@Techmeme@techhub.socialMenlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $37B in 2025, up from $11.5B in 2024; Anthropic's share of enterprise LLM spend grew from 24% to 40% YoY (Menlo Ventures)
https://menlovc.com/perspective/2025-the-state-of-generative-ai-in-the-enter…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioGenerative AI can’t magically reveal otherwise unknown truths. AI doesn’t have any idea what the lower half of the killer’s face looks, no more than my students knew what my unmasked face looked like.
What AI •can• do is generate a random plausible face that really looks like a face. It might even look like the face of a real person — a random, innocent person.
Sharing AI-generated unmasking photos is dangerous.
3/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFal, which hosts generative AI models for developers, raised a $140M Series D led by Sequoia, a source says at a $4.5B valuation, up from $1.5B in July (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…
@jonippolito@digipres.clubOn March 9th I’m helping launch AI Foundations for Educators, a 5-week online course that goes beyond workshop-level knowledge to guide teachers and school staff in developing a personalized framework for adapting classrooms to AI.
It’s a pilot module for a planned online certificate on generative AI; would count as credit toward that graduate credential. Open to anyone with a BA.
@tanyakaroli@expressional.socialDet er allerede beskrevet hvordan ondsindede aktŸrer kan indfŸre desinformation i generative sprogmodeller. Her er det så historien om salg af Flügger-maling til Rusland der er blevet manipuleret:
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/pludselig-
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.socialI wonder if consciously avoiding the style and patterns frequently applied by generative AI might be triggering some kind of forced language evolution. Previously considered best practices that are now shunned to not sound like a machine.
#language #linguistics
@pbloem@sigmoid.socialThat article is good, but I had to turn off that video interview with Paul Kedrosky after about 30 seconds into his "explanation" of generative AI.
Complete word salad. Using all the right words in all the wrong ways. Poor Paul Krugman. You deserve a genuine explanation.
@avstockhausen@fedihum.orgBookmarked: CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed | Inria #HTR Transcribing thousands of medieva…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGood article about that there is more then just Generative AI, where all the hype is, but that we are making great and steady progress in the field of predictive AI.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/1
@newsie@darktundra.xyzUK intelligence warns AI 'prompt injection' attacks might never go away https://therecord.media/prompt-injection-attacks-uk-intelligence-warning
@markhburton@mstdn.socialAI and the railway mania
Michael Roberts.
"A widely cited study from MIT found that so far, 95 per cent of generative AI projects produce no return in productivity growth or profits. To justify the required investment, annual data-centre revenues would need to rise from $20bn today to about $2trn. Existing revenues will fall short by $800bn.."
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Firefox führt ab Version 148 eine neue Einstellung ein, mit der Nutzer alle aktuellen und zukünftigen generativen #AI-Funktionen im Browser blockieren können.
Alternativ lassen sich einzelne Features wie #Übersetzungen
@shriramk@mastodon.socialNew talk abstract dropping. I just hope I can write a talk to live up to it by *checks watch* *gulp* Monday.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialItaly-based humanoid robotics startup Generative Bionics raised €70M led by CDP Venture Capital, with participation from Tether, AMD Ventures, and others (Daniele Lepido/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"What I’m saying is generative AI is a deeply expensive edging machine, but for your life."
Garbage Day nails it.
(Original title: Generative AI is an expensive edging machine)
https://www.garbageday.email/p/generative-ai-is-an-expensive-ed…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFollowing UK CMA's proposals, Google says it is exploring controls to let websites opt out of AI Overviews and AI Mode (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-opt-out-of-search-ai-features-40831.html
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThis is a genuinely good idea, and I'd urge you to sign it. Make #AI generated works immediately identifiable. It would be interesting also to require a similar 'watermark' in generated texts -- perhaps a particular sequence of whitespace characters.
#generativeAI
H/t
@privacity@social.linux.pizza6 Privacy Tips for the Generative AI Era
https://fpf.org/blog/6-privacy-tips-for-the-generative-ai-era/
@…
Data Privacy Day, or Data…
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social"regardless of the underlying technology, the pursuit of artificial general intelligence is not necessarily the most efficient route to useful applications. Artificial specific intelligence (AI approaches focused on a specific domain, such as the Nobel prize-winning, protein-folding algorithm, AlphaFold2) gives more reliable and transparent results by combining the subtle pattern detection at which GenAI excels with explicitly encoded, domain-specific knowledge."
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz @Techmeme@techhub.socialInternal memo: Sam Altman tells staff that ChatGPT is "back to exceeding 10% monthly growth", and OpenAI plans to release "an updated Chat model" this week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/09/sam-altman-touts-cha…
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialThis is a good idea. All genAI/diffusion images to be marked with a watermark. If you're in the UK, please sign the petition⤵️
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736690
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineOn (generative) AI:
"So it's sort of like when we fed cows with cows and got mad cow disease."
https://framapiaf.org/@bbbhltz/115646412773089943
@stefan@gardenstate.social"Generative AI" is not what you think it is by Acerola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERiXDhLHxmo
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialThe generative AI crash is gonna be just like when companies realized their pandemic revenue growth wasn’t going to continue forever, huh
@aardrian@toot.cafeI tried to put a stake in the ground for how I have used and will (not) use the collection of technologies loosely and collectively referred to as ‘AI’ for content on my blag-o-tron:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/my-use-of-ai-on-this-site.html
Boring read…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngI keep on thinking about this so often, now mostly about how the word has been co-opted & abused by contemporary "AI"... Just refound the link (from 2012):
Generative vs generated
https://www.anomalogue.com/2012/05/01/generative-vs-generated/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialJames Cameron says the idea that generative AI can "make up a character" and a performance can be generated "from scratch with a text prompt" is "horrifying" (Jack Dunn/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/james-c…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io"No AI slop here! I'm merely exploring generative music and video!"
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioI’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.
So far it’s been working!
Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.
Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.
And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.
They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeDoes tossing a laptop in the river destroy evidence?
The Coupang hacker allegedly disposed of the laptop used in the breach by throwing it into a river.
https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/hacker-…
@stiefkind@mastodon.social
@hynek@mastodon.social @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI model... by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%"
@trochee@dair-community.socialNever have I seen a more pointed example of "generative AI is very good at cliché"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/an-ai-generated-band-got-1m-plays-on-spotify-now-m…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialHow generative AI is used in the financial sector.
#AI
@crell@phpc.socialWait, Games Workshop did something good?
#AI
@FandaSin@social.linux.pizzaI'll never pay for Disney again.🤮
First they f**d up Star Wars, then Dr. Who and now they want to allow "AI" slop on their platform.
FU Disney.🖕
"During an earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger said that Disney was about to expand, allowing subscribers to generate and share AI-generated content."
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.placeConcept artists give informed critiques of using GenAI to concept. Fav quote:
“When I show someone a rough sketch they see it differently than I do. They’re not seeing the sketch, they’re seeing the potential for what the sketch could be through their own taste and experiences, and it sparks all kinds of wonderful ideas that I would’ve never thought of on my own.”
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
@lpryszcz@genomic.socialBeautiful summary
https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLuma AI opens its first international office in London and appoints former WPP and Monks executive Jason Day to lead its global expansion outside the US (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFollowing UK CMA's proposals, Google says it is exploring controls to let websites opt out of AI Overviews and AI Mode (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-opt-out-of-search-ai-features-40831.html
@kurt@nelson.funI think generative AI only has one purpose: making my dog into random things.
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialThe inch that generative AI boosters give is the country mile that employers take to justify mass layoffs in the name of AI
@lukem@hachyderm.ioI love generative AI.
Generative AI is absolutely fantastic.
I learn so many new things thanks to it.
Every time I ask it to do something for me, it always messes it up to the point I say "aaaah, screw it" and do the thing myself.
@gfriend@mas.toSage advice about artificial intelligence: "Do your own original thinking first."
Because “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/philkoopman/p/plans-plan…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaPeople who say the current generation of generative AI is nothing / pure snake oil and hypegrift are wrong. True, ChatGPT is pretty much slop, but instances like Grok Expert and Perplexity Pro consistently produce meaningful, correct results in less time than it would take to manually comb the Internet for the information. Claude Code and Cursor can radically accelerate certain software development, especially in the hands of someone who can already write code and redirect the model when it&…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialExpedition 33 is one of my all time fav games but I'm happy the Indie Game Dev Awards is taking a hard line on AI in games.
https://mashable.com/article/clair-obscur-expedition-33-indie-game-awards-revoked-ai
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org“AI can make mistakes, and it cannot replace the experience of reading an article in full. But we do believe it will help you find, understand and use ACM content both more quickly and more deeply.” https://dl.acm.org/generative-ai/summarizations
Why? Why?? WHY??? Has anybody aske…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org“AI can make mistakes, and it cannot replace the experience of reading an article in full. But we do believe it will help you find, understand and use ACM content both more quickly and more deeply.” https://dl.acm.org/generative-ai/summarizations
Why? Why?? WHY??? Has anybody aske…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org“AI can make mistakes, and it cannot replace the experience of reading an article in full. But we do believe it will help you find, understand and use ACM content both more quickly and more deeply.” https://dl.acm.org/generative-ai/summarizations
Why? Why?? WHY??? Has anybody aske…
@timjan@social.linux.pizzaRight, "generative ai", not "generation ai".
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioHow to use generative AI ethically and tastefully
Thread 👇
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz❝Our guidelines for generative AI in music and audio are as follows:
● Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp.
● Any use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles is strictly prohibited in accordance with our existing policies prohibiting impersonation and intellectual property infringement.❞
@debellum@ludosphere.fr
@compfu@mograph.socialGood examples in that article for why a prompt-based system for system administration seems odd: You type a hundred-word question and are told by the AI to use apt when the Fedora system doesn’t use that package manager at all. https://mstdn.social/@osnews/115702679695335298
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeInspections by Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) of five Chinese generative AI apps -- Deepseek, Doubao (豆包), Yiyan (文心一言), Tongyi (通義千問), and Yuanbao (騰訊元寶) -- found violations of users' communication security across several indicators.
https://focustaiwan.tw/cross-strait/2025…
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeI wish we had more people writing more sophisticated concerns about the harms of AI.
"Slop" criticism is important because I think many of us feel we are being gaslit into believing that generative AI is currently creating quality creative output, while Al (henceforth Alfred) is overwhelmingly creating mediocre quality creative work.
Every past winter, Alfred survives in a more focused and refined form. Eliza was a toy chatbot of the 1960s, but what emerged from that is…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSome US college students say they are using AI "humanizer" tools to alter text to avoid cheating accusations; AI detection tools now aim to catch "humanizers" (Tyler Kingkade/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/coll
@trochee@dair-community.social"producing the feeling of knowing without the labor of judgement"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19466
oh what a great line
@axbom@axbom.me @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPublicis CEO Arthur Sadoun says the company is among the few in the sector to crack the use of generative AI, and pledges another €1B for AI and data operations (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6a79ac6a-3a44-422a-aa12-32a9ac9d0cb9
@grumpybozo@toad.socialDid an "AI" (LLM) write that report? @… https://flipboard.com/@npr/science-uk3a4d92z/-/a-2dzVqOFxTxGIIGWtXjFa7Q:a:319544…
@newsie@darktundra.xyz'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 https://www.404media.co/slop-evader-browser-extension-pre-generative-ai-search-filter/
@laura@social.coop#CommonplaceNotes https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2025/12/commonplace-book-supply-chains-hope-cool.html supply chains, hope, cool. thanks
@joxean@mastodon.socialAfter GPUs and RAM, what is the next hardware thing that generative AI is going to monopolise?
@fgraver@hcommons.socialOk, time for a little #rant
One aspect of (generative) AI in education that I have become increasingly aware of is the role AI plays in magnifying the results-oriented culture we have created. Grades and publication metrics are designed to measure the achievement of individuals as compared to other individuals. For students, better grades mean admission to the next degree or a better job. For…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaI used to run a few generative Twitter bots, all of which are now defunct due to Elon-related API restrictions, focus and audience shifts, etc. I'd like to resurrect a couple, and maybe even ensloppify one with AI (to attract VC $€£) but it appears botsin.space is dead. Any decent botting instances left? Is mastodon.bot alright? Should I just start my own instance, and make my hobby trying to get federated, instead?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSolve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools to law firms for IP and patent law work, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)
https://pathfounders.com/p/generative-ai-is-coming-for-ip
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialHappy new year. Take your genocides and your generative AI and shove ’em up your ass
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialOkay, this must absolutely have been made with some kind of generative AI, but it's not pretending to be real, it's hella funny/deadly serious and just superb. (I especially love the tough walrus smoking a cigar while driving a fishing boat 😂 ) Kudos to the makers!
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social"Nous estimons qu'Š ce stade de son développement, les risques liés Š l'utilisation de l'IA générative dans l'éducation des enfants l'emportent sur ses avantages. Cela s'explique en grande partie par le fait que les risques liés Š l'IA sont de nature différente de ses avantages, c'est-Š-dire que ces risques compromettent le développement fondamental des enfants et peuvent empêcher la concrétisation des avantages."
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialInterviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: their work used for training, layoffs, wages and rates in free fall, freelancers losing clients, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSimilarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/chatbots-are-now-riva…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioNew use for generative AI dropped: elder abuse
https://bsky.app/profile/brocklesnitch.bsky.social/post/3maudonruvs2x
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialEverybody who wants to understand Generative AI should read articles like this.
#AI
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSamsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, across its 2025 TV lineup, with support for 10 languages (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/818355/samsung-tvs-bixby-generative-ai-con…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngI think it's time for some #FollowFriday action once again. Today, let's focus on computational/algorithmic/generative art/design practitioners (not AI art :)
An entirely incomplete list, in A-Z order:
@…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMusical AI, an attribution and rights management platform for generative AI in music, raised $4.5M led by Heavybit to improve its attribution tech (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/music…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzHow Wikipedia Will Survive in the Age of AI (With Wikipedia’s CTO Selena Deckelmann) https://www.404media.co/how-wikipedia-will-survive-in-the-age-of-ai-with-wikipedias-cto-selena-deckelmann/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCursor CEO Michael Truell warns that "vibe coding" advanced projects may create "shaky foundations" and eventually "things start to kind of crumble" (Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/25/cursor-
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInterviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: job losses to AI, work used for training, falling wages and rates, freelancers losing clients, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialThis can’t possibly be a unique observation, but generative AI boosters, if they’re not pedophiles, seem to be primarily engaging in productivity aesthetic, which is to say, lifestyle blogging their way through pointless busy work
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAll four reporters at Suncoast Searchlight, a nonprofit news site, accused their EIC of using generative AI tools without disclosure; one reporter was fired (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/florida-no…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI and longtime US government contractor Leidos announce a partnership to roll out generative and agentic AI tools for specific missions at federal agencies (Miranda Nazzaro/FedScoop)
https://fedscoop.com/openai-chatgpt-le
@newsie@darktundra.xyzPrivacy advocates see risk in new Meta policy that uses AI chats to serve targeted ads https://therecord.media/privacy-advocates-see-risks-meta-ai-ad-targeting
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHSBC signs a deal with Mistral to access Mistral's AI models and collaborate on developing new models for internal use, as big banks rush to adopt generative AI (Ortenca Aliaj/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7b8e4ea8-ae17-4ada-9117-9f859589ce1d
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialI feel like there’s an extremely suspect form of implicit trust going on with generative AI, i.e. “everyone‘s using it, and everything will turn out alright!” No, it won’t! For you specifically!!! At least if you’re not already a fucking billionaire!
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBob Iger says upcoming changes to Disney include "game-like features" and "mostly short-form" user-generated content made with generative AI (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/20/josh-woodward-google-gemini-ai-safety.html
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialI sincerely hope that before too long, generative AI images are recognized for the lazy dogshit that they are, and that the design profession utterly ostracizes the practitioners who use them
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that generative AI is considered a tool that assists human inventors and cannot itself be considered an inventor (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle details a new implementation of generative UI that lets Gemini 3 Pro build interactive interfaces for any prompt, launching in the Gemini app and AI Mode (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/generative-ui-a-rich-cus…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHumain partners with Adobe and Qualcomm to develop AI tools for Arabic content, using Adobe's Firefly Foundry to build AI models and Qualcomm chips to run them (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAirbnb hires Meta executive Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led generative AI and the Llama team after working at Apple, as its CTO, as it aims to integrate AI in its app (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle Photos' latest generative AI-powered feature, "Me Meme", lets users create memes from their own images, launching first in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/google-photos-latest-feature-lets-you-meme-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle acquires Common Sense Machines, whose AI models create 3D assets from 2D images, and was last valued at $15M after raising $10M from a16z and others (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-google-acquires-3d-im…
