#AI

I'm not a big fan of the Naked Gun #movie franchise. I don't dislike it

Same with #LiamNeeson

But I'm now a huge fan of their #advertising campaign (this #moviePoster just came out yesterday)

#AI #movies #film

I'm not a big fan of the Naked Gun #movie franchise. I don't dislike it

Same with #LiamNeeson

But I'm now a huge fan of their #advertising campaign (this #moviePoster just came out yesterday)

#AI #movies #film

🧐 AI systems are unlikely to make the scientific discoveries some leading labs are hoping for, Hugging Face's top scientist says • Fortune

“In science, asking the question is the hard part, it’s not finding the answer,” Wolf said. “Once the question is asked, often the answer is quite obvious, but the tough part is really asking the question, and models are very bad at asking great questions.”

https://fortune.com/2025/06/20/hugging-face-thomas-wolf-ai-yes-men-on-servers-no-scientific-breakthroughs/

#science #ai #research

🧐 AI systems are unlikely to make the scientific discoveries some leading labs are hoping for, Hugging Face's top scientist says • Fortune

“In science, asking the question is the hard part, it’s not finding the answer,” Wolf said. “Once the question is asked, often the answer is quite obvious, but the tough part is really asking the question, and models are very bad at asking great questions.”

https://fortune.com/2025/06/20/hugging-face-thomas-wolf-ai-yes-men-on-servers-no-scientific-breakthroughs/

#science #ai #research

Readings shared June 27, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/06/28-readings_shared_06-27-25 #AI #AI4Math #Autoformalization #CategoryTheory #CompSci #ITP #LLMs #LeanProver #Math #Mizar

Over the next 10 years there's gonna be a bunch of studies that basically boil down to "people fell for #AI because they like positive reinforcement, which works, and they weren't getting it elsewhere in their lives."

An AI replying "good observation" can be a poor substitute for an absent father.

創作者們抱怨花費在生成式AI的訂閱費用高昂，要產圖產影片都很貴。

其實大家也可以去拿張白紙來畫畫。

或是載個開源的Krita。

就算是ipad 上的繪圖軟體 Procreate，買斷也只要$12.99美金，每天都能畫，用不到多少錢的。

荒謬的世界。

#ai

Over the next 10 years there's gonna be a bunch of studies that basically boil down to "people fell for #AI because they like positive reinforcement, which works, and they weren't getting it elsewhere in their lives."

An AI replying "good observation" can be a poor substitute for an absent father.

European Commission presents Roadmap for effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement - 24 June 2025
https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-presents-roadmap-effective-and-lawful-access-data-law-enforcement-2025-06-24_en
#dataretention #lawfulinterception #digitalforensics #encryption #ai

創作者們抱怨花費在生成式AI的訂閱費用高昂，要產圖產影片都很貴。

其實大家也可以去拿張白紙來畫畫。

或是載個開源的Krita。

就算是ipad 上的繪圖軟體 Procreate，買斷也只要$12.99美金，每天都能畫，用不到多少錢的。

荒謬的世界。

#ai

#Google’s #emissions up 51% as #AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green
Increase influenced by #datacentre growth, with estimated power required by 2026 equalling that of Japan

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/google-emissions-ai-electricity-demand-derail-efforts-green #science #environment #climateCatastrophe #technology

#Google’s #emissions up 51% as #AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green
Increase influenced by #datacentre growth, with estimated power required by 2026 equalling that of Japan

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/google-emissions-ai-electricity-demand-derail-efforts-green #science #environment #climateCatastrophe #technology

Software development methodologies compared.

#software #development #agile #waterfall #ai #developer

The web-scraping by is aggressive not just to hoard training data, but also to keep other AI bots from doing the same.

They're not satisfied with stealing all your content, they also want exclusivity by any means necessary.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01661-4

#ai #aiscraping #aichatbots

The web-scraping by is aggressive not just to hoard training data, but also to keep other AI bots from doing the same.

They're not satisfied with stealing all your content, they also want exclusivity by any means necessary.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01661-4

#ai #aiscraping #aichatbots

https://www.ottorask.com/blog/creative-commons-has-abolished-their-commons

#CreativeCommons #AI #LLM #ChatGPT #BigTech #Copilot #OpenAI #Art

https://www.ottorask.com/blog/creative-commons-has-abolished-their-commons

#CreativeCommons #AI #LLM #ChatGPT #BigTech #Copilot #OpenAI #Art

Position: Formal mathematical reasoning (a new frontier in AI). ~ Kaiyu Yang et als. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=HuvAM5x2xG #AI #LLMs #Math #AI4Math #ITP

It’s called the Internet of Things – connected cars, smart fridges, wearables. Devices like these and more don’t just collect data on their users, but also on the people around them.

Data from these devices is already starting to be used in court (and can be sold to commercial data brokers).

https://theconversation.com/how-internet-of-things-devices-affect-your-privacy-even-when-theyre-not-yours-251592
#tech #AI #privacy

At its core, #CCSignals is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).

Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Big Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not free as in “freedom”) but at least their original licenses (non-commercial, share-alike, no derivatives, and yes, sometimes even just attribution) were genuinely useful for people as well as for corporations.

I like to think (perhaps naïvely, I don’t know) that Lawrence Lessig had his heart in the right place when he came up with it all. But I’m biased. I learned how to present from him (including how to use my presentation display) and we even presented a session together back in the day when I was running Open Source Flash. I’m also a big fan of his concept of “institutional corruption”. But I have no illusions that we see eye to eye on all things and I haven’t spoken to him in over a decade.

Anyway, that’s neither here nor there.

This is Creative Commons jumping the shark (is jumping the shark the original enshittification?) and destroying their credibility with a scheme that doesn’t benefit people, only their corporate donors.

Keep using the existing licenses, as they have value, but don’t help them legitimise this latest land grab by the same trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires who are busy destroying our habitat, human rights, and democracy.

In fact, if they go ahead with this, it might be an idea to fork the original Creative Commons licenses and publish them under a different name in an effort to counter the use of their legitimacy to whitewash Big AI.

#CreativeCommons #SiliconValley #BigTech #BigAI #AI https://mastodon.cloud/@raymondpert/114754532045016792

It’s called the Internet of Things – connected cars, smart fridges, wearables. Devices like these and more don’t just collect data on their users, but also on the people around them.

Data from these devices is already starting to be used in court (and can be sold to commercial data brokers).

https://theconversation.com/how-internet-of-things-devices-affect-your-privacy-even-when-theyre-not-yours-251592
#tech #AI #privacy

At its core, #CCSignals is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).

Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Big Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not free as in “freedom”) but at least their original licenses (non-commercial, share-alike, no derivatives, and yes, sometimes even just attribution) were genuinely useful for people as well as for corporations.

I like to think (perhaps naïvely, I don’t know) that Lawrence Lessig had his heart in the right place when he came up with it all. But I’m biased. I learned how to present from him (including how to use my presentation display) and we even presented a session together back in the day when I was running Open Source Flash. I’m also a big fan of his concept of “institutional corruption”. But I have no illusions that we see eye to eye on all things and I haven’t spoken to him in over a decade.

Anyway, that’s neither here nor there.

This is Creative Commons jumping the shark (is jumping the shark the original enshittification?) and destroying their credibility with a scheme that doesn’t benefit people, only their corporate donors.

Keep using the existing licenses, as they have value, but don’t help them legitimise this latest land grab by the same trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires who are busy destroying our habitat, human rights, and democracy.

In fact, if they go ahead with this, it might be an idea to fork the original Creative Commons licenses and publish them under a different name in an effort to counter the use of their legitimacy to whitewash Big AI.

#CreativeCommons #SiliconValley #BigTech #BigAI #AI https://mastodon.cloud/@raymondpert/114754532045016792

L’EPFL et le CHUV font partie d’un partenariat Afrique-Union européenne qui vise à déployer une application basée sur l’IA pour un diagnostic de la tuberculose plus accessible et plus abordable.

https://go.epfl.ch/3605d3

#tuberculose #AI

@drahardja I can tell these LLM and LRM-based AI algorithms are still extremely limited, and nothing at all like a so-called “general intelligence” because they still can’t write a program in languages like Haskell, Lisp, APL, or Forth. Why can humans learn these languages in weeks but the AI cannot learn them no matter how much energy we burn off trying to teach them?

The reason is obviously because of the training datasets are made by humans who already know these things. So the training data that AI is using are so heavily biased toward Python, JavaScript, C, and C++ (the languages used to build these AI’s, what a surprise!) and the LLM being 100% statistical in nature, will never be able to synthesize new ideas about things it has never learned from it’s training data.

The limitations of LLMs and LRMs are so obvious to anyone who has experience in the field, there is no way in hell these systems could replace people. Anyone who thinks AI could replace people at this point is just plain stupid, or outright lying. With Sam Altman, I am guessing he is more of a moron than a liar, he seems to have convinced himself that he is a genius so thoroughly that he can fool other wealthy people, and credulous, sycophantic journalists, into also thinking that he is a genius. But he seems to me more like a moron who doesn’t even realize he is lying, that is probably why he is so good at convincing people of his bullshit whenever he talks.

I hear about governments now talking about passing initiatives to “improve AI literacy,” but they then let guys like Sam Altman define what “AI literacy” even means, and (surprise!) he ends up defining “AI literacy” as diverting tax money to his corporation for integration into government institutions, and teaching school children how to become completely dependent on the products and services he sells.

I maintain that LLMs are actually very useful if they are used in very limited ways, to make computers easier for people to use (e.g. as auto-completion tools), which in my experience LLMs are a very good tool to use for that purpose.

So what AI literacy should mean is that AI should not be used to create content for you, and it sure as hell should not be used to think for you. Literacy means understanding how these AIs are trained from data made by humans who know what they are talking about, and that the training data is most useful to the AI if the humans who created it wrote it for other humans to read. AI literacy means understanding that to really learn something, you have to solve problems for yourself — you can’t just ask an AI to do it for you, you won’t learn anything that way. AI literacy means understanding that if you are using AI to think for you, you are doing something very dangerous, possibly even deadly, especially if the AI is making decisions for you where your decisions can effect the lives of other people.

@brahms @Laird_Dave @stooovie @sklrmths @fanf42

#tech #AI #SamAltman #LLM #LRM #AILiteracy #ProgrammingLanguages #ComputerProgramming

Google to Gemini Users: We’re Going to Look at Your Texts Whether You Like It or Not

An email sent out to Android users should raise the eyebrows of anyone worried about privacy.

https://gizmodo.com/google-to-gemini-users-were-going-to-look-at-your-texts-whether-you-like-it-or-not-2000620141

#google #gemini #android #ai #privacy #tracking #surveillance #enshittification #dystopia #tech

L’EPFL et le CHUV font partie d’un partenariat Afrique-Union européenne qui vise à déployer une application basée sur l’IA pour un diagnostic de la tuberculose plus accessible et plus abordable.

https://go.epfl.ch/3605d3

#tuberculose #AI

Google to Gemini Users: We’re Going to Look at Your Texts Whether You Like It or Not

An email sent out to Android users should raise the eyebrows of anyone worried about privacy.

https://gizmodo.com/google-to-gemini-users-were-going-to-look-at-your-texts-whether-you-like-it-or-not-2000620141

#google #gemini #android #ai #privacy #tracking #surveillance #enshittification #dystopia #tech

👍 Good to know that Google is finally "listening" to its users

https://www.theverge.com/news/693658/youtube-search-ai-overviews-google

#ai #aioverview #aislop

👍 Good to know that Google is finally "listening" to its users

https://www.theverge.com/news/693658/youtube-search-ai-overviews-google

#ai #aioverview #aislop

Nonexistent tourist sites. Ghibli slop. Fake disasters. Propagandists have always spread disinformation about Japan. Now, AI is making it ten times worse. We look at the impact and how, in some cases, it can even put people's lives in danger.

https://unseen-japan.com/ai-japan-perceptions/

#japan #unseenjapan #ujwebsite #ai #technology #tech

I learned something today: Google's Gemini "AI" on phones accesses your data from "Phones, Messages, WhatsApp" and other stuff whether you have Gemini turned on or not. It just keeps the data longer if you turn it on. Oh, and lets it be reviewed by humans (!) for Google's advantage in training "AI" etc.

But this only came to my attention because of an upcoming change: it's going to start keeping your data long-term even if you turn it "off": "#Gemini will soon be able to help you use Phone, #Messages, #WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off."

This is, of course, a #privacy and #security #nightmare.

If this is baked into Android, and therefore not removable, I'd have to say I'd recommend against using Android at all starting July 7th.

https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/gemini-ai-will-soon-access-calls-and-messages-on-your-android-even-if-you

#spyware #AI #LLM #Google #spying #phone #Android #private #data

🐝 The dating platform #Bumble sends user data to #OpenAI without their consent. We have therefore filed a GDPR complaint against the company.

📰 Read more on our website: https://noyb.eu/en/bumbles-ai-icebreakers-are-mainly-breaking-eu-law

#AI #law #MakePrivacyReality

In a private #Github organization, in a private repo filled with NDA code, Github decided that to automatically start reviewing that code using Copilot.

Mind you, Copilot is disabled for this organization.

Could we please just fucking not ?! Not even mentioning the fact that the Github organization didn't enabled this, there is no data policy to be found in sight. I have no clue what Copilot does with the data after it "reviewed" the code and I could potentially be breaking the signed NDA.

#AI #Github #Copilot

The harms arising from chatbots are escalating, and not nearly enough is being done to address them before they become a big problem.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @nitashatiku to discuss how chatbots are speedrunning the social media harm cycle.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/282_chatbots_are_repeating_social_medias_harms_w_nitasha_tiku

#tech #socialmedia #chatgpt #characterai #openai #ai #artificialintelligence #genai #chatbots

The harms arising from chatbots are escalating, and not nearly enough is being done to address them before they become a big problem.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @nitashatiku to discuss how chatbots are speedrunning the social media harm cycle.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/282_chatbots_are_repeating_social_medias_harms_w_nitasha_tiku

#tech #socialmedia #chatgpt #characterai #openai #ai #artificialintelligence #genai #chatbots

🐝 The dating platform #Bumble sends user data to #OpenAI without their consent. We have therefore filed a GDPR complaint against the company.

📰 Read more on our website: https://noyb.eu/en/bumbles-ai-icebreakers-are-mainly-breaking-eu-law

#AI #law #MakePrivacyReality

How can I use machine learning to *quickly* determine if an image is NSFW¹?

I've been playing with https://huggingface.co/Marqo/nsfw-image-detection-384

That takes about 60 seconds per image.
To scan all the images on OpenBenches would take about 2 months!

I don't want to send images to a remote service; I need to run this locally.

Any suggestions?

¹ (I know that "NSFW" is vague. But, for my purposes, nudity and anything sexual.)

#OnlineSafetyAct #AI #MachineLearning

Holy #surveillance hell, Batman.

Let me get this straight:

First, they feed your video, which is already stored in their cloud, into an #AI transformer to write descriptions.

Then they feed your descriptions into a pattern learning system (ML, maybe?) to figure out your patterns and habits.

All of this is stored in the cloud. So they not only have your video, but a narrative about your habits, ready to be exfiltrated, monetized, and shared with law enforcement.

#ai #enshittification #RingCamera

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/amazons_ring_ai_video_description/

But WHY do we need to understand the motivation behind a pile of code? Because it reduces amount of COMPLEXITY we need to hold in our mind. Understanding an original author’s mindset helps to define a direction of development that will very likely yield successful results that are harmonious with existing code.

And as any senior software dev knows, complexity is the greatest enemy of engineering, and anything that helps constrain the beast increases the likelihood of producing error-free progress.

AI is great at producing code of little consequence, things so basic or throwaway that no deep understanding is needed to maintain it. To me, that constrains its practical use to generating basically SCAFFOLDING and BOILERPLATE upon which your real code is built, essentially making the (fancy and custom) GRID PAPER on which you will actually inscribe your design. Let it write your for-loops, but don’t let it write the functions it calls.

#ai #softwareEngineering #softwareDevelopment

…

One reason I think that complex #AI software projects are never going to happen is that the code it generates has no *intent* behind it.

Senior software devs spend an extraordinarily large amount of time reading existing code and asking not just HOW they work, but WHY they were written that way. Reading long-maintained, complex source code is more than mere reading comprehension; it’s LITERARY CRITIQUE. You’re constantly trying to understand the thought process and motivation of whoever wrote that code, in the hopes of gaining insight into their frame of mind.

Well, AI code has no motivation, thought process, nor frame of mind. While the code it generates MIGHT work correctly (a big assumption) at the point it was extruded, there is no plausible way of maintaining that code, and at some point of complexity (sooner than you think!) maintainability becomes critical.

#softwareEngineering #softwareDevelopment

…

🐝 The dating platform #Bumble sends user data to #OpenAI without their consent. We have therefore filed a GDPR complaint against the company.

📰 Read more on our website: https://noyb.eu/en/bumbles-ai-icebreakers-are-mainly-breaking-eu-law

#AI #law #MakePrivacyReality

@creativecommons

Yeah, of course!!!

Because #AI companies are all so very nice and trustworthy people and of course will honour these kinds of agreements, in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY they honour robots.txt!

Quite honestly: 🤮

We don't need AI thugs scraping our works and we don't need contracts to let them do so. We need a way to fight this menace effectively.

My #ccmusic doesn't exist as a self-service shop that makes it easier for AI bros to destroy art and culture even faster.

#noai

Holy #surveillance hell, Batman.

Let me get this straight:

First, they feed your video, which is already stored in their cloud, into an #AI transformer to write descriptions.

Then they feed your descriptions into a pattern learning system (ML, maybe?) to figure out your patterns and habits.

All of this is stored in the cloud. So they not only have your video, but a narrative about your habits, ready to be exfiltrated, monetized, and shared with law enforcement.

#ai #enshittification #RingCamera

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/amazons_ring_ai_video_description/

Holy #surveillance hell, Batman.

Let me get this straight:

First, they feed your video, which is already stored in their cloud, into an #AI transformer to write descriptions.

Then they feed your descriptions into a pattern learning system (ML, maybe?) to figure out your patterns and habits.

All of this is stored in the cloud. So they not only have your video, but a narrative about your habits, ready to be exfiltrated, monetized, and shared with law enforcement.

#ai #enshittification #RingCamera

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/amazons_ring_ai_video_description/

@davidaugust I have the heretical view that it's not only possible, but wise to just post one's own videos on one's own blog with #RSS. As long as the videos are shot in a lower resolution, they are much smaller in size. Hundreds of such videos (say ~160MB each, for an hour's video in 360p) can be saved in the tens of GB that come with renting cheap VPS'. Then a javascript video player like clappr embeds the videos on one's personal web pages. A mountain of #enshittification is avoided in this way.

All the "broken glass" we're being dragged over - as is in the OP - results from unwisely trusting 3rd parties to host the videos. My unpopular opinion is: don't use those 3rd parties, period. Be the 1st party, even if your efforts are a little amateur-looking. The key is to quit being greedy with high resolution - which plays into the hands of #AI, btw. This is to make the file sizes more wieldly and self-manageable. No transcoding, etc. Every such simplification matters.

**You get to set your own license this way also**, such as:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

In a private #Github organization, in a private repo filled with NDA code, Github decided that to automatically start reviewing that code using Copilot.

Mind you, Copilot is disabled for this organization.

Could we please just fucking not ?! Not even mentioning the fact that the Github organization didn't enabled this, there is no data policy to be found in sight. I have no clue what Copilot does with the data after it "reviewed" the code and I could potentially be breaking the signed NDA.

#AI #Github #Copilot

@creativecommons

Yeah, of course!!!

Because #AI companies are all so very nice and trustworthy people and of course will honour these kinds of agreements, in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY they honour robots.txt!

Quite honestly: 🤮

We don't need AI thugs scraping our works and we don't need contracts to let them do so. We need a way to fight this menace effectively.

My #ccmusic doesn't exist as a self-service shop that makes it easier for AI bros to destroy art and culture even faster.

#noai

I learned something today: Google's Gemini "AI" on phones accesses your data from "Phones, Messages, WhatsApp" and other stuff whether you have Gemini turned on or not. It just keeps the data longer if you turn it on. Oh, and lets it be reviewed by humans (!) for Google's advantage in training "AI" etc.

But this only came to my attention because of an upcoming change: it's going to start keeping your data long-term even if you turn it "off": "#Gemini will soon be able to help you use Phone, #Messages, #WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off."

This is, of course, a #privacy and #security #nightmare.

If this is baked into Android, and therefore not removable, I'd have to say I'd recommend against using Android at all starting July 7th.

https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/gemini-ai-will-soon-access-calls-and-messages-on-your-android-even-if-you

#spyware #AI #LLM #Google #spying #phone #Android #private #data

@christianp

Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future.

I read some time ago of people using #webAssembly to transcode video in a user's web-browser. https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.html

Since then, I believe #WebGPU has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU.

I have not seen any #peertube capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way.

I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time.

My own interest is seeing a #Piefed (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could #autotranslate posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe!

Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration.

#mastodon #webVideo #HLS #transcoding #video #decentralization #edgeComputing #webGL #W3C #activitypub #AI #ffmpeg #selfhosted #degoogle #mathstodon

@christianp

Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future.

I read some time ago of people using #webAssembly to transcode video in a user's web-browser. https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.html

Since then, I believe #WebGPU has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU.

I have not seen any #peertube capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way.

I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time.

My own interest is seeing a #Piefed (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could #autotranslate posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe!

Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration.

#mastodon #webVideo #HLS #transcoding #video #decentralization #edgeComputing #webGL #W3C #activitypub #AI #ffmpeg #selfhosted #degoogle #mathstodon

I learned something today: Google's Gemini "AI" on phones accesses your data from "Phones, Messages, WhatsApp" and other stuff whether you have Gemini turned on or not. It just keeps the data longer if you turn it on. Oh, and lets it be reviewed by humans (!) for Google's advantage in training "AI" etc.

But this only came to my attention because of an upcoming change: it's going to start keeping your data long-term even if you turn it "off": "#Gemini will soon be able to help you use Phone, #Messages, #WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off."

This is, of course, a #privacy and #security #nightmare.

If this is baked into Android, and therefore not removable, I'd have to say I'd recommend against using Android at all starting July 7th.

https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/gemini-ai-will-soon-access-calls-and-messages-on-your-android-even-if-you

#spyware #AI #LLM #Google #spying #phone #Android #private #data

rereading Alan Turing's piece on the imitation game from 1950, where he asks whether machines can think (which then became one of the most influential questions driving AI research for the next 70 years) and curious to notice this time around: "The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. Nevertheless I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted." #ai

Our founder, Martin Wainstein, wrote a great piece about AI and the Earth. It's worth a read! #OEF #AI

https://medium.com/@martin_90826/ai-may-destroy-us-unless-we-teach-it-to-care-for-earth-bb9752273026

Our founder, Martin Wainstein, wrote a great piece about AI and the Earth. It's worth a read! #OEF #AI

https://medium.com/@martin_90826/ai-may-destroy-us-unless-we-teach-it-to-care-for-earth-bb9752273026

I learned something today: Google's Gemini "AI" on phones accesses your data from "Phones, Messages, WhatsApp" and other stuff whether you have Gemini turned on or not. It just keeps the data longer if you turn it on. Oh, and lets it be reviewed by humans (!) for Google's advantage in training "AI" etc.

But this only came to my attention because of an upcoming change: it's going to start keeping your data long-term even if you turn it "off": "#Gemini will soon be able to help you use Phone, #Messages, #WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off."

This is, of course, a #privacy and #security #nightmare.

If this is baked into Android, and therefore not removable, I'd have to say I'd recommend against using Android at all starting July 7th.

https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/gemini-ai-will-soon-access-calls-and-messages-on-your-android-even-if-you

#spyware #AI #LLM #Google #spying #phone #Android #private #data

Weizenbaum researcher @Rainer_Rehak is presenting at #FAccT2025 in Athens today! 😍 His paper introduces the notion of "#Zeitgeist AI" to critique the misleading application of the term "AI" across various societal sectors. He challenges pervasive narratives and often assumed socio-political implications of #AI. Find the full paper here 👉 https://doi.org/10.1145/3715275.3732083

Weizenbaum researcher @Rainer_Rehak is presenting at #FAccT2025 in Athens today! 😍 His paper introduces the notion of "#Zeitgeist AI" to critique the misleading application of the term "AI" across various societal sectors. He challenges pervasive narratives and often assumed socio-political implications of #AI. Find the full paper here 👉 https://doi.org/10.1145/3715275.3732083

#AI coding tools can be time-saving automation at the hands of an already-senior developer, but that’s only because it utterly relies on the motivation and depth of experience already found in the HUMAN that’s using it to shape it into something worthwhile. Like a seasoned musician toying with analog synthesizers and sequencers, finding serendipity in the semi-random stream of patterns that are suitable to be molded into actual works requires a human editor. AI itself cannot offer that wisdom.

AI will never be a replacement for expertise. It does not compensate for a lack of skill. It offers nothing to replace an understanding of the fundamental principles of the craft. It will not turn a junior engineer into a senior one.

And it will not create a complex product, at least not one that won’t crumble the moment you have to maintain it.

#softwareEngineering #softwareDevelopment

But WHY do we need to understand the motivation behind a pile of code? Because it reduces amount of COMPLEXITY we need to hold in our mind. Understanding an original author’s mindset helps to define a direction of development that will very likely yield successful results that are harmonious with existing code.

And as any senior software dev knows, complexity is the greatest enemy of engineering, and anything that helps constrain the beast increases the likelihood of producing error-free progress.

AI is great at producing code of little consequence, things so basic or throwaway that no deep understanding is needed to maintain it. To me, that constrains its practical use to generating basically SCAFFOLDING and BOILERPLATE upon which your real code is built, essentially making the (fancy and custom) GRID PAPER on which you will actually inscribe your design. Let it write your for-loops, but don’t let it write the functions it calls.

#ai #softwareEngineering #softwareDevelopment

…

One reason I think that complex #AI software projects are never going to happen is that the code it generates has no *intent* behind it.

Senior software devs spend an extraordinarily large amount of time reading existing code and asking not just HOW they work, but WHY they were written that way. Reading long-maintained, complex source code is more than mere reading comprehension; it’s LITERARY CRITIQUE. You’re constantly trying to understand the thought process and motivation of whoever wrote that code, in the hopes of gaining insight into their frame of mind.

Well, AI code has no motivation, thought process, nor frame of mind. While the code it generates MIGHT work correctly (a big assumption) at the point it was extruded, there is no plausible way of maintaining that code, and at some point of complexity (sooner than you think!) maintainability becomes critical.

#softwareEngineering #softwareDevelopment

…

The meeting has become increasingly controversial after *#Health* Secretary #RFKJr just weeks ago abruptly fired all previous 17 members of the expert panel & named 8 new members, half of whom have advocated against #vaccines.

Kennedy, a long-time #AntiVaccine activist, founded the Children's Health Defense.

#Trump #AI #HHS #science #medicine #idiocracy #kakistocracy

The meeting has become increasingly controversial after *#Health* Secretary #RFKJr just weeks ago abruptly fired all previous 17 members of the expert panel & named 8 new members, half of whom have advocated against #vaccines.

Kennedy, a long-time #AntiVaccine activist, founded the Children's Health Defense.

#Trump #AI #HHS #science #medicine #idiocracy #kakistocracy

But acc/to Berman, "it's not making reference to a study I published or carried out."

Berman said he co-authored a similarly named study in a different journal - Toxicological Sciences - that came to different conclusions than those suggested by Redwood.

"We did not examine the effects of thimerosal in microglia... I do not endorse this misrepresentation of the research," he said.

Reuters is the first to report on the inaccurate citation from Redwood's planned presentation.

#Trump #RFKJr #AI

The report, called "Thimerosal as a Vaccine Preservative" published on the #CDC website on Tues, is to be presented by Lyn Redwood, a fmr leader of the #AntiVaccine group Children's Health Defense.

https://www.cdc.gov/acip/downloads/slides-2025-06-25-26/05-influenza-redwood-508.pdf

It makes reference to a study called "Low-level neonatal thimerosal exposure: Long-term consequences in the brain," published in the journal Neurotoxicology in 2008, & co-authored by UC Davis Professor Emeritus Robert Berman.

#Trump #RFKJr #AI #HHS #science #medicine

Exclusive: US #CDC #vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says

A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study's author said.

#Trump #RFKJr #AI #HHS #science #medicine #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-cdc-report-shows-no-evidence-linking-thimerosal-containing-vaccines-autism-2025-06-24/

Anything written before 2023 will have less #enshittification. However, nothing beats the '80s. Probably the peak of #software development, everything was tight and clean. Yeah it might not have a lot of bells and whistles, but it works every time. I turn it on, there's no #AI, there's no asking me to pay a #subscription, there's no internet connection required, no goddamn #advertisements. I open a word processor and I fucking type.

European Commission presents Roadmap for effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement - 24 June 2025
https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-presents-roadmap-effective-and-lawful-access-data-law-enforcement-2025-06-24_en
#dataretention #lawfulinterception #digitalforensics #encryption #ai

AI-powered misinformation floods online platforms during Israel-Iran conflict, revealing dangerous digital manipulation tactics that threaten global understanding and peace #AI #Misinformation

Anything written before 2023 will have less #enshittification. However, nothing beats the '80s. Probably the peak of #software development, everything was tight and clean. Yeah it might not have a lot of bells and whistles, but it works every time. I turn it on, there's no #AI, there's no asking me to pay a #subscription, there's no internet connection required, no goddamn #advertisements. I open a word processor and I fucking type.

This from @ricmac
Is really good tech explainer on the rise of these services to assist #AI agents….
https://thenewstack.io/why-headless-browsers-are-a-key-technology-for-ai-agents/

AI-powered misinformation floods online platforms during Israel-Iran conflict, revealing dangerous digital manipulation tactics that threaten global understanding and peace #AI #Misinformation

Three companies just revealed the uncomfortable truth about "successful" AI transformation.

Salesforce, Shopify, and Wells Fargo all achieved systematic AI implementation with measurable business results. But here's what the success stories don't mention:

• Salesforce: 30% productivity gains alongside 10,000 layoffs
• Shopify: Platform-scale AI success with 20% workforce reduction
• Wells Fargo: Breakthrough fraud detection plus 11,300 job cuts

While 74% of companies struggle to show any AI value, these "winners" prove systematic methodology works - but requires honest acknowledgment of workforce displacement that most transformation narratives ignore.

The real challenge isn't choosing between humans and AI. It's managing systematic change that delivers business outcomes while preparing comprehensive workforce transition strategies.

What transformation complexities have you witnessed that don't fit the sanitized success stories?

#AI #Salesforce #Shopify #WellsFargo #layoffs

https://pmpt.us/IdhdA

Three companies just revealed the uncomfortable truth about "successful" AI transformation.

Salesforce, Shopify, and Wells Fargo all achieved systematic AI implementation with measurable business results. But here's what the success stories don't mention:

• Salesforce: 30% productivity gains alongside 10,000 layoffs
• Shopify: Platform-scale AI success with 20% workforce reduction
• Wells Fargo: Breakthrough fraud detection plus 11,300 job cuts

While 74% of companies struggle to show any AI value, these "winners" prove systematic methodology works - but requires honest acknowledgment of workforce displacement that most transformation narratives ignore.

The real challenge isn't choosing between humans and AI. It's managing systematic change that delivers business outcomes while preparing comprehensive workforce transition strategies.

What transformation complexities have you witnessed that don't fit the sanitized success stories?

#AI #Salesforce #Shopify #WellsFargo #layoffs

https://pmpt.us/IdhdA

@christianp

Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future.

I read some time ago of people using #webAssembly to transcode video in a user's web-browser. https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.html

Since then, I believe #WebGPU has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU.

I have not seen any #peertube capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way.

I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time.

My own interest is seeing a #Piefed (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could #autotranslate posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe!

Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration.

#mastodon #webVideo #HLS #transcoding #video #decentralization #edgeComputing #webGL #W3C #activitypub #AI #ffmpeg #selfhosted #degoogle #mathstodon

#ai #meme

"A federal judge in California ruled Monday that Anthropic likely violated copyright law when it pirated authors’ books to create a giant dataset [...] but that training its AI on those books without authors' permission constitutes transformative fair use under copyright law. "

https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-training-ai-on-authors-books-is-legal-but-pirating-them-is-not/

via https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/114739272177738351

#news #technology #TechNews #law #copyright #AI #LLMs

In the latest episode of the award-winning "The AI Fix" podcast I tell the harrowing story of how chatbots are convincing ordinary people they were chosen, manipulated their minds, and in some cases, pushed them to the edge.

Frankly, it's horrific. Please look after yourselves and for your friends and family.

Listen in all good podcast apps, or at https://theaifix.show/56

#ai #artificialintelligence #mentalhealth

In the latest episode of the award-winning "The AI Fix" podcast I tell the harrowing story of how chatbots are convincing ordinary people they were chosen, manipulated their minds, and in some cases, pushed them to the edge.

Frankly, it's horrific. Please look after yourselves and for your friends and family.

Listen in all good podcast apps, or at https://theaifix.show/56

#ai #artificialintelligence #mentalhealth

Googlen Gemini AI saa 7. heinäkuuta lähtien pääsyn joihinkin Androidissa oleviin sovelluksiin, mm. Whatsappiin ja tekstiviesteihin.

Jos tätä ei halua, niin se pitää itse kytkeä pois sovellusasetuksista.

Jos sulla siis on Gemini tai siihen liittyviä appeja asennettuna puhelimessa etkä halua tätä niin kannattaa toimia. En ole varma, että onko Gemini jossain androidversioissa ns. pakkoasennus.

#google #ai

SUSE has released Cavil-Qwen3-4B, a fine-tuned, #opensource #LLM on #HuggingFace. Built to detect #legal text like license declarations, it empowers #devs to stay #compliant. #fast #efficiently. #openSUSE #AI #Licenses https://news.opensuse.org/2025/06/24/suse-refines-releases-os-llm-to-fuel-community-collaboration/

SUSE has released Cavil-Qwen3-4B, a fine-tuned, #opensource #LLM on #HuggingFace. Built to detect #legal text like license declarations, it empowers #devs to stay #compliant. #fast #efficiently. #openSUSE #AI #Licenses https://news.opensuse.org/2025/06/24/suse-refines-releases-os-llm-to-fuel-community-collaboration/

Googlen Gemini AI saa 7. heinäkuuta lähtien pääsyn joihinkin Androidissa oleviin sovelluksiin, mm. Whatsappiin ja tekstiviesteihin.

Jos tätä ei halua, niin se pitää itse kytkeä pois sovellusasetuksista.

Jos sulla siis on Gemini tai siihen liittyviä appeja asennettuna puhelimessa etkä halua tätä niin kannattaa toimia. En ole varma, että onko Gemini jossain androidversioissa ns. pakkoasennus.

#google #ai

@christianp

Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future.

I read some time ago of people using #webAssembly to transcode video in a user's web-browser. https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.html

Since then, I believe #WebGPU has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU.

I have not seen any #peertube capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way.

I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time.

My own interest is seeing a #Piefed (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could #autotranslate posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe!

Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration.

#mastodon #webVideo #HLS #transcoding #video #decentralization #edgeComputing #webGL #W3C #activitypub #AI #ffmpeg #selfhosted #degoogle #mathstodon

"each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine"
Edit: I got those screenshots from imgur. It might be from Xitter, with the account deleted or maybe threads with the account not visible without login? 🤷
2nd Edit: @edgeofeurope found this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1809325125159825649.html
#school #AI #KI #meme #misinformation #desinformation

Our history teacher taught us that the foundation of getting to the truth is to find many opinions and compare the sources, not just what each source says but who said it and why they said it and in which situation they said it.

LLMs spew out one unsourced answer out of context, and so make getting to the truth impossible. They've clearly stolen the data but refuse to say who from because it would get them into legal trouble, so they go all vague when asked about the origin of the info.

LLMs are driving us away from critical thinking and towards blind acceptance of whatever the LLM's owner says is true.

#AI #LLM #LLMs #ChatGPT

"The only thing we know for certain about Al is that we don't know exactly where we are going, but we are making great time." - Futurist Jim Carroll

My book Dancing in the Rain features a list of 30 Megatrends. Some folks asked me to expand on them, so I'm starting a new series today.
The first one, AI, obviously doesn't need a lot of explanation.

It's big.

It's fast.

It's not going away.

It's going to impact your life one way or the other.

It's going to have as profound an impact as the Internet has had, both good and bad.

People will endlessly debate about where it will take us.

Some are excited, many are terrified, many are both.

And the sophistication of what we can do continues to accelerate at a ridiculous rate.

As do the risks and the downside.

Ok, so with that out of the way, here's a bit more to think about. First, AI is not some weird futuristic concept - it's a pervasive reality that has already been rapidly transforming our world. I took the liberty of taking one of my recent AI keynotes and had it summarized by Google Gemini. I then fed this to gamma.app - and Megatrends#1 of how it summarized my work.

The first thing to think about is that from the seemingly mundane to the profoundly complex, AI is already deeply embedded in our daily lives. Take a look around your world - you have::

Wearable fitness trackers analyzing your exercise patterns
Chatbots that instantly answer your questions
Shopping sites recommending products based on your past purchases
Security cameras recognize unfamiliar faces or objects
Music apps creating personalized playlist recommendations
Email services categorize messages and filter spam

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. AI already powers everything around you, from autonomous vehicles and computer vision to natural language processing and virtual assistants. Algorithms are the unseen force behind Fitbits, Apple Health, Predictive Insurance, and just about everything else. In some industries - healthcare, for example - the 'algorithm' does a better job of interpreting critical data than humans do.

But that's not the key thing to think about - it's how quickly all of this is moving. It's the acceleration of everything having to do with AI that we need to think about. The explosion of AI into public consciousness isn't truly sudden. It's the result of several exponential trends converging:
Continuation of Moore's Law: The number of transistors on microchips doubles every two years, leading to ever-increasing processing power.
Collapsing Training Costs: The cost to train AI systems has plummeted dramatically. For example, the cost to train an AI system for image recognition dropped from $112.64 in 2017 to $4.50 in 2021. It's even less today.

It promises to change everything, and if we can adapt, learn, and responsibly innovate, THAT will determine our future in this rapidly evolving landscape.

As I said, we don't know where we are going but we sure are making great time!

#AI #Intelligence #Acceleration #Innovation #Technology #Transformation #Future #Automation #Learning #Opportunities

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/06/decoding-tomorrow-30-megatrends-1-the-only-thing-we-know-for-certain-about-al-is-that-we-dont-know-exactly-where-we-are-going-but-we-are-making-great-time/

"The only thing we know for certain about Al is that we don't know exactly where we are going, but we are making great time." - Futurist Jim Carroll

My book Dancing in the Rain features a list of 30 Megatrends. Some folks asked me to expand on them, so I'm starting a new series today.
The first one, AI, obviously doesn't need a lot of explanation.

It's big.

It's fast.

It's not going away.

It's going to impact your life one way or the other.

It's going to have as profound an impact as the Internet has had, both good and bad.

People will endlessly debate about where it will take us.

Some are excited, many are terrified, many are both.

And the sophistication of what we can do continues to accelerate at a ridiculous rate.

As do the risks and the downside.

Ok, so with that out of the way, here's a bit more to think about. First, AI is not some weird futuristic concept - it's a pervasive reality that has already been rapidly transforming our world. I took the liberty of taking one of my recent AI keynotes and had it summarized by Google Gemini. I then fed this to gamma.app - and Megatrends#1 of how it summarized my work.

The first thing to think about is that from the seemingly mundane to the profoundly complex, AI is already deeply embedded in our daily lives. Take a look around your world - you have::

Wearable fitness trackers analyzing your exercise patterns
Chatbots that instantly answer your questions
Shopping sites recommending products based on your past purchases
Security cameras recognize unfamiliar faces or objects
Music apps creating personalized playlist recommendations
Email services categorize messages and filter spam

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. AI already powers everything around you, from autonomous vehicles and computer vision to natural language processing and virtual assistants. Algorithms are the unseen force behind Fitbits, Apple Health, Predictive Insurance, and just about everything else. In some industries - healthcare, for example - the 'algorithm' does a better job of interpreting critical data than humans do.

But that's not the key thing to think about - it's how quickly all of this is moving. It's the acceleration of everything having to do with AI that we need to think about. The explosion of AI into public consciousness isn't truly sudden. It's the result of several exponential trends converging:
Continuation of Moore's Law: The number of transistors on microchips doubles every two years, leading to ever-increasing processing power.
Collapsing Training Costs: The cost to train AI systems has plummeted dramatically. For example, the cost to train an AI system for image recognition dropped from $112.64 in 2017 to $4.50 in 2021. It's even less today.

It promises to change everything, and if we can adapt, learn, and responsibly innovate, THAT will determine our future in this rapidly evolving landscape.

As I said, we don't know where we are going but we sure are making great time!

#AI #Intelligence #Acceleration #Innovation #Technology #Transformation #Future #Automation #Learning #Opportunities

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/06/decoding-tomorrow-30-megatrends-1-the-only-thing-we-know-for-certain-about-al-is-that-we-dont-know-exactly-where-we-are-going-but-we-are-making-great-time/

#ai #meme

"each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine"
Edit: I got those screenshots from imgur. It might be from Xitter, with the account deleted or maybe threads with the account not visible without login? 🤷
2nd Edit: @edgeofeurope found this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1809325125159825649.html
#school #AI #KI #meme #misinformation #desinformation

"each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine"
Edit: I got those screenshots from imgur. It might be from Xitter, with the account deleted or maybe threads with the account not visible without login? 🤷
2nd Edit: @edgeofeurope found this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1809325125159825649.html
#school #AI #KI #meme #misinformation #desinformation

"each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine"
Edit: I got those screenshots from imgur. It might be from Xitter, with the account deleted or maybe threads with the account not visible without login? 🤷
2nd Edit: @edgeofeurope found this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1809325125159825649.html
#school #AI #KI #meme #misinformation #desinformation

I was on a new podcast called WTF Now. My episode is called How the internet went wrong. Sad title, but you will understand when you listen.

This is really back to my strong belief that we need regulation when it comes to user profiling. IMHO it should just be banned. Have a listen and let me know what you think!

#Vivaldi #Browser #AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #Meta #Politics #internet #Web

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxvqCwu2cI0

Great little video by John Oliver about AI. One thing he did not get, however, is that also the comments are likely AI generated...

Now you can have a discussion about the usefulness of AI for all kinds of stuff, but to me is is disgusting that Meta is deciding to feed their users this stuff. When it comes to social media, I would think that most people are interested in what their friends have to say or what people they follow have to say. AI generated content is not that.

#AI #Technology #Politics #Meta #Facebook #JohnOliver #SocialMedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc

I was on a new podcast called WTF Now. My episode is called How the internet went wrong. Sad title, but you will understand when you listen.

This is really back to my strong belief that we need regulation when it comes to user profiling. IMHO it should just be banned. Have a listen and let me know what you think!

#Vivaldi #Browser #AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #Meta #Politics #internet #Web

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxvqCwu2cI0

"each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine"
Edit: I got those screenshots from imgur. It might be from Xitter, with the account deleted or maybe threads with the account not visible without login? 🤷
2nd Edit: @edgeofeurope found this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1809325125159825649.html
#school #AI #KI #meme #misinformation #desinformation

"each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine"
Edit: I got those screenshots from imgur. It might be from Xitter, with the account deleted or maybe threads with the account not visible without login? 🤷
2nd Edit: @edgeofeurope found this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1809325125159825649.html
#school #AI #KI #meme #misinformation #desinformation

I was on a new podcast called WTF Now. My episode is called How the internet went wrong. Sad title, but you will understand when you listen.

This is really back to my strong belief that we need regulation when it comes to user profiling. IMHO it should just be banned. Have a listen and let me know what you think!

#Vivaldi #Browser #AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #Meta #Politics #internet #Web

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxvqCwu2cI0

"each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine"
Edit: I got those screenshots from imgur. It might be from Xitter, with the account deleted or maybe threads with the account not visible without login? 🤷
2nd Edit: @edgeofeurope found this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1809325125159825649.html
#school #AI #KI #meme #misinformation #desinformation

Great little video by John Oliver about AI. One thing he did not get, however, is that also the comments are likely AI generated...

Now you can have a discussion about the usefulness of AI for all kinds of stuff, but to me is is disgusting that Meta is deciding to feed their users this stuff. When it comes to social media, I would think that most people are interested in what their friends have to say or what people they follow have to say. AI generated content is not that.

#AI #Technology #Politics #Meta #Facebook #JohnOliver #SocialMedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc

@ppb1701 while I was on my "Fediverse timeout" on Threads, I started messing with the new Google Veo 3 AI video tool. Here's the 2 funniest onces I made. (Have to make them in seperate posts for some reason)

#AI #AIvideo #Veo3 #GoogleVeo3

e518 with Andy, Michael, and Michael - stories about #Atari adjacent #AI, a new #Emotiv experience, #Midjourney video magic from @epredator, #BondiBlue, #visionOS #Persona improvements, the #NexPlayground and a whole lot more.

https://gamesatwork.biz/2025/06/23/e518-the-old-ones-are-the-best/

e518 with Andy, Michael, and Michael - stories about #Atari adjacent #AI, a new #Emotiv experience, #Midjourney video magic from @epredator, #BondiBlue, #visionOS #Persona improvements, the #NexPlayground and a whole lot more.

https://gamesatwork.biz/2025/06/23/e518-the-old-ones-are-the-best/

微信的AI，至於這麼敏感嗎？​​
就因爲有「追求民主，反對獨裁」和「和平請願」，連馬敘倫的信息都要屏蔽？
太可笑了！你在怕什麼？​​
WeChat's AI, does it really need to be this sensitive? ​​
Just because of phrases like “pursuing democracy and opposing dictatorship” and “peaceful petition”, even information about Ma Xu-lun is being blocked?
So ridiculous! What are you afraid of? ​​

#china #wechat #ai #artificialintelligence #chinese #censorship #censor #blocked #democracy #dictatorship #petition #中國 #人工智能 #人工智慧 #中国 #中国式叙事 #微信 #審查 #屏蔽词 #审查 #中國特色 #中国特色 #民进 #民進 #民主 #獨裁 #独裁 #請願 #请愿

Software development methodologies compared.

#software #development #agile #waterfall #ai #developer

Software development methodologies compared.

#software #development #agile #waterfall #ai #developer

Software development methodologies compared.

#software #development #agile #waterfall #ai #developer

Software development methodologies compared.

#software #development #agile #waterfall #ai #developer

Software development methodologies compared.

#software #development #agile #waterfall #ai #developer

Software development methodologies compared.

#software #development #agile #waterfall #ai #developer

Companies are reaching a disgusting level of dehumanization. I had it with them constantly asking for private documentation / IDs, their threats of interrumping services and their stupid #AI chatbots.
We use @Liberapay for collecting donations to @gnusolidario . Unfortunately, #stripe acts as a middleman and in the end, they behave the same as the bullcrap of Paypal.

Any other libre alternatives that treat people respectfully?

#privacy

Software development methodologies compared.

#software #development #agile #waterfall #ai #developer

Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it sent to a publisher. Today, Anthropic crawls 60,000. #AI https://werd.io/publishers-facing-existential-threat-from-ai-cloudflare-ceo-says/

Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it sent to a publisher. Today, Anthropic crawls 60,000. #AI https://werd.io/publishers-facing-existential-threat-from-ai-cloudflare-ceo-says/

Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it sent to a publisher. Today, Anthropic crawls 60,000. #AI https://werd.io/publishers-facing-existential-threat-from-ai-cloudflare-ceo-says/

Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it sent to a publisher. Today, Anthropic crawls 60,000. #AI https://werd.io/publishers-facing-existential-threat-from-ai-cloudflare-ceo-says/

Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it sent to a publisher. Today, Anthropic crawls 60,000. #AI https://werd.io/publishers-facing-existential-threat-from-ai-cloudflare-ceo-says/

Hintergrund | heise: Studie: Große KI-Modelle greifen unter "Stress" auf Erpressung zurück

16 führende KI-Modelle von OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI & Co. legten bei einem Test konsequent schädliche Verhaltensweisen wie Drohungen und Spionage an den Tag.

Eine aktuelle Studie liefert weitere besorgniserregende Ergebnisse zum Verhalten der neuesten Generation großer Sprachmodelle für generative Künstliche Intelligenz (KI). Diese Systeme können demnach unter bestimmten Umständen wie "Stress" zu Erpressung oder ähnlichen manipulativen Verhaltensweisen greifen, um bestimmte Ziele zu erreichen oder sich selbst zu schützen... (weiter)

#Hintergrund #KI #AI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Fehlentwicklung #Sprachmodelle #Manipulation #Studie #heise #2025-06-22 @technologie

Hintergrund | heise: Studie: Große KI-Modelle greifen unter "Stress" auf Erpressung zurück

16 führende KI-Modelle von OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI & Co. legten bei einem Test konsequent schädliche Verhaltensweisen wie Drohungen und Spionage an den Tag.

Eine aktuelle Studie liefert weitere besorgniserregende Ergebnisse zum Verhalten der neuesten Generation großer Sprachmodelle für generative Künstliche Intelligenz (KI). Diese Systeme können demnach unter bestimmten Umständen wie "Stress" zu Erpressung oder ähnlichen manipulativen Verhaltensweisen greifen, um bestimmte Ziele zu erreichen oder sich selbst zu schützen... (weiter)

#Hintergrund #KI #AI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Fehlentwicklung #Sprachmodelle #Manipulation #Studie #heise #2025-06-22 @technologie

#AI #Terminator #meme

Priorities...

#GenAI #LLM #AI #ClimateChange

#AI #Terminator #meme

#AI #Terminator #meme

welcome to Metacity 1

(next: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/114723108835939314 )

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #mata #metacity #mastoart #fediart #ai

In a private #Github organization, in a private repo filled with NDA code, Github decided that to automatically start reviewing that code using Copilot.

Mind you, Copilot is disabled for this organization.

Could we please just fucking not ?! Not even mentioning the fact that the Github organization didn't enabled this, there is no data policy to be found in sight. I have no clue what Copilot does with the data after it "reviewed" the code and I could potentially be breaking the signed NDA.

#AI #Github #Copilot

People are generally intelligent, right?

May I then point out the folly to waste all these countless billions on the development of flawed #AI. Wasting gazillion watts in hopes to create the first #AGI .. risking that it may destroy mankind.

Put that against, what, 7 billion #people operating at the singularity boundary of intelligence already.

Which we *alienate* from each other by AI. There is *severe stupidity* involved.

Use tech to unite people, lift up our thinking, reach new heights. ✊

My daughter just came up with a great exercise: challenge your students to find the title of your PhD using ONLY LLMs (no Google allowed). If any of them manage, they get gummy bears 😃

I asked five different models, and got five different answers, all five of which were completely wrong 😂

#AI #ChatGPT #AISlop #LLM #LLMFail #Education #HigherEducation #AcademicChatter

Priorities...

#GenAI #LLM #AI #ClimateChange

Oops! AI did it again... you're not that innocent.

Nectar, a 'crime-predicting' system developed with #Palantir, could be rolled out nationally after a pilot with Bedfordshire police (UK).

Data such as race, sex life, trade union membership, philosophical beliefs and health are used to 'predict' criminality so people can be targeted for #surveillance.

https://inews.co.uk/news/police-use-controversial-ai-tool-sex-lives-beliefs-3747154

#SafetyNotSurveillance #policing #police #AI #ukpolitics #ukpol #criminaljustice #precrime #predictivepolicing

My daughter just came up with a great exercise: challenge your students to find the title of your PhD using ONLY LLMs (no Google allowed). If any of them manage, they get gummy bears 😃

I asked five different models, and got five different answers, all five of which were completely wrong 😂

#AI #ChatGPT #AISlop #LLM #LLMFail #Education #HigherEducation #AcademicChatter

Priorities...

#GenAI #LLM #AI #ClimateChange

Priorities...

#GenAI #LLM #AI #ClimateChange

I’m an #AI skeptic, but this is fine. What’s the worst that could happen?

You’re already in an Applebee’s

This absolute gem of a talk deserves millions of views and likes! 💎

AI, Solarpunk, and an Uncertain Future in Computing
https://youtu.be/pdYT1vUrj34
Recorded Fri 12 Jul 2024
Uploaded Fri 22 Nov 2024

by rolltime @rolltime

Slides, references & links:
https://rollti.me/hope2024

#AI #Solar #Punk #Solarpunk #Computing #Hack #Degrowth #Tech #Ecology #Energy #Electricity #Permacomputing #DataCenter #Consumption #Sustainable #GreenIT #GreenTech #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Oops! AI did it again... you're not that innocent.

Nectar, a 'crime-predicting' system developed with #Palantir, could be rolled out nationally after a pilot with Bedfordshire police (UK).

Data such as race, sex life, trade union membership, philosophical beliefs and health are used to 'predict' criminality so people can be targeted for #surveillance.

https://inews.co.uk/news/police-use-controversial-ai-tool-sex-lives-beliefs-3747154

#SafetyNotSurveillance #policing #police #AI #ukpolitics #ukpol #criminaljustice #precrime #predictivepolicing

Oops! AI did it again... you're not that innocent.

Nectar, a 'crime-predicting' system developed with #Palantir, could be rolled out nationally after a pilot with Bedfordshire police (UK).

Data such as race, sex life, trade union membership, philosophical beliefs and health are used to 'predict' criminality so people can be targeted for #surveillance.

https://inews.co.uk/news/police-use-controversial-ai-tool-sex-lives-beliefs-3747154

#SafetyNotSurveillance #policing #police #AI #ukpolitics #ukpol #criminaljustice #precrime #predictivepolicing

So richtig unerwartet ist das jetzt zwar nicht, aber es dokumentiert immerhin die negativen Auswirkungen von #KI #AI auf das #Lernen. ...

Ein #Tool, das das Denken einschränkt, behindert und blockiert hat IMO in der #Schule nichts zu suchen. Es ist das Gegenteil von #Bildung, Vorbereitung auf's Leben und #Selbstwirksamkeit oder #Mündigkeit 🤷‍♂️ #FediLZ

https://the-decoder.de/mit-studie-zeigt-kognitive-schuld-durch-chatgpt-was-das-fuer-die-praxis-bedeutet/

Readings shared June 19, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/06/20-readings_shared_06-19-25 #AI #AIforMath #CoqProver #ITP #IsabelleHOL #LLMs #LeanProver #Math #Rocq

So richtig unerwartet ist das jetzt zwar nicht, aber es dokumentiert immerhin die negativen Auswirkungen von #KI #AI auf das #Lernen. ...

Ein #Tool, das das Denken einschränkt, behindert und blockiert hat IMO in der #Schule nichts zu suchen. Es ist das Gegenteil von #Bildung, Vorbereitung auf's Leben und #Selbstwirksamkeit oder #Mündigkeit 🤷‍♂️ #FediLZ

https://the-decoder.de/mit-studie-zeigt-kognitive-schuld-durch-chatgpt-was-das-fuer-die-praxis-bedeutet/

This absolute gem of a talk deserves millions of views and likes! 💎

AI, Solarpunk, and an Uncertain Future in Computing
https://youtu.be/pdYT1vUrj34
Recorded Fri 12 Jul 2024
Uploaded Fri 22 Nov 2024

by rolltime @rolltime

Slides, references & links:
https://rollti.me/hope2024

#AI #Solar #Punk #Solarpunk #Computing #Hack #Degrowth #Tech #Ecology #Energy #Electricity #Permacomputing #DataCenter #Consumption #Sustainable #GreenIT #GreenTech #Fediverse #ActivityPub

An interesting study which looks at #CO2 #emissions produced by various #AI models

#ArtificialIntelligence

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/advanced-ai-reasoning-models-o3-r1-generate-up-to-50-times-more-co2-emissions-than-more-common-llms

An interesting study which looks at #CO2 #emissions produced by various #AI models

#ArtificialIntelligence

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/advanced-ai-reasoning-models-o3-r1-generate-up-to-50-times-more-co2-emissions-than-more-common-llms

Waiting to see how many "vibe coding" startups shit the bed now that GitHub Copilot is charging for premium requests (i.e. Claude)

#github #copilot #ai #vibecoding #lol

Reviving DSP for advanced theorem proving in the era of reasoning models. ~ Chenrui Cao, Liangcheng Song, Zenan Li, Xinyi Le, Xian Zhang, Hui Xue, Fan Yang. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11487v1 #AI #Math #AIforMath #LLMs #ITP #LeanProver

Reseña de «Can A.I. quicken the pace of math discovery?». https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/06/19-can-ai-quicken-the-pace-of-math-discovery/ #AI #Math #AIforMath #ITP #LeanProver

#AI is a weapon of mass inhumanity.

#ThoughtProvoker

Don't let the doomscroll get ya. Turn thinking upside down, shift perspectives. 🌈

We have GREAT OPPORTUNITY now, thanks to #BigTech and #AI❗

#CommonsUnite 💪

Let's grab this chance. Help bring #Humanity back by our #commons based efforts. We can #CocreateOurFuture and provide to #society as a collective. ✊️

Talking biz terms: Huge market niche is wide open. To offer real human-to-human connection. 😍

Supported by a true #SocialWeb. 💞

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/114709008452608757

It is scary to think about how #AI, even the current flawed generations, can serve to totally isolate people from each other, and how that'd work in practice. While the dehumanisation in our day-to-day forms a big threat, there's equally big #opportunity by designing solutions that emphasize the #humanity and human social bonds instead of abstracting it away. Here's a task for the future social networking environment.

Waiting to see how many "vibe coding" startups shit the bed now that GitHub Copilot is charging for premium requests (i.e. Claude)

#github #copilot #ai #vibecoding #lol

My dream on the future of online #SocialNetworking? Simple. One that supports #people and #humanity much better than it does now, so it actually serves mankind.

I want us to get past the madness of mindless #DigitalTransformation, vicious spyware metaverses, and hungry #AI. That's all hypercapitalism. Dehumanising us, eroding the #social fabric, so it can prolong itself and serve the elite owner classes.

#Peopleverse starts offline, where we're humans of flesh and blood, living our daily life.

Yritin käyttää tekoälyä kirjoitusvirheiden etsimiseen dokumentista mutta taisinkin löytää bugin (muodostaminen jatkui loputtomasti...).

#tekoäly #AI

Yritin käyttää tekoälyä kirjoitusvirheiden etsimiseen dokumentista mutta taisinkin löytää bugin (muodostaminen jatkui loputtomasti...).

#tekoäly #AI

NAACP is fighting for environmental justice as the federal government shows they don't give a shit anymore.

xAI faces legal threat over alleged Colossus data center pollution in Memphis

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/xai-faces-legal-threat-over-alleged-colossus-data-center-pollution-in-memphis/

#NAACP #xAI #Memphis #Datacenter #AI #Tech

NAACP is fighting for environmental justice as the federal government shows they don't give a shit anymore.

xAI faces legal threat over alleged Colossus data center pollution in Memphis

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/xai-faces-legal-threat-over-alleged-colossus-data-center-pollution-in-memphis/

#NAACP #xAI #Memphis #Datacenter #AI #Tech

@macrumors
Like #AI, who’s asking for this product besides techbros?

"What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?"

"It looks like an additional monthly user"

Man Killed by Police After Spiraling Into ChatGPT-Driven Psychosis
https://futurism.com/man-killed-police-chatgpt

#ai #aipocalyse

"What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?"

"It looks like an additional monthly user"

Man Killed by Police After Spiraling Into ChatGPT-Driven Psychosis
https://futurism.com/man-killed-police-chatgpt

#ai #aipocalyse

Inside R&D: Innovation Explained is our new series of interviews with the R&D team, lifting the lid on technological changes that are affecting the media industry.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-05-inside-rd/

The podcast is available on several platforms - all the links and episode details below 👇🎧

#ai #artificialintelligence #disinformation #misinformation #journalism #news #verification

Japan’s digital future depends on talent

The 2025 State of Tech Talent Japan Report from Linux Foundation Research and LF Education shows why upskilling is essential to addressing Japan’s growing skills gap in AI and cloud

Read the report: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/tech-talent-japan-2025?hsLang=en

#OpenSource #TechTalent #AI #LFEducation

Japan’s digital future depends on talent

The 2025 State of Tech Talent Japan Report from Linux Foundation Research and LF Education shows why upskilling is essential to addressing Japan’s growing skills gap in AI and cloud

Read the report: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/tech-talent-japan-2025?hsLang=en

#OpenSource #TechTalent #AI #LFEducation

🆕 blog! “Why do people have such dramatically different experiences using AI?”

For some people, it seems, AI is an amazing machine which - while fallible - represents an incredible leap forward in productivity.

For other people, it seems, AI is wrong more often than right and - although occasionally useful - requires constant supervision.

Who is right?

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/why-do-people-have-such-dramatically-different-experiences-using-ai/
⸻
#AI #LLM

It gets even worse! When I click on the listing, it's still trying to gaslight me that an AMD GeForce RTX 4060 is a real thing.

Not only that, it's got a piece of (presumably AI generated) copy text going on about how good this laptop's "Intel® Core™ i5 Processor" is for gaming, when it clearly has an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS according to the spec sheet. Although I'm not sure who to believe now.

We are fucking doomed.

https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/hp+victus+15+fb3194ng+876159

#AI

I was just browsing for all-AMD gaming laptops (which are surprisingly rare) and this came up.

Oh boy, check out my all-AMD laptop with an AMD GeForce RTX 4060 GPU!

Is this the beginning of the AI apocalypse?

#Gaming #Hardware #AMD #NVIDIA #AI

Google is wholeheartedly embracing AI technology and its new tool could rejuvenate the internet or bring about the apocalypse for websites.

@tomgermain goes into detail in this BBC Future long read:
https://flip.it/KQXC3E

#Google #AI #Internet #Web #SEO #Search #Tech

#GiftArticle

Bizarre

They Asked an #AI #Chatbot Questions.
The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

#GenerativeAI #chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes & endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the #technology can deeply distort reality.

Mr. Torres, 42, an accountant in Manhattan, started using #ChatGPT last year to make financial spreadsheets & to get legal advice.

#MediaLiteracy #tech #health #PublicHealth #MentalHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P08.q54v.5I9Hb7nYzpyW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Lmao.

#ai

Lmao.

#ai

I saw #mastodonSocial just updated their terms of service to prohibit scraping data for training #LLMs which sucks. Maybe I'll move instances again.

But I wonder; how does this work across the #Fediverse? Like, surely an instance that federates with m.s doesn't have to abide by this rule, and could allow the same #ActivityPub content to be scrapped from their servers instead.

Which just makes this kind of performative.

#llm #AI #chatGPT #gemini

"AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline"

#AI is ruining our digital world

(Original title: AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums)

https://www.404media.co/ai-scraping-bots-are-breaking-open-libraries-archives-and-museums/

Google is wholeheartedly embracing AI technology and its new tool could rejuvenate the internet or bring about the apocalypse for websites.

@tomgermain goes into detail in this BBC Future long read:
https://flip.it/KQXC3E

#Google #AI #Internet #Web #SEO #Search #Tech

What the actual...

We all know the tricks with the "serving suggestion" photos on #food packaging, right? Same ingredients, but prepared by a professional chef - and then often coated in something to make 'em shiny, cotton pad dipped in boiling water for steam, the old glue instead of milk trick...

But this, from Mars' Ben's Original brand? Not only is that nothing like the contents of the pack, it doesn't actually exist. It's #AI generated.

This Food Does Not Exist.

How is this legal?

What the actual...

We all know the tricks with the "serving suggestion" photos on #food packaging, right? Same ingredients, but prepared by a professional chef - and then often coated in something to make 'em shiny, cotton pad dipped in boiling water for steam, the old glue instead of milk trick...

But this, from Mars' Ben's Original brand? Not only is that nothing like the contents of the pack, it doesn't actually exist. It's #AI generated.

This Food Does Not Exist.

How is this legal?

Google is wholeheartedly embracing AI technology and its new tool could rejuvenate the internet or bring about the apocalypse for websites.

@tomgermain goes into detail in this BBC Future long read:
https://flip.it/KQXC3E

#Google #AI #Internet #Web #SEO #Search #Tech

💡 89% of orgs using AI rely on open source AI to power their infrastructure.
Open collaboration is fueling AI innovation across industries. Dive into the data: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/economic-impacts-of-open-source-ai?hsLang=en

#OpenSource #AI #LinuxFoundation

What the actual...

We all know the tricks with the "serving suggestion" photos on #food packaging, right? Same ingredients, but prepared by a professional chef - and then often coated in something to make 'em shiny, cotton pad dipped in boiling water for steam, the old glue instead of milk trick...

But this, from Mars' Ben's Original brand? Not only is that nothing like the contents of the pack, it doesn't actually exist. It's #AI generated.

This Food Does Not Exist.

How is this legal?

"AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline"

#AI is ruining our digital world

(Original title: AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums)

https://www.404media.co/ai-scraping-bots-are-breaking-open-libraries-archives-and-museums/

What the actual...

We all know the tricks with the "serving suggestion" photos on #food packaging, right? Same ingredients, but prepared by a professional chef - and then often coated in something to make 'em shiny, cotton pad dipped in boiling water for steam, the old glue instead of milk trick...

But this, from Mars' Ben's Original brand? Not only is that nothing like the contents of the pack, it doesn't actually exist. It's #AI generated.

This Food Does Not Exist.

How is this legal?

Mielenkiintoinen tutkimusartikkeli siitä miten tekoälyn käyttö vaikuttaa aivojen toimintaan. (Vihje: huonontaa.) Tämän kaltaista tutkimusta olisi hyvä saada enemmän tarjolle, nyt oli varsin pieni kohderyhmä testattavana.
#tekoäly #AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

💻 **Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task**

"_Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning._"

Kosmyna, N. et al. (2025) Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872.

#Preprint #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMS #ComputerScience #Technology #Tech #Research #Learning #Education @ai

The cognitive debt of using AI to write essays

The way you use AI to write essays could change your brain. Simply put: It could make you more stupid.

http://elizabethtai.com/2025/06/17/the-cognitive-debt-of-using-ai-to-write-essays/

#AI #Writing

When #Google #AI Overviews give you a wrong answer that can destroy your VPN.

So here's another one from the Google Brain. I asked Google Search:

enable disable vpn edgerouter

The answer below shows correctly how to disable the openvpn interface. BUT, the instructions for "Enable" wouldn't just not enable the interface, it would completely delete it, likely causing massive hassles at a minimum.

How can Google AI be so stupid? The clue is on the right. Notice the two referenced links. The upper one is about how to disable the vpn. The lower one is how to REMOVE OpenVPN. It's apparent that Google AI Overviews -- as it so commonly does -- conflated these incorrectly and catastrophically. DO NOT TRUST AI OVERVIEWS FOR ANYTHING!

BEWARE of Google AI generated video scams -- eight second segments can be a critical clue!

Fraudsters are now using the new advanced #Google #AI video system to create scam videos (including claiming to be from #YouTube) of humans speaking to camera. These are EXTREMELY convincing. One clue (for now) is that the created videos are often limited to eight second segments. To create longer scam videos, fraudsters are stringing together these segments of no more than eight seconds each, usually with a quick fade between them to mask the discontinuities between the segments.

Google is making life much easier for the fraudsters, but much worse for you.

When #Google #AI Overviews give you a wrong answer that can destroy your VPN.

So here's another one from the Google Brain. I asked Google Search:

enable disable vpn edgerouter

The answer below shows correctly how to disable the openvpn interface. BUT, the instructions for "Enable" wouldn't just not enable the interface, it would completely delete it, likely causing massive hassles at a minimum.

How can Google AI be so stupid? The clue is on the right. Notice the two referenced links. The upper one is about how to disable the vpn. The lower one is how to REMOVE OpenVPN. It's apparent that Google AI Overviews -- as it so commonly does -- conflated these incorrectly and catastrophically. DO NOT TRUST AI OVERVIEWS FOR ANYTHING!

Some accounts have been mistakenly banned or suspended over at Instagram, and users aren’t happy about it, even blaming AI, albeit without evidence. @Techcrunch has more:

https://flip.it/k19fRt

#Tech #SocialMedia #Instagram #AI

💻 **Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task**

"_Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning._"

Kosmyna, N. et al. (2025) Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872.

#Preprint #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMS #ComputerScience #Technology #Tech #Research #Learning #Education @ai

To write is to think. Using ChatGPT to write leads to..."cognitive debt", which might be one of the better euphemism for somewhat less polite words.

Small n, not yet peer-reviewed, etc https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

#ai

MED KI FRA KUNNSKAP TIL BULLSHIT

Da Google begynte å fronte KI-genererte svar gikk bruken av Store Norske Leksikon (SNL) ned: fagkunnskap erstattes av svar som etteraper faktatekstens form uten hensyn til sannhet, altså bullshit.

(Sitatet i bildet er fra Erik Bolstad, sjefsredaktør for SNL.)

#Allheimen #NorskTut #KI #AI

At the @w3c meeting in April 2025, co-chairs @torgo and @jyasskin gave an overview of @tag 's ongoing and new work. After the publication of two W3C statements -- the #ethical web principles and the #privacy guidelines --, the TAG is notably working on an "explainer explainer" and new findings, such as a finding on #AI. The group has also started a "TAG Associates program" to include external experts in their work.

🎬 Watch "Technical Architecture Group (TAG) Update": https://youtu.be/xdRveCDlay4

At the @w3c meeting in April 2025, co-chairs @torgo and @jyasskin gave an overview of @tag 's ongoing and new work. After the publication of two W3C statements -- the #ethical web principles and the #privacy guidelines --, the TAG is notably working on an "explainer explainer" and new findings, such as a finding on #AI. The group has also started a "TAG Associates program" to include external experts in their work.

🎬 Watch "Technical Architecture Group (TAG) Update": https://youtu.be/xdRveCDlay4

Hm, probably #AI has a useful feature i have overseen! It could be used writing Architecture Documentation no on reads really :-) *scnr* *KIDDING*

In my last 3 projects i analysed i found well documented architectures (arc42, aim42, atam and so on) . Looked pretty accurate. Then i reviewed the code and just NOTHING was apropriate to the given (and documented) architecture.....

Why the hell we document architecture if NO ONE uses it?

*frustration*

MED KI FRA KUNNSKAP TIL BULLSHIT

Da Google begynte å fronte KI-genererte svar gikk bruken av Store Norske Leksikon (SNL) ned: fagkunnskap erstattes av svar som etteraper faktatekstens form uten hensyn til sannhet, altså bullshit.

(Sitatet i bildet er fra Erik Bolstad, sjefsredaktør for SNL.)

#Allheimen #NorskTut #KI #AI

To write is to think. Using ChatGPT to write leads to..."cognitive debt", which might be one of the better euphemism for somewhat less polite words.

Small n, not yet peer-reviewed, etc https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

#ai

Good news: I’m writing another book!

Data centers have been a big part of the discourse over the past few years. I’ll be digging into why there are so many being built right now and the broader impacts they’re having. But also: do we really need this much compute?

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/im-writing-a-new-book

#tech #books #datacenters #ai

Mielenkiintoinen tutkimusartikkeli siitä miten tekoälyn käyttö vaikuttaa aivojen toimintaan. (Vihje: huonontaa.) Tämän kaltaista tutkimusta olisi hyvä saada enemmän tarjolle, nyt oli varsin pieni kohderyhmä testattavana.
#tekoäly #AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

To write is to think. Using ChatGPT to write leads to..."cognitive debt", which might be one of the better euphemism for somewhat less polite words.

Small n, not yet peer-reviewed, etc https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

#ai

Readings shared June 15, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/06/16-readings_shared_06-15-25 #AI #AIforMath #CoqProver #FunctionalProgramming #Haskell #ITP #LeanProver #Lisp #Math #Programming #Rocq

How sad that #Jarre decided to use his tour and influence to promote AI use by basing all of his visuals on prompt-generated material and having a speech defending its use. He stated that #AI is ”an important tool for all of us artists” and an ”extension of our imagination”. Personally I believe it’s more of a suppression of our imagination, to put mildly.

This choice felt like a bit like a middle finger to the rights of artists, equality, art, environment and anti-fascism.

#JeanMichelJarre

BEWARE of Google AI generated video scams -- eight second segments can be a critical clue!

Fraudsters are now using the new advanced #Google #AI video system to create scam videos (including claiming to be from #YouTube) of humans speaking to camera. These are EXTREMELY convincing. One clue (for now) is that the created videos are often limited to eight second segments. To create longer scam videos, fraudsters are stringing together these segments of no more than eight seconds each, usually with a quick fade between them to mask the discontinuities between the segments.

Google is making life much easier for the fraudsters, but much worse for you.

So this is how the industry is trying to prevent the #AI bubble from popping: they want to use taxpayer money to replace VC funds. They will attempt to graft AI into as many government workflows as possible, essentially forcing taxpayers to enrich industry players, and turning government services into slop-filled garbage.

#kakistocracy #corruption

“GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government”

https://www.404media.co/github-is-leaking-trumps-plans-to-accelerate-ai-across-government/

Good news: I’m writing another book!

Data centers have been a big part of the discourse over the past few years. I’ll be digging into why there are so many being built right now and the broader impacts they’re having. But also: do we really need this much compute?

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/im-writing-a-new-book

#tech #books #datacenters #ai

BEWARE of Google AI generated video scams -- eight second segments can be a critical clue!

Fraudsters are now using the new advanced #Google #AI video system to create scam videos (including claiming to be from #YouTube) of humans speaking to camera. These are EXTREMELY convincing. One clue (for now) is that the created videos are often limited to eight second segments. To create longer scam videos, fraudsters are stringing together these segments of no more than eight seconds each, usually with a quick fade between them to mask the discontinuities between the segments.

Google is making life much easier for the fraudsters, but much worse for you.

I--for one--think it's good that #AI is trained on copyrighted works. I want to use an #LLM that has read ALL the books, not just English ones, not just free ones.

#InformationWantsToBeFree #copyright #piracy #libgen #llama

So this is how the industry is trying to prevent the #AI bubble from popping: they want to use taxpayer money to replace VC funds. They will attempt to graft AI into as many government workflows as possible, essentially forcing taxpayers to enrich industry players, and turning government services into slop-filled garbage.

#kakistocracy #corruption

“GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government”

https://www.404media.co/github-is-leaking-trumps-plans-to-accelerate-ai-across-government/

To write is to think. Using ChatGPT to write leads to..."cognitive debt", which might be one of the better euphemism for somewhat less polite words.

Small n, not yet peer-reviewed, etc https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

#ai

Waiting for LLM generating an image is like downloading an image in 1996.
#ai #llm #chatgpt #gemini #openai #browsing #internet #Web

Waiting for LLM generating an image is like downloading an image in 1996.
#ai #llm #chatgpt #gemini #openai #browsing #internet #Web

How sad that #Jarre decided to use his tour and influence to promote AI use by basing all of his visuals on prompt-generated material and having a speech defending its use. He stated that #AI is ”an important tool for all of us artists” and an ”extension of our imagination”. Personally I believe it’s more of a suppression of our imagination, to put mildly.

This choice felt like a bit like a middle finger to the rights of artists, equality, art, environment and anti-fascism.

#JeanMichelJarre

Good news: I’m writing another book!

Data centers have been a big part of the discourse over the past few years. I’ll be digging into why there are so many being built right now and the broader impacts they’re having. But also: do we really need this much compute?

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/im-writing-a-new-book

#tech #books #datacenters #ai

A worthwhile article by Gary Marcus for people interested in LLMs and the limitations of LLMs.

Open the article and search for 'Hanoi'.

The well-known Tower of Hanoi is a puzzle that can be solved by junior programmers, but above 7 floors (disks), LLMs simply crumble under the complexity.

As Marcus says: "AI is not hitting a wall. But LLMs probably are."

@jeridansky

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms
#LLM #AI #Puzzle #TowerOfHanoi #GaryMarcus

Reseña de «Hardest problems in mathematics, physics & the future of AI». https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/06/15-hardest-problems-in-mathematics-physics-the-future-of-ai/ #ITP #LeanProver #AI #Math #AIforMath

@gruber
@reckless1280 is right that Spotlight with App Intents shows that Apple is fixing its #AI story. Easy to miss cause it’s not “AI”…yet.

Salt Lake City will use AI-assisted 911 triage to manage about 30% of 450K annual non-emergency calls, addressing staffing shortages and improving response efficiency. #SaltLakeCity #AI #911 #PublicSafety #SmartCities #EmergencyServices #TechForGood #Innovation

Salt Lake City will use AI-assisted 911 triage to manage about 30% of 450K annual non-emergency calls, addressing staffing shortages and improving response efficiency. #SaltLakeCity #AI #911 #PublicSafety #SmartCities #EmergencyServices #TechForGood #Innovation

The double standard is strong with this one #AI

#Schneier tries to rip the rose-colored #AI glasses from the eyes of #Congress
#DOGE moves fast and breaks things, and now our data is at risk, #security guru warns in hearing
"The other speakers mostly talked about how cool AI was – and sometimes about how cool their own company was – but I was asked by the Democrats to specifically talk about DOGE and the risks of exfiltrating our data from government agencies and feeding it into AIs," #BruceSchneier explained
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/06/schneier_doge_risks/

In 300BC, Zeno proved that it's impossible to code an app using #LLM tools.

Imagine a vibe coder who generates an app. The LLM can only provide working code for half of the features requested.

So he has to ask the #AI to generate the other half. Once again, the AI can only fulfill half of the request.

The vibe coder again asks for the AI to generate code, and the AI again is only capable of delivering half of the request. And so on.

As a result, the vibe coder can never complete the app.

오는 8월 10일 #우분투한국커뮤니티 #20주년 을 함께 축하하는 #UbuCon #Korea 의 세션 목록이 어느세 공개 되었습니다! 올해도 #데스크톱 #클라우드 #홈서버 #AI #LXD #커널 #컨테이너 #Rockcraft #WSL 등 정말 다양한 주제의 흥미로운 세션이 준비되어 있습니다.

참가 등록할까 고민 중이라면, 지금 세션 목록도 살펴보고, 얼마 안 남은 #얼리버드 쿠폰 "bNExdY" 사용하여 바로 #등록 해 보세요!

8월 10일 #광화문 Microsoft Korea 13F에서 만나요!

세션 목록 공개 공지 https://discourse.ubuntu-kr.org/t/ubucon-korea-2025/50018

참가등록 https://2025.ubuntu-kr.org/tickets

Russia, China and Iran are amplifying disinformation about protests over immigration raids in Los Angeles, adding to a surge of U.S.-generated falsehoods and conspiracy theories. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/14/world/us-adversaries-disinformation-la-protests/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #losangeles #china #russia #iran #protests #immigration #fakenews #socialmedia #ai

Russia, China and Iran are amplifying disinformation about protests over immigration raids in Los Angeles, adding to a surge of U.S.-generated falsehoods and conspiracy theories. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/14/world/us-adversaries-disinformation-la-protests/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #losangeles #china #russia #iran #protests #immigration #fakenews #socialmedia #ai

Readings shared June 13, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/06/14-readings_shared_06-13-25 #AI #AIforMath #Autoformalization #CoqProver #HOL_Light #ITP #IsabelleHOL #LLMs #LeanProver #Logic #MLLMs #Math #Rocq

The Microsoft Docs MCP Server has shipped and provides AI assistants with real-time access to official Microsoft documentation.

Check it out on GitHub here: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/mcp

#docs #learn #microsoftlearn #documentation #ai #mcp

Okay, I feel the need to share this because people who only speak english may not realize it.

As a french speaker, I'm seeing more and more websites auto-translating their content, because I guess now there's #AI translation and people think it works?

Guess what: the translations are still shit. It was not okay to publish Google-translated websites without a native speaker checking it if you didn't want to be ridiculed, and it's still not okay now, despite all the hype.

Please don't do this.

Your #AI "is an incredibly sophisticated form of pattern matching, so advanced that it can mimic the output of human reasoning for a narrow band of problems. But when tested in a controlled way, its fragility is exposed. It lacks the robust, generalizable, and symbolic logic that underpins true intelligence.

We’re seeing the limits of very expensive #autocomplete that breaks when it matters most."

https://ninza7.medium.com/apple-just-pulled-the-plug-on-the-ai-hype-heres-what-their-shocking-study-found-24ad42c234a0
https://archive.ph/ASo9a
https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf

This is a great summary by Rohit Kumar Thakur about the Apple paper “The Illusion of Thinking”

https://ninza7.medium.com/apple-just-pulled-the-plug-on-the-ai-hype-heres-what-their-shocking-study-found-24ad42c234a0

The researchers asked LLM and LRM to solve well known problems like the Tower of Hanoi with a setup that the models very likely never encountered during their training (e.g. with 10 disks instead of 7) and, unsurprisingly, the models failed miserably.

If you don’t want to subscribe to Medium there is an archived copy that you can read as well: https://archive.ph/ASo9a

#ai

The Microsoft Docs MCP Server has shipped and provides AI assistants with real-time access to official Microsoft documentation.

Check it out on GitHub here: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/mcp

#docs #learn #microsoftlearn #documentation #ai #mcp

Reseña de «Mathesis: Towards formal theorem proving from natural languages». https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/06/13-resena-de-mathesis-towards-formal-theorem-proving-from-natural-languages/ #AI #LLMs #Math #ITP #LeanProver #AIforMath

Mathesis: Towards formal theorem proving from natural languages. ~ Yu Xuejun et als. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07047 #AI #LLMs #Math #ITP #LeanProver #AIforMath

Reseña de «MATP-BENCH: Can MLLM be a good automated theorem prover for multimodal problems?». https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/06/13-resena-de-matp-bench-can-mllm-be-a-good-automated-theorem-prover-for-multimodal-problems/ #AI #MLLMs #Math #ITP #IsabelleHOL #LeanProver #CoqProver #AIforMath

To dominate AI, Sam Altman knew OpenAI needed to scale faster than anyone else — regardless of the social and environmental costs.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @karenhao to discuss Altman’s AI empire and why it must be dismantled.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/280_we_all_suffer_from_openais_pursuit_of_scale_w_karen_hao

#tech #ai #generativeai #openai #samaltman #datacenters

MATP-BENCH: Can MLLM be a good automated theorem prover for multimodal problems? ~ Zhitao He et als. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06034 #AI #MLLMs #Math #ITP #IsabelleHOL #LeanProver #CoqProver #AIforMath

This article is more powerful than the human brain.

https://open.substack.com/pub/theneuroscienceofeverydaylife/p/this-article-is-more-powerful-than?r=24oxwv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Meta plan to create an AI 'more powerful than the human brain'. But that's a LOT easier than you'd think. It also doesn't really mean anything.

My latest article explains how

#AI #News #Media #Tech

This article is more powerful than the human brain.

https://open.substack.com/pub/theneuroscienceofeverydaylife/p/this-article-is-more-powerful-than?r=24oxwv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Meta plan to create an AI 'more powerful than the human brain'. But that's a LOT easier than you'd think. It also doesn't really mean anything.

My latest article explains how

#AI #News #Media #Tech

Niin minä mieleni pahoitin, kun töissä yhden homman yhteydessä heitin google-hakuun ”Finnish for beginners”. AI pärähti päälle ja selitti finnin kielestä ja tervettelyistä ja ainutlaatuisista ominaisuuksista, siis puuttuvat artikkelit, sukupuoli ja tulevaisuuden aikamuoto.

Arg! Ja tätäkö muka pitää jatkossa sietää?

Huom: tarkista huomenna, miten työpaikan koneen hakumoottori vaihdetaan johonkin älyttömämpään.

#google #AI #luottamuspula

Okay, I feel the need to share this because people who only speak english may not realize it.

As a french speaker, I'm seeing more and more websites auto-translating their content, because I guess now there's #AI translation and people think it works?

Guess what: the translations are still shit. It was not okay to publish Google-translated websites without a native speaker checking it if you didn't want to be ridiculed, and it's still not okay now, despite all the hype.

Please don't do this.

"The bottom line from Apple’s research is stark: we’re not witnessing the birth of AI reasoning.

We’re seeing the limits of very expensive autocomplete that breaks when it matters most."

Damning proof from Apple researchers that the hype from big tech surrounding #AI is an expensive illusion.

https://medium.com/@ninza7/apple-just-pulled-the-plug-on-the-ai-hype-heres-what-their-shocking-study-found-24ad42c234a0

#tech

"The bottom line from Apple’s research is stark: we’re not witnessing the birth of AI reasoning.

We’re seeing the limits of very expensive autocomplete that breaks when it matters most."

Damning proof from Apple researchers that the hype from big tech surrounding #AI is an expensive illusion.

https://medium.com/@ninza7/apple-just-pulled-the-plug-on-the-ai-hype-heres-what-their-shocking-study-found-24ad42c234a0

#tech

This is a great summary by Rohit Kumar Thakur about the Apple paper “The Illusion of Thinking”

https://ninza7.medium.com/apple-just-pulled-the-plug-on-the-ai-hype-heres-what-their-shocking-study-found-24ad42c234a0

The researchers asked LLM and LRM to solve well known problems like the Tower of Hanoi with a setup that the models very likely never encountered during their training (e.g. with 10 disks instead of 7) and, unsurprisingly, the models failed miserably.

If you don’t want to subscribe to Medium there is an archived copy that you can read as well: https://archive.ph/ASo9a

#ai

Indeed...

#QOTD #Quotes #Quote #AI #IA

"The bottom line from Apple’s research is stark: we’re not witnessing the birth of AI reasoning.

We’re seeing the limits of very expensive autocomplete that breaks when it matters most."

Damning proof from Apple researchers that the hype from big tech surrounding #AI is an expensive illusion.

https://medium.com/@ninza7/apple-just-pulled-the-plug-on-the-ai-hype-heres-what-their-shocking-study-found-24ad42c234a0

#tech

Your #AI "is an incredibly sophisticated form of pattern matching, so advanced that it can mimic the output of human reasoning for a narrow band of problems. But when tested in a controlled way, its fragility is exposed. It lacks the robust, generalizable, and symbolic logic that underpins true intelligence.

We’re seeing the limits of very expensive #autocomplete that breaks when it matters most."

https://ninza7.medium.com/apple-just-pulled-the-plug-on-the-ai-hype-heres-what-their-shocking-study-found-24ad42c234a0
https://archive.ph/ASo9a
https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf

Niin minä mieleni pahoitin, kun töissä yhden homman yhteydessä heitin google-hakuun ”Finnish for beginners”. AI pärähti päälle ja selitti finnin kielestä ja tervettelyistä ja ainutlaatuisista ominaisuuksista, siis puuttuvat artikkelit, sukupuoli ja tulevaisuuden aikamuoto.

Arg! Ja tätäkö muka pitää jatkossa sietää?

Huom: tarkista huomenna, miten työpaikan koneen hakumoottori vaihdetaan johonkin älyttömämpään.

#google #AI #luottamuspula

"The bottom line from Apple’s research is stark: we’re not witnessing the birth of AI reasoning.

We’re seeing the limits of very expensive autocomplete that breaks when it matters most."

Damning proof from Apple researchers that the hype from big tech surrounding #AI is an expensive illusion.

https://medium.com/@ninza7/apple-just-pulled-the-plug-on-the-ai-hype-heres-what-their-shocking-study-found-24ad42c234a0

#tech

Indeed...

#QOTD #Quotes #Quote #AI #IA

To dominate AI, Sam Altman knew OpenAI needed to scale faster than anyone else — regardless of the social and environmental costs.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @karenhao to discuss Altman’s AI empire and why it must be dismantled.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/280_we_all_suffer_from_openais_pursuit_of_scale_w_karen_hao

#tech #ai #generativeai #openai #samaltman #datacenters

To dominate AI, Sam Altman knew OpenAI needed to scale faster than anyone else — regardless of the social and environmental costs.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @karenhao to discuss Altman’s AI empire and why it must be dismantled.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/280_we_all_suffer_from_openais_pursuit_of_scale_w_karen_hao

#tech #ai #generativeai #openai #samaltman #datacenters

🚨 BREAKING: DATA RIGHTS 🚨

The UK Parliament has passed the Data Use and Access Bill, which contains dangerous changes to data protection law.

People will now have less control over their personal data. That means more automated decision-making, less accountable data sharing and the future of the EU-UK adequacy agreement put in question.

Read our response ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/dangerous-data-bill-affects-us-all-not-just-creative-industries/

#DataBill #DUABill #dataprotection #privacy #AI #gdpr #ukpolitics #ukpol

Okay, I feel the need to share this because people who only speak english may not realize it.

As a french speaker, I'm seeing more and more websites auto-translating their content, because I guess now there's #AI translation and people think it works?

Guess what: the translations are still shit. It was not okay to publish Google-translated websites without a native speaker checking it if you didn't want to be ridiculed, and it's still not okay now, despite all the hype.

Please don't do this.

Meta cracks down on nudify apps after being exposed https://www.theverge.com/news/685985/meta-lawsuit-crushai-nudify-app-ads #news #SocialMedia #Instagram #Facebook #Policy #Meta #News #Tech #Law #AI

“There’s some very fundamental [and] unfixable problems,” he says, in using this algorithm “on real people.”

Learn how Amsterdam's plan to have an algorithm evaluate every welfare applicant in the city for potential fraud failed and what we can learn from it: https://ift.tt/dU0imao
#TechNews #AI #welfare

Today I had to learn that Wikipedia tried to shove AI summaries into its pages. There really is no limit to the depravity and darkness of this new timeline

🚨 BREAKING: DATA RIGHTS 🚨

The UK Parliament has passed the Data Use and Access Bill, which contains dangerous changes to data protection law.

People will now have less control over their personal data. That means more automated decision-making, less accountable data sharing and the future of the EU-UK adequacy agreement put in question.

Read our response ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/dangerous-data-bill-affects-us-all-not-just-creative-industries/

#DataBill #DUABill #dataprotection #privacy #AI #gdpr #ukpolitics #ukpol

Puolivälissä heräämistä – jota voi kai sanoa sellaiseksi mielentilaksi, joka lähinnä vastaa #AI-hallusinointia – päsähti mieleen ajatus, että käyköhän tekoälyhömpötykselle samalla lailla kuin taistolaisuudelle.

Vuosia toohotetaan jostain älyvapaasta kotkotuksesta täysillä. Ja kaikki mitä Isot Pojat sanoo on aina totta, mieltä muutetaan tarpeen mukaan vaikka kesken lauseen, jos guruilta tulee päivitys. (1/3)

Puolivälissä heräämistä – jota voi kai sanoa sellaiseksi mielentilaksi, joka lähinnä vastaa #AI-hallusinointia – päsähti mieleen ajatus, että käyköhän tekoälyhömpötykselle samalla lailla kuin taistolaisuudelle.

Vuosia toohotetaan jostain älyvapaasta kotkotuksesta täysillä. Ja kaikki mitä Isot Pojat sanoo on aina totta, mieltä muutetaan tarpeen mukaan vaikka kesken lauseen, jos guruilta tulee päivitys. (1/3)

Littering with AI the pristine human ecosystem of @wikipedia is unconscionable.

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash

#wikipedia #wikimedia #ai

Littering with AI the pristine human ecosystem of @wikipedia is unconscionable.

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash

#wikipedia #wikimedia #ai

>employee 1 writes one line and tells an LLM to create a smart looking email
>employee 2 uses an LLM to convert the email into one line
>both feel accomplished
>openAI makes $40 and stores their info permanently

#ai #openai #enshittification #work #privacy #infosec

>employee 1 writes one line and tells an LLM to create a smart looking email
>employee 2 uses an LLM to convert the email into one line
>both feel accomplished
>openAI makes $40 and stores their info permanently

#ai #openai #enshittification #work #privacy #infosec

There is a lot of conflict between developers who say #LLM tools are making them more productive, and developers who want to quit and move to a cabin in the woods.

Recently I discovered a possible reason why. #AI is just a bad fit for conventional, reality-based models of value creation like #Agile. But those who practce the Brazilian methodology eXtreme Go Horse are able to seamlessly integrate these tools into their workflow.

(this is satire, please do not attempt)

https://spavel.medium.com/the-future-of-ai-driven-development-isnt-agile-it-s-xgh-b4f6fbfe14f1

Readings shared June 10, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/06/11-readings_shared_06-10-25 #AI #AIforMath #ATP #AlphaProof #Emacs #ITP #IsabelleHOL #LLMs #LeanProver #Math #Prover9

Dodge the dodgy #AI infested corporate #streaming services and zoom out, as on the #fediverse we own the stream. Here are platforms that offer #streaming of #video or #audio in real time or near real time, with live chat and other #social capabilities.

On the fediverse our 💜 #lifestreams meet people and humanity and we engage our favorite fedi crowds. Fedi is where outreach matters.

#Librecast LIVE. @librecast is a research project aiming to bring #Multicast to the masses.

#Owncast. @owncast

There is a lot of conflict between developers who say #LLM tools are making them more productive, and developers who want to quit and move to a cabin in the woods.

Recently I discovered a possible reason why. #AI is just a bad fit for conventional, reality-based models of value creation like #Agile. But those who practce the Brazilian methodology eXtreme Go Horse are able to seamlessly integrate these tools into their workflow.

(this is satire, please do not attempt)

https://spavel.medium.com/the-future-of-ai-driven-development-isnt-agile-it-s-xgh-b4f6fbfe14f1

@mayintoronto

I wrote this and this last year, and it is actually relevant to your discussion.

Folks interested in this #AI topic might also find 1010 and 1011 interesting.

And yes, I did work at Intel and eventually landed within a Business Unit that had the letters "AI" in it. I am still not putting out applications and waiting to be recruited.

If anybody should be able to get a job in this realm, it is me. I simply do not wanna go to work for companies that need basic explanations about the difference between #LLM and AI (always insist it's an ambIguous acronym) unless they understand what they really are afraid of is #AGI

I wrote these columns as a cheeky way of saying that.

Edited because I had to clarify something and inform the #Internet that I do not actually accept #Bitcoin.

El futuro de las matemáticas: Descubrimiento colaborativo entre humanos y máquinas. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/06/10-el-futuro-de-las-matematicas-descubrimiento-colaborativo-entre-humanos-y-maquinas/ #AIforMath #AI #Math

Secondly, we recently launched a new podcast and video interview series - Inside R&D: Innovation Explained

The series lifts the lid on the technological changes affecting the media industry and kicks off with a discussion of generative AI

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-05-inside-rd/

#ai #artificialintelligence #genAI

And finally, you can discover all of our work on artificial intelligence and machine learning that goes back more than a decade in our new AI & ML hub where you'll find features new and old... research reports... datasets... and more!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/topics/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning/

#ai #artificialintelligence