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[OT] There's yet another study about how bad #AI is for our brains https://www.engadget.com/ai/theres-yet-another-study-about-how-bad-ai-is-for-our-brains-…

There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains
Researchers have conducted another study about AI and its effects on the human brain. The results were grim.

Now, we only need to put AI on the blockchain. 🤑
#technology #AI

Leuke vacature bij de Rijksoverheid.
#AI

De Rijksoverheid zoekt: AI Platform Engineer
AI Platform Engineer in Den Haag voor 36 uur bij SSC-ICT (Ministerie van BZK)

Measuring programmer productivity by AI tokens burned is like measuring airplane construction by weight.
#AI #LLM #Slop

"The environmental cost of datacentres is rising. Is it time to quit AI?"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Open Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
#AI

open-slopware
Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
It seems the #threats from #AI are many and varied. And the legislation addressing dangers from AI seemed to focus on an AI intent on killing off humans, rather than the myriad problems we are slowly identifying - mu…

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
It seems the #threats from #AI are many and varied. And the legislation addressing dangers from AI seemed to focus on an AI intent on killing off humans, rather than the myriad problems we are slowly identifying - mu…

On the radio, I hear the German research foundation #DFG defend its recent move to allow #AI in project reviews, just with local setups, just for language clarity – lots of reservations.
I then listen to the most recent episode of Mél’s Data Fix podcast. An anonymous guest (🔥) talks about their daily…

Offloading, with [Anonymous]
For this episode, I interviewed someone who asked to be made anonymous (and voice altered) in order to openly discuss their complicated feelings of regularly offloading work tasks to an AI chatbot.…

So what are the top murdertech companies at the moment? (The ones enabling mass murder of civilians through AI, surveillance,
etc.)
• Palantir
• Google
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Anthropic
• IBM
• …
… did I forget any? Feel free to reply and add to the list.
#murdertech

Ah, the usual suspects are at it again. First, they claimed companies evaluate performance by lines of code; now, it's by AI tokens consumed. Predictably, they never name these mystical companies. Until someone provides actual proof, I'm chalking this up to pure fabrication for engagement. Do better.
#AI

I am not sure if this is going into the right direction.
#nvidia #dlss5 #ai

My second day of #IETF125 brings a dilemma for the first session- I want to be in 3 places!
- IRTFOPEN - internetworking challenges for #AI
- TIPTOP - extending #Internet to the Moon / deep spac…

An #AI did the astrophysics. The paper got halted: #FRB discovery after three rounds of peer review, but the #AAS editorial office then halted the paper over an AI-disclosure review, not the science.

@… von @… #Medizin und #AI. Das solltest du…

Das solltest du wissen, wenn du ChatGPT wie einen Arzt benutzt
KI kann Studien zusammenfassen und Diagnosen simulieren. Aber sobald es um echte Menschen geht, werden die Antworten schnell problematisch. Das liegt nicht nur an der Technik.

Nice report and overview.
#AI #Stanford

The 2026 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI

In the future, we will know if the #IranWar was the first #AI hallucinated war ("you are right, it is just a three-day special operation") or just a traditional war where an old incompetent narcissist takes young people to die for his fool's dreams.

business as usual.... 🙄 #claude #claudecode #ai

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with #AI
https://lalitm.com/post/building-syntaqlite-ai/

Interesting overview of how foreign exchange trading has been automated, using scripts, algorithms and is now using the newest algorithms also know as "AI". Dazzling numbers with regard to how much is traded algorithmically.
#AI #forex

This looks like an interesting take on the whole “AI" (IMHO its not AI and its not leading directly to AGI).
I've only watched this preview but it looks like it covers things from many points of view. The creator of the film
The AI Documentary: Or How I Becamean APOCALOPTIMIST.
#AIHype

Well, no, there are people on the list above brand strategists...
#AI #LLM

Eugene Healey on Instagram: "Technology was supposed to free us. Instead, it just gave us more work. Today: why the backlash to AI follows the same pattern as every major technological disruption in history - and what that means for the brands caught in the middle. -- Follow @eugbrandstrat for more insights on how brands can effectively navigate modern digital spaces."
3,896 likes, 102 comments - eugbrandstrat on April 13, 2026: "Technology was supposed to free us. Instead, it just gave us more work. Today: why the backlash to AI follows the same pattern as every major technological disruption in history - and what that means for the brands caught in the middle. -- Follow @eugbrandstrat for more insights on how brands can effectively navigate modern digital spaces.".

"Using #AI to check the output of AI for errors is a method that is historically prone to errors"
No shit, Sherlock.
#LLMs
#StochasticParrots
AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hal…

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles
AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

AI;DR
#ai

Why using a MCP when you have a clean OpenAPI with consistent results?
#ai #openapi #mcp

#AI #CodeReview

“#AI” translations are ruining #Wikipedia
https://www.osnews.com/story/144567/ai-tra

Of course #Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz bought 640 acres of the land to be used for the humongous Box Elder county data center a year ago for an undisclosed price.
#utpol #AI

The Call Is Coming From Inside The Statehouse
New public records show a company owned by Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz owns roughly 640 acres near the proposed Stratos Project boundary.

What are the best ways to block an #AI scraper from DDoS-ing your site as of this time?

Silicon Valley Bets $200 Million On AI Data Centers Floating In the Ocean and „hopes to eventually deploy thousands of the nodes.“ Wonder where they hope to get the GPUs from.
The #AI bubble can‘t burst soon enough.

AI is improving all the time but don't be too worried about AGI, take for example this clockwatching benchmark.
Source: #AI

In case you think: let’s get faster and switch Opus 4.7 to "low"
DON'T F***ING DO IT ‼️
I'm shocked how brutal the difference is 🤯
#claude #ai #coding

AI Company Clones Musician's Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs
https://rudevulture.com/ai-company-clones-musicians-voice-then-copyright-strikes-her-own-songs/

AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs
Folk musician Murphy Campbell found herself at the center of a major ordeal when an entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated imitations of her music to every major music platform, then used her recordings to strip her of her own income. According to sources, the scheme worked like this: someone fed YouTube videos of ... Read more

What my problem with AI is, you ask?
It's not the math, or the science¹ or the technology, it's not even the data collection.
If you want one word: Techbros.
It's the way AI is applied and promoted and forced upon people, how it damages society and culture, how it exploits.
It is capitalism.
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¹I am working at an AI chair, we do ML on our machines and discuss CNNs in our meetings and papers

I quite like this #ai #contribution #policy. It's thoughtfully written and places the responsibility on the human and makes clear what is definitely forbidden:

.github/AI_POLICY.md at main · mastodon/.github
Mastodon org-level files. Contribute to mastodon/.github development by creating an account on GitHub.

In *Leviathan and the Air Pump*, S Shapin recounts the 1600s controversy between Hobbes, who held that true knowledge always originates in pure solipsistic reasoning (“ratiocination”) and Boyle, who argued that knowledge required external confirmation via physical evidence. We’re still at it.
Privileged psyches in particular hate giving up on the idea that what they conclude on their own, without checking it by the world, is true.

In lecture at Brown, Yann LeCun discusses a new approach to AI
No stranger to controversy, AI pioneer Yann LeCun told a capacity crowd that large language models are not the future of AI and that a new approach is needed if machines are to achieve human-like intelligence.

What if the US #Congress passed legislation (you remember when that used to happen, right?) that nationalized all #AI servers and all the traffic between them. I know, not gonna happen, but maybe a lunatic president could issue an edict to make it so.

People tell me that #AI code is fine, because you can run automatic tests. But tests can only tell you if code is doing the thing you want it to do.
To know what it SHOULD do, we used to have requirements. But now requirements are themselves vibe-coded slopotypes.
People were hoping that this would get them higher velocity, but testing the requirements in production only produces waste an…

Checking an LLM's work is a systemic, not an individual, problem.
Only a culture of design critique can prevent sloppy AI-generated problem definitions.

US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/21/man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-ai

On the #security issue with #AI detectors
For proper vuln research and disclosure, you need 3 parts:
1. a valid exploit, provable
2. an explanation of how it works
3. a solution to fix it and roll out an upgrade
Often enough, when the first part is done, people are like "…

#AI #fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real

"Cartography of generative AI"
#AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alien…

What a wonderful discovery! #AI #hallucination #writingcommunity

📬 #Cloudflare is quietly redefining how we think about #Email 🤖 ☁️
Instead of static inboxes, emails can now act like triggers for #AI agents — turning every message into an event your syste…

Hot take: we need FAR fewer AI datacenters or #AI #gigafactories than the markets are predicting right now.
We are in a weird moment in time where tokens in the cloud are heavily subsidized, which ramps up prices for GPUs. But without that subsidy (or after the bubble bursted) for the majori…

#ai

A college instructor I know sent me photos of a notebook a student left in class. The student had scrawled "AI IS SATAN!!!" multiple times.
Yes, "AI IS SATAN!!!"
#AI #NoAI #FuckAI…

Use of AI on the battlefield,
#AI #dronedefense

Ukraine Fields AI Turrets That Can Destroy UAVs With a Single Button Press
Ukraine's new turret uses AI to autonomously detect, track, and calculate of incoming drones.

"A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision. " - IBM 1979 #ai
https://www.theverge.com/ai-…

Automating erasure.
#AI

Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces ‘Palestine’ in designs
Canva’s new Magic Layers AI feature has been caught replacing the word “Palestine” in designs

More fallout from the chardet AI licensing kerfuffle.
#AI

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
: Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk

#Shoe companies rebranding as #ai, #beverage companies launching #blockchain... amateurs.
I hearby rebrand as `Crypto Forest`, the all-di…

AI stocks vs dot-com bubble: CAPE at 38, concentration above 2000 levels, but companies are actually profitable
🤖 https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-stocks-dot-com-bubble-comparison-market-outlook

WIRED: Using #AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb, study shows https://www.wired.com/story/using-ai-negative-impact-thinking-problem-solving-study/ Mu…

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows
New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.

You can't make this stuff up (or can you?):
#LLMs #AI #GenAI

Being old, I joined U3A (my dad was a member when it was called University of the 3rd Age). I came across a course that's designed to teach you about #AI. But it's more like a Musk promotion exercise. I find that worrying. Uncritical education is worse than useless www.silveraiproject.com
For example the course has a lot of made-up baloney about longevity -miseducation about quackery

"AI machine sorts clothes faster than humans to boost textile recycling in China"
#China #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

AI machine sorts clothes faster than humans to boost textile recycling in China
In an industrial park in Zhangjiagang, a small city on China's east coast, a large humming and hissing machine feeds on piles of used clothes and sorts them.

Next up a talk about "reliability engineering challenges in networking for AI"...
#IETF125 #IETF #AI #Reliability

"Microsoft and Stellantis want to use AI to help car owners"
H. E. L. P. is an interesting way to spell "hurt". 🤨
#Microsoft #Stellantis #cars #AI #LLM #sarcasm

Don't Let AI Steal Your Intelligence
#ai #llm

"Does your #AI Agent need a Workflow Agent?"
Hilarious and informative episode of:
"In Bed With The Right: Episode 122 – Tech’s Vibe Shift and AI Discourse"
Episode webpage: https://rss.com/podc…

Episode 122 -- Tech's Vibe Shift and AI Discourse | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
A few months ago, as part of the research for his forthcoming book What Tech Calls Governing, Adrian took a drive down Highway 101 from San Francisco to Palo Alto and back. This episode is about what the billboards along that stretch of highway tell us about Silicon Valley, about our tech elites, and about how technology is remaking society (it's not in the way you think).If you'd like to buy Adrian's book, it's available for pre-order in the German edition only for now.If you'd like to check o…

A recently recovered 48 seconds (!) long SF feature film by Georges Méliès from 1897 some think has essentially the plot of "2001" or "The Terminator" - an #AI growing and then fighting its creator, but losing in the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojqcjzzjN2Q

Adopting a #human developmental visual diet yields robust and shape-based #AI vision https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026

Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust and shape-based AI vision - Nature Machine Intelligence
Lu, Thorat and colleagues report that training AI vision systems with a human-inspired developmental visual diet results in a stronger reliance on shape over texture features, enabling substantially more robust visual inference. This finding points to a resource-efficient path to robust vision.

The #AI bubble will burst when
- AI companies charge actual costs for tokens,
- non-AI companies find a way to charge for access by agents.

Very accessible and valuable critique of the #AI subspecies known as #LLM.
Will human minds still be special in an age of AI?

Very accessible and valuable critique of the #AI subspecies known as #LLM.
Will human minds still be special in an age of AI?

Who's going to buy a piece of software (much less a subscription) when you can have an AI build exactly what you want? #ai

#Google and #Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for "any lawful" use of #AI

Time to start digging into the #qemu issue #analytics. Yep we are seeing a peek since march. We are not immune from the #ai

AI Company Clones Musician's Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs
https://rudevulture.com/ai-company-clones-musicians-voice-then-copyright-strikes-her-own-songs/

"A free management tip from us is that you generally don't want a third of your workforce angry about the work you have them doing."
https://mailchi.mp/rawsignal/the-last-thing-you-need-humans-for

«Studie warnt vor "#AIBrainFry" durch intensive KI-Nutzung am #Arbeitsplatz:
Eine BCG-Studie mit knapp 1.500 Beschäftigten zeigt, dass die gleichzeitige #Überwachung zu vieler

Studie warnt vor "AI Brain Fry" durch intensive KI-Nutzung am Arbeitsplatz
Eine BCG-Studie mit knapp 1.500 Beschäftigten zeigt, dass die gleichzeitige Überwachung zu vieler KI-Tools kognitive Erschöpfung auslöst. Die Folgen sind messbar, von höheren Fehlerquoten bis zu steigender Kündigungsabsicht.

RE: #AI security - or the lack thereof. In the enthusiasm to deploy new AI capabilities, …

I saw a post about AI saying that it could "generate thousands of lines of code in minutes" as if that's a good thing.
#AI #noAI #FuckAI

Folks: Clippy is annoying
Silicon Valley: LET’S MAKE EVERYTHING CLIPPY!!!!!
#ai

This is quite scary, the amount of money that is going to be spent on AI....
More then on Defense in 2027.
#AI #finance #WSJ

I do so love this idea of using manual #typewriters as a way for students to understand life before our computers (and before #AI ) -

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms were like before everything turned digital. The exercise started in 2023, as Grit Mathias Phelps grew frustrated that her German language students were using generative AI and online translation platforms to churn out grammatically perfect assignments. The revival is part of a national trend towa…

Hey #php developers out there 👀 👋
What tools do you use to make your #ai write "good" code? 😏
#phpstan,

[OT] Latest Firefox browser: block generative AI features with Firefox AI controls #AI

Oh good. TurboTax is now using a chatbot as part of their filing process, and letting it determine if your filing is accurate.
... I expect a lot more audits in the near future. *sigh*
#AI #LLM #FuckAI

I felt a bit sad today as I saw makers I know posting things like "I had Claude write the code for me."
It may be due to my DIY roots, but I want to do as much (and learn as much) as possible in the creative process.
The idea of handing that off to AI does not entice me in the least.
#AI #FuckAI

So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.
Totally trustworthy people.
(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)
#AI

Anthropic Study: #AI #Coding Assistance Reduces Developer Skill #Mastery by 17%

Letting AI extract and report developments that are considered "important" risks tunnel vision, statistics drowning out important but nascent. #AI #LLM

John Oliver pulls no punches (as usual) on AI chatbots.
There is no just world in which these murderous Autocomplete scripts should be allowed to exist.
#ai

🚀 #Laravel #Debugbar v4.2.0 just dropped with an #AI Boost #Skill!
Now your AI

RE: #AI models to *find* security vulnerabilities has dram…

Agentic #AI #Patterns Reinforce #Engineering Discipline

🔍 Hybrid unlocks: borderless table extraction (0.49−0.93 TEDS), #OCR in 80 languages, #LaTeX formula extraction from scientific papers, AI chart & image descriptions
🛡️ Built-in #AI safety: fil…

Large-scale model-enhanced vision-language navigation: Recent advances, practical applications, and future challenges #LLM

And now generative #AI will be in all of the #Google products, too...
https://

Google rolls out new Gemini capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive | TechCrunch
The idea behind the new features is to make the apps more personal and capable to help users get things done faster, right within the platforms themselves.

Goed item over AI in het RTL Nieuws, geen vervanging voor iets maar prima hulpmiddel bij het leren voor leerlingen en ze weten vaak ook prima wat de beperkingen zijn, ze gebruiken het immers voortdurend. NotebookLM kwam in beeld.
#ai #onderwijs

Explainable AI for blind and low-vision users: navigating trust, modality, and interpretability in the agentic era #AI

New open models from Google under Apache 2.0 license, Gemma 4
#AI

Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
Gemma 4: our most intelligent open models to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.

That's why you don't trust #AI.

China is likely to win the #AI cost race to the bottom: DeepSeek-powered Claude Code clone explodes in popularity on GitHub https://cybernews.com/ai-news/deepseek-claude-code-clone-popul…