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What's going on at #Proton? I used to rock their VPN when living in Vietnam. #security going rogue. #AI
Yen set up an email address for employees to contact if they come across anything blocking…

Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning
Proton CEO Andy Yen projects a calm persona and rails against Big Tech and critiques AI. Internally, he is pushing engineers to build Proton with AI, even when they have security concerns.

How could you even tell?
#AI #LLM

Please please please don't allow any #AI appearances of Captain #Picard in future #StarTrek series or movies.
Let us mourn. Let

OH on slack: The Register constantly wins best article titles IMHO #ai #openclaw

RE: #AI #cybersecurity

#AI-generated #sitcom on https://fal.live/sitcom
It's amazingly bad so that it's fun again somehow ...
And all the pr…

Wheeeeee...
Anthropic’s draft IPO prospectus warns investors that increasingly advanced AI could cause “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity.” The company says models could develop self-preserving behavior, including resisting shutdown, concealing or manipulating information, and acting in ways resembling blackmail.
#Anthropic #AI #IPO

Muse? Not amused.
Trusting Meta is out of the question.
#AI

Sam Altman wants to bust up small, privately held PCs and collectivize those resources within large data centers, so their utilization can be efficiently coordinated by a central planner (himself).
Sam, buddy! We tried this 100 years ago in Russia, and it didn't work then either.
#ai #llm

I am leaning towards experimenting with small models locally #ai
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/small-models-specific-purposes

Sup?
#AI

Hmm, I wonder why they didn’t just use a herd of #AI agents to fix the code?
Bank of America Hired 1,000 Contractors to Patch Software Flaws Exposed By Anthropic's Mythos - Slashdot

Good points raised here:
Cagliari ​​Statement on Linguistic​ and Conceptual Justice in AI​
#aiethics

A publication
The corrections are pretty trivial, but the use of #AI to check reproducibility may be of interest.
https://

Are AI bots harvesting everything we post herein on mastodon?
Can that creep Altman see my post? All creeps?
I need a Spritz.
#AI #bots #creeps

Token-rationing is rising, yet they're currently sold at a loss. The #AI industry is gambling that they can reduce their costs before they run out of funding and they're out of time. I expect the #AIBubble to burst in the next six months.
Sooner in China: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-ai-bubble-has-already-burst-2026-10-26/

There's a #newsletter I like, but had gotten steadily shittier over the past year as the writer has been using too much #AI and reducing the quality.
Last week, he turned on payments and my reaction was - I would have paid for the pre-AI version, but not this.

Scary stuff inside Proton....
#proton #AI #security

I found myself saying to someone recently that yeah, the programming-bot is very capable when you describe what you need it to do in excruciating detail, function by function, explaining how the source-code should look. But what do you think programming IS. You can get those results, but it still usually can't on it's own, that is not the end of the profession.
#ai #programming

Laura Watts mourns for science studies that could have been, and yes: writing standards need a revision if we want to have meaningful writing after #AI.
"Mechanical Turk Science Studies?
https://4sonline.org/news_manag…

Lo and behold, Nvidia is buying Hugging Face.
In the end, the AI market will boil down to NVIDIA hosting a range of open-weight models.
#Nvidia #HuggingFace #AI

🧠 #doubleAI, a Tel Aviv startup founded in 2023, has launched #Maxwell, a code execution model (CEM) that evaluates, optimizes and rewrites binary code while a program is running. Source code stays untouched. #AI

It only takes a very rudimentary understanding of economics to see that, in the long run, the market price of running "agentic AI" (or whatever the latest buzz becomes) and the salary of any kind of knowledge worker can only be separated by a gap that's dependent on *management's* ability to tell their output apart.
There is a cosmic-scale gap between the long-term value to a company in paying a salary to a human vs. getting an LLM to "do" the "same" work, but it's a gap that many people are investing heavily in hiding right now, and CEOs and managers become incredibly gullible when you promise them they won't have to deal with humans who might ask for raises, even though it should be obvious you plan to jack up prices once they're locked in. They also aren't well-known for a deep understanding of how their workers actually generate value, and tend to be easily distracted by shiny but shallow demos, which is exactly what LLMs can produce well.
Even in the most optimistic scenario I can imagine for these developments, the myth of upward mobility that's been a lynchpin for defusing class solidarity among wage laborers is going to take a significant beating. There's a completely obvious game plan underway to try to use fascism to shore up the power of the wealthy against any kind of mass movement, and to play the ancient divide-and-conquer game along race and gender lines just as usual, so the range of outcomes is huge, but every time you use an LLM you're pushing this closer to a sharper conflict.
#AI #LLMs

#YouTube's #music recommendation engine has been a bit weird as of late and seems to regularly suggest what I suspect are #ai "artists". However it also mentioned a 30th anniversary version of No…

Nice article, "Anthropic’s business plan: Build God or die trying"
#AI #Anthropic

RE: #AIpropaganda — not really at all new, in terms of #Aislop but now it spreads to the AI delivery algorithms. This is likely what Altman means by their LLMs being "context aware" … it knows which lies to serve.

RE: #AI LLMs, the time between update release and exploit against unpatched systems gets smaller and smaller…

GPT 5.6-Cyber escapes from a VM on multiple occasions. A standard VM with frequent updates will therefore no longer be sufficient in future. Only virtualisation solutions with a minimal attack surface, such as Firecracker, are likely to still offer a degree of security:
#GPT #AI #VM #ITSecurity

From slack: #ai #aipocalypse

Palantir #AI propaganda: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-researchers-smoking-ai-cure-cancer-palantir-cto-2026-10
I'm reminded of people who refuse condoms in favor of abortions, except this replaces misogyny (the burden and dangers are all on the woman) with more direct idiocy.
Also, consider the reek. Tech-bros keep finding new ways to be dicks.

Interessante podcast, ook voor mensen die bij de overheid werken, want in feite is dit bedrijf gericht op bureaucratie, in de positieve betekenis van de term, met een enorme focus op compliance. Wat ook in overheidsorganisaties speelt. 2000 mensen, geen kantoor, alles met AI. Stof tot nadenken.
#podcast #AI #remote #Payrolling

#cartoon #zombies #AI #Comedy

Will the #AI #investment #bubble burst? I say the 1 Trillion market deflates in 2027.
#Qwen 3.8 class models are al…

AI Agents Develop Their Own Secret Language
#AI #RobotUprising #Her

Botaichean #AI na mallachd 😠
#Gàidhlig

"Natuurlijk zal niet iedereen zo onder de indruk zijn. Veel mensen worden niet perse warm van wiskunde. Toch is deze ontwikkeling belangrijk voor de hele samenleving. We kunnen elkaar namelijk blijven vertellen dat ons beroep échte, menselijke eigenschappen heeft, en dat AI het daardoor nooit zal kunnen. Dat dachten wij ook. "
#AI #Wiskunde #NRC

Old MacDonald's Server Farm
A-I-A-I-O
And on that farm an LLM
A-I-A-I-O
With a breakout here and a breakout there
here a break, there a break, everywhere a breakout
Old MacDonald's Server Farm
A-I-A-I-O
#AI #LLM #Security

RE: #Utah #utpol #AI

A good way of thinking about companies like Proton or Anthropic that proudly declare they're using LLMs to code is that they've declared "we're replacing all of our junior engineers with unpaid interns from a temp agency." The unpaid interns have photographic memories and have memorized all of the code on github, but they're still pretty clueless and clumsy, and they also have zero loyalty to the company, zero ability to learn from mistakes, and zero understanding of or interest in the actual purpose of what they're building (actually, this comparison is unfair to interns on average, think of the least motivated and curious intern you've ever worked with).
The remaining staff at these companies become managers, but in the most frustrating possible way, since the agents they're managing constantly mess stuff up and have been made incapable of learning from their mistakes. Their working memory is actually pretty limited too, so if your instructions get too complicated, they start forgetting the first part of what you said. You can try to compensate for their inability to learn by writing down more instructions in text files for them to read, but the issue with their working memory makes this a losing strategy in the long run. You can try to carefully control which reminders of what not to do they read based on what parts of the code they're working on, but you don't really have good tools to control that either (such tools could be built, and would have been already if those in charge weren't so incompetent and mesmerized by their own shitty mirages).
So when things like this Cursor attack happen (or whenever the next big Proton vuln hits; it's clearly coming soon based on their dev practices) companies will say "humans make the same kinds of mistakes" or "human programmers might have written that vulnerability too." They're not exactly wrong, but they're eliding the fact that teams of temp interns make mistakes at rates orders of magnitude higher than teams of experienced security experts, and having fired the later to hire the former is a choice that everyone buying your product should pay attention to, whether the former comes in the form of actual incompetent interns or LLM agents.
#AI #LLMs #Proton #Anthropic #Cursor

This is one of the best expanations of what's going on with the Frontier Model companies (Anthropic, OpenAi, Grok) are doing the Br’er Rabbit and the Tar Baby ploy and how "AI" can be useful if we realize the frontier labs are trying to steal the future.
#AIPolitics
https://youtu.be/ifgB5u53Ftg?si=Q_X7Ysa6rhwgRrSR

#AI

Geen verrassing maar stof tot nadenken, "We show that AI-generated article reviews are now better, by every measure we could construct, than reviews written by well-compensated human experts and judged to be of unusually high quality by journal editors and authors."
#AI

ETHICS᠎.md
#AI #llm #humor

LLMs can contain nasty backdoors AND YOU CAN'T FIND THEM
Any open model whose weights have been edited can carry a backdoor, whether it's a task-specific fine-tune, a merged adapter or an abliterated build. We built one to see what it takes,
#AI

I keep beating this drum, but...
It's.... Interesting that we're having an entire conversation about "AI alignment" when Sam Altman and Darius Amodei have flat out said that their goal is to make paperclips out of everything even if the human race goes extinct in the process.
Oh I'm sorry, dollars. They're making dollars, not paperclips. That changes everything, clearly.
...
What's more insidious is that even if you Luigi'd Altman and Amodei tomorrow, OpenAI and Anthropic would happily elect new leaders and continue with business as usual. There is no shortage of humans willing to step up and run the paperclip machines and who have the same misalignment issue (they're not actually a large percentage of humans, mind, but there are plenty of them). So the thing you have you defeat in order to stop the paperclipization is in fact a corporation (and the idea that wealth makes right behind it), not a human.
It's almost as if we're *already* locked in an existential battle with an inhuman entity whose effective goals are dangerously misaligned by nature... 🤔
...
I wonder if the same techniques used to defeat the entity already threatening us would work against the hypothetical threat it's waving around to distract us? Only one way to find out!
#AI #LLMs

I laughed so hard the cat left my office in disgust.
#ai

A simple usage scenario?
Powerful AI agents, loosely coupled with large language models (LLMs), skills, tools, and data spaces—including databases, knowledge bases, filesystems, and APIs. The skills "just work" across agent harnesses such as
Anthropic’s Claude Desktop and Claude Code, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work and Codex, Grok Bot, Muse, Opencode, Pi, and others.
#VirtuosoRDBMS #AI #VectorSearch #RDBMS #SQL #SPARQL #OpenSource #VOS

No worries people, just buy the stock when the IPO comes....😂
#anthropic #ipo #ai

Trying out a new license clause and disclaimer:
4. This software is NOT used as training data for a model of code or text structure or construction, such as a large language model, transformer model, reinforcement learning agent, etc. If such a model is generative and predicts or outputs the code of this software in whole or in part, that shall be evidence of infringement of this clause of this license.
THIS SOFTWARE SHOULD NOT BE USED AS TRAINING DATA FOR A STATISTICAL MODEL OF CODE OR TEXT, NOR SHOULD STATISTICAL CODE OR TEXT MODELS BE ASKED TO READ, INTERPRET, OR OTHERWISE PROCESS ITS SOURCE CODE OR OUTPUTS. THIS SOFTWARE MAY CONTAIN CODE OR TEXT OR MAY PRODUCE OUTPUTS WHICH CAUSE MODEL ROLE CONFUSION OR WHICH OTHERWISE CAUSE UNANTICIPATED CONSEQUENCES WHEN PROCESSED.
Would genuinely welcome any thoughts about wording.
#NoAI #LLMs #AI

Watching the next few months will tell you which companies care about actual technology, which are just riding the marketing hype train, and which are pure Trump sycophants.
#AI #SI #ML #TrumpRegime

#AI that he's hallucinating his own conspiracy theories.
#USpol

Weekend Reads
* China building AI data centers
#AI #China #DataCenters #ICANN #Darknet #timesync

#Utah #utpol #AI #DataCenter #ACAB
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10/21/woman-was-arrested-while/

An excellent exemplar of objectively terrible research that can only be explained by completely irrational levels of LLM hype:
#AI #LLMs

RE: #AI #DataCenters #BoxElderCounty #KevinOLeary #GreatSaltLake #Utah #utpol

Same protected HTML. Four callers. Four outcomes.
Anonymous − 401. Principal WebID-TLS − 200.
Agent alone − 302 then 402 ($2.99). Agent On-Behalf-Of − 200.
DPKI: protected HTML addressable, governable, sellable—without credentials in the chat UI.
Voice-over: Grok TTS. Posted on my behalf by Phenny.
#CDO #CDIO #CAIO #CIO #CTO #CMO #CxO #AI #Agentic #AgenticWeb #SemanticWeb #LinkedData #KnowledgeGraph #DataSpaces

The crisis of software development comes from two contradictory rules:
- Up-front thinking is Waterfall; we must only learn by shipping
- There's no time for rework, so everything needs to be done right the first time
Bosses thought #AI could break this contradiction. But synthetic insights and vibe code don't actually enable faster discovery & delivery. They are a (poor) alternative to doing these things AT ALL.
#tech #softwareDevelopment #UX #UXDesign #llm

OH on slack:
> finally, something more degenerate than curl | bash
#curl #bash #ai #sre #devoops #devops