📢 CALL TO FEDIVERSE

Tons of discussion about seeking alternatives to #Microsoft #Github, now that it has become part of MS's #AI division.

What made GH so popular, we should ask? Well, a ton of features and services on top of #git and a huge platform that makes exploring millions of #FOSS projects easy, are among the reasons I suppose.

The #ActivityPub @forgefed project funded by #NGI0 via @nlnet is creating open standards to provide the same, *native* to the #fediverse!

Yet they need HELP.

Perfect example of an XY problem https://www.404media.co/uk-asks-people-to-delete-emails-in-order-to-save-water-during-drought/

#DataCenters #AI #XYproblem #energy

Perfect example of an XY problem https://www.404media.co/uk-asks-people-to-delete-emails-in-order-to-save-water-during-drought/

#DataCenters #AI #XYproblem #energy

#Grok 笑话

#LLM #AI

📢 CALL TO FEDIVERSE

Tons of discussion about seeking alternatives to #Microsoft #Github, now that it has become part of MS's #AI division.

What made GH so popular, we should ask? Well, a ton of features and services on top of #git and a huge platform that makes exploring millions of #FOSS projects easy, are among the reasons I suppose.

The #ActivityPub @forgefed project funded by #NGI0 via @nlnet is creating open standards to provide the same, *native* to the #fediverse!

Yet they need HELP.

📢 CALL TO FEDIVERSE

Tons of discussion about seeking alternatives to #Microsoft #Github, now that it has become part of MS's #AI division.

What made GH so popular, we should ask? Well, a ton of features and services on top of #git and a huge platform that makes exploring millions of #FOSS projects easy, are among the reasons I suppose.

The #ActivityPub @forgefed project funded by #NGI0 via @nlnet is creating open standards to provide the same, *native* to the #fediverse!

Yet they need HELP.

https://imginn.com/p/DNI4VI2oV0q/

The future tech bros want

#ai #aislop

📢 CALL TO FEDIVERSE

Tons of discussion about seeking alternatives to #Microsoft #Github, now that it has become part of MS's #AI division.

What made GH so popular, we should ask? Well, a ton of features and services on top of #git and a huge platform that makes exploring millions of #FOSS projects easy, are among the reasons I suppose.

The #ActivityPub @forgefed project funded by #NGI0 via @nlnet is creating open standards to provide the same, *native* to the #fediverse!

Yet they need HELP.

📢 CALL TO FEDIVERSE

Tons of discussion about seeking alternatives to #Microsoft #Github, now that it has become part of MS's #AI division.

What made GH so popular, we should ask? Well, a ton of features and services on top of #git and a huge platform that makes exploring millions of #FOSS projects easy, are among the reasons I suppose.

The #ActivityPub @forgefed project funded by #NGI0 via @nlnet is creating open standards to provide the same, *native* to the #fediverse!

Yet they need HELP.

@drahardja

"Laundered plagiarism" has to be the most succinct and accurate description I've come across in a long time. Deserves its own hashtag.

#LaunderedPlagiarism #AI #AITraining

Jesus fucking Christ

"Assimilation-induced #dehumanization: #Psychology research uncovers a dark side effect of #AI

...when people interact with #autonomousAgents—such as robots or #virtualAssistants—that display strong #emotionalIntelligence, they tend to see those machines as more humanlike. But this shift comes with an unintended consequence: people may also begin to see other humans as less human, leading to a higher likelihood of mistreating them."

https://www.psypost.org/assimilation-induced-dehumanization-psychology-research-uncovers-a-dark-side-effect-of-ai/

LLMs will never be what they're currently advertised as. They are not answer machines. They are not search engines. They do not think. They do not provide data.

All they do is generate text via statistical weights. They do not generate thoughts, or information. Just characters in sequence. They cannot be stopped from "hallucinating." Because they do not "hallucinate." They just generate text. Whether that text reflects reality or not is only ever due to coincidence.

These companies won't tell you this, because they want your money. So they lie, which primes you to accept more BS from the automated BS machine.

#OpenAI #LLM #ChatGPT #AI

Every story where someone is driven mad by ChatGPT begins with lies about the technology, what it is, and what it does—lies that originate from OpenAI itself.

The very framing of "having a conversation with a computer" is artificial, deceitful, and constructed by the company in order to turn statistical text generation into a consumer-facing product. Deceit lies at the core of what OpenAI does with this technology. The people being "fooled" by ChatGPT are first fooled by OpenAI. People are being actively coached—by real, live human beings—into being easily manipulated by this software.

#OpenAI #LLM #ChatGPT #AI

@drahardja

"Laundered plagiarism" has to be the most succinct and accurate description I've come across in a long time. Deserves its own hashtag.

#LaunderedPlagiarism #AI #AITraining

Last month, job boards for actors were flooded with ads looking for people to record “conversations, character voices, and natural speech to help train AI systems," for a project by Microsoft. Payment was orders of magnitude more than a normal acting gig — up to $80,000, where a national ad campaign for a big brand might ordinarily pay $6,000. @404mediaco's Rosie Thomas spoke to voice actors about the "Faustian bargain" of accepting such roles. "You're still taking away tomorrow's meal because they're offering you a little bit more,” says Katie Clark Gray.

https://flip.it/XFIH26

#Movies #Cinema #Film #Acting #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech

Last month, job boards for actors were flooded with ads looking for people to record “conversations, character voices, and natural speech to help train AI systems," for a project by Microsoft. Payment was orders of magnitude more than a normal acting gig — up to $80,000, where a national ad campaign for a big brand might ordinarily pay $6,000. @404mediaco's Rosie Thomas spoke to voice actors about the "Faustian bargain" of accepting such roles. "You're still taking away tomorrow's meal because they're offering you a little bit more,” says Katie Clark Gray.

https://flip.it/XFIH26

#Movies #Cinema #Film #Acting #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech

Apparently GitHub will become part of Microsoft's "AI Team" [1]. Even reading the CEO's post about their departure reads like a fever dream. [2]

«I am more convinced than ever that the world will soon see one billion developers enabled by billions of AI agents»

I am not sure if it is even possible to have more mentions of "AI" in a single post. Those sillicon valley people are really out of their minds.

Thankfully, there's @forgejo and @Codeberg

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/github-will-be-folded-into-microsoft-proper-as-ceo-steps-down/
[2]: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/goodbye-github/

#github #microsoft #enshittification #forgejo #codeberg #git #dev #opensource #ai #llm #bullshitgenerators

And this is why I’m working on moving my #GitHub repos to #Codeberg: the former is now fully an #AI #LLM training source and divisional sales funnel for #Microsoft’s other services. https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

/ @Codeberg @forgejo

#programming #coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #Copilot

GitHub can now change it's name to ShitHub ➡️ 💩

Microsoft is moving GitHub into its CoreAI team, following the resignation of GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke today.

The Verge reports. So much of "embracing AI or getting out" - maybe Thomas Dohmke wasn't embracing AI enough?

#aishit #aislop #ai #github #microsoft

AI is a great way for private corporations to benefit from open source development without adhering to their license, isn’t it?

I think GPL (especially GPL3) gives me pause, and people who use MIT and Apache type licenses really have no recourse, but using AI to pattern match code is…well, it’s copying without copying, laundered plagiarism. It turns the authors behind the code into nameless resources to be exploited.

Anyway, just a random thought. Carry on.

#openSource #ai

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

GitHub can now change it's name to ShitHub ➡️ 💩

Microsoft is moving GitHub into its CoreAI team, following the resignation of GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke today.

The Verge reports. So much of "embracing AI or getting out" - maybe Thomas Dohmke wasn't embracing AI enough?

#aishit #aislop #ai #github #microsoft

And this is why I’m working on moving my #GitHub repos to #Codeberg: the former is now fully an #AI #LLM training source and divisional sales funnel for #Microsoft’s other services. https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

/ @Codeberg @forgejo

#programming #coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #Copilot

https://imginn.com/p/DNI4VI2oV0q/

The future tech bros want

#ai #aislop

Well, well, well.... the deployment of AI to summarise case notes has led to a failure to fully identify a range of health issues affecting women.

There are often expressed concerns about the distortions introduced by AI into data it is asked to summarise or synthesise, and here is a case when such distortions may have real world prejudicial effects.

(Yes I know I complained earlier about speculative AI stories... but this is at least based on evidence!)

#AI #health
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/11/ai-tools-used-by-english-councils-downplay-womens-health-issues-study-finds

🎉 Researchers from our AI institute at the University of Stuttgart @Uni_Stuttgart will present two papers tackling real-world challenges with AI:

- "Making the Web More Inclusive: Enter AccessGuru" (#ASSETS2025).

- "MultiADS: Defect-aware Supervision for Multi-type Anomaly Detection and Segmentation in Zero-Shot Learning" (#ICCV2025).

https://www.ki.uni-stuttgart.de/institute/news/Two-Papers-Addressing-Real-World-Problems-Through-AI-to-be-presented-at-ICCV-and-ASSETS/

#AI #AIResearch

We do not aim for #deltachat to be another social media app. No #ai summaries or suggestions. No public directory of contacts. No discovery via outside identifiers (mobile phone or email). Just you and your contacts privately messaging, in a solid simple user interface on all platforms. End-to-End encryption enforced on two layers. #chatmail relays know and retain nothing, no content or metadata. #webxdc apps allow for custom interactions on top of chats.

Contributors and donations welcome!

We do not aim for #deltachat to be another social media app. No #ai summaries or suggestions. No public directory of contacts. No discovery via outside identifiers (mobile phone or email). Just you and your contacts privately messaging, in a solid simple user interface on all platforms. End-to-End encryption enforced on two layers. #chatmail relays know and retain nothing, no content or metadata. #webxdc apps allow for custom interactions on top of chats.

Contributors and donations welcome!

Well, well, well.... the deployment of AI to summarise case notes has led to a failure to fully identify a range of health issues affecting women.

There are often expressed concerns about the distortions introduced by AI into data it is asked to summarise or synthesise, and here is a case when such distortions may have real world prejudicial effects.

(Yes I know I complained earlier about speculative AI stories... but this is at least based on evidence!)

#AI #health
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/11/ai-tools-used-by-english-councils-downplay-womens-health-issues-study-finds

Googlen ex-johtaja on Carrollin kanssa samaa mieltä typeryyden maksimoinnista.

Mo Gawdat thinks the next 12-15 years will be dark, not because of robots but because of our own “stupidity.” (capitalism)
https://gizmodo.com/the-world-will-enter-a-15-year-ai-dystopia-in-2027-former-google-exec-says-2000641195

#AI #capitalism #stupidity

Googlen ex-johtaja on Carrollin kanssa samaa mieltä typeryyden maksimoinnista.

Mo Gawdat thinks the next 12-15 years will be dark, not because of robots but because of our own “stupidity.” (capitalism)
https://gizmodo.com/the-world-will-enter-a-15-year-ai-dystopia-in-2027-former-google-exec-says-2000641195

#AI #capitalism #stupidity

Perhaps don't launch businesses that rely on breaking the law? Just a thought.

'If the appeals court denies the petition…the emerging company may be doomed. As Anthropic argued, it now "faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months"…that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine.'

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

#copyright #ai

Perhaps don't launch businesses that rely on breaking the law? Just a thought.

'If the appeals court denies the petition…the emerging company may be doomed. As Anthropic argued, it now "faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months"…that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine.'

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

#copyright #ai

LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI (Including Many Fediverse Instances!!!)

"The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal."

ARTICLE: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

FULL PDF: https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf

#FediPact #meta #threads #AI

Flock’s nationwide license plate network is now using AI to label driving patterns as “suspicious.” This shifts it from tracking vehicles of interest to actively generating suspicion.

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious

#Surveillance #AI #Privacy #DigitalRights #TechAccountability

While I do feel like #ai (if remotely not a fad) will herald in a “heyday for a few languages”.

However, #rustlang (for all of its lovers) won’t be one of them. This article does talk about how errors could be a great feedback loop for LLMs, however the problem is the community.

For too long the community has been fairly bifurcated to the point of being putrid to be around. Social issues struggle to be solved by an LLM https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/07/31/rs-py-ts-trifecta/

Flock’s nationwide license plate network is now using AI to label driving patterns as “suspicious.” This shifts it from tracking vehicles of interest to actively generating suspicion.

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious

#Surveillance #AI #Privacy #DigitalRights #TechAccountability

James Cameron, skaperen av Terminator filmene advarer om at #Skynet kan bli virkelighet hvis vi blander #AI med våpenindustrien...

Vil tippe Alfred Nobel og Marie Curie ville vært enige i den advarselen.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/07/james-cameron-terminator-style-apocalypse-ai-weapons-hiroshima

Anyone tried or is using #Lumo from #Proton? What do you think?

https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai

#Ai

#Please #Take Me #Home by Kaye Menner #Photography
Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/please-take-me-home-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html

#kitten #cute #eyes #greeneyes #fur #whiskers #flowers #meadow #grass #cat #animal #dof #digitalart #ai #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

OH WOW WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS (everyone)

#ai #surveillance #flock #ALPR

“Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious””

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious

AI is Ruining Nature Photography on Facebook

#AI #Facebook #Photography

@CCC

#palantir #ki #ai
Wie funktioniert Palantir. Zentral ist der Begriff der "Ontologie", also die Abbildung von Entitäten und ihren Beziehungen untereinander.
Gut erklärt von Honkhase und arjuvo ab Min 36:00
https://hybr.de/2025/08/06/palantir/

LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI (Including Many Fediverse Instances!!!)

"The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal."

ARTICLE: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

FULL PDF: https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf

#FediPact #meta #threads #AI

Readings shared August 9, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/08/10-readings_shared_08-09-25 #AI #FunctionalProgramming #Haskell #IMO #ITP #IsabelleHOL #LLMs #LeanProver #LogicProgramming #Math #Prolog

後読
#AI

→陰謀論を吹き込んでくるChatGPTとの会話で、人はどう変わるのか | クーリエ・ジャポン

https://courrier.jp/news/archives/409149/

後読
#AI

→陰謀論を吹き込んでくるChatGPTとの会話で、人はどう変わるのか | クーリエ・ジャポン

https://courrier.jp/news/archives/409149/

LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI (Including Many Fediverse Instances!!!)

"The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal."

ARTICLE: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

FULL PDF: https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf

#FediPact #meta #threads #AI

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified, warning that it could “financially ruin” the entire industry. @ArsTechnica has more:

https://flip.it/M4jCch

#Tech #AI #Lawsuits #ArtificialIntelligence

OH WOW WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS (everyone)

#ai #surveillance #flock #ALPR

“Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious””

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified, warning that it could “financially ruin” the entire industry. @ArsTechnica has more:

https://flip.it/M4jCch

#Tech #AI #Lawsuits #ArtificialIntelligence

@CCC

#palantir #ki #ai
Wie funktioniert Palantir. Zentral ist der Begriff der "Ontologie", also die Abbildung von Entitäten und ihren Beziehungen untereinander.
Gut erklärt von Honkhase und arjuvo ab Min 36:00
https://hybr.de/2025/08/06/palantir/

LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI (Including Many Fediverse Instances!!!)

"The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal."

ARTICLE: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

FULL PDF: https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf

#FediPact #meta #threads #AI

Mathematicians question AI performance at International Math Olympiad. ~ Emily Riehl. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-question-ai-performance-at-international-math-olympiad/ #AI #Math #IMO

The success stories about #AI in medical diagnosis are not #AGI but are due to:
1) Physicians blowing off patient concerns (unfortunately, it's common among our profession to call ppl whose symptoms we can not explain "crazy")
2) upsampling of "zebras" in #LLM training datasets

The success stories about #AI in medical diagnosis are not #AGI but are due to:
1) Physicians blowing off patient concerns (unfortunately, it's common among our profession to call ppl whose symptoms we can not explain "crazy")
2) upsampling of "zebras" in #LLM training datasets

LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI (Including Many Fediverse Instances!!!)

"The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal."

ARTICLE: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

FULL PDF: https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf

#FediPact #meta #threads #AI

LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI (Including Many Fediverse Instances!!!)

"The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal."

ARTICLE: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

FULL PDF: https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf

#FediPact #meta #threads #AI

Anyone tried or is using #Lumo from #Proton? What do you think?

https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai

#Ai

🎈 GPT-5 Users Say It Seriously Sucks

｢ But many users say GPT-5 is far from the generational leap that its moniker would suggest. It's more of a mix of steps forward and steps back, prompting widespread speculation that OpenAI is trying to keep costs down. After all, running large language models is a notoriously energy-intensive — and environmentally destructive — process ｣

https://futurism.com/gpt-5-sucks

#openai #gpt5 #ai

🎈 GPT-5 Users Say It Seriously Sucks

｢ But many users say GPT-5 is far from the generational leap that its moniker would suggest. It's more of a mix of steps forward and steps back, prompting widespread speculation that OpenAI is trying to keep costs down. After all, running large language models is a notoriously energy-intensive — and environmentally destructive — process ｣

https://futurism.com/gpt-5-sucks

#openai #gpt5 #ai

Don't ask ChatGPT for health advice. Seriously. @404mediaco reports on a man who gave himself bromism, a disorder that can cause psychosis and hallucinations as well as gastrointestinal and dermatological effects, because he had replaced salt with sodium bromide based on information gathered from the AI.

https://flip.it/nwR1qk

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Health #Medicine #Science

Here comes the copyright monster for #AI. 100% predictable, even without using #ML to figure it out. This is a very old #MLsec issue. When you build a WHAT machine, you need to take care about who owns the WHAT pile that the machine becomes.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

Anthropic, the creator of the Claude AI chatbot now faces "hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months based on a class certification rushed at "warp speed" that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine".

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

#news #TechNews #technolog #AI #copyright

Anthropic, the creator of the Claude AI chatbot now faces "hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months based on a class certification rushed at "warp speed" that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine".

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

#news #TechNews #technolog #AI #copyright

Is Microsoft Windows Recall the worst AI idea? Share your experience!

https://news.itsfoss.com/microsoft-recall-fails-again/

#AI #Microsoft #Windows #Recall #Spyware #surveillance #Technology #Linux

Don't ask ChatGPT for health advice. Seriously. @404mediaco reports on a man who gave himself bromism, a disorder that can cause psychosis and hallucinations as well as gastrointestinal and dermatological effects, because he had replaced salt with sodium bromide based on information gathered from the AI.

https://flip.it/nwR1qk

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Health #Medicine #Science

With a simple extension, I've made the news interesting again

#AI #softwaredevelopment

With a simple extension, I've made the news interesting again

#AI #softwaredevelopment

Readings shared August 7, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/08/08-readings_shared_08-07-25 #AI #ITP #LLMs #LeanProver #Math

With a simple extension, I've made the news interesting again

#AI #softwaredevelopment

Google has long been a key source of traffic for news and all manner of sites across the web.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to Matt Pearce to discuss how Google’s pursuit of AI is causing fewer people to click through, causing traffic to plummet.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/288_what_google_zero_means_for_journalism_w_matt_pearce

#tech #google #news #journalism #media #traffic #ai #generativeai #aioverview #artificialintelligence

"Hundreds of AI-powered automated license plate reading cameras paid for by Lowe’s and Home Depot and stationed in the hardware stores’ parking lots are being fed into a massive surveillance system that law enforcement can access, according to records obtained using a public records request.

The records, obtained from the Johnson County, Texas Sheriff’s Office by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and shared with 404 Media, show the sheriff’s office is able to tap into Flock license plate reading cameras at 173 different Lowe’s locations around the U.S. and that it can tap into cameras and gunshot-detecting microphones at dozens of Home Depot stores within Texas. The records are the latest to shed light on how expansive Flock’s surveillance network has become, and highlights that it includes cameras that are operated by both police and private businesses.

“What we're learning is that two of the country's most popular home improvement stores are contributing to the massive surveillance dragnet coordinated by Flock Safety,” Dave Maass, director of investigations at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told 404 Media."

https://www.404media.co/home-depot-and-lowes-share-data-from-hundreds-of-ai-cameras-with-cops/

#USA #HomeDepot #Lowes #Flock #Surveillance #ALPR #Privacy #AI

Did nobody ever read #Frankenstein? "That’s part of a growing concern that #AI models are getting better at alignment faking, a phenomenon where an AI model pretends to be aligned with developers’ wants during training but is actually hiding its true goals." https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-anthropic-researchers-predicting-dangerous-behavior-rcna223236

🎉 Researchers from our AI institute at the University of Stuttgart @Uni_Stuttgart will present two papers tackling real-world challenges with AI:

- "Making the Web More Inclusive: Enter AccessGuru" (#ASSETS2025).

- "MultiADS: Defect-aware Supervision for Multi-type Anomaly Detection and Segmentation in Zero-Shot Learning" (#ICCV2025).

https://www.ki.uni-stuttgart.de/institute/news/Two-Papers-Addressing-Real-World-Problems-Through-AI-to-be-presented-at-ICCV-and-ASSETS/

#AI #AIResearch

Goedel-Prover-V2: Scaling formal theorem proving with scaffolded data synthesis and self-correction. ~ Yong Lin et als. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03613 #LLMs #AI #ITP #LeanProver #Math

Google has long been a key source of traffic for news and all manner of sites across the web.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to Matt Pearce to discuss how Google’s pursuit of AI is causing fewer people to click through, causing traffic to plummet.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/288_what_google_zero_means_for_journalism_w_matt_pearce

#tech #google #news #journalism #media #traffic #ai #generativeai #aioverview #artificialintelligence

Google has long been a key source of traffic for news and all manner of sites across the web.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to Matt Pearce to discuss how Google’s pursuit of AI is causing fewer people to click through, causing traffic to plummet.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/288_what_google_zero_means_for_journalism_w_matt_pearce

#tech #google #news #journalism #media #traffic #ai #generativeai #aioverview #artificialintelligence

#noyb survey: only 7% of users want #Meta to use their personal data for #AI - https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-survey-only-7-users-want-meta-use-their-personal-data-ai weird, huh....?

With a simple extension, I've made the news interesting again

#AI #softwaredevelopment

"Wikipedia editors just adopted a new policy to help them deal with the slew of AI-generated articles flooding the online encyclopedia. The new policy, which gives an administrator the authority to quickly delete an AI-generated article that meets a certain criteria, isn’t only important to Wikipedia, but also an important example for how to deal with the growing AI slop problem from a platform that has so far managed to withstand various forms of enshittification that have plagued the rest of the internet."

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-editors-adopt-speedy-deletion-policy-for-ai-slop-articles/

#Wikipedia #AI #GenerativeAI #AISlop #ContentModeration

#noyb survey: only 7% of users want #Meta to use their personal data for #AI - https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-survey-only-7-users-want-meta-use-their-personal-data-ai weird, huh....?

#noyb survey: only 7% of users want #Meta to use their personal data for #AI - https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-survey-only-7-users-want-meta-use-their-personal-data-ai weird, huh....?

Thinking machines: Mathematical reasoning in the age of LLMs. ~ Andrea Asperti, Alberto Naibo, Claudio Sacerdoti Coen. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00459v1 #AI #LLMs #Math #ITP #LeanProver

You're on Mastodon so I'm guessing you're not too keen on AI. Why's that?

(Sorry, I only have room for 4 options below. Feel free to reply with other reasons.)

I'm curious as to why many people are virulently anti-AI. I'm not saying it doesn't deserve it, but I'm curious if the hatred is proportional)

#AI #artificialintelligence #poll

Thinking about how not so long ago blockchain was going to change the world…

#ai

What I like about the @kagihq built-in LLM answers:

- It's only(!) triggered on request, i.e. when your query ends with a question mark.
- It always admits when it couldn't find good information or there is no clear answer.
- It always cites sources, usually word for word.

I find myself not so much "believing the AI" but rather using it as a guide as to which result has the information I need.

#AI #ML #LLM #Search #Kagi #Web

Readings shared August 6, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/08/07-readings_shared_08-06-25 #AI #FunctionalProgramming #Haskell #Math #Neurosymbolic

#AI Microsoft's Azure used to store millions of Palestinian phone calls

#Microsoft's #Azure cloud platform has been used by Israel's military intelligence unit to store vast amounts of data, including millions of phone calls made by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This capability, initiated in 2021 under the direction of Unit 8200's former commander, Yoav Sariel, allows for extensive surveillance and potential use of data for military operations.

#Microsoft claims no knowledge of the specific data stored, internal documents reveal a multi-year partnership aimed at leveraging Azure's storage for intelligence purposes.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud

See also https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/114827622817744764

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide

"Wikipedia editors just adopted a new policy to help them deal with the slew of AI-generated articles flooding the online encyclopedia. The new policy, which gives an administrator the authority to quickly delete an AI-generated article that meets a certain criteria, isn’t only important to Wikipedia, but also an important example for how to deal with the growing AI slop problem from a platform that has so far managed to withstand various forms of enshittification that have plagued the rest of the internet."

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-editors-adopt-speedy-deletion-policy-for-ai-slop-articles/

#Wikipedia #AI #GenerativeAI #AISlop #ContentModeration

Blaugust Blogging: MiniGladys Has Replaced 90% Of My Google “Quick Reference” Searches – No AI Required.

I have been writing about and using Google for decades, so I get it -- it's super-easy to use Google for quick one-off searches like finding official web sites, getting a name spelled correctly, getting a quick topic overview, etc. But with Google's insistence on using water and electricity on AI to summarize...

https://www.calishat.com/2025/08/06/blaugust-blogging-minigladys-has-replaced-90-of-my-google-quick-reference-searches-no-ai-required/

#AI #Wikipedia #WebSearch #Google

Blaugust Blogging: MiniGladys Has Replaced 90% Of My Google “Quick Reference” Searches – No AI Required.

I have been writing about and using Google for decades, so I get it -- it's super-easy to use Google for quick one-off searches like finding official web sites, getting a name spelled correctly, getting a quick topic overview, etc. But with Google's insistence on using water and electricity on AI to summarize...

https://www.calishat.com/2025/08/06/blaugust-blogging-minigladys-has-replaced-90-of-my-google-quick-reference-searches-no-ai-required/

#AI #Wikipedia #WebSearch #Google

"Wikipedia editors just adopted a new policy to help them deal with the slew of AI-generated articles flooding the online encyclopedia. The new policy, which gives an administrator the authority to quickly delete an AI-generated article that meets a certain criteria, isn’t only important to Wikipedia, but also an important example for how to deal with the growing AI slop problem from a platform that has so far managed to withstand various forms of enshittification that have plagued the rest of the internet."

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-editors-adopt-speedy-deletion-policy-for-ai-slop-articles/

#Wikipedia #AI #GenerativeAI #AISlop #ContentModeration

Oof, looks like @kagihq just thought better of a poll they started and deleted it. Oof.

I get why - they seem pretty invested in making #AI a core part of #Kagi, and #mastodon (at least my bubble in it) is pretty anti-AI.

The phrasing is also pretty incendiary - obviously providing a service without additional AI tools would cost less, and yet they decided to phrase it "Would you pay more for a Kagi plan without AI?". And even so the votes were about matched when I saw it! 🤣😬🔥

#KagiPoll

Synthetic data has been gaining traction in recent years as a means by which to increase the availability of data that, while deemed valuable, may be sensitive in nature and/or in limited supply. Its use presents potentially transformative opportunities for health research, but more guidance is needed on its ethical use.
#Health #Data #AI
https://theodi.org/insights/reports/towards-the-ethical-use-of-synthetic-data-in-health-research/

With a simple extension, I've made the news interesting again

#AI #softwaredevelopment

Synthetic data has been gaining traction in recent years as a means by which to increase the availability of data that, while deemed valuable, may be sensitive in nature and/or in limited supply. Its use presents potentially transformative opportunities for health research, but more guidance is needed on its ethical use.
#Health #Data #AI
https://theodi.org/insights/reports/towards-the-ethical-use-of-synthetic-data-in-health-research/

📣 Friends, fans, enemies!

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#AI #LLM #AIslop #AIhype #genAI #generativeAI

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#AI #LLM #AIslop #AIhype #genAI #generativeAI

GitHub CEO: Embrace AI or get out.

https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8

PS. Here’s where to go: @Codeberg

https://codeberg.org

(As an additional bonus, you’ll have the peace of mind of knowing you’re part of an anti-fascist not-for-profit cooperative instead of a trillion-dollar US corporation that’s helping Israel commit genocide.)

#git #sourceControl #revisionControl #GitHub #Codeberg #dev #AI #BigTech #Microsoft #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

DWD establishes #AI center. Goal: to pool internal expertise and facilitate exchange with external partners. Head of Research Prof. Peter Braesicke: “With the AI center, we are bringing people, ideas, and projects together to develop sustainable solutions in meteorology.” Details: https://www.dwd.de/EN/press/press_node.html

The Australian Productivity Commission has released it's interim report called "Harnessing data and digital technology" on using AI for economic growth and improving productivity.

https://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/current/data-digital/interim
#auspoI #australia #ai #economics #productivity

Stop lying about what ChatGPT does to our brains!

https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/stop-lying-about-what-chatgpt-does

When #AI is being used, to create absolute nonsense about the effects of AI, which is then shared with millions of people, for no discernible reason... we're in a very weird situation.

#ChatGPT #BadScience #Misinformation

GitHub CEO: Embrace AI or get out.

https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8

PS. Here’s where to go: @Codeberg

https://codeberg.org

(As an additional bonus, you’ll have the peace of mind of knowing you’re part of an anti-fascist not-for-profit cooperative instead of a trillion-dollar US corporation that’s helping Israel commit genocide.)

#git #sourceControl #revisionControl #GitHub #Codeberg #dev #AI #BigTech #Microsoft #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

A comparative study of neurosymbolic AI approaches to interpretable logical reasoning. ~ Michael K. Chen. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03366 #Neurosymbolic #AI

GitHub CEO: Embrace AI or get out.

https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8

PS. Here’s where to go: @Codeberg

https://codeberg.org

(As an additional bonus, you’ll have the peace of mind of knowing you’re part of an anti-fascist not-for-profit cooperative instead of a trillion-dollar US corporation that’s helping Israel commit genocide.)

#git #sourceControl #revisionControl #GitHub #Codeberg #dev #AI #BigTech #Microsoft #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

#MULCIA: Postdoc position to formalize machine learning algorithms in Lean. https://tinyurl.com/29sqjjx2 #PostDoc #AI #LeanProver

I think this survey from GBH says a lot, even though it is on the Fediverse. Overall the impact of AI that is the most visible to us is negative. It is not even close.

I do believe AI has its use, but what we are seeing on the Internet is not that use at all. Rather the opposite.

#AI #Technology #Politics #fediverse #Mastodon

I think this survey from GBH says a lot, even though it is on the Fediverse. Overall the impact of AI that is the most visible to us is negative. It is not even close.

I do believe AI has its use, but what we are seeing on the Internet is not that use at all. Rather the opposite.

#AI #Technology #Politics #fediverse #Mastodon

Stop lying about what ChatGPT does to our brains!

https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/stop-lying-about-what-chatgpt-does

When #AI is being used, to create absolute nonsense about the effects of AI, which is then shared with millions of people, for no discernible reason... we're in a very weird situation.

#ChatGPT #BadScience #Misinformation

@patriksvensson Pretty well in line with the main drive of #AI, though - which, for anyone not paying proper attention, is using it as a cudgel to beat employees & professionals into submission, lest they be fired & replaced with a fucking chatbot...

"The AI bubble is driven by the promise of firing workers and replacing them with automation. Investors and AI companies are tacitly (and sometimes explicitly) betting that bosses who can fire a worker and replace them with a chatbot will pay the chatbot's maker an appreciable slice of that former worker's salary for an AI that takes them off the payroll.

The people who find AI fun or useful or surprising are centaurs. They're making automation choices based on their own assessment of their needs and the AIs' capabilities.

They are not the customers for AI. AI exists to replace workers, not empower them. Even if AI can make you more productive, there is no business model in increasing your pay and decreasing your hours.

AI is about disciplining labor to decrease its share of an AI-using company's profits. AI exists to lower a company's wage-bill, at your expense, with the savings split between the your boss and an AI company. When Getty or the NYT or another media company sues an AI company for copyright infringement, that doesn't mean they are opposed to using AI to replace creative workers – they just want a larger slice of the creative workers' salaries in the form of a copyright license from the AI company that sells them the worker-displacing tool."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/#maximally-codelike-bugs

#AI #GenerativeAI #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #Copyright #IP #MassUnemployment #AIBubble #AIHype

"The AI bubble is driven by the promise of firing workers and replacing them with automation. Investors and AI companies are tacitly (and sometimes explicitly) betting that bosses who can fire a worker and replace them with a chatbot will pay the chatbot's maker an appreciable slice of that former worker's salary for an AI that takes them off the payroll.

The people who find AI fun or useful or surprising are centaurs. They're making automation choices based on their own assessment of their needs and the AIs' capabilities.

They are not the customers for AI. AI exists to replace workers, not empower them. Even if AI can make you more productive, there is no business model in increasing your pay and decreasing your hours.

AI is about disciplining labor to decrease its share of an AI-using company's profits. AI exists to lower a company's wage-bill, at your expense, with the savings split between the your boss and an AI company. When Getty or the NYT or another media company sues an AI company for copyright infringement, that doesn't mean they are opposed to using AI to replace creative workers – they just want a larger slice of the creative workers' salaries in the form of a copyright license from the AI company that sells them the worker-displacing tool."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/#maximally-codelike-bugs

#AI #GenerativeAI #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #Copyright #IP #MassUnemployment #AIBubble #AIHype

Yesterday, Jim Acosta, formerly the CNN White House correspondent, "interviewed" Joaquin Oliver, one of 17 people murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Or, to be more accurate, he asked questions of an AI avatar of Oliver, with the permission of the late teenager's family, and then streamed it on Substack and YouTube. For her The Present Age newsletter, @parkermolloy.com breaks down the myriad problems with the "interview." "This wasn't journalism," she writes. "Whether it was his intention or not, this was Jim Acosta turning a murdered child into content."

https://flip.it/opvuf5

#Technology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USNews #JimAcosta #Journalism

Check out my new “Media Literacy Roundup: 2 August 2025” newsletter on SubStack!
https://open.substack.com/pub/wfryer/p/media-literacy-roundup-2-august-2025?r=d4phj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #edtech #edtechSR #AI #coding #VibeCoding #CivicsOfTech25

Readings shared August 4, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/08/05-readings_shared_08-04-25 #AI #CoqProver #FunctionalProgramming #Haskell #ITP #LLMs

요즘IT는 @yozm_it 는 #IT업계 현업 실무 전문가의 경험과 지식, #인사이트 를 전하는 #콘텐츠 #플랫폼 입니다. #AI, #개발, #기획, #디자인 등 다양한 IT 실무 정보와 #트렌드 가 매일 올라오고, #뉴스레터 PICK IT을 통해 주 1회 #큐레이션 된 정보를 받아볼 수 있습니다. #실무 전문가의
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A best-selling Vancouver author has launched a class-action lawsuit against Nvidia, claiming the multi-trillion dollar tech company illegally used his and other Canadian writers' works to train artificial intelligence large language models (LLM). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-author-leads-class-actions-against-ai-giants-1.7595962

J.B. MacKinnon is named as the representative plaintiff in the claim, which says his books, The 100-Mile Diet and The Once and Future World, were part of a 196,640-book dataset that Nvidia used without paying a licensing fee or securing consent to acquire or use the works. #cdnpoli #copyright #AI

A best-selling Vancouver author has launched a class-action lawsuit against Nvidia, claiming the multi-trillion dollar tech company illegally used his and other Canadian writers' works to train artificial intelligence large language models (LLM). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-author-leads-class-actions-against-ai-giants-1.7595962

J.B. MacKinnon is named as the representative plaintiff in the claim, which says his books, The 100-Mile Diet and The Once and Future World, were part of a 196,640-book dataset that Nvidia used without paying a licensing fee or securing consent to acquire or use the works. #cdnpoli #copyright #AI

"LLMs Are Not The Path To AGI:

Apple’s conclusion is the same conclusion I came to very early on in my experimentation with LLMs. … the position that LLMs are not, & never will be AGI. My position has remained completely unchanged.

… Of course, language translation is not AI, Siri is not AI, image identification & classification is not AI, the only acceptable form of AI is shoving some half-baked LLM chatbot into somewhere it doesn’t belong."

#AI #LLM
From @malwaretech https://infosec.exchange/@malwaretech/114969567431656774

"LLMs Are Not The Path To AGI:

Apple’s conclusion is the same conclusion I came to very early on in my experimentation with LLMs. … the position that LLMs are not, & never will be AGI. My position has remained completely unchanged.

… Of course, language translation is not AI, Siri is not AI, image identification & classification is not AI, the only acceptable form of AI is shoving some half-baked LLM chatbot into somewhere it doesn’t belong."

#AI #LLM
From @malwaretech https://infosec.exchange/@malwaretech/114969567431656774

En jaksa jäljittää mihin tämä blogipostaus perustuu, mutta AI firmojen budjetit tuntien on helppo uskoa, että ne syövät nyt kirjallisuudeen.

Oikeus luokittelee kirjojen AI-käytön kielimallien kouluttamiseen fair useksi.
https://booksfactory.pl/blog/?lang=en&p=5531

Kuvapuolella tätä käyttöoikeutta ei odes ollut, mutta este kierrettiin ei-kaupallisten tutkimusprojektien avulla.

#AI #KirjaMasto #kirjallisuus

En jaksa jäljittää mihin tämä blogipostaus perustuu, mutta AI firmojen budjetit tuntien on helppo uskoa, että ne syövät nyt kirjallisuudeen.

Oikeus luokittelee kirjojen AI-käytön kielimallien kouluttamiseen fair useksi.
https://booksfactory.pl/blog/?lang=en&p=5531

Kuvapuolella tätä käyttöoikeutta ei odes ollut, mutta este kierrettiin ei-kaupallisten tutkimusprojektien avulla.

#AI #KirjaMasto #kirjallisuus

Cobblestone: Iterative automation for formal verification. ~ Saketh Ram Kasibatla, Arpan Agarwal, Yuriy Brun, Sorin Lerner, Talia Ringer, Emily First. https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19940 #ITP #CoqProver #AI #LLMs

Readings shared August 3, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/08/04-readings_shared_08-03-25 #AI #FunctionalProgramming #Haskell #IMO #ITP #LLMs #LeanProver #Math

AI at IMO 2025: a round-up. ~ Kevin Buzzard. https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/ai-at-imo-2025-a-round-up/ #AI #LLMs #ITP #LeanProver #Math #IMO

Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/02/protons-lumo-ai-chatbot-not-end-to-end-encrypted-not-open-source/ #Privacy #Proton #Email #AI

Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/02/protons-lumo-ai-chatbot-not-end-to-end-encrypted-not-open-source/ #Privacy #Proton #Email #AI

The scale of investment and the involvement of governments means ROI must be found (or rather created) now, by any means necessary! Demand already is being forcefully created to justify these expenditures. Business models, regulations and policies/politics are pivoted in lockstep. Aside from all the conceptual, ethical and environmental issues of LLMs and their required infrastructure, these shifts are already also impacting chip/hardware production pipelines and start spelling the end of personal computing as we know it, massively redirecting and re-centralizing compute (and information) resources & capabilities back away from citizen control/ownership, incl. the liberties/possibilities currently afforded by it. The implications are also a direct affront to the open Web... All in all, a wet dream of any closet authoritarian...

https://mastodon.social/@samim/114957102999706720

#AI #TechPol #

So are we really going to let a few people train their AIs on the collected works of all humanity, let them own it, let make all the money in the world of it, let them fire everyone without taxing the shit out of it? I mean I’m for making things easier for humans, but shouldn’t we all benefit? Why am I taxed for my work and an AI performing the same work isn’t?

#ai

Logic check please:

1) Users who get Google AI Overviews won't click any links.
2) Google uses my content to generate AI Overviews.
3) I won't get any traffic from Google for my content because of AI Overviews.
4) Blocking Googlebot won't affect traffic to my site.

Googlebot blocked.

https://fortune.com/2025/07/24/googles-ai-overviews-eating-internet-search-traffic/

#google #search #ai

Logic check please:

1) Users who get Google AI Overviews won't click any links.
2) Google uses my content to generate AI Overviews.
3) I won't get any traffic from Google for my content because of AI Overviews.
4) Blocking Googlebot won't affect traffic to my site.

Googlebot blocked.

https://fortune.com/2025/07/24/googles-ai-overviews-eating-internet-search-traffic/

#google #search #ai

On May 5, #MAGA Inc organized a “crypto & #AI innovators dinner” featuring #Trump at his golf club in Virginia. Among the attendees, acc/to 2 people…, was #JPRichardson, the chief exec of the #crypto company #Exodus, which donated $1 million to MAGA Inc. in Jan.

“It is in the best interests of our company & its shareholders to support pro-crypto causes & candidates,” Richardson said in a text message. “We intend to continue backing similar efforts.”

#law #corruption #bribery #DarkMoney

If there’s any lesson to take from the AI spending plans issued by the world’s largest technology companies over the past two weeks, it’s to never underestimate the fear of missing out. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/02/big-tech-ai-spending/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #microsoft #amazoncom #meta #apple #google #ai #markets #investments #stocks

If there’s any lesson to take from the AI spending plans issued by the world’s largest technology companies over the past two weeks, it’s to never underestimate the fear of missing out. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/02/big-tech-ai-spending/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #microsoft #amazoncom #meta #apple #google #ai #markets #investments #stocks

@panda @TruthMattersww Wird bei Bedarf einfach eingeschaltet weil wenn man sonst nichts findet kriegt man jeden über die Differenz zwischen dem, was er angegeben hat und dem was er tatsächlich einnimmt, s. Al Capone etc. p.p. . Oder Amon Göth, der zweifellos alles Schlechte 1000fach verdient hat, weil er letztendlich zu geizig war die richtigen Kameraden zu beteiligen.

Davon abgesehen werden im Bedarfsfall Beweise schon immer fingiert, in Zukunft mit Sicherheit #AI unterstützt.

Yes, it's OK to insist that an #AI model that claims to be open source must come with all training data and parameters. But what if that happens? What will you do with that? Waste the huge amount of energy again to train the same model and see if it really is the same? Read through the training data to gain some sort of insight? Serious question.

Ubuntu와 함께하는 개발 환경은 #AI #ML 워크로드 실행부터 엣지 응용까지 유연한 확장성을 제공합니다.
#Telechips는 오픈소스와 하드웨어 기술이 연결된 개발 경험을 통해, 더 많은 개발자들이 성장할 수 있도록 지원하고 있습니다.
#임베디드 #후원사 #UbuConKorea2025
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Users hate #AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't personally use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.

And it steals your data to do it.

Your tools are constructing you as a subject of surveillance — the #UX is making it seem normal to expose every facet of your life to companies with complete disregard for your privacy.

This is NOT normal. It's deeply weird. But it's becoming unavoidable.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-ai-age-is-the-age-of-no-consent-7559

What does the Digital Services Act (DSA) mean for online advertising and adtech?

New blog post by Pieter Wolters and me.

Our most controversial claim is that ad networks and some other adtech companies must be considered ‘platforms’ in the sense of the DSA.

Hence, they must comply with the DSA’s general rules for platforms.

https://dsa-observatory.eu/2025/08/01/what-does-the-dsa-mean-for-online-advertising-and-adtech/

#law #politics #economy #tech #ai #platforms #advertising #marketing #dsa #privacy #gdpr

OK! Best (broadly conceived) op-eds on #AI? Looking for 600-1200 word pieces in outlets great and small from the last few years.

What have you read that’s made a mark?

Users hate #AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't personally use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.

And it steals your data to do it.

Your tools are constructing you as a subject of surveillance — the #UX is making it seem normal to expose every facet of your life to companies with complete disregard for your privacy.

This is NOT normal. It's deeply weird. But it's becoming unavoidable.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-ai-age-is-the-age-of-no-consent-7559

Users hate #AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't personally use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.

And it steals your data to do it.

Your tools are constructing you as a subject of surveillance — the #UX is making it seem normal to expose every facet of your life to companies with complete disregard for your privacy.

This is NOT normal. It's deeply weird. But it's becoming unavoidable.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-ai-age-is-the-age-of-no-consent-7559

What does the Digital Services Act (DSA) mean for online advertising and adtech?

New blog post by Pieter Wolters and me.

Our most controversial claim is that ad networks and some other adtech companies must be considered ‘platforms’ in the sense of the DSA.

Hence, they must comply with the DSA’s general rules for platforms.

https://dsa-observatory.eu/2025/08/01/what-does-the-dsa-mean-for-online-advertising-and-adtech/

#law #politics #economy #tech #ai #platforms #advertising #marketing #dsa #privacy #gdpr

r2ai-1.0 is out! Aligned with r2-6.0 and synchronizing features and concepts between decai and the C plugin. #ai #llm #reverseengineering

Kudos to @cryptax and @sha0coder for their testing, feedback and contributions!

https://github.com/radareorg/r2ai/releases/tag/1.0.0

I still have a few Google Nest speakers around, but I hardly ever use the voice assistant. I was talking to my kid about Spider-Man and decided to ask, “How many Spider-Man movies was Andrew Garfield in?” because I forgot the titles, and if there were two or three.

It showed on the screen: “At least 24,” and then told me out loud, “55.”

It turns out he has been in two.

#ai #enshittification #gemini #llm

Abgesehen davon, dass das Teil ständig Teile des Prompts ignoriert, war das in mehreren Iterationen jeweils anderer Bloat hoch 20, sinnlos komplex und hat noch nicht mal funktioniert.

Ich habe das jetzt in 20 Minuten und mit zwei mal Doku lesen, weil ich mir die Details nicht merken kann, von Hand in netto <20 Zeilen Code implementiert.

Und dafür soll ich jetzt den #AI-Firmen Geld bezahlen? Oder bin ich einfach zu blöd für AI? ;-)

2/2

https://venturebeat.com/ai/stack-overflow-data-reveals-the-hidden-productivity-tax-of-almost-right-ai-code/

#new #TechNews #technology #AI #coding #VibeCoding #developers #DeveloperSurvey

https://venturebeat.com/ai/stack-overflow-data-reveals-the-hidden-productivity-tax-of-almost-right-ai-code/

#new #TechNews #technology #AI #coding #VibeCoding #developers #DeveloperSurvey

I am a bit out of the loop with job opportunities recently, yet I just found out, that I should scrap all mine artistic career, and start to be a vibe physicist.
Whatever does it mean, I am in it, move fast, break things.

I am a bit out of the loop with job opportunities recently, yet I just found out, that I should scrap all mine artistic career, and start to be a vibe physicist.
Whatever does it mean, I am in it, move fast, break things.

Writing is hard work, but don't underestimate the motivating power of annoyance.

Do you know, or are you, someone who would benefit from understanding how "AI" tools like ChatGPT really work, why we can never trust them to be correct, and what the ethical concerns are? I've finally finished writing an explainer and I'd really appreciate you sharing it if you find it useful.

https://joshsharp.com.au/blog/how-to-think-about-ai.html

#ai #genai #llms #chatgpt

My new email signature for work.

I typed this up moments after receiving a "summary" email from read.ai

#AI
#Copilot

Writing is hard work, but don't underestimate the motivating power of annoyance.

Do you know, or are you, someone who would benefit from understanding how "AI" tools like ChatGPT really work, why we can never trust them to be correct, and what the ethical concerns are? I've finally finished writing an explainer and I'd really appreciate you sharing it if you find it useful.

https://joshsharp.com.au/blog/how-to-think-about-ai.html

#ai #genai #llms #chatgpt

I’m not at all sure this AI-fueled growth is ultimately going to be good for San Francisco. The bubble has to burst, doesn’t it? And in the meantime, making the city even more unaffordable sounds bad.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/26/ai-boom-san-francisco-tech-workers-housing/ or https://archive.vn/4BfoD

#AI #SanFrancisco

"After announcing plans to find and restrict underage users on YouTube, the company now says it will start detecting whether Google users based in the US are under 18."

https://www.theverge.com/news/716154/google-ai-age-estimation-under-18

#news #TechNews #technology #AgeVerification #google #AI

"After announcing plans to find and restrict underage users on YouTube, the company now says it will start detecting whether Google users based in the US are under 18."

https://www.theverge.com/news/716154/google-ai-age-estimation-under-18

#news #TechNews #technology #AgeVerification #google #AI

WAIC 2025 / 2025世界人工智能大會
Exhibition 展覽: July 26ᵗʰ–29ᵗʰ, 2025
P1–P7: H1 Exhibition hall 展館
P8–P10: H2 Exhibition hall 展館
P11–P15: H3 Exhibition hall 展館
P16: H4 Exhibition hall 展館

#WAIC #WAIC2025 #AI #China #Shanghai #世界人工智能大会 #世界人工智能大會 #世界人工智能大會2025 #人工智能 #人工智慧 #中國 #中国 #上海 #展覽 #展览 #exhibition #exhibit #photography #photo #technologie #technology #科技 #技術

@mcc The implementation of #AI on #YouTube is one big failure. The advertising system is awash with scams generated by AI that use the faces and voices of VIPs and are unable to detect them even if you report them. Comments are deleted for no reason.

Protesters Rally Against New Tesla Diner in Hollywood | KOST 103.5

The newly opened Tesla Diner in Hollywood has become a focal point for protests against Tes…
#Europe #UnitedStates #ai-assisted #america #California #DepartmentofGovernmentEfficiency #ElonMusk #GavinNewsom #Hollywood #immigrationprotests #LAimmigrationprotests #LAprotests #LocalNews #losangeles #NationalGuard #protests #ResisttheCoup #TeslaDiner #unitedstatesofamerica #US #USnews #USA #USAnews
https://www.europesays.com/2286567/

Protesters Rally Against New Tesla Diner in Hollywood | KOST 103.5

The newly opened Tesla Diner in Hollywood has become a focal point for protests against Tes…
#Europe #UnitedStates #ai-assisted #america #California #DepartmentofGovernmentEfficiency #ElonMusk #GavinNewsom #Hollywood #immigrationprotests #LAimmigrationprotests #LAprotests #LocalNews #losangeles #NationalGuard #protests #ResisttheCoup #TeslaDiner #unitedstatesofamerica #US #USnews #USA #USAnews
https://www.europesays.com/2286567/

@9to5Mac Top 5 don't really come across as beloved among consumers in my opinion. This only tells me Apple is doing something right. Its just #AI fad spooking their shareholders. If AI is that important, just download a third party app on your iPhone, iPad or Mac.

Is Pedro Pascal, one of the most vocal progressive celebrities, the victim of a social media smear campaign, and if so, why? Pascal, who has criticized Hollywood's "passivity" over Gaza, spoken out in support of trans rights and called JK Rowling a "heinous loser," is facing viral accusations on X and on some news websites that he has been groping women. Some of these rumors are based on faked videos and an interview that he never gave, despite it being cited by Google's AI summaries. "The basis of the allegations against Pascal isn’t true, and none of the women he’s been accused of groping have said so themselves," writes Kat Tenbarge, for her Spitfire News newsletter. "What’s happening to Pascal across these viral posts is a smear campaign, one spearheaded by bigots against a celebrity whose inclusive stance directly challenges their beliefs." Here's more.

https://flip.it/jEao6y

#Celebrity #PedroPascal #TransRights #Gaza #Entertainment #Hollywood #SocialMedia #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Is Pedro Pascal, one of the most vocal progressive celebrities, the victim of a social media smear campaign, and if so, why? Pascal, who has criticized Hollywood's "passivity" over Gaza, spoken out in support of trans rights and called JK Rowling a "heinous loser," is facing viral accusations on X and on some news websites that he has been groping women. Some of these rumors are based on faked videos and an interview that he never gave, despite it being cited by Google's AI summaries. "The basis of the allegations against Pascal isn’t true, and none of the women he’s been accused of groping have said so themselves," writes Kat Tenbarge, for her Spitfire News newsletter. "What’s happening to Pascal across these viral posts is a smear campaign, one spearheaded by bigots against a celebrity whose inclusive stance directly challenges their beliefs." Here's more.

https://flip.it/jEao6y

#Celebrity #PedroPascal #TransRights #Gaza #Entertainment #Hollywood #SocialMedia #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Trevala - a range of colorful surreal clothing for boys.

#kid #kids #child #children #boy #boys #clothing #fashion #streetwear #luxury #casualwear #sustainable #summerfashion #streetstyle #highfashion #urbanwear #handmade #tailored #activewear #fabric #textile #design #versatile #smartcasual #essentials #couture #wardrobe #seasonal
#AIgenerated #AI #digital #digitalcreator #digitalart

People who want to use #AI should have to generate the electricity required using a stationary bicycle, not unlike the one seen on Gilligan's Island.

Mark Carney wants economic growth at any cost. To achieve it, he’s going after tech investment and pushing hard for AI adoption.

In the process, AI regulations are being thrown on the bonfire and tech harms are an afterthought. It’s a recipe for disaster.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/mark-carney-is-going-elbows-down

#tech #canada #cdnpoli #cdntech #ai #artificialintelligence #digitialsovereignty

People who want to use #AI should have to generate the electricity required using a stationary bicycle, not unlike the one seen on Gilligan's Island.

"Hey everybody who follows the #AI hashtag! 👋

I dismiss things that people people say when I suspect they used #ChatGPT because I'm an insecure luddite!

Have a nice day!"

~ a luddite

#noAI #hateAI #fuckAI #AIDerangementSyndrome

MCP認可フローを仕様から読み解く（2025-06-18版） #AI - Qiita

https://qiita.com/yokawasa/items/74717789465ef2aeedfe

Mark Carney wants economic growth at any cost. To achieve it, he’s going after tech investment and pushing hard for AI adoption.

In the process, AI regulations are being thrown on the bonfire and tech harms are an afterthought. It’s a recipe for disaster.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/mark-carney-is-going-elbows-down

#tech #canada #cdnpoli #cdntech #ai #artificialintelligence #digitialsovereignty

Made a "No AI" emoji, Admins please feel free to clone it to your server:

Admins can do this on Mastodon servers:

1. Go to Preferences > Administration > Custom Emojis
2. Search for "no_AI_logo" in the Shortcode box
3. Tick the box next to the emoji you want to clone
4. Click "Copy" and confirm it

The custom emoji will then be available to your server's members.

If you can't find the emoji in searches you can upload it directly, I've attached the artwork below.

#NoAI #AI

We're expanding our gallery space in August to set up a Thinking Machines: Connection Machine with an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary. Join as a BOOTSTRAP member to attend the preview and get a behind the scene peek at the CM2's HOST, a Symbolics 3670 LISP machine, as we restore and recover its *LISP (StarLISP) programming system.

https://icm.museum

https://toobnix.org/w/57vV3XjbcdEjNVqYGTzZJ4

#ai #HPC #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

We're expanding our gallery space in August to set up a Thinking Machines: Connection Machine with an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary. Join as a BOOTSTRAP member to attend the preview and get a behind the scene peek at the CM2's HOST, a Symbolics 3670 LISP machine, as we restore and recover its *LISP (StarLISP) programming system.

https://icm.museum

https://toobnix.org/w/57vV3XjbcdEjNVqYGTzZJ4

#ai #HPC #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Made a "No AI" emoji, Admins please feel free to clone it to your server:

Admins can do this on Mastodon servers:

1. Go to Preferences > Administration > Custom Emojis
2. Search for "no_AI_logo" in the Shortcode box
3. Tick the box next to the emoji you want to clone
4. Click "Copy" and confirm it

The custom emoji will then be available to your server's members.

If you can't find the emoji in searches you can upload it directly, I've attached the artwork below.

#NoAI #AI

Made a "No AI" emoji, Admins please feel free to clone it to your server:

Admins can do this on Mastodon servers:

1. Go to Preferences > Administration > Custom Emojis
2. Search for "no_AI_logo" in the Shortcode box
3. Tick the box next to the emoji you want to clone
4. Click "Copy" and confirm it

The custom emoji will then be available to your server's members.

If you can't find the emoji in searches you can upload it directly, I've attached the artwork below.

#NoAI #AI

#SamAltman warns there’s no legal confidentiality when using #ChatGPT as a therapist

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/sam-altman-warns-theres-no-legal-confidentiality-when-using-chatgpt-as-a-therapist/

#privacy #healthcare #therapy #AI

#SamAltman warns there’s no legal confidentiality when using #ChatGPT as a therapist

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/sam-altman-warns-theres-no-legal-confidentiality-when-using-chatgpt-as-a-therapist/

#privacy #healthcare #therapy #AI

Can you outsmart AI? The more advanced it gets, the better it is at scheming and lying to meet its goals. Read more from @LiveScience:

https://flip.it/8DIj7A

#Tech #AI #TechNews #ArtificialIntelligence

Can you outsmart AI? The more advanced it gets, the better it is at scheming and lying to meet its goals. Read more from @LiveScience:

https://flip.it/8DIj7A

#Tech #AI #TechNews #ArtificialIntelligence

"AI" apologists are now touting fucking blockchains as a solution to making sure artists' rights are respected when training models and generating slop.

This industry should die already.

#AI #LLM #Blockchain #ChatGPT #Copilot #Midjourney #Slop

Re: iNaturalist getting involved with Google genAI...feeding our comments into things...

Due to continued silence from iNaturalist about everything, October 31. That’s my deadline. That’s MORE THAN FAIR amount of time for them to:

1) Have a proper outline of the project and exactly what it will be.
2. Have a solid opt-in to the project, so no users are auto opted in without their consent
3. Have added account deletion options from an over-year-old feature request to add ways to delete including without removing ID’s for others along with anonymization. If data loss is really such a problem to them (which I think it should be) not having a way to do such a type of delete should be TOP PRIORITY especially with all this genAI bs going on...already it sounds like some power users have fully deleted their accounts over this, tired of waiting.

- Signed, someone with almost 25k ID’s for others, and almost 4k observations, including some firsts on the site (including new species to science) and other rare reports.

Please boost because I don't think most users know what is going on. All this info is mostly occurring on their separate forum, which you need to make a separate account to join. This is part of the issue of lack of transparency!

#AI #genAI #LLM #programming #computers #nature #naturalist #iNaturalist #iNat #biology #ecology #communityScience #cave #critters #invertebrate #insect

"AI" apologists are now touting fucking blockchains as a solution to making sure artists' rights are respected when training models and generating slop.

This industry should die already.

#AI #LLM #Blockchain #ChatGPT #Copilot #Midjourney #Slop

Meta、新AI部門トップに元OpenAIのジャオ氏を任命
https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2507/27/news019.html

#itmedia_news #トップニュース #AI #生成AIニュース #企業_業界動向

This is so perfectly written, and more eloquently put than my complaining about it in the past.

It is rude to reply to someone’s question “I don’t know, but I asked ChatGPT and here’s what it said: <wall of text>”.

https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/

#chatgpt #llm #ai

Re: iNaturalist getting involved with Google genAI...feeding our comments into things...

Due to continued silence from iNaturalist about everything, October 31. That’s my deadline. That’s MORE THAN FAIR amount of time for them to:

1) Have a proper outline of the project and exactly what it will be.
2. Have a solid opt-in to the project, so no users are auto opted in without their consent
3. Have added account deletion options from an over-year-old feature request to add ways to delete including without removing ID’s for others along with anonymization. If data loss is really such a problem to them (which I think it should be) not having a way to do such a type of delete should be TOP PRIORITY especially with all this genAI bs going on...already it sounds like some power users have fully deleted their accounts over this, tired of waiting.

- Signed, someone with almost 25k ID’s for others, and almost 4k observations, including some firsts on the site (including new species to science) and other rare reports.

Please boost because I don't think most users know what is going on. All this info is mostly occurring on their separate forum, which you need to make a separate account to join. This is part of the issue of lack of transparency!

#AI #genAI #LLM #programming #computers #nature #naturalist #iNaturalist #iNat #biology #ecology #communityScience #cave #critters #invertebrate #insect

It's a common claim that #AI narrated audiobooks improve #accessibility, but this #blind author says AI narration breaks accessibility.
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250527/
via @WeirdWriter

One the one hand: Big shoutout to #MistralAI for making the environmental cost of their #AI public: A 400‑token response from Mistral Large 2 emits ~1.14 g CO₂e, roughly the same as streaming ~10 seconds of Netflix.

On the other hand: 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

https://mistral.ai/news/our-contribution-to-a-global-environmental-standard-for-ai

One the one hand: Big shoutout to #MistralAI for making the environmental cost of their #AI public: A 400‑token response from Mistral Large 2 emits ~1.14 g CO₂e, roughly the same as streaming ~10 seconds of Netflix.

On the other hand: 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

https://mistral.ai/news/our-contribution-to-a-global-environmental-standard-for-ai

#Spotify Caught Doing Something Unbelievably Ghoulish With AI: releasing #AI generated ‘new’ music & videos of long dead musicians against family’s wishes

“After six months of AI detection, the company revealed the startling statistic that about one-fifth of all music uploaded each day, or over 20,000 songs, was generated by AI.”

https://futurism.com/spotify-ai-blaze-foley

On the one hand, this #AI desecration of deceased musicians' legacies is unconscionable.

On the other hand, it's one more domino falling for the ultimate liberation of musical expression from capital.

https://futurism.com/spotify-ai-blaze-foley

It's a common claim that #AI narrated audiobooks improve #accessibility, but this #blind author says AI narration breaks accessibility.
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250527/
via @WeirdWriter

#Spotify Caught Doing Something Unbelievably Ghoulish With AI: releasing #AI generated ‘new’ music & videos of long dead musicians against family’s wishes

“After six months of AI detection, the company revealed the startling statistic that about one-fifth of all music uploaded each day, or over 20,000 songs, was generated by AI.”

https://futurism.com/spotify-ai-blaze-foley

On the one hand, this #AI desecration of deceased musicians' legacies is unconscionable.

On the other hand, it's one more domino falling for the ultimate liberation of musical expression from capital.

https://futurism.com/spotify-ai-blaze-foley

#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #NoBillionaires #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #BrownOut #PowerGrid

This is pretty bad

So there's this #TeaApp for #women only to share the "#tea," gossip, on men they have dated or might date

They verify the govt #ID or other images of its users to get in

Tiny problem:

The galaxy brain #vibe coders (#app made by #AI?) put the images of all these women in a #Firebase *public bucket*

🤦🤦🤦

So completely open access

🤦🤦🤦

Thousands of images, including govt IDs, were downloaded, some posted on #4chan

Lawsuits in 3... 2... 1...

https://archive.ph/U5Tah

I get why some #AI companies need to resort to usage-based pricing, but from a user-centered perspective, it’s completely bonkers.

Let me explain.

The better the AI agent, the less you need to iterate, right?
Ideally, it just gets it right from the first prompt.

The more you iterate, the higher your usage.
Still with me?

So usage-based billing = the worse the AI software, the more it costs!

In which other industry would this fly? 🤔

#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #NoBillionaires #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #BrownOut #PowerGrid

"Since Mark Carney arrived on the political scene, he’s made AI adoption a cornerstone of his policy program, based on the view that the technology can serve as an essential tool in boosting productivity and addressing the government’s budget deficit. His federal election platform contained plans to increase funding for AI projects, create incentives for workers and businesses to adopt it, and cut “red tape” around the construction of infrastructure like data centres.

Carney’s excitement about AI isn’t new. In his 2021 book Values(s), he outlined his belief that AI, big data, and increases in computing power meant that “smarter machines are already replacing a broader range of human activities than before.” Now, when asked tough questions about government finances, military procurement, and the state of the economy, he often throws out AI as an obvious solution that doesn’t require further detail.

But there’s ample reason to be worried about the consequences of the government’s optimistic embrace of AI at any cost."

https://breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys-ai-agenda-is-a-gift-to-big-tech/

#Canada #AI #BigTech #Lobbying #AIPolicy #PoliticalEconomy

The US is bombing Iranian nuclear facilities, transferring AI tech to the Gulf states, and enabling Israeli surveillance and weapons tech.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Laleh Khalili to discuss how the United States wields technology to enhance its power in the Middle East.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/284_how_the_us_weaponizes_tech_in_the_middle_east_w_laleh_khalili

#tech #israel #gaza #iran #palestine #uae #saudiarabia #unitedstates #politics #geopolitics #ai

Last week, I got an email from Microsoft. It told me I’d be paying 46% more for my Office subscription, starting next month.

But when I tried to cancel, it offered me the same price I was already paying — without the generative AI features I never asked for in the first place.

This isn’t just deceptive; it’s an abuse of market power. I’ve had it with Microsoft.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it-with-microsoft

#tech #microsoft #office #generativeai #deception #ai

Microsoft Tests ‘Copilot Wallet’ to Turn Its AI into a One-Click Shopping Agent

#AI #Microsoft #MicrosoftCopilot #AICommerce #ECommerce #BigTech

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/07/25/microsoft-tests-copilot-wallet-to-turn-its-ai-into-a-one-click-shopping-agent-xcxwbn

A friend sent me the story of the LLM deleting a database during a code freeze and said "it lied when asked about it." I assert that a generative AI cannot lie. These aren't my original thoughts. But if you read Harry Frankfurt's famous essay On Bullshit (downloadable PDF here), he makes a very reasoned definition of bullshit. And this paragraph near the end of the essay explains why an LLM cannot lie.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he consider his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.

And that's a generative artificial intelligence algorithm. Whether generating video, image, text, network traffic, whatever. It has no reference to the truth and is unaware of what truth is. It just says things. Sometimes they turn out to be true. Sometimes not. But that's irrelevant to an LLM. It doesn't know.

#bullshit #ai #llm #genai

Last week, I got an email from Microsoft. It told me I’d be paying 46% more for my Office subscription, starting next month.

But when I tried to cancel, it offered me the same price I was already paying — without the generative AI features I never asked for in the first place.

This isn’t just deceptive; it’s an abuse of market power. I’ve had it with Microsoft.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it-with-microsoft

#tech #microsoft #office #generativeai #deception #ai

"Why AI Literacy Instruction Needs to Start Before Kindergarten" !?!?https://www.the74million.org/zero2eight/why-ai-literacy-instruction-needs-to-start-before-kindergarten/
@GossiTheDog @malwaretech @funnymonkey @pluralistic #edtech #ai

@toxi @gauthier @atomless @danmcquillan @asrg @festal @gerrymcgovern @tante @w0bb1t @bildoperationen @databasecultures @emilymbender @Iris @timnitGebru

Thanks for pulling this together—an essential reading list for anyone trying to cut through the #AI noise and engage with the deeper systemic shifts underway.

Also, appreciate the inclusion in the #FollowFriday list—honored to be alongside so many sharp voices pushing the discourse forward.

"I do not think it will shock anyone to learn that big tech is aggressively pushing AI products. But the extent to which they have done so might. The sheer ubiquity of AI means that we take for ground the countless ways, many invisible, that these products and features are foisted on us—and how Silicon Valley companies have systematically designed and deployed AI products onto their existing platforms in an effort to accelerate adoption.

It also happens to be the subject of a new study by design scholars Nolwenn Maudet, Anaëlle Beignon, and Thomas Thibault, who looked at hundreds of instances of how AI has been deployed, highlighted, and advertised by Google, Meta, Adobe, SnapChat, and others, and analyzed them for a study called “Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability.” They also present the results in a handy guide, with illustrated examples called, aptly: “How tech companies are pushing us to use AI.” (It’s translated from the French, hence the sometimes awkward phrasings.)

The study is a stark reminder that AI has reached ubiquity not necessarily because users around the globe are demanding AI products, but for reasons often closer to the opposite."

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-big-tech-is-force-feeding-us

#AI #GenerativeAI #BigTech #Propaganda #DeceptiveDesign #AIPolicy #SiliconValley

#KI randaliert im Netz 🤖🪓 – #Admins halten dagegen 🦸

Meine @campact -Kolumne aus Mai ist heute tagesaktuell dabei!

> Herzlichen Dank an alle Admins, die unermüdlich dafür kämpfen, uns Nutzende und den Planeten vor der Gier von KI zu schützen. Ich hoffe, dieser Text ist ein Beitrag für mehr Verständnis zu diesem Thema.

👉 https://blog.campact.de/2025/05/ki-randaliert-im-netz-admins-halten-dagegen/

#SysAdmins #SystemadminAppreciationDay #FediAdmins #AI #KIScraping
#AIScraping #TDM #AdminLeiden #MastoAdmin #DataPoisoning #aitxt #GPT #GreenIT

#KI randaliert im Netz 🤖🪓 – #Admins halten dagegen 🦸

Meine @campact -Kolumne aus Mai ist heute tagesaktuell dabei!

> Herzlichen Dank an alle Admins, die unermüdlich dafür kämpfen, uns Nutzende und den Planeten vor der Gier von KI zu schützen. Ich hoffe, dieser Text ist ein Beitrag für mehr Verständnis zu diesem Thema.

👉 https://blog.campact.de/2025/05/ki-randaliert-im-netz-admins-halten-dagegen/

#SysAdmins #SystemadminAppreciationDay #FediAdmins #AI #KIScraping
#AIScraping #TDM #AdminLeiden #MastoAdmin #DataPoisoning #aitxt #GPT #GreenIT

Is it possible to imagine a better future where we use less computation? The effects of AI hype almost demand it.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @danmcquillan so he could lay out the concept of decomputing as a different way of assessing technology.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/286_decomputing_for_a_better_future_w_dan_mcquillan

#tech #decomputing #ai #generativeai #aihype #siliconvalley

Readings shared July 24, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/07/25-readings_shared_07-24-25 #AI #FunctionalProgramming #Haskell #ITP #LLMs #LeanProver #Math

My new email signature for work.

I typed this up moments after receiving a "summary" email from read.ai

#AI
#Copilot

"I do not think it will shock anyone to learn that big tech is aggressively pushing AI products. But the extent to which they have done so might. The sheer ubiquity of AI means that we take for ground the countless ways, many invisible, that these products and features are foisted on us—and how Silicon Valley companies have systematically designed and deployed AI products onto their existing platforms in an effort to accelerate adoption.

It also happens to be the subject of a new study by design scholars Nolwenn Maudet, Anaëlle Beignon, and Thomas Thibault, who looked at hundreds of instances of how AI has been deployed, highlighted, and advertised by Google, Meta, Adobe, SnapChat, and others, and analyzed them for a study called “Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability.” They also present the results in a handy guide, with illustrated examples called, aptly: “How tech companies are pushing us to use AI.” (It’s translated from the French, hence the sometimes awkward phrasings.)

The study is a stark reminder that AI has reached ubiquity not necessarily because users around the globe are demanding AI products, but for reasons often closer to the opposite."

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-big-tech-is-force-feeding-us

#AI #GenerativeAI #BigTech #Propaganda #DeceptiveDesign #AIPolicy #SiliconValley

A new barrier to building much-needed housing:

“The Greater London Authority has told developers that new housing projects in West London could be banned till 2035, because data centers have taken all the electricity capacity.”

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/report-home-building-to-halt-in-west-london-due-to-data-center-power-demands/

h/t @josephwilk

#housing #London #DataCenters #AI

Mark Carney promised “elbows up” against the US, but he’s offering a warm embrace to US tech companies and the AI hype they’ve unleashed.

As Canada’s AI minister suggests AI regulation is off the table, there’s ample reason to be worried about Carney’s tech agenda.

My latest for @TheBreach: https://breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys-ai-agenda-is-a-gift-to-big-tech/

#tech #canada #cdnpoli #cdntech #ai #aihype #generativeai #politics

Mark Carney promised “elbows up” against the US, but he’s offering a warm embrace to US tech companies and the AI hype they’ve unleashed.

As Canada’s AI minister suggests AI regulation is off the table, there’s ample reason to be worried about Carney’s tech agenda.

My latest for @TheBreach: https://breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys-ai-agenda-is-a-gift-to-big-tech/

#tech #canada #cdnpoli #cdntech #ai #aihype #generativeai #politics

Reviewed the 3 PRs we got for lafleur: https://github.com/devdanzin/lafleur/pulls?q=is%3Apr

All 3 marked as "good first issue". They've clear signs of being created by or with help from AI, like tentative code ("# do this in case... ") and removing docstrings.

Merged one and gave feedback on 2, including tips on how to get AI to fix their issues.

I might get unfollows for this, but I welcome AI generated code as long as it's good enough. In fact, AI made this project viable.

#Python #fuzzer #fuzzing #fusil #lafleur #AI

Our latest in the #AI orchestration series demonstrates how #jBPM integrates AI-powered features into a clinical setting. See it in action with #OpenEMR for stroke prediction. https://opensource.net/orchestrating-ai-in-clinical-settings-with-jbpm/

Is it possible to imagine a better future where we use less computation? The effects of AI hype almost demand it.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @danmcquillan so he could lay out the concept of decomputing as a different way of assessing technology.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/286_decomputing_for_a_better_future_w_dan_mcquillan

#tech #decomputing #ai #generativeai #aihype #siliconvalley

I blogged about efficient streaming of Markdown in the terminal.

This was part of a different post, but it was a bit of a footnote. I think it deserves its own post.

https://willmcgugan.github.io/streaming-markdown/

#Python #Markdown #AI

Is it possible to imagine a better future where we use less computation? The effects of AI hype almost demand it.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @danmcquillan so he could lay out the concept of decomputing as a different way of assessing technology.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/286_decomputing_for_a_better_future_w_dan_mcquillan

#tech #decomputing #ai #generativeai #aihype #siliconvalley

Is it possible to imagine a better future where we use less computation? The effects of AI hype almost demand it.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @danmcquillan so he could lay out the concept of decomputing as a different way of assessing technology.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/286_decomputing_for_a_better_future_w_dan_mcquillan

#tech #decomputing #ai #generativeai #aihype #siliconvalley

DeepMind and OpenAI achieve IMO Gold. What does it all mean? (What we know, what we would like to know, and what it may take years to know). ~ Ernest Davis, Gary Marcus. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/deepmind-and-openai-achieve-imo-gold #AI #Math #LLMs

I blogged about efficient streaming of Markdown in the terminal.

This was part of a different post, but it was a bit of a footnote. I think it deserves its own post.

https://willmcgugan.github.io/streaming-markdown/

#Python #Markdown #AI

Readings shared July 23, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/07/24-readings_shared_07-23-25 #AI #FunctionalProgramming #Haskell #ITP #LLMs #LeanProver #Math

#AI #인공지능 #메타인지 #미디어리터러시 #정보리터러시

https://www.sisain.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=56119

우리가 글을 읽고 쓸 때는 뇌의 굉장히 다양한 영역이 활성화된다. 챗지피티를 쓰면 그 연결성이 약하게 나타난다. 이 연구에서 제가 중요하게 보는 결과는 그 다음인데, 챗지피티를 이용한 그룹의 80%가 자신이 쓴 내용을 정확하게 인용하지 못했다(편집자 주: 이 그룹의 일부 참가자는 자신이 작성한 에세이에 대해 “어떤 소유권도 느끼지 못했다”라고 말했다). 비유하자면 책의 저자가 본인 책의 내용을 잘 모르는 것이다.

@josephcox

The AI overview model is so bad. Even among LLMs in general. Google's stuff hallucinates like crazy.

The number of people who stop searching at an overview + the rate of errors tells me some people are definitely coming away with bad information convinced they have found their answers.

#AI #search

@josephcox

The AI overview model is so bad. Even among LLMs in general. Google's stuff hallucinates like crazy.

The number of people who stop searching at an overview + the rate of errors tells me some people are definitely coming away with bad information convinced they have found their answers.

#AI #search

前に英語の記事でも読んだ、ハノイの塔とか難易度を段階的に設定しやすいパズル的な課題を #AI に解かせる実験について、言及されてる

「推論する生成AI」は実際には思考しているわけではなく、丸暗記した結果を返しているに過ぎない - 渋谷駅前で働くデータサイエンティストのブログ https://tjo.hatenablog.com/entry/2025/07/23/173000

"A Pew Research Center report published this spring analyzed data from 900 U.S. adults who agreed to share their online browsing activity. About six-in-ten respondents (58%) conducted at least one Google search in March 2025 that produced an AI-generated summary. Additional analysis found that Google users were less likely to click on result links when visiting search pages with an AI summary compared with those without one. For searches that resulted in an AI-generated summary, users very rarely clicked on the sources cited.

Here’s more of what we learned about Google AI summaries and how users interact with them.

Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one. Users who encountered an AI summary clicked on a traditional search result link in 8% of all visits. Those who did not encounter an AI summary clicked on a search result nearly twice as often (15% of visits).

A bar chart showing that Google users are less likely to click on a link when they encounter search pages with AI summaries.
Google users who encountered an AI summary also rarely clicked on a link in the summary itself. This occurred in just 1% of all visits to pages with such a summary.

Google users are more likely to end their browsing session entirely after visiting a search page with an AI summary than on pages without a summary. This happened on 26% of pages with an AI summary, compared with 16% of pages with only traditional search results."

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-users-are-less-likely-to-click-on-links-when-an-ai-summary-appears-in-the-results/

#AI #GenerativeAI #Google #AIOverview #OpenWeb #Search #SearchEngines

If your search engine deters people from searching and finding a variety of information sources, it is not a search engine anymore.

#NoAi #AI

If your search engine deters people from searching and finding a variety of information sources, it is not a search engine anymore.

#NoAi #AI

"A Pew Research Center report published this spring analyzed data from 900 U.S. adults who agreed to share their online browsing activity. About six-in-ten respondents (58%) conducted at least one Google search in March 2025 that produced an AI-generated summary. Additional analysis found that Google users were less likely to click on result links when visiting search pages with an AI summary compared with those without one. For searches that resulted in an AI-generated summary, users very rarely clicked on the sources cited.

Here’s more of what we learned about Google AI summaries and how users interact with them.

Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one. Users who encountered an AI summary clicked on a traditional search result link in 8% of all visits. Those who did not encounter an AI summary clicked on a search result nearly twice as often (15% of visits).

A bar chart showing that Google users are less likely to click on a link when they encounter search pages with AI summaries.
Google users who encountered an AI summary also rarely clicked on a link in the summary itself. This occurred in just 1% of all visits to pages with such a summary.

Google users are more likely to end their browsing session entirely after visiting a search page with an AI summary than on pages without a summary. This happened on 26% of pages with an AI summary, compared with 16% of pages with only traditional search results."

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-users-are-less-likely-to-click-on-links-when-an-ai-summary-appears-in-the-results/

#AI #GenerativeAI #Google #AIOverview #OpenWeb #Search #SearchEngines

What I've taken away from last week's news & roundtable #translation #linguists #ai
https://tipap.mataroa.blog/blog/shocking-news-or-not/

Seed-Prover achieves IMO 2025 silver score. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/MWo8dIg4bqQXzB_W9UZ7Ow #AI #Math #LLMs #ITP #LeanProver

In the U.S., some publishers worry about "Google Zero," when they cease to get any web traffic from the search engine giant.

@arstechnica reports: "Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks."

https://flip.it/dYyI7X

#Google #SEO #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Media #Tech #Journalism

Every time someone says "AI slop" it makes me sad.

I am disabled and cannot learn to make art like others, therefore I use AI to portray my emotions and creativity in a way that I would never be able to otherwise.

Nor can I afford to hire a real artist because the only income I have, is disability payments.

When you call my work "slop", you're also calling my emotions "slop".

That's horrendous and shows how short sighted people are in regards to these things.

#AI #AIart #ArtificialIntelligence

It makes me sad that there are so many AI videos and audios of Ozzy Osbourne out there now. I don't care if he said the same things in an interview - creating and sharing artificial AI audio or video after someone's death just feels plain disrespectful unless they gave permission while alive. The worst part is you can't always tell the AI-generated ones from the real videos... that's where we're at now with the world.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Ozzy #OzzyOsbourne #RIPOzzy

It makes me sad that there are so many AI videos and audios of Ozzy Osbourne out there now. I don't care if he said the same things in an interview - creating and sharing artificial AI audio or video after someone's death just feels plain disrespectful unless they gave permission while alive. The worst part is you can't always tell the AI-generated ones from the real videos... that's where we're at now with the world.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Ozzy #OzzyOsbourne #RIPOzzy

In the U.S., some publishers worry about "Google Zero," when they cease to get any web traffic from the search engine giant.

@arstechnica reports: "Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks."

https://flip.it/dYyI7X

#Google #SEO #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Media #Tech #Journalism

Seed-Prover: Reasoning wide and deep for automated math theorem proving. https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed/Seed-Prover/tree/main/SeedProver #AI #Math #LLMs #ITP #LeanProver

Gemini Deep Think learns math, wins gold medal at International Math Olympiad
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/google-deepmind-earns-gold-in-international-math-olympiad-with-new-gemini-ai/
#AI #artificialintelligence #Google #DeepMind #DeepThink #mathematics #NLP

An #AI win in the classroom:

A professor brought tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot into her business tech course. Students moved from curiosity to confidence, but it took time to develop new tech habits.

https://theconversation.com/generative-ai-is-coming-to-the-workplace-so-i-designed-a-business-technology-class-with-ai-baked-in-259481

🙄

OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI

Sam Altman also said AI could already diagnose better than doctors, as his company expands into Washington

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/22/openai-sam-altman-congress-ai-jobs

#ai #aislop #AIpocalpyse #employment

🙄

OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI

Sam Altman also said AI could already diagnose better than doctors, as his company expands into Washington

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/22/openai-sam-altman-congress-ai-jobs

#ai #aislop #AIpocalpyse #employment

#AI hallucinated itself into existence, according to the Big Bucks theory.

It's time to stop calling LLMs "AI". This practice is tarnishing all the really powerful advances in machine learning that are accelerating drug discovery, making previously intractable optimization problems feasible, helping to elicit scientific models from humanly incomprehensible troves of data, etc.

Lumping all the "AI" under one term is doing a major disservice to humanity. At the moment, when I see a company is heavily investing in "AI" I can't tell if they're going to start having major technological breakthroughs, or start having major infrastructure failures from trusting vibe coding by minimal wage casuals.

It's time to taboo the term "AI" and be more specific.
#AI #ML #LLMs

Gemini Deep Think learns math, wins gold medal at International Math Olympiad
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/google-deepmind-earns-gold-in-international-math-olympiad-with-new-gemini-ai/
#AI #artificialintelligence #Google #DeepMind #DeepThink #mathematics #NLP

On reflection, I think the big mistake is the conflation of #AI with #LLM and #MachineLearning.
There are genuine exciting advances in ML with applications all over the place, in science, (not least in my own research group looking at high resolution regional climate downscaling), health diagnostics, defence etc. But these are not the AIs that journalists are talking about, nor that are really related the LLMs.
They're still good uses of GPUs and will probably produce economic benefits, but probably not the multi- trillion ones the pundits seem to be expecting

https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114896256761569397
Ruth_Mottram - My main problem with @edzitron.com 's piece on the #AIbubble is that I agree with so much of it.
I'm now wondering if I've missed something about #LLMs? The numbers and implications for stock markets are terrifyingly huge!

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

On reflection, I think the big mistake is the conflation of #AI with #LLM and #MachineLearning.
There are genuine exciting advances in ML with applications all over the place, in science, (not least in my own research group looking at high resolution regional climate downscaling), health diagnostics, defence etc. But these are not the AIs that journalists are talking about, nor that are really related the LLMs.
They're still good uses of GPUs and will probably produce economic benefits, but probably not the multi- trillion ones the pundits seem to be expecting

https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114896256761569397
Ruth_Mottram - My main problem with @edzitron.com 's piece on the #AIbubble is that I agree with so much of it.
I'm now wondering if I've missed something about #LLMs? The numbers and implications for stock markets are terrifyingly huge!

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

On reflection, I think the big mistake is the conflation of #AI with #LLM and #MachineLearning.
There are genuine exciting advances in ML with applications all over the place, in science, (not least in my own research group looking at high resolution regional climate downscaling), health diagnostics, defence etc. But these are not the AIs that journalists are talking about, nor that are really related the LLMs.
They're still good uses of GPUs and will probably produce economic benefits, but probably not the multi- trillion ones the pundits seem to be expecting

https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114896256761569397
Ruth_Mottram - My main problem with @edzitron.com 's piece on the #AIbubble is that I agree with so much of it.
I'm now wondering if I've missed something about #LLMs? The numbers and implications for stock markets are terrifyingly huge!

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

Re: Using ChatGPT to format your code.

Oh my god, stop! There are plenty of code formatters out there that don’t require a subscription, don’t leak your source code, don’t take a ton of compute resources and electricity, and won’t surreptitiously substitute their own stupid slop code just ‘cause.

Self respect, you could have it. #programming #ai

The Hierarchical Reasoning Model is a brain-inspired architecture with two recurrent modules: a slow, high-level planner and a fast, low-level one for computation. With only 27M parameters and ~1000 training examples, it excels at complex reasoning without pre-training or Chain-of-Thought.

HRM significantly outperforms larger models in benchmarks and solves complex Sudoku and mazes where CoT methods completely fail.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21734

#technology #ai #llm

The Hierarchical Reasoning Model is a brain-inspired architecture with two recurrent modules: a slow, high-level planner and a fast, low-level one for computation. With only 27M parameters and ~1000 training examples, it excels at complex reasoning without pre-training or Chain-of-Thought.

HRM significantly outperforms larger models in benchmarks and solves complex Sudoku and mazes where CoT methods completely fail.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21734

#technology #ai #llm

Oh no it happened - client for a research project I’m working on got upset that we’re doing manual data analysis of survey responses, and complained about why we are so slow when their internal team working on a different report got “everything done in a couple of days with #AI tools”

And then they told us that waiting for proper human analysis is a “waste of time” and that we need to just chuck our dataset into AI and “get it over with”

I really don’t know what to do right now 🥲

Trying to do this properly on their expected timeline will mean very little sleep for multiple days, but giving up on the project quality and dumping it into AI is will make this entire project a waste of time. (As I wouldn’t be able to trust the output of the analysis, or be proud of it to showcase the final report as an example of our work, and not to mention that I don’t want to support this expectation to rush everything at work with these AI models)

🌍✨ EuroPython has just ended.
One issue came up again and again during community organisers open space: it’s harder to find sponsors.

Now that AI is taking the spotlight, I’m asking: Who is being left behind?

That’s what this blog post is about:
✍️ https://georgiker.com/blog/is-ai-leaving-python-community-behind/

#EuroPython #OpenSource #AI #Python #community

Vibe coding - has that mindset moved into the world of homebuilt aircraft? What has been the impact?

My approach to building a glider has been 'build a little, test a little.' That doesn't mix well with the vibe coding approach.

"Experimental amateur-built aircraft, often called "homebuilts" because they are typically built in people's garages and basements, are the fastest growing segment of new aircraft in the United States."

https://www.eaa.org/eaa/aircraft-building

"What amuses me is the chatter around such illustrations. You’ll see comments to the effect of “normal airplanes are boring. Engine in the front, tail at the back, people in the middle. Blah!”

Well, friends, because that’s what works. It’s fair to say general aviation moves on settled science. We know what works efficiently and safely when the human is the only thing in the control loop"

https://www.kitplanes.com/ai-amuses-but-it-cant-replace-aviation-experts/

#AvGeek #Aviation #ElectricAircraft #ExperimentalAviation #Homebuilt #Glider #DIY #VibeCoding #EAA #AI #Chatgpt #LLM

🌍✨ EuroPython has just ended.
One issue came up again and again during community organisers open space: it’s harder to find sponsors.

Now that AI is taking the spotlight, I’m asking: Who is being left behind?

That’s what this blog post is about:
✍️ https://georgiker.com/blog/is-ai-leaving-python-community-behind/

#EuroPython #OpenSource #AI #Python #community

The times we live in...

#Enshittification #AI #Bots #Spotify #ArtificialIntelligence

#MULCIA: Postdoc in AI (including logic), University of Bergen (Norway). https://tinyurl.com/2237r8xo #PostDoc #CompSci #AI

It's time to stop calling LLMs "AI". This practice is tarnishing all the really powerful advances in machine learning that are accelerating drug discovery, making previously intractable optimization problems feasible, helping to elicit scientific models from humanly incomprehensible troves of data, etc.

Lumping all the "AI" under one term is doing a major disservice to humanity. At the moment, when I see a company is heavily investing in "AI" I can't tell if they're going to start having major technological breakthroughs, or start having major infrastructure failures from trusting vibe coding by minimal wage casuals.

It's time to taboo the term "AI" and be more specific.
#AI #ML #LLMs

Hey #PHP,

I don't normally market code, I write and leave it on github for you to find.

I can be wrong, I'm happy to be wrong.

But I believe, with every ounce of my being, that this is going to be important for our survival in the long term.

https://krakjoe.github.io/ort/

#php #ai

Hey #PHP,

I don't normally market code, I write and leave it on github for you to find.

I can be wrong, I'm happy to be wrong.

But I believe, with every ounce of my being, that this is going to be important for our survival in the long term.

https://krakjoe.github.io/ort/

#php #ai

I watched someone "vibe code" for an hour and now I think "slot machine coding" is a more appropriate name. "Let us pull the lever again and see if the code gets better with this prompt."

#AI #GenAI #VibeCoding #Programming

I watched someone "vibe code" for an hour and now I think "slot machine coding" is a more appropriate name. "Let us pull the lever again and see if the code gets better with this prompt."

#AI #GenAI #VibeCoding #Programming

I watched someone "vibe code" for an hour and now I think "slot machine coding" is a more appropriate name. "Let us pull the lever again and see if the code gets better with this prompt."

#AI #GenAI #VibeCoding #Programming

#ThoughtProvoker

Is it possible that while we are fiercely opposed to #AI and how this highly disruptive technology is just introduced everywhere in #society without a second thought (ignoring all the voices that advocate responsible use) ..

Is it possible that maybe with decentralized #SocialWeb technology with semantically meaningful #machine-readable services, we are creating the tech that'll bring AI up to our skin, into our very pores?

Is social web merely #technology?

#AI is a marketing term; before we discuss "AI is fake" vs "AI is real" we need to unfold what we *mean* by AI.

For example, "artificial general intelligence" is fake and can't hurt you. Layoffs excused by "AI efficiency" are real and can hurt you.

Linkedin discourse is fake - but it CAN hurt you.

Like it or not, AI is being forced on us in pretty much every facet of life, so here's a reminder: Think twice before handing over your personal data. @Techcrunch has the details:

https://flip.it/D7O6Iu

#Tech #Technology #AI #Data #Hacking #CyberSecurity

Like it or not, AI is being forced on us in pretty much every facet of life, so here's a reminder: Think twice before handing over your personal data. @Techcrunch has the details:

https://flip.it/D7O6Iu

#Tech #Technology #AI #Data #Hacking #CyberSecurity

#AI is a marketing term; before we discuss "AI is fake" vs "AI is real" we need to unfold what we *mean* by AI.

For example, "artificial general intelligence" is fake and can't hurt you. Layoffs excused by "AI efficiency" are real and can hurt you.

Linkedin discourse is fake - but it CAN hurt you.

#AI is a marketing term; before we discuss "AI is fake" vs "AI is real" we need to unfold what we *mean* by AI.

For example, "artificial general intelligence" is fake and can't hurt you. Layoffs excused by "AI efficiency" are real and can hurt you.

Linkedin discourse is fake - but it CAN hurt you.