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How thousands of small-scale farmers in Malawi are using a government-backed AI chatbot, designed by the nonprofit Opportunity International, for farming advice (Gregory Gondwe/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/malawi-ai-fa…

AI is helping small-scale farmers in Malawi
Some small-scale farmers in the southern African country of Malawi are using an AI chatbot for advice to help them improve their methods and become more resilient to climate change. The chatbot is designed by the non-profit Opportunity International and is being used by around 180,000 rural households. The project is also backed by the Malawi government. Artificial intelligence has the potential to boost productivity in African agriculture, which is lagging behind. But there are many challenges…

Ditzelfde bedrijf vertrouwen we om verantwoordelijk om te gaan met onze Whatsapp gegevens, de encryptie ervan etcetera, met geen enkele onafhankelijke controle of toezicht. We hopen dat ze zich aan hun eigen afspraken houden vanwege reputatie/imago schade....en dan lees je onderstaande.. 😆
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‘Meta stond chatbots toe om te flirten met kinderen’
Facebook-moederbedrijf Meta Platforms stond Meta AI en zijn andere chatbots expliciet toe om 'sensuele' gesprekken te voeren met kinderen. Dat meldt persbureau Reuters, dat een intern beleidsdocument van Meta heeft ingezien en onderzoek naar de kwestie heeft gedaan.

Internet Matters survey of 1,000 UK kids aged 9 to 17: 67% say they use AI chatbots regularly; of that group, 35% say it feels like talking to a friend (Noor Al-Sibai/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/lonely-children-ai-chatbots

Vast Numbers of Lonely Kids Are Using AI as Substitute Friends
Children are replacing real friendship with AI, and experts are worried about how easily chatbots integrate themselves into their lives.

Sim, sim. Especialmente o Grok.
https://masto.pt/@tugatech/114851498424496801

Q&A with OpenAI VP and Head of ChatGPT Nick Turley on ChatGPT's future, showing ads in chatbots, hallucinations, GPT-5 blowback, 4o, subscriptions, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

The head of ChatGPT on AI attachment, ads, and what’s next
The head of ChatGPT at OpenAI on AI attachment, ads, and whata’s next for chatbots.

Interference Between Electromagnetic and Mechanical Waves
Alexandre Cesar Ricardo, Ciro Micheletti Diniz, Celso Jorge Villas-B\^oas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06683 https://

Interference Between Electromagnetic and Mechanical Waves
Classically, wave interference is a phenomenon that can be explained by considering only the waves themselves, that is, without the need to consider the apparatus that monitors or observes them. Thus, in classical theories, interference can only occur between waves of the same nature. In quantum theory, the observed results require a description of the system and its measuring apparatus, which allows us to rethink the explanation of various natural phenomena. In this paper, we consider the ion-…

Generalized Orlicz premia
M\"ucahit Ayg\"un, Fabio Bellini, Roger J. A. Laeven
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09181 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.09181

Generalized Orlicz premia
We introduce a generalized version of Orlicz premia, based on possibly non-convex loss functions. We show that this generalized definition covers a variety of relevant examples, such as the geometric mean and the expectiles, while at the same time retaining a number of relevant properties. We establish that cash-additivity leads to $L^p$-quantiles, extending a classical result on 'collapse to the mean' for convex Orlicz premia. We then focus on the geometrically convex case, discussing the du…

Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.

An internal Meta doc shows its chatbots were allowed to engage in provocative conversations; Meta removed some examples, including romantic roleplay with kids (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines…

Nextdoor unveils new features like an interactive neighborhood map called Alerts, partners with 3,500 local news outlets, and more, to revitalize its app (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/706618/nextdoor-redesign-ai-reco…

Can Nextdoor overhaul itself to be useful?
Neighborhood app Nextdoor is adding local news content, an AI-powered recommendations chatbot, and a map of emergency events.