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Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-using-gemini-give-chatgpt-like-ans…

How Apple is Using Gemini to Give ChatGPT-Like Answers
In another AI win for Google lately, Apple announced on Monday that it will use Google’s Gemini models to power its artificial intelligence features, including an upcoming updated version of its Siri voice assistant.With Gemini powering its answers, Siri will have the ability to answer factual ...

This whole "OpenClaw" thing has made me very angry and I wrote a bit about the why. It's not that "it's AI": It is the way that kind of project invalidates decades of work and care in free software. "AI" software isn't just careless, it is actively rejecting responsibility and care.
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Diffusion of Responsibility
One of the features of “AI” is the diffusion of responsibility: “AI” systems are being put in all kinds of processes and when they fuck up (and they always fuck up) it was just the “AI”, or “someone should have checked things”. “AI” companies want to sell machines to solve every issue but give no […]

Die Deutsche #Umwelthilfe unterstützt den Vorschlag von Bayerns Wirtschaftsminister Hubert #Aiwanger für eine Sonderausschreibung von 5000 Megawatt #Windenergie, um bereits genehmigte Projekte …

DUH unterstützt Initiative von Aiwanger für Windenergieausbau und Kritik an Reiches Plänen

I don’t know the answer to my original question, but maybe it’s as simple as “seize the means of repetition.”
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We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I’m gonna throw up.
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So we’ve been using an AI agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it.
I just found out it’s been hallucinating numbers this entire time.
Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn’t exist. Our CFO showed the board …

Anger Simmers at Bondi Vigil Over Warnings on Antisemitism Rise (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/anger-simmers-at-bondi-vigil-over-warnings-on-antisemitism-rise
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p9#a251215p9

«Google und OpenAI beklagen KI-Datendiebstahl durch Modell-Destillation:
[…] Gemini massiv von Angreifern attackiert, die das Modell durch sogenannte Destillation kopieren wollten. Eine Kampagne habe Gemini über 100.000 Mal mit Anfragen bombardiert, berichtet NBC News. Google nennt das Diebstahl geistigen Eigentums. […]»
Zwei der Datenkonzerne, die vom Datendiebstahl leben, beklagen dass sie selber Opfer sind?!??
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Google und OpenAI beklagen KI-Datendiebstahl durch Modell-Destillation
Google und OpenAI beklagen sich über Ideenklau; ausgerechnet die Unternehmen, die selbst mit riesigen Mengen fremder Daten trainiert haben. Doch hinter den Vorwürfen steckt ein ernstes Problem: Angreifer versuchen systematisch, Milliarden-Dollar-Modelle zu kopieren, ohne selbst zu investieren.

another weir obscurity: the 1994 studio version of "easy answers" featuring neil young, who didn't get a songwriting credit but wrote the "shut your eyes..." verse, making it the only hunter/young collaboration. https://youtu.be/X4vxyTphyRs

Painting of a Cherub 🖼️

Unusual GenAI application: Snarky answers to shitty emails.
#genAI

I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do