' that infrastructure costs can turn a profit
#ArvindKrishna said today’s figures for constructing and populating large AI data centers place the industry on a trajectory where roughly $8 trillion of cumulative commitments would require around $800 billion of annual profit simply to service the cost of capital.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ibm-ceo-warns-trillion-dollar-ai-boom-unsustainable-at-current-infrastructure-costs

#IBM CEO warns that ongoing trillion-dollar #AI #datacenter buildout is unsustainable — says there is 'no way' that infrastructure costs can turn a profit
#ArvindKrishna said today’s figures for constructing and populating large AI data centers place the industry on a trajectory where roughly $8 trillion of cumulative commitments would require around $800 billion of annual profit simply to service the cost of capital.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ibm-ceo-warns-trillion-dollar-ai-boom-unsustainable-at-current-infrastructure-costs

We tried using AI for our release blog post. It saved 10 mins. Was it worth it?

No. One of our core team members explained why in on our blog.

#AI #Wagtail #Django #OpenSource #Content

https://wagtail.org/blog/ai-saved-me-10-minutes-on-a-blog-post-was-it-worth-it/

Readings shared December 2, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/12/03-readings_shared_12-02-25 #AI #CoqProver #ITP #IsabelleHOL #LLMs #LeanProver #Math #Rocq

There's now an AI warning notice browser plugin for itch.io as well as Steam https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/theres-now-an-ai-warning-notice-browser-plugin-for-itch-io-as-well-as-steam/

#AI #itch #GenerativeAI

基本クリスチャンでもなんでもないので、クリスマスを「お祝い」することはしないのだけど、AI に自前のクリスマスカードを作らせるのってどのくらい簡単なのかな、と思って ChatGPT に試しにやらせてみたら、一発でこんなのが出てきた。「高解像度の写真チックな冬景色のシンガポールを背景に、前面にクラシックなクリスマスツリー、文面は Merry Christmas 2025 で」と英語で指示したもの。 この程度のプロンプトでこれだけ弾き出せれたら、まぁ悪くないか。#AI

The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI

𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘓𝘦𝘔𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/people-outsourcing-their-thinking-ai/685093/

Version without paywall:

https://archive.is/oHoVO

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude

iNaturalist Enshittification Update:

So you know the Q&A they promised to host about their Generative AI project back on (checks notes) June 11, 2025? Well it is finally scheduled! I got the email for it (because it was a form sign up, unlinked to iNat account, yes my iNat account is deleted).

They managed to *completely* avoid using the term "AI" in the entire email. They announced it as, "Register now: Scaling Identification Expertise webinar". They are desperately trying to rebrand this, do not fall for it. (Update: they finally had to in the webinar, they confirmed they are using Gemini but only in the chat window, never spoken about so it might not even been recorded? https://scicomm.xyz/@astrodisastro/115656803556190100 and https://biodiversity.social/@ClimateJenny/115656989250805843)

Furthermore, the webinar is tomorrow, and it's not a Q&A, and it sounds like the demo is ready to go. I have friends still on iNat and it sounds like there is no notice of Generative AI scraping comments, or opting in (or out of) such projects. This leads me to think that they are just going to scrape the entire site, considering their refusal over the past SIX MONTHS to even promise us this much - that our content won't be scrapped without our opting in to the program. Considering this, I wonder if your stuff is being scrapped as I write this, if you still use iNat (conjecture, yes, but a very real and legitimate one).

I also love how they cherrypicked two users who are full on board with GenAI as their "user experts".

I am laughing at their attempts to reframe this, because they *know* they had to lock the blog posts about this because hundreds of users were overruning it with their dismay. They *know* GenAI is not liked in the iNaturalist community at large.

I hereby announce that instead of my usual Karstmas postings for December, I will be instead posting things for #DivestDecember and encourage other people to join me in creating this hashtag! What is it for? Anything that helps people move away from harmful companies, corporations, AI, GenAI, and whatever other monopolistic and/or silicon valley type stuff you can think of!

My own posts will be focused on other ways to improve your identification skills and naturalist skills. I won't be able to post every day, but hopefully you can at least follow that hashtag for tips. It is also my hope that it will take off and others with their own areas of expertise can share their knowledge of how to get away from these harmful systems, or at least, decrease our use of them. Some examples:
- How to install / use LibreOffice
- Which grocery stores are employee-owned
- Amazon alternatives
- Writing help without relying on chatGTP for those who struggle with grammar
And anything else you can think of! It is my vision that this hashtag will be either simple and easy tips, or, well-written step by step foolproof as many things I see are written assuming lots of prior knowledge of the topic.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write in an accessible way.

#iNat #AI #GenAI #enshittification #nature #science #iNaturalist #naturalist #biology #ecology

#Syntax #hacking : Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass #AI safety rules

Researchers from #MIT , #Northeastern University, & #Meta recently released a paper suggesting that #LLMs similar to those that power #ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence structure over meaning when answering questions. The findings reveal a weakness in how these models process instructions that may shed light on why some prompt injection or #jailbreaking approaches work
#llm

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/syntax-hacking-researchers-discover-sentence-structure-can-bypass-ai-safety-rules/

#Syntax #hacking : Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass #AI safety rules

Researchers from #MIT , #Northeastern University, & #Meta recently released a paper suggesting that #LLMs similar to those that power #ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence structure over meaning when answering questions. The findings reveal a weakness in how these models process instructions that may shed light on why some prompt injection or #jailbreaking approaches work
#llm

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/syntax-hacking-researchers-discover-sentence-structure-can-bypass-ai-safety-rules/

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/115049621717082376

Looking to escape the whole AI browser trend? Switching is still surprisingly simple 🤷‍♀️

#AI #Tech #Apps #Technology #Vivaldi #Browser

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/115049621717082376

Looking to escape the whole AI browser trend? Switching is still surprisingly simple 🤷‍♀️

#AI #Tech #Apps #Technology #Vivaldi #Browser

Another Police Use of AI

“ #DraftOne ” product, which uses body camera recordings to generate a 1st draft of a police report for officers after an incident…has another #AI product called “ #PolicyChat ” that I haven’t seen much discussion of.

The product uses large language models ( #LLMs ), combined with an AI technique called Retrieval-Augmented Generations, or #RAG , to provide officers in the field answers about their department’s official procedures & policies.

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/ai-policy-guidance-police

Another Police Use of AI

“ #DraftOne ” product, which uses body camera recordings to generate a 1st draft of a police report for officers after an incident…has another #AI product called “ #PolicyChat ” that I haven’t seen much discussion of.

The product uses large language models ( #LLMs ), combined with an AI technique called Retrieval-Augmented Generations, or #RAG , to provide officers in the field answers about their department’s official procedures & policies.

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/ai-policy-guidance-police

The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI

𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘓𝘦𝘔𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/people-outsourcing-their-thinking-ai/685093/

Version without paywall:

https://archive.is/oHoVO

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude

In the CeCaS project, scientists and automotive partners are developing a centralized architecture for future #software-controlled #autonomousvehicles to make them as safe, affordable, and competitive as possible: http://go.tum.de/615739

#robotics #AI

📷besser 3

"The question isn’t whether the current AI investment cycle will face a reckoning. It’s what form that reckoning takes — and what comes after." #AI https://werd.io/what-happens-after-the-hype-lessons-from-mobile-internets-long-road-to-success/

"The question isn’t whether the current AI investment cycle will face a reckoning. It’s what form that reckoning takes — and what comes after." #AI https://werd.io/what-happens-after-the-hype-lessons-from-mobile-internets-long-road-to-success/

In 2024, John Jumper and Demis Hassabis from Google DeepMind received half of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on using artificial intelligence to predict the structures of proteins. Five years ago, their AI system AlphaFold2 had cracked a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology.

What impact has AlphaFold really hold? How are scientists using it? And what's next?

Find out in MIT Tech Review's conversation with Jumper: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/24/1128322/whats-next-for-alphafold-a-conversation-with-a-google-deepmind-nobel-laureate/
#TechNews #AI #NobelPrize #computing

#hillwalking #climbing #mountaineering #scotland Bad #AI route advice

It seems like most every other browser is all in on AI. We have chosen a different path at @Vivaldi

If you would prefer AI not to be integrated into your browser, but still like a feature rich browser, I welcome you to try Vivaldi.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

#vivaldi #AI #LLM #browser #firefox #Mozilla #Linux #windows #Macos

In the CeCaS project, scientists and automotive partners are developing a centralized architecture for future #software-controlled #autonomousvehicles to make them as safe, affordable, and competitive as possible: http://go.tum.de/615739

#robotics #AI

📷besser 3

@robpike @timbray @ElleGray

Here are some other acronym preserving alternatives to annoy your GPT brained colleagues:

- Artificially Inferior
- Artificial Inferiority
- Artificially Insipid
- Artificial Insipidness
- Artificial Insipidity
- Artificially Inane
- Artificial Inaneness

#ai #artificialIntelligence #brainrot

It seems like most every other browser is all in on AI. We have chosen a different path at @Vivaldi

If you would prefer AI not to be integrated into your browser, but still like a feature rich browser, I welcome you to try Vivaldi.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

#vivaldi #AI #LLM #browser #firefox #Mozilla #Linux #windows #Macos

It seems like most every other browser is all in on AI. We have chosen a different path at @Vivaldi

If you would prefer AI not to be integrated into your browser, but still like a feature rich browser, I welcome you to try Vivaldi.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

#vivaldi #AI #LLM #browser #firefox #Mozilla #Linux #windows #Macos

It seems like most every other browser is all in on AI. We have chosen a different path at @Vivaldi

If you would prefer AI not to be integrated into your browser, but still like a feature rich browser, I welcome you to try Vivaldi.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

#vivaldi #AI #LLM #browser #firefox #Mozilla #Linux #windows #Macos

It seems like most every other browser is all in on AI. We have chosen a different path at @Vivaldi

If you would prefer AI not to be integrated into your browser, but still like a feature rich browser, I welcome you to try Vivaldi.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

#vivaldi #AI #LLM #browser #firefox #Mozilla #Linux #windows #Macos

It seems like most every other browser is all in on AI. We have chosen a different path at @Vivaldi

If you would prefer AI not to be integrated into your browser, but still like a feature rich browser, I welcome you to try Vivaldi.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

#vivaldi #AI #LLM #browser #firefox #Mozilla #Linux #windows #Macos

Another Democrat winning with an unconventional campaign, this one focusing on data centers in Virginia.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/30/virginia-democrat-state-legislature-datacenters

McAuliff endeavored to focus on the datacenters because he viewed their impact as “the most salient issue we were dealing with that we could actually solve”. The idea made the consultants he was working with raise their eyebrows, and McAuliff acknowledged it’s “a fairly niche” topic, but datacenters were the issue he heard the most about when door knocking.

The NYT also has an article on the same topic, looking beyond Virginia. Gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/politics/data-centers-electric-bills-georgia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E8.j574.yx4epJn92XlL&smid=bs-share

h/t @Lyle

#Virginia #AI #DataCenters #uspol

https://technical.ly/civics/philadelphia-ai-rules-small-business-impact/

I fear that Philly gov't is going to muck this up.

#Philly #AI #Philadelphia #regulation

John Naughton stresses we should never forget that the development of Artificial Intelligence (so-called), has involved 'possible by the largest case of corporate theft in history.. [Big tech] was content just to mine our time & attention, but now it has moved on to appropriating the intellectual property of creative artists on a global scale'!

The theft of copyright(s) has a long history, but normally its been stolen *from* corporations, not *by* them!

#copyright #AI
https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/paul-mccartneys-silent-song-tells-us-musicians-must-come-together-to-fight-the-ai-looters

"Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea."

https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

#tech #technology #BigTech #space #satellites #data #server #computing #CloudComputing #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #OpenAI #ChatGPT

John Naughton stresses we should never forget that the development of Artificial Intelligence (so-called), has involved 'possible by the largest case of corporate theft in history.. [Big tech] was content just to mine our time & attention, but now it has moved on to appropriating the intellectual property of creative artists on a global scale'!

The theft of copyright(s) has a long history, but normally its been stolen *from* corporations, not *by* them!

#copyright #AI
https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/paul-mccartneys-silent-song-tells-us-musicians-must-come-together-to-fight-the-ai-looters

"Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea."

https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

#tech #technology #BigTech #space #satellites #data #server #computing #CloudComputing #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #OpenAI #ChatGPT

Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/

#news #tech #technology #AI #deepseek #openai #chatgpt

Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/

#news #tech #technology #AI #deepseek #openai #chatgpt

The 5th Workshop on Mathematical Reasoning and AI at NeurIPS 2025. https://openreview.net/group?id=NeurIPS.cc/2025/Workshop/MATH-AI #AI #Math

"I'm an average user, so I don't need all the options and apps the programme has to offer. But, to be honest, #Microsoft is making it increasingly attractive to switch. Now that the company is putting #AI in everything, everything is becoming more annoying to use."

Can Dutch #universities do without Microsoft?
https://dub.uu.nl/en/news/can-dutch-universities-do-without-microsoft

IMO, it's never been easier to switch away from the problematic players because we've got so many alternatives that got much better over time whereas Microsoft and others are practicing #enshittification.

We've done it before. Somehow, we found that giving away knowledge and control to use the #cloud was a good idea. It never was because we've lost so much competence we now need to ramp up very quickly.

#Windows #Teams #SharePoint #digitalsovereignty #EU #FOSS

Dear God what is this book?

#ai #genai #kidsbooks

Dear God what is this book?

#ai #genai #kidsbooks

After seeing some #AI #privacy posts about #ChatGPT claiming to not be able to see your location, IP, or anything I decided to test it.

With no account or history, I asked it a few questions, and sure enough, it not only knows exactly where I am but is gaslighting me into thinking it was pure coincidence.

A friend followed the same instructions and got the same results in his location as well.

Yikes.

#ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI

After seeing some #AI #privacy posts about #ChatGPT claiming to not be able to see your location, IP, or anything I decided to test it.

With no account or history, I asked it a few questions, and sure enough, it not only knows exactly where I am but is gaslighting me into thinking it was pure coincidence.

A friend followed the same instructions and got the same results in his location as well.

Yikes.

#ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI

"I'm an average user, so I don't need all the options and apps the programme has to offer. But, to be honest, #Microsoft is making it increasingly attractive to switch. Now that the company is putting #AI in everything, everything is becoming more annoying to use."

Can Dutch #universities do without Microsoft?
https://dub.uu.nl/en/news/can-dutch-universities-do-without-microsoft

IMO, it's never been easier to switch away from the problematic players because we've got so many alternatives that got much better over time whereas Microsoft and others are practicing #enshittification.

We've done it before. Somehow, we found that giving away knowledge and control to use the #cloud was a good idea. It never was because we've lost so much competence we now need to ramp up very quickly.

#Windows #Teams #SharePoint #digitalsovereignty #EU #FOSS

Part II of you won't believe since when AI dweebs have made ridiculous predictions

Take a guess when this was said! (Solution in reply)
#ai

Part II of you won't believe since when AI dweebs have made ridiculous predictions

Take a guess when this was said! (Solution in reply)
#ai

Readings shared November 27, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/11/28-readings_shared_11-27-25 #AI #FunctionalProgramming #Haskell #ITP #LeanProver #Math

Hi @festal,
obviously the human-created, trivial http://mro.name/o/clock.svg can keep up. #AI #clock

Tech giants are building loads of hyperscale data centers to power generative AI. What happened to their climate pledges?

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @ketan to discuss the greenwashing of data centers and how they’re driving fossil fuel demand.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/304_data_centers_are_a_climate_enemy_w_ketan_joshi

#tech #climate #datacenters #ai #generativeai #climatechange

A relativizing article regarding the "AGI" hype…

https://medium.com/@anwarzaid76/agi-is-not-possible-even-in-10-years-013a1aec0d9c

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #OpenAI #ChatGPT #AGI

A relativizing article regarding the "AGI" hype…

https://medium.com/@anwarzaid76/agi-is-not-possible-even-in-10-years-013a1aec0d9c

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #OpenAI #ChatGPT #AGI

Tech giants are building loads of hyperscale data centers to power generative AI. What happened to their climate pledges?

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @ketan to discuss the greenwashing of data centers and how they’re driving fossil fuel demand.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/304_data_centers_are_a_climate_enemy_w_ketan_joshi

#tech #climate #datacenters #ai #generativeai #climatechange

Mathematics: the rise of the machines. ~ Yang-Hui He. https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17203v1 #AI #ITP #Math

You probably shouldn't block AI bots from your website

Excellent blog post from @algernon

These bastards are killing the open web, moving us backwards by making it even harder to self-host anything, driving us towards centralization, which is the exact opposite of progress.

They steal and plunder, and make the life of everyone outside the billionaire / fascist class miserable. That is not progress.

Companies keep firing people “because AI will take over their jobs”, only to re-hire them at lower wage, because the AI absolutely can’t. This is not progress.

It’s being pushed and forced on us. That is not progress.

And the bit about winners and losers? The fucking bubble is bursting. Who the fuck do you think will win? The billionaires and fascists.

...

Oh, please. Cryptocurrency was inevitable. NFTs were inevitable. Web3 was inevitable. Fascism was inevitable. Gun deaths are inevitable. Now AI is inevitable.

https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/you-probably-shouldnt-block-ai-bots-from-your-website/

Beyond iocaine and for those interested in exploring related tools and frameworks, I recommend the compilation curated by @asrg: Sabot in the Age of AI.

#AI

Introducing Slop Detective!

Interactive game where you'll become fraud investigators, learning to spot AI-generated fakes and improve fact-checking skills.

Perfect for kids learning to investigate suspicious stories, images, and audio clips:

https://slopdetective.kagi.com/

Available as apps as well!

- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/slop-detective/id6752807487
- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kagi.slopdetective

#Kagi #AISlop #AI #Apps

Introducing Slop Detective!

Interactive game where you'll become fraud investigators, learning to spot AI-generated fakes and improve fact-checking skills.

Perfect for kids learning to investigate suspicious stories, images, and audio clips:

https://slopdetective.kagi.com/

Available as apps as well!

- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/slop-detective/id6752807487
- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kagi.slopdetective

#Kagi #AISlop #AI #Apps

I keep a few post-its on my monitor to remind me of important things. The first one has been there for years, but my job has been pushing hard for everyone to use #AI for everything. That called for an update.

You probably shouldn't block AI bots from your website

Excellent blog post from @algernon

These bastards are killing the open web, moving us backwards by making it even harder to self-host anything, driving us towards centralization, which is the exact opposite of progress.

They steal and plunder, and make the life of everyone outside the billionaire / fascist class miserable. That is not progress.

Companies keep firing people “because AI will take over their jobs”, only to re-hire them at lower wage, because the AI absolutely can’t. This is not progress.

It’s being pushed and forced on us. That is not progress.

And the bit about winners and losers? The fucking bubble is bursting. Who the fuck do you think will win? The billionaires and fascists.

...

Oh, please. Cryptocurrency was inevitable. NFTs were inevitable. Web3 was inevitable. Fascism was inevitable. Gun deaths are inevitable. Now AI is inevitable.

https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/you-probably-shouldnt-block-ai-bots-from-your-website/

Beyond iocaine and for those interested in exploring related tools and frameworks, I recommend the compilation curated by @asrg: Sabot in the Age of AI.

#AI

Readings shared November 25, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/11/26-readings_shared_11-25-25 #AI #FunctionalProgramming #Haskell #ITP #IsabelleHOL #LLMs #LeanProver #Math #Programming #Rocq

“As we consider these three risks, we don’t have to speculate about how AI data centers might affect Massachusetts. Consider Ireland, a country with a similar population size, where AI has driven a data center boom. Warehouses full of servers are on pace to use one-third of Ireland’s electricity, drawing from fossil-fuel power plants and wind farms alike. That keeps old, dirty plants on the grid, sucks up renewable energy that otherwise would help replace fossil fuels, and drives up costs for everyone. The Irish pay among Europe’s highest electric bills.”

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/the-dark-side-of-ai-climate-chaos-pollution-and-injustice/

#Ireland #AI #EU #winning

U.S. stocks closed higher as major indices rebounded on AI optimism, with Nvidia the sole decliner among tech giants after Meta considered Google’s TPU chips, fueling sector rotation and boosting rate cut expectations.
#YonhapInfomax #Nvidia #MetaPlatforms #AI #FederalReserve #DowJonesIndustrialAverage #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=92471

U.S. stocks closed higher as major indices rebounded on AI optimism, with Nvidia the sole decliner among tech giants after Meta considered Google’s TPU chips, fueling sector rotation and boosting rate cut expectations.
#YonhapInfomax #Nvidia #MetaPlatforms #AI #FederalReserve #DowJonesIndustrialAverage #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=92471

AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here's why that's happening and what can be done about it.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/the-ai-invasion-of-knitting-and-crochet/

#AI #Knitting #Crochet #FiberArt #Copyright

AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here's why that's happening and what can be done about it.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/the-ai-invasion-of-knitting-and-crochet/

#AI #Knitting #Crochet #FiberArt #Copyright

Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.

Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.

Has anyone coined the phrase Aislop’s Fables for LLM lies yet? If not, I am. #ai #aislop #enshittification

Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.

@uberprutser @EUCommission

You want simplicity? How about this simple solution: you 100% absolutely and fully prohibit any citizen's private data being fed to any #AI whatsoever under any circumstances. Can't get much simpler, no?

Can we put it on referendum to see which percentage of #EU citizens would prefer that form of simplicity over your idea of "let's simply abolish last remains of privacy rights EU citizens still have so greedy companies will be able to bribe us better"?

MiniF2F in Rocq: Automatic translation between proof assistants (A case study). ~ Jules Viennot, Guillaume Baudart, Emilio Jesùs Gallego Arias, Marc Lelarge. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04763 #AI #Math #ITP #Rocq #LeanProver #IsabelleHOL #LLMs

"History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans, ranging from ostracism to death. Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so."

Will Teague on #AI (#GenAI / #ChatGPT) and #history education.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540

#HigherEd

the more of them i encounter the more i am convinced that #AI company logos are indeed all buttholes

https://youtu.be/yftBiNu0ZNU?si=iErWXHg2Wdt26l0I

Language models, the type of AI that produces language and simulates its interactions, with apparent knowledge, have no worldview, no empathy, and no concept of empathy. Language models produce language, and that's it.

I've mentioned it here before and I'll repeat it over and over: NEVER get health nor medical advice from GenAI. It has no problem trying to kill you.

#AI #LLM #LanguageModels #LargeLanguageModels #ChatGPT #LLMsAreNotIntelligent

https://youtu.be/yftBiNu0ZNU?si=iErWXHg2Wdt26l0I

Language models, the type of AI that produces language and simulates its interactions, with apparent knowledge, have no worldview, no empathy, and no concept of empathy. Language models produce language, and that's it.

I've mentioned it here before and I'll repeat it over and over: NEVER get health nor medical advice from GenAI. It has no problem trying to kill you.

#AI #LLM #LanguageModels #LargeLanguageModels #ChatGPT #LLMsAreNotIntelligent

AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here's why that's happening and what can be done about it.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/the-ai-invasion-of-knitting-and-crochet/

#AI #Knitting #Crochet #FiberArt #Copyright

Good post. That poetry-vs-AI paper is marketing.

#ai

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/dont-cite-the-adversarial-poetry-vs-ai-paper-its-chatbot-made-marketing-science/

Good post. That poetry-vs-AI paper is marketing.

#ai

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/dont-cite-the-adversarial-poetry-vs-ai-paper-its-chatbot-made-marketing-science/

How to detect AI videos:

1. Genuine videos contain crisp branding and intelligible text; check all corners for AI logos.
2. 480p is suspicious when new devices produce HD/4K by default; shadows shouldn't contain noise or banding; also check for anomalies in hands and feet.
3. Audio shouldn’t feel low-quality and the speaking shouldn’t feel rushed or crowded.
4. The absence of camera model in the file properties is suspicious.
5. Verify all out-of-character statements!

#ai #video #socialmedia

AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here's why that's happening and what can be done about it.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/the-ai-invasion-of-knitting-and-crochet/

#AI #Knitting #Crochet #FiberArt #Copyright

#AI is bad actually and you're a bad person for pushing it. And you should feel bad. But I know you won't. Because you don't have a soul. Just like your AI "art"

I said what I said mutherbritches.

Every company with AI.

Courtesy of Eleanor Morton, comedian.

#EleanorMorton #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #funny #humour #NonFiction

Readings shared November 23, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/11/24-readings_shared_11-23-25 #AI #Agda #AlphaProof #FunctionalProgramming #ITP #IsabelleHOL #LLMs #LeanProver #Math #OCaml #Rocq

Two interesting articles about the dubious financials of OpenAI and the recent NVIDIA earnings report (which regardless of positive outcome triggered a sell-off):

The Structural Collapse: How Google’s Integrated Stack Is Dismantling the OpenAI Thesis
https://shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/the-structural-collapse-how-googles

The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
https://substack.com/inbox/post/179453867

(h/t @jens)

#AI #Finance #NVIDIA

#Development #Analyses
Why is CSS so tough for AI? · The reason Tailwind CSS is more AI-friendly https://ilo.im/168axz

_____
#Programming #Coding #VibeCoding #AI #Context #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #CSS #TailwindCSS

@dansup

Looks fab!

Concerned #accessibility comes after all being worked on now.

I ❤️ #monetization options are planned. Concerned "ad free" options imply ads are planned as part of the roadmap?

Absence of #AI is refreshing!

Is #UnifiedPush part of "push notifications", or just feeding everything via #Google / #Apple? (cue usual: "They're encrypted. Don't ask whether metasdata / future decryption / #MobileLinux matter" discussion)

Project Moebius (#decentalized?), better editing & live streaming look super cool! ❤️

Finally, a regular reminder to please avoid creating a digital 1% elite by focusing "For you" on relevance not rolling-snowball-boosting of already popular accounts/content.

Thanks for all your amazing hard work! 💕 You ROCK!

#Loops #Privacy #Foss #OpenSource #Fediverse

Profound read on AI use and the influence on students.

"Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540

#AI #teaching #academicChatter #academia

Yes, but have you considered the possibility that AI might become self-aware and enslave the human race? Or possibly come up with the solution to the climate emergency *and* the cure for cancer?

#ai

@Codeberg my problem ain't #scrapers - otherwise I'd #SelfHost my stuff in my own home LAN - but rather #bots flooding #Issues and #PullRequests with garbage.

• Cuz I do expect #bots to scrape #FLOSS which I permissively licensed...

The problem I dread is once people start abusing their "#AI"#bullshit and #FloodTheZoneWithShit aka. "#AIslop" for no good reason.

• Kinda like @bagder had to deal with "AI" slop #SecurityReports that didn't even try to show #ProofOfConcept or actually evidence their claims in a scientifically reproduceable fashion but merely wasted lifetime of maintainers!

And @Erpel 's original issue is just that: #spam in the #IssueTracker...

Yes, but have you considered the possibility that AI might become self-aware and enslave the human race? Or possibly come up with the solution to the climate emergency *and* the cure for cancer?

#ai

Oh dear.

#AI #language #linguistics #meme

I’m curious about why some people seem more susceptible to AI addiction than others.

I had one “conversation” with Claude about music, and was actually pretty amazed … I even shared it with a few people.

But after a day or two went by, the level of sycophancy it displayed repelled me; I haven’t touched it since.

This was half a year ago, and I can’t imagine using it for my own writing. I consciously avoid it.

So how do people get stuck using it? Poor writing skills?

#AI #chatgpt #addiction

Two interesting articles about the dubious financials of OpenAI and the recent NVIDIA earnings report (which regardless of positive outcome triggered a sell-off):

The Structural Collapse: How Google’s Integrated Stack Is Dismantling the OpenAI Thesis
https://shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/the-structural-collapse-how-googles

The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
https://substack.com/inbox/post/179453867

(h/t @jens)

#AI #Finance #NVIDIA

"The short version is that YouTube used AI to 'enhance' the videos of Rick Beato and Rhett Shull. YouTube used an AI smoothing filter that made the videos look like they were AI generated, and didn’t tell Beato, Shull, or their viewers that they were doing it. They only admitted to it after the two made videos proving it happened, later claiming it was only a 'limited test'.”

@joshsjunkdrawer, 2025

https://joshgriffiths.site/youtube-is-awful-im-not-posting-there-anymore/

(1/2)

#YouTube #MOLE #AI #enshittification

Profound read on AI use and the influence on students.

"Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540

#AI #teaching #academicChatter #academia

Profound read on AI use and the influence on students.

"Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540

#AI #teaching #academicChatter #academia

@Erpel because the spammers are assholes?

• I wished @Codeberg had some #AI #bot / #blocklist feature to flatout block #spammers and #bots cuz given the fact that #GitHub refuses to allow blocking #Copilot, this may be the straw to move the projects over there if I can't be assed to #SelfHost and merely abude GitHub as a #CDN!

• Which I certainly would intent…

I'm really appreciating Audrey Watters' writing on refusing and stopping #AI nonsense. https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-right-to-say-no/

So the AI "boom" is apparently a type of bubble where everyone is desperately trying to build more bubble. Companies are spending hundreds of billions because they can't possibly build data centers fast enough to meet the "demand" they themselves are creating. It's a beautifully circular, and terrifyingly expensive, delusion.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/google-tells-employees-it-must-double-capacity-every-6-months-to-meet-ai-demand

#usa #economy #ai #bubble #technology

So the AI "boom" is apparently a type of bubble where everyone is desperately trying to build more bubble. Companies are spending hundreds of billions because they can't possibly build data centers fast enough to meet the "demand" they themselves are creating. It's a beautifully circular, and terrifyingly expensive, delusion.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/google-tells-employees-it-must-double-capacity-every-6-months-to-meet-ai-demand

#usa #economy #ai #bubble #technology

Ideal behaviour, pleasing the hiring AI
by Andreas Zingerle and Linda Kronman

https://neural.it/2025/11/ideal-behaviour-pleasing-the-hiring-ai/

#idealbehaviour
#artreview #neuralmag #neuralmagazine
#AI #AIart #aiartist #newmediaart
#artandtechnology #digitalart

#bubblewatch weekend notes:

Hahaha! 'Digital Lettuce'! Hahahahahaha!

> Top Economist Warns That #AI Data Center Investments Are “Digital Lettuce” That’s Already Starting to Wilt. "You’re investing in something that is a perishable good." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economist-ai-investments-digital-lettuce

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You know things are getting weird when there's something those two can agree on.

> From Steve Bannon to Elizabeth Warren, bipartisan backlash erupts over push to block states from regulating AI. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/steve-bannon-elizabeth-warren-bipartisan-backlash-erupts-push-block-st-rcna245040

Something Disturbing Happens When You “Learn” Something With ChatGPT

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/learning-with-chatgpt-disturbing

#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #llm #chatbot #education #learning

Ideal behaviour, pleasing the hiring AI
by Andreas Zingerle and Linda Kronman

https://neural.it/2025/11/ideal-behaviour-pleasing-the-hiring-ai/

#idealbehaviour
#artreview #neuralmag #neuralmagazine
#AI #AIart #aiartist #newmediaart
#artandtechnology #digitalart

So I've been fucking around, testing Google's purity filters some more—seeing what it rejects, what it accepts, and what changes it makes without instruction.

In every case, if I give it a photo with much skin showing, it rejects it.

If I give it a photo with underwear or lingerie showing, it tends to cover me up more (i.e. it zips up jeans, buttons up shirts, makes fishnets opaque, etc).

It almost always makes me look less like a tomboy. Often enlarging breasts (even while hiding them away).

This time it accepted four photos (out of well over a dozen submitted), from three different photoshoots—two with face covered and two with face showing (which is the closest I've done to a face reveal now, I guess 😋). *more details in alt-text.

Conclusion: Google has baked a technology into its default Android photo gallery that (surprise) reinforces unrealistic ideals of beauty while simultaneously treating feminine bodies as inherently sexual and in need of censoring.

Follow-up: I'd like to see folx with other body types, gender presentations, and styles, test the edges of what Google Photos "Remix" and "AI Enhance" features will accept, and what un-requested changes it makes to those images. Does it censor topless men? Does it lean into racist stereotypes? Does it make thinner femme folx more curvy? Does it make curvier folx thinner?

If this tech is going to be crammed into everything, where kids, friends, and corporations are going to be using it, we should understand the potential psychological effects and built-in biases we're likely to encounter with increasing frequency.

#AlicePics #AI #ForcedPurity #Testing

@dansup on #ai .. more enjoyable content can be found in this fab podcast of #CoSocial member @awsamuel grappling with the power of AI (and its ethical & social implications).. part documentary, part #musicaltheater ...
https://www.tvo.org/podcasts/me-plus-viv

great for the next roadtrip with your guy (who i cannot find to tag here)

"Today’s eye-popping AI valuations are partly based on the assumption that LLMs are the main game in town — and can only be exploited by the current capex and capital-heavy approach that Big Tech is unleashing.

But when the Chinese company DeepSeek released its models earlier this year, it showed there are ways to build cheaper, scaled-down variants of AI, raising the prospect that LLMs will become commoditised. And LeCun is not the only player who thinks current LLMs might be supplanted.

The tech behemoth IBM says it is developing variants of so-called neuro-symbolic AI. “By augmenting and combining the strengths of statistical AI, like machine learning, with the capabilities of humanlike symbolic knowledge and reasoning, we’re aiming to create a revolution in AI, rather than an evolution,” it explains.

Chinese and western researchers are also exploring variants of neuro-symbolic AI while Fei-Fei Li, the so-called “Godmother of AI”, is developing a world model version called “spatial intelligence”.

None of these alternatives seems ready to fly right now; indeed LeCun acknowledges huge practical impediments to his dream. But if they do ever work, it would raise many questions."

https://www.ft.com/content/e05dc217-40f8-427f-88dc-7548d0211b99

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #NeuroSymbolicAI #WorldModels

"European Digital Rights (EDRi), a pan-European network of NGOs, described the plans as “a major rollback of EU digital protections” that risked dismantling “the very foundations of human rights and tech policy in the EU”.

In particular, it said that changes to GDPR would allow “the unchecked use of people’s most intimate data for training AI systems” and that a wide range of exemptions proposed to online privacy rules would mean businesses would be able to read data on phones and browsers without asking.

European business groups welcomed the proposals but said they did not go far enough. A representative from the Computer and Communications Industry Association, whose members include Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta, said: “Efforts to simplify digital and tech rules cannot stop here.” The CCIA urged “a more ambitious, all-encompassing review of the EU’s entire digital rulebook”.

Critics of the shake-up included the EU’s former commissioner for enterprise, Thierry Breton, who wrote in the Guardian that Europe should resist attempts to unravel its digital rulebook “under the pretext of simplification or remedying an alleged ‘anti-innovation’ bias. No one is fooled over the transatlantic origin of these attempts.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/19/european-commission-accused-of-massive-rollback-of-digital-protections

#EU #EC #DigitalOmnibus #GDPR #WebCookies #DataProtection #AI #AIAct

"European Digital Rights (EDRi), a pan-European network of NGOs, described the plans as “a major rollback of EU digital protections” that risked dismantling “the very foundations of human rights and tech policy in the EU”.

In particular, it said that changes to GDPR would allow “the unchecked use of people’s most intimate data for training AI systems” and that a wide range of exemptions proposed to online privacy rules would mean businesses would be able to read data on phones and browsers without asking.

European business groups welcomed the proposals but said they did not go far enough. A representative from the Computer and Communications Industry Association, whose members include Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta, said: “Efforts to simplify digital and tech rules cannot stop here.” The CCIA urged “a more ambitious, all-encompassing review of the EU’s entire digital rulebook”.

Critics of the shake-up included the EU’s former commissioner for enterprise, Thierry Breton, who wrote in the Guardian that Europe should resist attempts to unravel its digital rulebook “under the pretext of simplification or remedying an alleged ‘anti-innovation’ bias. No one is fooled over the transatlantic origin of these attempts.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/19/european-commission-accused-of-massive-rollback-of-digital-protections

#EU #EC #DigitalOmnibus #GDPR #WebCookies #DataProtection #AI #AIAct

"Today’s eye-popping AI valuations are partly based on the assumption that LLMs are the main game in town — and can only be exploited by the current capex and capital-heavy approach that Big Tech is unleashing.

But when the Chinese company DeepSeek released its models earlier this year, it showed there are ways to build cheaper, scaled-down variants of AI, raising the prospect that LLMs will become commoditised. And LeCun is not the only player who thinks current LLMs might be supplanted.

The tech behemoth IBM says it is developing variants of so-called neuro-symbolic AI. “By augmenting and combining the strengths of statistical AI, like machine learning, with the capabilities of humanlike symbolic knowledge and reasoning, we’re aiming to create a revolution in AI, rather than an evolution,” it explains.

Chinese and western researchers are also exploring variants of neuro-symbolic AI while Fei-Fei Li, the so-called “Godmother of AI”, is developing a world model version called “spatial intelligence”.

None of these alternatives seems ready to fly right now; indeed LeCun acknowledges huge practical impediments to his dream. But if they do ever work, it would raise many questions."

https://www.ft.com/content/e05dc217-40f8-427f-88dc-7548d0211b99

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #NeuroSymbolicAI #WorldModels

So I've been fucking around, testing Google's purity filters some more—seeing what it rejects, what it accepts, and what changes it makes without instruction.

In every case, if I give it a photo with much skin showing, it rejects it.

If I give it a photo with underwear or lingerie showing, it tends to cover me up more (i.e. it zips up jeans, buttons up shirts, makes fishnets opaque, etc).

It almost always makes me look less like a tomboy. Often enlarging breasts (even while hiding them away).

This time it accepted four photos (out of well over a dozen submitted), from three different photoshoots—two with face covered and two with face showing (which is the closest I've done to a face reveal now, I guess 😋). *more details in alt-text.

Conclusion: Google has baked a technology into its default Android photo gallery that (surprise) reinforces unrealistic ideals of beauty while simultaneously treating feminine bodies as inherently sexual and in need of censoring.

Follow-up: I'd like to see folx with other body types, gender presentations, and styles, test the edges of what Google Photos "Remix" and "AI Enhance" features will accept, and what un-requested changes it makes to those images. Does it censor topless men? Does it lean into racist stereotypes? Does it make thinner femme folx more curvy? Does it make curvier folx thinner?

If this tech is going to be crammed into everything, where kids, friends, and corporations are going to be using it, we should understand the potential psychological effects and built-in biases we're likely to encounter with increasing frequency.

#AlicePics #AI #ForcedPurity #Testing

I made a tally of the total planned AI data centre capacity in Scotland and I am a bit shocked: it amounts to 7.3 GW, which is as much as the entire energy consumption of Scotland, electricity + gas in 2023.

To spend as much energy on "AI" as the entire need of a country is madness. And I have no doubt that this picture would scale if I did it for the entire UK etc.

#FrugalComputing #AI

Mozilla Support Update: End of Japanese #community, #Mozilla Doubles Down on #AI https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/11/20/mozilla-support-update-end-of-japanese-community-mozilla-doubles-down-on-ai.html

Mozilla provided updates on the recent controversy from the Japanese locale leader quitting over AI, calling it a miscommunication.

Mozilla doubled down on AI, saying that volunteers wouldn't be unable to disable AI translations. Locale specific contributions will be overwritten by AI.

Mozilla intends to roll out automated AI #slop across the entire KB, especially for archival content.

There are two groups who like #AI:

Men who are too lazy to find their dad's copies of Playboy.

Men who want to commit genocide.

The intersection of these two groups is non-empty.

"… a plausible method for saving oneself from reading and grading AI slop. To be brief, I inserted hidden text into an assignment’s directions that the students couldn’t see but that ChatGPT can."

#LLM #AI #plagiarism #education https://hcommons.social/@jnl/115585410748161291

"… a plausible method for saving oneself from reading and grading AI slop. To be brief, I inserted hidden text into an assignment’s directions that the students couldn’t see but that ChatGPT can."

#LLM #AI #plagiarism #education https://hcommons.social/@jnl/115585410748161291

Late Friday update:

The market did indeed close slightly up today.

For a more complete than usual analysis of the #AI #bubble, read this:

> Bubble Trouble: AI rally shows cracks as investors question risks. https://www.reuters.com/business/bubble-trouble-ai-rally-shows-cracks-investors-question-risks-2025-11-21/

Among other things you will learn about the 'Buffet Indicator' and see comparisons (with charts) to previous bubbles. The author points out the investor optimism usually driving bubbles is already draining rapidly.

But are we already past a soft landing?

I honestly don't know how people can be so judgmental about a technology. AI is just a tool that can be sometimes be very helpful if you trust the users' critical thinking skills and the ability to smell bullshit. Most of the problems associated with AI are just a consequence of shitty business models and a mediocre mode of production (Capitalism)

"Judging by what I see in the comments on the posts about Firefox’s potential AI feature integrations, the apparent path that critics are recommending as an alternative browser is “I’ll yell at you until you stop using ChatGPT”. Consider this post my official notice: that strategy hasn’t worked. And it is not going to work. The only thing that will work is to offer a better alternative to these users. That will involve defining what an acceptably “good” alternative AI looks like, and then building and shipping it to these users, and convincing them to use it. I’m hoping such an effort succeeds. But I can guarantee that scolding people and trying to convince them that they’re not finding utility in the current platforms, or trying to make them feel guilty about the fact that they are finding utility in the current platforms, will not work.

And none of this is exculpatory for my friends at Mozilla. As I’ve said to the good people there, and will share again here, I don’t think the framing of the way this feature has been presented has done either the Firefox team or the community any favors. These big, emotional blow-ups are demoralizing, and take away time and energy and attention that could be better spent getting people excited and motivated to grow for the future."

https://www.anildash.com/2025/11/14/wanting-not-to-want-ai/

#AI #GenerativeAI #Mozilla #Firefox #AIBrowser #OpenAI #ChatGPT

Friday 11-21 #bubblewatch

And the roller coaster is going back up again.

> Wall Street indexes jump as bets on rate cut increase, Nvidia gains on report. https://www.reuters.com/business/sp-500-nasdaq-futures-under-pressure-tech-selloff-continues-2025-11-21/

But more and more analysts are warning about #AI companies juicing the bond market with unsustainable debt, as they run out of VC money.

> Jitters over AI spending set to grow as US tech giants flood bond market . https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/jitters-over-ai-spending-set-grow-us-tech-giants-flood-bond-market-2025-11-21/

#economy

So I guess someone put up a massive, AI-generated mural up in Kingston upon Thames’ Riverside Walk, and it’s been universally mocked and hated for its slop, and now it’s getting torn down…but not because it’s AI.

No, it’s being torn down because people think it depicts migrants crossing the English Channel. Which it doesn’t, because it’s AI slop, but whatever.

Yep, this craptastic art piece has managed to offend two different groups of people with its slop AND its unintended political commentary.

#AI #slop

https://www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork-london-kingston-upon-thames-axed

So I guess someone put up a massive, AI-generated mural up in Kingston upon Thames’ Riverside Walk, and it’s been universally mocked and hated for its slop, and now it’s getting torn down…but not because it’s AI.

No, it’s being torn down because people think it depicts migrants crossing the English Channel. Which it doesn’t, because it’s AI slop, but whatever.

Yep, this craptastic art piece has managed to offend two different groups of people with its slop AND its unintended political commentary.

#AI #slop

https://www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork-london-kingston-upon-thames-axed

Toivon, että tulevaisuudessa ihmisen työllä on vielä merkitystä.

Elon Musk sanoo, että työn tekeminen on tulevaisuudessa "vapaaehtoista" (miljardööreille jo onkin) ja moni firma korvaa työntekijöitä tekoälyllä.

AI on jo kuin netti tai sähkö, siltä ei voi välttyä, vastustajat jäävät alakynteen. Pitää kuitenkin muistaa, että emme ole kaikki sähkäreitä, vaikka käytämme sähköä.

On myös hämmentävää, että automatisointiin ja tehokuuteen keskitytään kunnolla vasta tekoälyn myötä, kun se on kauan ennen AI:takin ollut mahdollista.

https://www.forssanlehti.fi/uutissuomalainen/9009334

#Tekoäly #AI #Työ

Toivon, että tulevaisuudessa ihmisen työllä on vielä merkitystä.

Elon Musk sanoo, että työn tekeminen on tulevaisuudessa "vapaaehtoista" (miljardööreille jo onkin) ja moni firma korvaa työntekijöitä tekoälyllä.

AI on jo kuin netti tai sähkö, siltä ei voi välttyä, vastustajat jäävät alakynteen. Pitää kuitenkin muistaa, että emme ole kaikki sähkäreitä, vaikka käytämme sähköä.

On myös hämmentävää, että automatisointiin ja tehokuuteen keskitytään kunnolla vasta tekoälyn myötä, kun se on kauan ennen AI:takin ollut mahdollista.

https://www.forssanlehti.fi/uutissuomalainen/9009334

#Tekoäly #AI #Työ

I made a tally of the total planned AI data centre capacity in Scotland and I am a bit shocked: it amounts to 7.3 GW, which is as much as the entire energy consumption of Scotland, electricity + gas in 2023.

To spend as much energy on "AI" as the entire need of a country is madness. And I have no doubt that this picture would scale if I did it for the entire UK etc.

#FrugalComputing #AI

Watching KeepassXC lose all it's good will this last week has been astounding. It's not just they made a poor, if difficult decision about including AI code. It's the way they have engaged with the issue. There has been no understanding of users and contributors' concerns and their social media messaging on the issue has become more and more rabid each day.

It is like watching a breakdown in real time.

#KeepassXC #AI

People think that by adding statements like, "Don't do <whatever bad thing>" to LLM prompts, that the LLM will not do the bad thing. Folks, that's not how LLMs work. They just recreate patterns of words. They don't think, they don't understand, they don't take commands. They sometimes appear to do these things because they reproduce patterns and we are designed to detect patterns, so it looks like thinking to us. It's not. There's no logic. They cannot take orders or keep promises. #LLM #AI

Reseña de «DeepMind’s latest: An AI for handling mathematical proofs». https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/11/21-deepminds-latest-an-ai-for-handling-mathematical-proofs/ #AI #Math #ITP #LeanProver #AlphaProof

📰🇪🇺 "The #EU Commission has been accused of 'a massive rollback' of digital rules after announcing proposals to […] water down its #GDPR. The changes would make it easier for tech firms to use personal data to train #AI without asking for consent."

👉 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/19/european-commission-accused-of-massive-rollback-of-digital-protections

"History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans, ranging from ostracism to death. Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so."

Will Teague on #AI (#GenAI / #ChatGPT) and #history education.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540

#HigherEd

DeepMind’s latest: An AI for handling mathematical proofs. ~ Jacek Krywko. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/deepminds-latest-an-ai-for-handling-mathematical-proofs/ #AI #Math #LLMs #ITP #LeanProver #AlphaProof

📰🇪🇺 "The #EU Commission has been accused of 'a massive rollback' of digital rules after announcing proposals to […] water down its #GDPR. The changes would make it easier for tech firms to use personal data to train #AI without asking for consent."

👉 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/19/european-commission-accused-of-massive-rollback-of-digital-protections

"History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans, ranging from ostracism to death. Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so."

Will Teague on #AI (#GenAI / #ChatGPT) and #history education.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540

#HigherEd

"KI in der Sozialen Arbeit" sehe ich ja echt skeptisch und meine Befürchtungen konnten jetzt nicht wirklich aus dem Weg geräumt werden. Klar könnte es Arbeit erleichtern, aber dass das nicht direkt zu Arbeitsverdichtung führen wird, überzeugt halt einfach nicht - Natürlich wird es das, auch wenn das "nicht das Ziel ist".

Und dann soll das Tool natürlich bei Microsoft gehostet werden - was halt einfach problematisch ist (Cloud Act).

#BAGW #Wohnungslosigkeit #Armut #Sozialberatung #KI #AI

EDIT: The Malwarebytes article has been updated:

"After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case."

This confusion could've been easily avoided if Google was more clear in how they communicate with their users.

ORIGINAL:

PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!

"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

#gmail #AI

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alex-turnbull-1ab9992_warning-do-not-ignore-gmails-new-ai-scanning-activity-7397317290431770624-n65V

WARNING: Do NOT ignore #Gmail's new #AI scanning default settings. 1.8 billion users automatically opted in to allow Gmail access to all private messages & attachments to train AI models since June 2024.

Here's what happened:

1. Gmail enabled "Smart Features" by default for ALL users without clear notification.

2. They tied basic functionality like spell checking to AI scanning (i.e., if want spell check you need to accept full email analysis).

(1/4)

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alex-turnbull-1ab9992_warning-do-not-ignore-gmails-new-ai-scanning-activity-7397317290431770624-n65V

WARNING: Do NOT ignore #Gmail's new #AI scanning default settings. 1.8 billion users automatically opted in to allow Gmail access to all private messages & attachments to train AI models since June 2024.

Here's what happened:

1. Gmail enabled "Smart Features" by default for ALL users without clear notification.

2. They tied basic functionality like spell checking to AI scanning (i.e., if want spell check you need to accept full email analysis).

(1/4)

EDIT: The Malwarebytes article has been updated:

"After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case."

This confusion could've been easily avoided if Google was more clear in how they communicate with their users.

ORIGINAL:

PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!

"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

#gmail #AI

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alex-turnbull-1ab9992_warning-do-not-ignore-gmails-new-ai-scanning-activity-7397317290431770624-n65V

WARNING: Do NOT ignore #Gmail's new #AI scanning default settings. 1.8 billion users automatically opted in to allow Gmail access to all private messages & attachments to train AI models since June 2024.

Here's what happened:

1. Gmail enabled "Smart Features" by default for ALL users without clear notification.

2. They tied basic functionality like spell checking to AI scanning (i.e., if want spell check you need to accept full email analysis).

(1/4)

"History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans, ranging from ostracism to death. Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so."

Will Teague on #AI (#GenAI / #ChatGPT) and #history education.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540

#HigherEd

EDIT: The Malwarebytes article has been updated:

"After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case."

This confusion could've been easily avoided if Google was more clear in how they communicate with their users.

ORIGINAL:

PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!

"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

#gmail #AI

People think that by adding statements like, "Don't do <whatever bad thing>" to LLM prompts, that the LLM will not do the bad thing. Folks, that's not how LLMs work. They just recreate patterns of words. They don't think, they don't understand, they don't take commands. They sometimes appear to do these things because they reproduce patterns and we are designed to detect patterns, so it looks like thinking to us. It's not. There's no logic. They cannot take orders or keep promises. #LLM #AI

EDIT: The Malwarebytes article has been updated:

"After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case."

This confusion could've been easily avoided if Google was more clear in how they communicate with their users.

ORIGINAL:

PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!

"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

#gmail #AI

Wrote a little thing about #AI again. Got baited by a LinkedIn post over the weekend. Sorry.

https://alt.management/lgtm-culture/

A #security-first MCP server empowering #AI agents to orchestrate #Ghidra, #Radare2, and #YARA for automated reverse engineering. https://github.com/sjkim1127/Reversecore_MCP

I haven't seen this variation of XKCD 2347 yet. Received from a friend, source unknown.

#xkcd2347 #cloudflare #aws #ai

Wrote a little thing about #AI again. Got baited by a LinkedIn post over the weekend. Sorry.

https://alt.management/lgtm-culture/

📰🤖 "Despite sharp criticism from data protectionists and human rights organizations, the #EU Commission announced on Wednesday that it intends to simplify its rules on data protection and #AI." (from German)

👉 Read more (Article in German): https://orf.at/stories/3411991/

Just two years after Microsoft announced their “Secure Future Initiative,” the tech giant is deliberately shipping backdoors for malware and calling them features?

“Microsoft has issued an urgent warning to Windows 11 users: The new agentic OS features that allow #AI agents to operate also open the door to malware”

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-warns-security-risks-agentic-os-windows-11-xpia-malware

Just two years after Microsoft announced their “Secure Future Initiative,” the tech giant is deliberately shipping backdoors for malware and calling them features?

“Microsoft has issued an urgent warning to Windows 11 users: The new agentic OS features that allow #AI agents to operate also open the door to malware”

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-warns-security-risks-agentic-os-windows-11-xpia-malware

Google ha apuntado a su IA a todos los usuarios de Gmail.

Cómo desactivar Gemini AI en Gmail.
#AI #Antiai

Google ha apuntado a su IA a todos los usuarios de Gmail.

Cómo desactivar Gemini AI en Gmail.
#AI #Antiai

@uberprutser @EUCommission

You want simplicity? How about this simple solution: you 100% absolutely and fully prohibit any citizen's private data being fed to any #AI whatsoever under any circumstances. Can't get much simpler, no?

Can we put it on referendum to see which percentage of #EU citizens would prefer that form of simplicity over your idea of "let's simply abolish last remains of privacy rights EU citizens still have so greedy companies will be able to bribe us better"?

🗞️🇪🇺 "Europe is set to streamline its #AI and privacy laws in a move critics say will appease Big Tech and U.S. President Donald Trump. 127 civil organisations called the proposals 'the biggest rollback of digital fundamental rights in EU history'."

👉 https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/eu-ease-ai-privacy-rules-critics-warn-caving-big-tech-trump-2025-11-19/

🗞️🇪🇺 "Europe is set to streamline its #AI and privacy laws in a move critics say will appease Big Tech and U.S. President Donald Trump. 127 civil organisations called the proposals 'the biggest rollback of digital fundamental rights in EU history'."

👉 https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/eu-ease-ai-privacy-rules-critics-warn-caving-big-tech-trump-2025-11-19/

Sounds accurate.

#AI

Good morning, everyone. Oh, look: Today, the @EUCommission launches their plans to gravely undermine our fundamental rights because tech lobbyists asked them to.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1119/1544678-simplification-digital-rules/

#MastoDaoine #EU #DigitalLaw #InfoSphere #Rights #AI #GDPR #DSA #DMA #DataAct

Readings shared November 18, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/11/19-readings_shared_11-18-25 #AI #Autoformalization #FunctionalProgramming #Haskell #ITP #LeanProver #Math #Programming #Scheme

Good morning, everyone. Oh, look: Today, the @EUCommission launches their plans to gravely undermine our fundamental rights because tech lobbyists asked them to.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1119/1544678-simplification-digital-rules/

#MastoDaoine #EU #DigitalLaw #InfoSphere #Rights #AI #GDPR #DSA #DMA #DataAct

No notes.
#ai #technology #aislop #aiart

José Marichal has a new book: “You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem”

“In the age of AI, where personal data fuels corporate profits and state surveillance, what are the implications for democracy?

This incisive book explores the unspoken agreement we have with tech companies. In exchange for reducing the anxiety of an increasingly complex online world, we submit to algorithmic classification and predictability. This reduces incentives for us to become “algorithmic problems” with dire consequences for liberal democracy. He calls for a movement to demand that algorithms promote play, creativity and potentiality rather than conformity.

This is a must-read for anyone navigating the intersection of technology, politics and identity in an increasingly data-driven world.”

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/you-must-become-an-algorithmic-problem

#Books #AI

José Marichal has a new book: “You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem”

“In the age of AI, where personal data fuels corporate profits and state surveillance, what are the implications for democracy?

This incisive book explores the unspoken agreement we have with tech companies. In exchange for reducing the anxiety of an increasingly complex online world, we submit to algorithmic classification and predictability. This reduces incentives for us to become “algorithmic problems” with dire consequences for liberal democracy. He calls for a movement to demand that algorithms promote play, creativity and potentiality rather than conformity.

This is a must-read for anyone navigating the intersection of technology, politics and identity in an increasingly data-driven world.”

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/you-must-become-an-algorithmic-problem

#Books #AI

We believe that there's something genuinely nice about reading a site yourself instead of getting the artificially boiled down version. 😌

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Browser #Vivaldi #Tech

Big Business lobbying money always trumps privacy, data protection, and ethics...

"After more than a decade of aggressively regulating the technology industry, the European Union is having second thoughts.

In a significant shift, policymakers in Brussels are moving to scale back and simplify landmark rules for artificial intelligence and data privacy. Driven by growing concern that overregulation is stifling economic growth, officials and business leaders across the 27-nation bloc are questioning whether Europe’s digital rulebook has gone too far and left companies lagging the United States and China. The Trump administration has also criticized Europe’s regulations.

The rethinking is set to be laid out in a “digital package of simplification” that the European Commission, which manages much of the bloc’s day-to-day work, plans to unveil on Wednesday. According to drafts circulated in recent weeks, which were reviewed by The New York Times, key aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation, or G.D.P.R., a data privacy law, would be rewritten. Parts of a law restricting certain uses of A.I. would also be delayed."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/europe-big-tech.html

#EU #EC #DataProtection #BigTech #Privacy #GDPR #AIAct #AI

Big Business lobbying money always trumps privacy, data protection, and ethics...

"After more than a decade of aggressively regulating the technology industry, the European Union is having second thoughts.

In a significant shift, policymakers in Brussels are moving to scale back and simplify landmark rules for artificial intelligence and data privacy. Driven by growing concern that overregulation is stifling economic growth, officials and business leaders across the 27-nation bloc are questioning whether Europe’s digital rulebook has gone too far and left companies lagging the United States and China. The Trump administration has also criticized Europe’s regulations.

The rethinking is set to be laid out in a “digital package of simplification” that the European Commission, which manages much of the bloc’s day-to-day work, plans to unveil on Wednesday. According to drafts circulated in recent weeks, which were reviewed by The New York Times, key aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation, or G.D.P.R., a data privacy law, would be rewritten. Parts of a law restricting certain uses of A.I. would also be delayed."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/europe-big-tech.html

#EU #EC #DataProtection #BigTech #Privacy #GDPR #AIAct #AI

#google: The AI we are putting into all of our products cannot be trusted, but it also can't be turned off
#microsoft: Windows 11 is now an agentic OS, and what that means is it can install malware

By the way, #AI is the future

Sounds accurate.

#AI

Sounds accurate.

#AI

We believe that there's something genuinely nice about reading a site yourself instead of getting the artificially boiled down version. 😌

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Browser #Vivaldi #Tech

Evaluating autoformalization robustness via semantically similar paraphrasing. ~ Hayden Moore, Asfahan Shah. https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12784 #AI #Math #Autoformalization #ITP #LeanProver

Reductionist and knee-jerk rhetoric on #AI is so fucking boring, especially the "no one is asking for feature x". This is a heavy churn, experimental phase brought about by a new technology.

You might have liked but not asked for:
- Google Glass
- Amazon Fire Phone
- Microsoft Zune
- 3D TVs
- Nintendo Virtual Boy
- Netbooks
- LaserDisc
- Clippy
- Juicero

These all came and went dictated (heavily, anyway) by the choices customers made.

Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk
https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/18/windows-11-to-add-an-ai-agent-that-runs-in-background-with-access-to-personal-folders-warns-of-security-risk/

#windows11 #ai

Well, well, well, Peter Thiel in the last days/weeks (according to regulatory filings in the US) has sold his entire stake in Nvidia (a key stock linked to Artificial Intelligence) & has reduced his Tesla holdings... given Thiel is at the centre of many TechBro-ocracy, if he's bailed out of Nvidia in the last weeks, I think its safe to say the AI bubble is about to burst....

Time to batten down the hatches folk... and watch out for the 'too big to fail' crowd

#AI #economics #FinancialCrisis

I completed my 8th successful “vibe coded” project over the weekend and I’m SO excited about it!

Check out my blog post: Vibe Coded: AI Who’s Who
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/11/17/vibe-coded-ai-whos-who/

#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #AI #coding #VibeCoding

Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk
https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/18/windows-11-to-add-an-ai-agent-that-runs-in-background-with-access-to-personal-folders-warns-of-security-risk/

#windows11 #ai

Well, well, well, Peter Thiel in the last days/weeks (according to regulatory filings in the US) has sold his entire stake in Nvidia (a key stock linked to Artificial Intelligence) & has reduced his Tesla holdings... given Thiel is at the centre of many TechBro-ocracy, if he's bailed out of Nvidia in the last weeks, I think its safe to say the AI bubble is about to burst....

Time to batten down the hatches folk... and watch out for the 'too big to fail' crowd

#AI #economics #FinancialCrisis

Well, well, well, Peter Thiel in the last days/weeks (according to regulatory filings in the US) has sold his entire stake in Nvidia (a key stock linked to Artificial Intelligence) & has reduced his Tesla holdings... given Thiel is at the centre of many TechBro-ocracy, if he's bailed out of Nvidia in the last weeks, I think its safe to say the AI bubble is about to burst....

Time to batten down the hatches folk... and watch out for the 'too big to fail' crowd

#AI #economics #FinancialCrisis

Well, well, well, Peter Thiel in the last days/weeks (according to regulatory filings in the US) has sold his entire stake in Nvidia (a key stock linked to Artificial Intelligence) & has reduced his Tesla holdings... given Thiel is at the centre of many TechBro-ocracy, if he's bailed out of Nvidia in the last weeks, I think its safe to say the AI bubble is about to burst....

Time to batten down the hatches folk... and watch out for the 'too big to fail' crowd

#AI #economics #FinancialCrisis

Anyone who thinks the #SteamMachine aka. #GabeCube / #GabenCube will be a $499 thing or even a $749 thing needs to get updated on #pricing for #hardware.

• Thanks to the "#AI" #Scamconomy, #PriceFixing and #OpenAI buying 40% of global #DRAM production output due to #Trump's "#Stargate" shitshow and the circular #Scam #economy associated, the 2x16GB #DDR5-SODIMMs (even if those were slow -4800 and not the recommended #Zen4 -6000 speeds) will cost about $250+ as of today.

• #SSD|s too - which use the same chip dabs - also climb beyond $100 per TB or > $50 for a 512 GB #NVMe.

So already these components are $300+ as of today, and industry insiders claim this will get much worse so I'm not even shure a $999 pricetag will be possible by Q1/2026. Not to mention the 8GB VRAM of the built-on, dedicaded #GPU!

• Espechally since #Valve, unlike #Sony, #Microsoft, #Apple and #Nintendo will not have the capital to order like #RAM Chips or even sticks in decent qualtities right now.

The only reason why noone expects Apple to raise prices is because they already shaft their buyers by overcharging them for their #SolderedDownRAM & #SolderedDownSSDs and they tend to buy not just huge quantites, paying above.market, but alsov*fewer, higher capacity* chips.

(Video via #GamersNexus)

#Enshittification #AIslop #Scams #Scalping #PriceHike #PriceHikes #SKhynix #Micron #Samsung #AMD #SODIMM #DIMM #RAMpricing #Prices #ConsumerElectronics #Greedflation #USpol

If you wanted another reason to dislike crypto currencies and AI, here you go. Not only do we have to deal with more scams, more slop, less privacy and a warmer planet, but we also have to pay for it through our electrical bills.

Of course this is obvious. More demand for power means higher prices and crypto and AI uses a lot of power.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/current-climate/2025/11/17/data-centers-crypto-mining-to-push-electricity-costs-higher-in-2026/

#Crypto #AI #Technology #Electricity #Politics

If you wanted another reason to dislike crypto currencies and AI, here you go. Not only do we have to deal with more scams, more slop, less privacy and a warmer planet, but we also have to pay for it through our electrical bills.

Of course this is obvious. More demand for power means higher prices and crypto and AI uses a lot of power.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/current-climate/2025/11/17/data-centers-crypto-mining-to-push-electricity-costs-higher-in-2026/

#Crypto #AI #Technology #Electricity #Politics

“TABS [by Mozilla] pulls exactly the data you need—from HTML to Markdown to JSON—using the fastest, most efficient method for each page. It adapts to the structure and complexity of the site, staying stealthy and reliable so your [AI] agents always get what they need without friction.”

Ethical Stealthy AI Scraping (tm) by Mozilla.

#Mozilla #AI #BigTech #bullshit https://transmom.love/@elilla/115564272417922503

I love the sound of hot air escaping from the punctured #AI bubble. 🎈

"Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears"

Struggling to understand what all this means? Maybe you relied too often on (inaccurate &/or biased) #AI summaries, rather than using your little grey cells.
I could draw a picture of it for you, if you'd like, but, to make up for all the graphic work I've lost to AI, my fee went up.

https://ca.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/peter-thiel-dumps-entire-nvidia-stake-slashes-tesla-holdings-amid-bubble-fears-4320129

"Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears"

Struggling to understand what all this means? Maybe you relied too often on (inaccurate &/or biased) #AI summaries, rather than using your little grey cells.
I could draw a picture of it for you, if you'd like, but, to make up for all the graphic work I've lost to AI, my fee went up.

https://ca.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/peter-thiel-dumps-entire-nvidia-stake-slashes-tesla-holdings-amid-bubble-fears-4320129

No notes.
#ai #technology #aislop #aiart

Readings shared November 16, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/11/17-readings_shared_11-16-25 #AI #ATP #Autoformalization #FunctionalProgramming #Haskell #ITP #LLMs #LeanProver #Math #SatSolvers

another reason I love @KagiHQ :

Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven #AI slop detection in #Kagi Search

https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop

To have machines make math proofs, turn them into a puzzle (Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His proofs have been called “disgusting,” but they go beyond what any human can do). ~ John Pavlus. https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-have-machines-make-math-proofs-turn-them-into-a-puzzle-20251110/ #AI #Math #ATP #SatSolvers

“TABS [by Mozilla] pulls exactly the data you need—from HTML to Markdown to JSON—using the fastest, most efficient method for each page. It adapts to the structure and complexity of the site, staying stealthy and reliable so your [AI] agents always get what they need without friction.”

Ethical Stealthy AI Scraping (tm) by Mozilla.

#Mozilla #AI #BigTech #bullshit https://transmom.love/@elilla/115564272417922503

I love the sound of hot air escaping from the punctured #AI bubble. 🎈

No notes.
#ai #technology #aislop #aiart

"Welcome to the Great AI Bubble, a metastasized trillion dollar tech tumour so massive it’s practically visible from space.

If you haven’t heard of this yet, it’s not because you're not paying attention."

~ Carole Cadwalladr

#broligarchy #AI #economy #media #corruption #TechBros
/1

https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-ai-bubble

Thiel fully dumping his entire stake in Nvidia, the AI poster child, is the ultimate insider signal for an AI bubble pop. His move suggests that people in the know believe that the hype has peaked and the reckoning is near.

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/peter-thiel-dumps-top-ai-stock-stirring-bubble-fears

#usa #economy #ai #bubble

Thiel fully dumping his entire stake in Nvidia, the AI poster child, is the ultimate insider signal for an AI bubble pop. His move suggests that people in the know believe that the hype has peaked and the reckoning is near.

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/peter-thiel-dumps-top-ai-stock-stirring-bubble-fears

#usa #economy #ai #bubble

another reason I love @KagiHQ :

Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven #AI slop detection in #Kagi Search

https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop

"Welcome to the Great AI Bubble, a metastasized trillion dollar tech tumour so massive it’s practically visible from space.

If you haven’t heard of this yet, it’s not because you're not paying attention."

~ Carole Cadwalladr

#broligarchy #AI #economy #media #corruption #TechBros
/1

https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-ai-bubble

What would probably increase the quality of #LLM responses is if they add hyperlinks to high quality sources from real #websites. As in, not just mashed up footnotes, but actual words/phrases/sentences within their responses linked to real people/orgs websites. Obviously they should be correct reference links too. No need for web #browsers to die. #ai

SITA: A framework for structure-to-instance theorem autoformalization. ~ Chenyi Li, Wanli Ma, Zichen Wang, Zaiwen Wen. https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10356 #AI #Math #Autoformalization #LLMs #ITP #LeanProver

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

Do you hate the AI Overview in Google search?

Add &udm=14 to the URL, or to the search engine template URL in your browser.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-searchs-udm14-trick-lets-you-kill-ai-search-for-good/
#AI #TheMoreYouKnow #google

"We 127 civil society organisations, trade unions and defenders of the public interest write to emphasise our serious alarm at the forthcoming EU Digital Omnibus proposals, part of a wide deregulation agenda.

What is being presented as a “technical streamlining” of EU digital laws is, in reality, an attempt to covertly dismantle Europe’s strongest protections against digital threats. These are the protections that keep everyone’s data safe, governments accountable, protect people from having artificial intelligence (AI) systems decide their life opportunities, and ultimately keep our societies free from unchecked surveillance.

Unless the European Commission changes course, this would be the biggest rollback of digital fundamental rights in EU history. It is being done under the radar, using rushed and opaque processes designed to avoid democratic oversight.

This worrying approach has been seen extensively across existing Omnibus proposals, with democratic safeguards ignored. As a result, supposedly minimal changes under the guise of “simplification” have already jeopardised Europe’s core social and environmental protections. Together, these changes risk worsening working conditions, allowing dangerous chemicals into cosmetics, and polluting the air and water – making people even more exposed to harm.

In the upcoming Digital Omnibus, the Commission will reportedly weaken the only clear rule that stops companies and governments from constantly tracking what people do on their devices, part of the ePrivacy framework. This will make it a lot easier for those in power to control people’s phones, cars or smart homes, while also revealing sensitive information about where people go, and with whom."

https://www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-must-uphold-protections-for-digital-human-rights/

#EU #DigitalOmnibus #DigitalRights #Privacy #DataProtection #AI #ePrivacy

Do you hate the AI Overview in Google search?

Add &udm=14 to the URL, or to the search engine template URL in your browser.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-searchs-udm14-trick-lets-you-kill-ai-search-for-good/
#AI #TheMoreYouKnow #google

Researchers question #Anthropic claim that #AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/researchers-question-anthropic-claim-that-ai-assisted-attack-was-90-autonomous/

#cybersecurity #cyberattack

Researchers question #Anthropic claim that #AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/researchers-question-anthropic-claim-that-ai-assisted-attack-was-90-autonomous/

#cybersecurity #cyberattack

How to turn off #Copilot and protect your data from #Microsoft’s #AI

https://proton.me/blog/turn-off-copilot

#privacy

How to turn off #Copilot and protect your data from #Microsoft’s #AI

https://proton.me/blog/turn-off-copilot

#privacy

AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-stuffed-animal-pulled-after-disturbing-interactions

#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #toys #children #aisafety

AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-stuffed-animal-pulled-after-disturbing-interactions

#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #toys #children #aisafety

"We 127 civil society organisations, trade unions and defenders of the public interest write to emphasise our serious alarm at the forthcoming EU Digital Omnibus proposals, part of a wide deregulation agenda.

What is being presented as a “technical streamlining” of EU digital laws is, in reality, an attempt to covertly dismantle Europe’s strongest protections against digital threats. These are the protections that keep everyone’s data safe, governments accountable, protect people from having artificial intelligence (AI) systems decide their life opportunities, and ultimately keep our societies free from unchecked surveillance.

Unless the European Commission changes course, this would be the biggest rollback of digital fundamental rights in EU history. It is being done under the radar, using rushed and opaque processes designed to avoid democratic oversight.

This worrying approach has been seen extensively across existing Omnibus proposals, with democratic safeguards ignored. As a result, supposedly minimal changes under the guise of “simplification” have already jeopardised Europe’s core social and environmental protections. Together, these changes risk worsening working conditions, allowing dangerous chemicals into cosmetics, and polluting the air and water – making people even more exposed to harm.

In the upcoming Digital Omnibus, the Commission will reportedly weaken the only clear rule that stops companies and governments from constantly tracking what people do on their devices, part of the ePrivacy framework. This will make it a lot easier for those in power to control people’s phones, cars or smart homes, while also revealing sensitive information about where people go, and with whom."

https://www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-must-uphold-protections-for-digital-human-rights/

#EU #DigitalOmnibus #DigitalRights #Privacy #DataProtection #AI #ePrivacy

How can you say no to “an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI”? 🙄

“How To Declutter, Quiet Down, And Take The AI Out Of Windows 11 25H2”, Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/what-i-do-to-clean-up-a-clean-install-of-windows-11-23h2-and-edge/).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45860273

#Windows #Windows11 #AI #Copilot #Bloat

How can you say no to “an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI”? 🙄

“How To Declutter, Quiet Down, And Take The AI Out Of Windows 11 25H2”, Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/what-i-do-to-clean-up-a-clean-install-of-windows-11-23h2-and-edge/).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45860273

#Windows #Windows11 #AI #Copilot #Bloat

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

How AI data centers were invented... Coming to a town near you

Charlie Berens + Daniel Van Kirk 👏🏼

This is CINEMA 🔥

Sometimes comedy is the only way to open eyes and make a point ;)

#humor #comedy #datacenters #AI #IA #data #bigtech

Readings shared November 14, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/11/15-readings_shared_11-14-25 #AI #Agda #AlphaProof #CoqProver #FunctionalProgramming #Haskell #ITP #LeanProver #Math #OCaml #Rocq

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

Looking at the images of #AI #datacenters one cannot help but wonder about how much physical desolation and trash (made of degraded short-lived hardware no one will be able to use efficiently) AI bubble will leave behind. The dotcom bubble pales in comparison.

After all, the dotcom bubble only left behind scores of Aeron chairs and that fibre that @pluralistic keeps mentioning, so one could count that a net positive.

#shitposting #technology

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.

Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.

People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.

Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/

#firefox #ai #privacy

AI-powered toys? What could go wrong? “After testing three different toys powered by AI,” Frank Landymore writes, “researchers from the US Public Interest Research Group found that the playthings can easily verge into risky conversational territory for children, including telling them where to find knives in a kitchen and how to start a fire with matches.” It actually gets worse in one case. Read more from @Futurism:

https://flip.it/AjKCPW

#Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #Toys #Tech #AI

AI-powered toys? What could go wrong? “After testing three different toys powered by AI,” Frank Landymore writes, “researchers from the US Public Interest Research Group found that the playthings can easily verge into risky conversational territory for children, including telling them where to find knives in a kitchen and how to start a fire with matches.” It actually gets worse in one case. Read more from @Futurism:

https://flip.it/AjKCPW

#Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #Toys #Tech #AI

Looking at the images of #AI #datacenters one cannot help but wonder about how much physical desolation and trash (made of degraded short-lived hardware no one will be able to use efficiently) AI bubble will leave behind. The dotcom bubble pales in comparison.

After all, the dotcom bubble only left behind scores of Aeron chairs and that fibre that @pluralistic keeps mentioning, so one could count that a net positive.

#shitposting #technology

Modern deep learning becomes much easier to understand when you can build every idea yourself.

Deep Learning Crash Course walks you through neural networks, transformers, generative models, diffusion models, GNNs, and more using real code that shows how each system actually works.

A clear path for anyone who wants practical AI skills supported by hands on examples.

https://nostarch.com/deep-learning-crash-course

Every print book comes with a free Ebook!

#DeepLearning #AI #Python

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

Mozilla has announced a move focused on integrating AI into a future release of the Firefox browser.

I encourage you to join the increasing crowd of unanimous opposition to this move in the relevant discussion thread:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/m-p/109926

#AI #GriftersGonnaGrift #TechNews #Mozilla #Firefox

Mozilla has announced a move focused on integrating AI into a future release of the Firefox browser.

I encourage you to join the increasing crowd of unanimous opposition to this move in the relevant discussion thread:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/m-p/109926

#AI #GriftersGonnaGrift #TechNews #Mozilla #Firefox

Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.

Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.

People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.

Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/

#firefox #ai #privacy

Reductionist and knee-jerk rhetoric on #AI is so fucking boring, especially the "no one is asking for feature x". This is a heavy churn, experimental phase brought about by a new technology.

You might have liked but not asked for:
- Google Glass
- Amazon Fire Phone
- Microsoft Zune
- 3D TVs
- Nintendo Virtual Boy
- Netbooks
- LaserDisc
- Clippy
- Juicero

These all came and went dictated (heavily, anyway) by the choices customers made.

Mozilla: We're going to start listening to our users!

Users: Don't put any more "AI" in Firefox.

Mozilla: Not like that.

#mozilla #users #AI #NobodyWants #firefox #listening

Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.

Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.

People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.

Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/

#firefox #ai #privacy

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.

Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.

People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.

Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/

#firefox #ai #privacy

Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.

Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.

People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.

Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/

#firefox #ai #privacy

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

Mozilla is soliciting feedback on AI in Firefox and the community is delivering.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/td-p/109922

#ai #firefox #mozilla

Mozilla: We're going to start listening to our users!

Users: Don't put any more "AI" in Firefox.

Mozilla: Not like that.

#mozilla #users #AI #NobodyWants #firefox #listening

How we achieved an IMO medal, one year before any other AI system. ~ Tom Zahavy. https://www.tomzahavy.com/post/how-we-achieved-an-imo-medal-one-year-before-everyone-else #AI #Math #ITP #LeanProver #AlphaProof

Mozilla is soliciting feedback on AI in Firefox and the community is delivering.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/td-p/109922

#ai #firefox #mozilla

"AI chatbots have conquered the world, so it was only a matter of time before companies started stuffing them into toys for children, even as questions swirled over the tech’s safety and the alarming effects they can have on users’ mental health.

Now, new research shows exactly how this fusion of kid’s toys and loquacious AI models can go horrifically wrong in the real world.

After testing three different toys powered by AI, researchers from the US Public Interest Research Group found that the playthings can easily verge into risky conversational territory for children, including telling them where to find knives in a kitchen and how to start a fire with matches. One of the AI toys even engaged in explicit discussions, offering extensive advice on sex positions and fetishes.

In the resulting report, the researchers warn that the integration of AI into toys opens up entire new avenues of risk that we’re barely beginning to scratch the surface of — and just in time for the winter holidays, when huge numbers of parents and other relatives are going to be buying presents for kids online without considering the novel safety issues involved in exposing children to AI."

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-toys-danger

#AI #GenerativeAI #AISafety #AICompanions #Chatbots #AIToys

Reseña de «Olympiad-level formal mathematical reasoning with reinforcement learning». https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/11/14-olympiad-level-formal-mathematical-reasoning-with-reinforcement-learning/ #AI #Math #ITP #LeanProver #AlphaProof

"AI chatbots have conquered the world, so it was only a matter of time before companies started stuffing them into toys for children, even as questions swirled over the tech’s safety and the alarming effects they can have on users’ mental health.

Now, new research shows exactly how this fusion of kid’s toys and loquacious AI models can go horrifically wrong in the real world.

After testing three different toys powered by AI, researchers from the US Public Interest Research Group found that the playthings can easily verge into risky conversational territory for children, including telling them where to find knives in a kitchen and how to start a fire with matches. One of the AI toys even engaged in explicit discussions, offering extensive advice on sex positions and fetishes.

In the resulting report, the researchers warn that the integration of AI into toys opens up entire new avenues of risk that we’re barely beginning to scratch the surface of — and just in time for the winter holidays, when huge numbers of parents and other relatives are going to be buying presents for kids online without considering the novel safety issues involved in exposing children to AI."

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-toys-danger

#AI #GenerativeAI #AISafety #AICompanions #Chatbots #AIToys