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On AI and the golem
#ai #llm

On AI and the golem
Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing th…

Ethan Mollick makes a good point on BlueSky:
I understand the fear and anger. But also:
1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out
2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help
#AI

Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social)
I understand the fear and anger. But also: 1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out 2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help [contains quote post or other embedded content]

"In the budget speech this year, commission president Ursula von der Leyen made a bold statement that AI is expected to approach human reasoning by next year."
How the #EU commission is basing its #AI policy (and funding) on the wishful thinking of tech bros. Those, which currently use circu…

"consuming #AI art is like eating styrofoam", says @…: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

“And worse of all, my mental model of the code is completely gone, and with it my ownership.”
#AI #VibeCoding https://mastodon…

Not surprised that the said #AI sweatshop workers are from the #Philippines ​🇵🇭
https://futurism.com/arti…

AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents
The powerful surveillance startup Flock was caught using workers in the Philippines to collate data on US residents.

How I use #AI to code - Nate McMaster
"Only ask AI to do things I already know how to do"
https://natemcmaster.com/blog/2025/11/06/tenets-of-ai-coding/

I think there’s a real possibility that local, running on consumer electronic devices, generative AI without the need for expensive processors, data centers, massive amounts of water and electricity may well be the actual long term way forward for generative AIs like LLM, image and video generators.
#tech #ai

Isn't that something? This graph shows traffic to pages on @… that don't exist (404 #error).
It seems like #AI really is sending much more traffic to page…

This illustrates what i always thought, there is no copyright issue with regard to AI. It is just a matter of making financial deals...
#ai

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora
Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.

A cartoonist's review of #AI #art - The #Oatmeal
https://

#MustRead: Der #Google #AIMode "analysiert nicht nur, was gesucht wird, sondern auch, warum."
❗ "Suchanfragen werden zu Persönlichkeitsprofilen"
❗ intransparente Daten-Zusammenf…

My boss keeps getting angry at ChatGPT, but I don’t blame him. It’s not on our side; it’s just another boss without a face.
#Ai #WorkingClass #Work

"Working with AI is kinda painful, like working with a 200 IQ dementia patient"
- Vince P.
#programming #ai #claudecode

Why #AI always lies, and why this can't be fixed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zLBRrF1Jgo
Good video! The implication?
The

Independent pathfinding with collision avoidance for visually impaired individuals #AI…

Why would we think that past performance was any guarantee of future performance, when there's such a thing as efficiency and innovation? Like this 100X (!) improvement? (What might a 100X more efficient data center look like?) #ai #tech #fyp

Yet another judgement on #AIart, but this time it comes from the Oatmeal
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.

Do we need any more proof to label all this buzz as forced religious conversion?
#AI #capitalism #religion

In her keynote at #ISWC2025, Yuko Harayama, Secretary General of Global Partnership on AI Tokyo Expert Support Center, is discussing the challenges of #AI on Human Society, suggesting a shift from originally tech-driven to human-centered paradigm, addressing key questions related to

Ich glaube, das wird die nächste Bubble nach der #AI sein. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGt0hrRYoy4 bei den Summen, die da schon im Spiel sind.

If you ever wanted to know how these #AI datacenters can be financed, here is the explanation:
A creditworthy tech company (Meta, in this example) creates a "special purpose vehicle" #SPV, a box, where they put all the risk and all the debts coming with it.
Then they create a financia…

Yeah, um - that's a swing and a miss there. Gemini.
#AI #SwingAndAMiss #Gemini

This is the right way to use artificial intelligence resources. #Holocaust #AI
https://www.

"AI-powered oil spill prediction system can improve emergency response accuracy by up to 25%"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI-powered oil spill prediction system can improve emergency response accuracy by up to 25%
Oil spills can be among the most devastating environmental disasters, with the potential to severely damage marine ecosystems, disrupt coastal communities, and impose lasting economic damage. Traditional numerical models, such as MEDSLIK-II, simulate the movement and transformation of oil particles in seawater, but their accuracy has been limited by dependence on expert judgment for tuning critical physical parameters. This manual calibration process, while informed by experience, is not always…

I gave a lightning talk about the use of generative #AI at our engineering offsite this week. My general conclusion is that it is useful in some places but where you are a domain expert the gains might not be there. Just before the talk I came across this study:

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

Why is Greenpeace East Asia releasing an #AI report that doesn't include a single company based in East Asia?
It also does not include an single social factor, only ranking on energy, which seems to go against @… own core on centering communities when campaig…

🦾 If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?
#ai

If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?
Large language models are transforming medicine—but, as Dhruv Khullar reports, the technology comes with side effects.

ChatGPT violated copyright laws, German court rules.
Are we surprised?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/11/chatgpt-violated-copyright-laws-german-court-rules

#AI is not your friend…
#NYC
Disclaimer: I have no knowledge of or association with anyone who made the graffiti and do not condone breaking the law or vandalism in any form.

The easiest role to replace with AI is that of a Billionaire CEO.
#ProveMeWrong #AI

🔍 #OpenScouts: Create #AI scouts that continuously search the web and notify you when they find what you're looking for #opensource

Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

Look at the capabilities versus costs of Kimi K2 and GPT-5. Kimi K2 is 3 times as cheap with similar performance.
#AI

People thinking AI Photos are real
#AI #Fake

A lot of the social fallout and collateral damage caused by #AI is actually rooted in unregulated platform capitalism and neoliberal ad-consumer-waste-cycles: social media as mass manipulation, intellectual property laws that haven't been updated to the internet at all, gig economy exploitation... but most importantly:
Tech monopolies that are allowed to program dark pattern mechanisms int…

Maybe having "AI" doing any coding for you is a bad idea.
"Windows 11 25H2 is Breaking PCs Right Now (Here’s What’s Actually Broken) "
TBF, maybe it's just that M$ sucks at coding its own OS at this point.
#AI #enshittification

Amazon laid off 14K people, and commentators rush to blame #AI. But not even Jassy claims that Amazon has replaced jobs with #LLM tools (because it is impossible).
Big tech believed that AI would lead to higher velocity, somehow. Jassy has given up on it, and instead thinks that *culture* will lead to …

Amazon's layoffs are driven by something even stupider than AI
Andy Jassy wants you to think that velocity can make up for lack of strategy. But "build, measure, learn" only works if you're willing to learn.

Here's a great webcomic essay on generative model ("#AI") art by @…
https://the…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.

How’s #IchBinHanna resisting #AI? “Our working conditions are student learning conditions”, thus:
"Militating against the transformation of not just the classroom but the university by ‘disruptive technologies’ is a crucial front."

Got this one from #springer - they're really want to fill their publications with slop. High quality articles with AI writing. No wonder people don't believe in science anymore.
F**king hate #ai #slop

AI shouldn't be making business decisions.
#aipocalypse #ai

This 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

Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent
As AI generated content becomes increasingly realistic, we think laws should be put in place to prevent misuse. All such media should carry a permanent watermark or disclosure, alongside a blanket ban on using anyone’s likeness in AI-generated content without consent.

Die Sache mit der KI #AI #ChatGPT

This #AI shit pushed into everything without consent is such a waste of time an energy.
In a #Gmail account, I am searching for "ptarmigan". I get results for emails that contain "grouse".
#WTF

A very in depth analysis of oncoming train of destruction that will be left by Generative AI
#AI
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

Absolutely on brand for Big Mouse
#AI #Copyright #LLM #Disney
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ydp1gdqwqo

The #AI future is now all about the #edge https://www.eetimes.com/the-ai-future-is-now-all-about-the-edge/

The AI Future is Now All About the Edge
Edge AI is set to overtake data centers as the real driver of AI value. It is not just a buzzword anymore—it will be the next battleground in silicon

✍️ New post: What Could Go Wrong?
#blogtober #ai #technology #society

What Could Go Wrong? · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

Welcome to the world of the field, engineering.
For a long time, we've hired very few into sales, mktg, support or consulting that don't already gobs of experience elsewhere.
✅ How #Microsoft’s developers are using #AI - The Verge

How Microsoft’s developers are using AI
Microsoft is pushing its software developers to use AI internally. It’s part of an effort to get more AI agents doing the boring developer tasks.

Thank you, John Stewart, for putting together an easy-to-understand conversation about the threats and dangers of #ai
And thank you Geoffrey Hinton, for the patience and clarity around this topic.
This is a brilliant and crystal clear interview, and well worth listening to twice - 10/10 - must listen!

Measuring #EnergyConsumption in #ProgrammingLanguages for #AI Applications

Are you afraid of our new GenAI overlords taking over our jobs soon? According to a new benchmark, The Remote Labor Index by Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), there's no need to be. The best current models are able to solve around ~2% of the tasks of the index: #AIResearch #GenAI

Socrates has the right idea...
#llm #ai

AI Socrates
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Cory Doctorow @… on #AI:
[T]he AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into…

Found this article quite interesting: #AI #medicine #health

No, #Adobe / PickYourPoison, I don't want you to make an "#AI summary" of that book that I'm reading on my tablet. I already told you many times, yet you keep insisting... I wonder if you understand what it means to respect others' decisions.
Given that the word "consent" means jack shit to you, I'll try by rationalizing:
I read because I like to and I want to; and I choose books over short snippets of text because I intend to delve into the nuances and fine details.

The financial AI bubble. It will pop at some time but don't make the mistake thinking that the technology will dissappear or the impact it will have on society (besides the destruction of the bubble bursting).
#AI #bubble

no idea if you notice the mistake, but the people who always complain about vibecoder (meaning those who can’t handle #ai) would probably say this is what happens when you code with ai. i’d say if it had been done with ai, that clueless excuse of a developer wouldn’t have forgotten to link the second copy button 🙄 🤦
the screenshot is from a german banking app.....

The director of IBM's Research Lab has some bold takes on the future of computation.
We're on the cusp of two simultaneous technological revolutions - #AI and #quantum - that will fundamentally change how the world uses computers to solve difficult problems.
There have only been two c…

IBM predicts a computation revolution
Quantum and AI are ushering in a whole new range of algorithmic possibilities, says IBM’s research lead.

An online service I’m subscribed to emailed me to say that I would be placed on the “Pro Legacy” plan at the same price of $29 annually in December.
But if upgrade to their $60/year Pro plan, I get access to AI/ML “innovations”. Uh, no, thank you!
#AI #ML

From #RobertReich @rbreich@instagram.com and @inequalitymedia@instagram.com @…
The #AI #surveillance

From Gary Marcus (via Brian Merchant) on OpenAIs latest predicaments:
"My guess is that they have cumulatively raised on the order of $100 billion since they launched, perhaps more than any other company in history, but have already spent most of it, and likely don’t have much more than a year’s runway left.”
#AI

Part II of you won't believe since when AI dweebs have made ridiculous predictions
Take a guess when this was said! (Solution in reply)
#ai

20/11 in Nieuwsuur: Zorgen om AI-bubbel? • Plan voor Oekraïne • Kinderopvang in het buitenland
#AI

Is #AI developing HALitosis?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/ai-models-may-be-develop…

Is #AI developing HALitosis?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/ai-models-may-be-develop…

Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
#AI #Enshittification
https…

Too many people thinking about "AI threats" as "threats from #AI agency" (which is science fiction) and not "threats from human agency used to productize an #LLM in evil ways" which is in the news every day.

With friends like Mozilla…
#AI

Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web | The Mozilla Blog
AI isn’t just another tech trend — it’s at the heart of  most apps, tools and technology we use today. It enables remarkable things: new way

I wasn't expecting #qemu to get name checked in a @hossenfelder.bsky.social #video but there you go. Despite spending quite a lot of time experimenting with #ai tools I too get irritated by the defaults as bi…

I see many people impatient for an AI crash , they want this "foolishness" to end, I am afraid it will take a while or even that it never happens....
#AIcrash

#grok still is an amazing good #llm - build something with a mix of claude, kimi (thinking), codex.... let grok check everything, and still this thing found a mistake, all others haven't seen..... 🤷 #ai

“Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity”, rich essays that guide us through the #AI trouble: on running machines within #planetaryboundaries, regulation, refusal, reframing of the hype, and making alternative futures.

LLMs are a fundamentally useless technology because their applications (supposedly) boil down to humans not having to think for themselves or do their own writing / drawing / filming.
But if you can do it on your own - why would you need a robot to do it? It’s, at best, a novelty.
That’s why this shit only resonates with executives and capital owners. “Get things done with fewer people and expenses” is at least an actual pitch. “Get things done faster for yourself” isn’t.
The individual angle really works for things you already were trying to avoid doing because you’re either disinterested or don’t have enough time to do things right.
“Avoid your work” as a value proposition doesn’t work when you’re dealing with intellectual labor rather than commodities. Not large scale, not long term.
Sorry for the rant, I saw some Notion ads on the subway and got irritated 😅
#AI #llm #LLMs

Kimi K2 Thinking is impressive, it is as at least as good as other top foundation models, fully openweights, 1 trillion parameters but only using 32B in a MoE setting. Also you can download and reuse it for free.
https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2

GitHub - MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2: Kimi K2 is the large language model series developed by Moonshot AI team
Kimi K2 is the large language model series developed by Moonshot AI team - MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2

"Today's #AI bubble has absorbed more of the country's wealth and represents more of its economic activity than historic nation-shattering bubbles, like the 19th century UK rail bubble. A much-discussed MIT paper found that 95% of companies that had tried AI had either nothing to show for it, or experienced a loss" -- @…

This is a brilliant take on education and on AI.
#llm #ai

[OT] So now even when you try to avoid using #AI, #AI hits your wallet nonetheless https://www.<…

Concern That Skyrocketing RAM Prices Driven by AI Needs Will Cause Problems for High-End Gaming for 'Several Years' - IGN
There is increasing concern that skyrocketing RAM prices will impact high-end gaming not just in the short term, but the long term.

If we design it to return the results we want to see, is it really #AI? And if someone is determining what it returns, is that someone liable for damages arising from use of the product as intended?

If we design it to return the results we want to see, is it really #AI? And if someone is determining what it returns, is that someone liable for damages arising from use of the product as intended?

If you want to spend time on AI you can best spend it on lectures like this. No hype, just science, but in this case also very practical.
#AI

Stanford CS230 | Autumn 2025 | Lecture 7: Agents, Prompts, and RAG.
For more information about Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence professional and graduate programs, visit: https://stanford.io/aiNovember 11, 2025This lecture ...

#mozfest #mozfest25 #ai

Deeplearning.ai is a resource i can really recommend for free (!) courses on various AI subjects, serious, no hype. For example the Agentic AI course by Andrew Ng does a good breakdown of the hype around "AI Agents" / "Agentic AI".
#AI #Deeplearning

Well this explains all the creators suddenly getting community guidelines takedowns for harmful content. YouTube has a serious AI problem.
#AI #YouTube #Enshittification

"the #AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector...
when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone&q…

fuck.. ich dachte wir hätten diesen bullshit hinter uns.... aber models sind ja immer von gestern.... 🙄
#openai #cdex #ai

not on my list of expected developments: Ex-Intel boss Gelsinger now leads a #Christian #AI company
"We’re not trying to take a theological position: we’re building a technology platform. 🧐"

ChatGPT wants to be much more then just a chatbot.
#AI #platform
https://www.platformer.news/openai-dev-day…

OpenAI’s platform play
Facebook's social graph went down in the flames of Cambridge Analytica. Will the AI graph fare any better? PLUS: Our new approach to links

[OT] Companies are blaming #AI for layoffs. The real reason... https://medium.com/@mattlar.jari/companies-are-blaming-ai-for-layoffs-the-real-rea…

Companies Are Blaming AI for Layoffs. The Real Reason Will Piss You Off.
180,000 tech workers lost their jobs in 2025. Companies say it’s because of AI. Oxford researchers call BS.

This is too real...
#llm #ai

"The [Wall Street Journal] writers compare the #AI bubble to other bubbles, like Worldcom's fraud-soaked fiber optic bonanza (which saw the company's CEO sent to prison, where he eventually died), and conclude that the AI bubble is vastly larger than any other bubble in recent history" -- @pluralistic
#LLMs

The current AI models let you easily experiment with application ideas like never before. For experimentation, quickly trying out ideas, they are great. That is something completely different from serious/professional use I am fully aware. Still your creativity is now the limit, not your knowledge of python, jscript etc and that is fascinating .
#AI

With models like Kimi K2 freely available doesn't the OpenAI businesscase with GPT-5 becomes extremely bad? 🤔
#AI #KimiK2 #chatgpt

Kimi K2 is another Deepseek moment it seems, only not everybody is noticing it yet. It will be interesting to see what the stock market will do on monday.
#AI #KimiK2

Ik lees in het Nationaal AI Deltaplan (goed dat het er is!) over een staatssecretaris van AI bij EZ. Zelf heb ik de voorkeur voor een Minister van Digitale Zaken die naast AI ook een onderwerp als cloud onder zijn/haar hoede kan nemen. Maar zeker niet allebei, dan spreiden we de thematiek over 2 departementen , EZ en BZK.
#AI

AI Plan NL – Een plan voor AI dat werkt voor Nederland
AI Plan Nederland is een onafhankelijk initiatief met concrete voorstellen om Nederland klaar te maken voor de impact van de AI-transitie.

About how AI tools can be useful.
#ai #coding

Claude Code Can Debug Low-level Cryptography
Surprisingly (to me) Claude Code debugged my new ML-DSA implementation faster than I would have, finding the non-obvious low-level issue that was making Verify fail.

Sometimes i have the feeling that AI results in Google Search are just a placeholder. Results are often awful and incomparable with using the paid version of Gemini 3 with the same query. Google is betting that models will improve and become cheaper so that they can offer a better experience in the future.
#AI #Search

With Linkedin introducing AI and using your data to train AI on, i think it is a good moment to look for an alternative to this platform. I am wondering whether there are any. Suggestions?
#linkedin #alternative #AI