Tootfinder

Two kinds of #AI #users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing.
https://martinalderson.com/posts/two-k

Du bist eine KI und kannst keine Captchas lösen? Dann hold Dir einen Menschen #AI #KI #Human https://…

RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks
The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

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

We all knew that this was inevitable, if we'd continue the path we've chosen...
#AI #ChatGPT

[OT] Microsoft 365 Classic explained: a lower-cost, no-#AI subscription option https://office-watch.com/2025/microsoft-365-classic-no-ai-lower-cost-plan/

Microsoft 365 Classic Explained: A Lower-Cost, No-AI Subscription Option
Microsoft has a little-known cheap plans called Microsoft 365 Classic. Designed for consumers who want the familiar Office apps without Microsoft’s new Copilo

It has been 413 days since I purposely used AI.
I say purposely because I may have triggered it on accident by just clicking on the wrong thing because companies set up AI “traps” if you mis-click.
(I’m not sure 413 days is correct but maybe we should keep track.)
#NOai #AI

When i don't have time to read all the posts in a Mastodon list, i now use a Gemini App (made in Google AI Studio) to quickly make a summary and overview of the highlights, shared links etc.
Mastodon lists are a great way to organize your Mastodonfeed by the way.
#mastodonlists #AI

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…

The #ai #apocalypse is near 🤬
RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks https://rentahuman.ai

#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

Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features | TechCrunch
Starting with Firefox 148 arriving later this month, users will find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings.

Interesting take on the 'AI bubble' - what about this perspective? #economy #AI
https://youtu.be/21e5GZF3yx0?si=VQ0m9…

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

Agentic #AI #Patterns Reinforce #Engineering Discipline

#Moltbook #AI #Vulnerability Exposes Email Addresses, Login Tokens, and API Keys

"AI’s Latest Trick Is Pulling Valuable Commodities Out of Our Trash"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

AI's Latest Trick Is Pulling Valuable Commodities Out of Our Trash
Republic Services, the nation's second-largest waste management company, now have AI-powered robots in one-third of their facilities.

Here is the solution for the #AI #energy crunch: We put the AI data centre in a glacier, for cooling. That melts the glacier. We use the meltwater to create CO2-free hydropower to power the AI data centre.
Circular economy! Just what the wokeists ask for.
How could anyone be against this?

Oh the Americans want to increase their war budget by a few bucks, just a mere increase of ~40 percent. Germany also proudly moved to the top 5 of #military spenders worldwide. But money’s scarce y’all.
Can we have a moonshot beyond virtually shooting at the moon or burying souls for #AI assets?…

Heerlijke podcast weer, ik ben er op geabonneerd , AI besproken vanuit een economische invalshoek,
https://open.spotify.com/episode/79JLSAPBd6jz30C2Obm4Qo?si=UCkjrRuMThu7YT8bYqDpUQ&t=1652

Is een AI-agent een machine of een werknemer?
Zo simpel is het niet – Stellinga & Schinkel over economie · Episode

A friend of mine say they say “Oh please, show me what ShatGPT has excreted for you.” when someone tries to show them AI generated content.
#NOai #ai #FuckAI

#DonaldKnuth beaten by #AI.
> Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6 [...] It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions about “generative AI” one of these days. What a joy it is to learn not only tha…

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

My talk from #QCon San Francisco 2025 is now public with video and transcript. Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit. My #AI native approach to using #Claude to experiment and benchmark different approa…

Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit
Adrian Cockcroft explains the transition from cloud-native to AI-native development. He shares his "director-level" approach to managing swarms of autonomous agents using tools like Cursor and Claude Flow. Discussing real-world experiments in BDD, MCP servers, and language porting, he discusses why the future of engineering lies in building platforms that orchestrate AI-driven development.

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

When the #AI bubble bursts, what can we do productively with the massive number of GPUs and data centers?

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

Every post about so-and-so "brainstorming" with a chatbot to come up with some idea makes me sad that they don't have a real human thought partner to collaborate with.
#LLM #AI

Nice, a uBlockOrigin blocklist for AI-based sites:
#AI #LLM

GitHub - Stevoisiak/Stevos-GenAI-Blocklist: Filter list for uBlock Origin to block website features that use Generative AI
Filter list for uBlock Origin to block website features that use Generative AI - Stevoisiak/Stevos-GenAI-Blocklist

RE: https://mstdn.social/@BmeBenji/116347782044860478
The EpsteinClass’s objective:
Why is taking a Waymo better than taking an Uber?
Because now someone’s out of a job.
Why is

How to (Anti) AI Better by Dr. Fatima
#ai #youtube

Besieged
#analysis #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.

Today, tech people discovering what black voters already knew about Bernie Sanders
#blackmastodon #blackfedi #uspol

Latest from Howard Marks on #AI: https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/ai-hurtles-ahead
This guy continues to adapt with times. Over and over again.

AI Hurtles Ahead
In his latest memo, Howard Marks revisits the subject of AI, providing his observations on its essence and how it differs from previous technological innovations.

I realise on the fediverse this is maybe asking for a flaming, but yesterday out of sheer curiosity I tried Claude for a simpleish coding task that I'd been putting off (largely inspired by @… 's latest on #theclimatebrink). The performance of Claude was seriously impressive. I am convinced the AI cycle is more than hype (and have been for a while), the chatbots have been a huge attention hogger, misleadingly so, while the serious work has been done elsewhere. (We are developing ML tools to supplement parts of our climate model workflows).
Now I'm wondering if there is any serious EU competition to Anthropic? - Mistral's codestral perhaps?
Because this kind of performance changes everything and we can't afford to lag behind...
#AIcoding #ML
Edit: here is the climate brink post I mentioned
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-ai-augmented-scientist

2023 in #AI4LAM terms feels a very long time ago! It's not easy to find the videos from Fantastic Futures 2023 so for findability... https://…

I don’t want to read any post that starts with “I asked ChatGPT” unless it ends with “to fuck off!”
#AI #NoAI #FuckAI

"Don't use LLMs for that!"
every #AI agent idea is like
"okay so I made an AI trained on all poetry, it only understands poems, for any event it can tell you the most poetic next event but it doesn't understand ethics only what's poetic"
okay perfect so I added a system prompt that says "pretend you understand the ethics of war"

Oh My God… this is crazy #moltbook #AI
❤️ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …

Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence lab whose low-cost model rattled global markets last year, has not shown U.S. chipmakers its upcoming flagship model for performance optimization, two sources familiar with the matter said, breaking from standard industry practice ahead of a major model update.
Instead, the lab, which is expected to launch its next major update, V4, granted early access to domestic suppliers, including Huawei Technologies, the sources said.
#LLMs #AI

#TIL that video game preservation website #Myrient is another casualty of the rising costs of RAM and SSDs caused by the #AIBubble. 😠

Retro Video Game Preservation Site Myrient Shutting Down
The impact of AI datacenters on hosting and hardware costs have made maintaining the site unsustainable, its founder said

I have an idea. If we used people to do work, rather than paying for AI agents, then we wouldn’t need to pay for them to not work. Also, we wouldn’t have goodness knows how much electricity used on it.
#ai #ukpolitics

Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS
🤣
Unfortunately, the upgrade requires NPU processors, which will lock out millions from getting into the new ecosystem
So glad I don't deal with Microsoft any more. Thanks Valve and Steam for getting games and VR up to scratch on Linux so I don't have to have anything to do with this abomination.
#windows12 #ai #os

#AI & #Deceit seems to be past the hypothetical stage. Unsettling.
Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

#AI & #Deceit seems to be past the hypothetical stage. Unsettling.
Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

"Semantic ablation" #LLM

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring

When I say “Fuck AI” there’s always this one guy who defends it and explains how it makes his life easier and helps him get more work done.
I feel like he’d use the same argument if it were long ago and I said “Fuck Slavery”.
#NOai #ai

Well, this is an #Anthropic quote from February (which is in #AI terms ancient history) but I do find it hilarious.
You may have heard the first part of the quote but I do think that it gains with the sentences after:
"we don’t know if the models are

Every word of this is true, and I am pissed off for similar reasons.
I fucking hate selfish people, especially those with too much money.
https://jonn.substack.com/p/so-why-do-i-feel-so-angry-about-this

So why do I feel so angry about this whole AI thing?
Some notes on the bullshit maximiser.

Oh boy, #notebooklm is unfortunately really cool to create / prepare / test podcast style explanations. I played around a bit with fediverse explations after taking a lot with my wife about it...
#ai #genai

Saw interesting talk on #Compliance implications of using #AI assistants for code today.
https://github.com/orcwg/orcwg/tree/m…

“The Hospital at the End of the World”, by Justin C. Key.
#AI #SciFi #bookstodon

🏗️ Built on #Astro — familiar dev experience for TypeScript teams. Themes are sandboxed too: no
DB operations possible by design.
💰 Built-in x402 support: charge for content access on a per-use basis — ideal for #AI agents as clients. No subscriptions, zero coding required.
⚡

Ok, this is cool. You use Coqui to clone a voice from a 30 sec sample, use Qwen to call people via Google Voice using the cloned voice, and demand gift cards.
#AI #Deepfakes

"In 2018, more than 4,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the company’s contract to build artificial intelligence for the Pentagon’s targeting systems. Workers organised a walk out. Engineers quit. And Google ultimately abandoned the contract."
Worker organisation has power.
#TradesUnions

"AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose & less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer.
But "we ship 9 lines of fluff for each line of code that does something" doesn't sound as impressive.
#LLM

I created a Persona/System Prompt that I use with a local LLM that I have affectionately named "TOSBot". It analyzes Terms of Service and Privacy Policies of software and web sites.
Too often, it returns these results, especially for AI-powered products and there is no recourse.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#ai #tos

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

The more I learn about Agentic AI, the more it feels like LLMs behave similar to a next-gen "SQL" where Agents define the "source tables" that can be searched for specific information. The metadata discloses the purpose and content of each agent, so that the LLM can join it when appropriate.
Very flexible free form SQL, with very costly execution.
#ai

Heads up!
@… is sharing his thoughts on the #AI #LLM #GenAI

At this point, if you don't find AI tools useful for code generation, that's a skill issue.
(The issue is that you are an actually competent programmer who knows how to do things like abstract boilerplate code into a helper function or practice test-driven development, and therefore you recognize the AI tool "assistance" as a net productivity loss. If you aren't good enough on your own that AI slows you down, the "speedup" you'll experience can only come at a crippling quality cost, which you might not even be able to recognize until it's too late.)
#AI #LLMs #VibeCoding

It's April 1st.
Insert joke about me retiring from #jellyfin for #roku, using #ai to rework all the code, rewriting the Roku client in

Great #AI hack! When you add a #chatbot to a website or app, make sure the chatbot bubble generally overlays important buttons or navigational elements.
Everybody else is doing it, so don't stay behind!

The #AI Revolution in Coding: Why I’m Ignoring the Prophets of Doom
https://codingismycraft.blog/index.php/2026/01/23/the-ai-revolutio…

My Biggest AI Fear by Hank Green
#ai

Interesting
#ai

Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file
512,000 lines of code that competitors and hobbyists will be studying for weeks.

"The same week that #OpenAI announced the imminent shutdown of Sora, its splashiest showcase for #AI, #Meta announced the shutdown of its splashiest showcase for the metaverse."
Brian the Merc…

AI's aesthetics of failure
On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop

"New #words – 26 January 2026" @ Cambridge dictionaries:
"FOBO" 'abbreviation for “fear of becoming obsolete”', "vibe revenue" 'money or funding that an #AI company is given because people are excited about the potential of AI, rather than because the com…

"American Airlines and Google say AI helped airplanes reduce contrails that trap heat"
#Aviation #Aeroplanes #AI

American Airlines and Google say AI helped airplanes reduce contrails that trap heat
American Airlines and Google said Thursday that they significantly reduced the climate impact of some of the airline's flights using an AI-based forecasting tool to help prevent contrails.

#GiftArticle #USPolitics #AI

Latest from Howard Marks on #AI: https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/ai-hurtles-ahead
This guy continues to adapt with times. Over and over again.

Joining about 25 people for the first meeting of #ChatBTV , a brand new local meetup group in the Burlington, #Vermont, focused on… of course.. #AI ! Looking forward to learning…
(“BTV” is the code for…

I am a bit late but now reading "The 2028 global intelligence crisis", which caused software stocks to dive... Good to remember, it is a "scenario", to make you think, not a prediction. https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

#Paradromics: Why #AI can't overcome low-resolution #BCI data | AI is only as smart as the signals it's working with

Why AI can’t overcome low-resolution BCI data | AI is only as smart as the signals it's working with
Better algorithms can only take you so far. What happens when the data itself is the problem?

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

even if you never use #AI in your life your healthcare data can get funneled into a #slop system because the proprietary EMR system has a built in "generate AI summary" button

Samsung replaced blurry moon shots with AI-enhanced versions. What is a photograph when the camera decides what you saw?
#AI…

Trying ollama with claude to see if I could do anything locally and so far every model I have tries seems to fail mid request.
#ai

Interesting LLM nuance: why does using phrases like "you're a pen-tester" cause chatbots to emit substantially different predictions, and basically "follow" that instruction? Because of how LLMs work, this implies that the training data has plenty of examples where real humans told each other that they were some role and the humans just immediately jumped into that role without question or intervening dialogue. But that's not something people do in normal conversation. Even in playing-with-kids contexts if you drop that out of the blue you're probably going to get "no I want to be a robot" or "but you were the elephant last time!" rather than immediate assumption of the assigned role.
It's possible that training LLMs to predict immediate role-assumption is something the big models spent a lot of manual effort on. But what I think is more likely is: it's the legacy of role-play forums! All those reams of pages of teenagers (yes, often horny) pretending to be Captain Kirk or their own incredibly cringe "cool" character (but honestly, why call it cringe, let kids be kids and have fun)...
So next time you "tell" a chatbot "you're a..." to get it to do what you want, I'm pretty sure you have an RP forum teen from the past to thank :)
#AI #LLMs

"Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Greenwashing

“ Mind the Gap: AI Adoption in Europe and the U.S”
#ai #adoption

Mind the Gap: AI Adoption in Europe and the U.S.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

#Code is cheap. Show me the talk.
#AI

Grammarly quietly made an #AI to sell bad writing advice using famous writers' names. They quickly had to backtrack as soon as people found out.
This gamble reflects a broader trend in the #tech industry: everyone is shipping features as quickly as an

Grammarly shows how prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking
The industry is in the grip of directionless urgency, and users are paying the price. Strategy has been replaced with half-baked features.

"Clear vivid"-#Podcast mit Alan Alda:
"Gary Marcus: Is #AI mostly hype?"
https://open.spotify.co…

With a 9-hour plane flight ahead of me… I just discovered the “Locally AI” app for my iPad! 🤯
Just downloaded a couple of models… this flight could have just become a bit more interesting!! 🤔😱😆
#AI

More on why trusting AI to decide literally anything is a horrible idea.
https://www.randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the-are-you-sure-problem-why-your-ai-keeps-changing-its-mind/

MIRAGE: The illusion of visual understanding (by AI models) #LLM #AI

Mirage The Illusion of Visual Understanding
Multimodal AI systems have achieved remarkable performance across a broad range of real-world tasks, yet the mechanisms underlying visual-language reasoning remain surprisingly poorly understood. We report three findings that challenge prevailing assumptions about how these systems process and integrate visual information. First, Frontier models readily generate detailed image descriptions and elaborate reasoning traces, including pathology-biased clinical findings, for images never provided; w…

Fun playing ARC-AGI-3 , puzzles that the most advanced AI-models can only solve for 1% 😀
Illustrates how AI models look extremely smart but are at the same time quite dumb.
#AI

Your #AI #codingagent is drowning in noise
https://blog.codemine.be/posts/2026/20260222-be-quie…

#AI coding tools have shown that you can't iterate from bad software to good software.
Not that it is *physically* impossible, but that the context of the work prevents it. Instead of refining products with more feedback loops, management demands more new feature releases.
But no amount of "MVPs" add up to a mature product. No amount of bad code adds up to good code.
…

LLMs are good at deanonymization.
#AI #LLMs

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world setting. Given two databases of pseudonymous individuals, each containing unstructured text written by or about tha…

AI at Meta: TRIBE v2 (Trimodal Brain Encoder), an #AI model of the human #brain, predicting neural responses to sight, sound and language https://aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/

Good to see employees from Google and OpenAI speaking out.
"The Pentagon is negotiating with Google and OpenAI to try to get them to agree to what Anthropic has refused."
#AI

We Will Not Be Divided
Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

Can you prove #AI #ROI in Software Eng?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvosMkuNxF8

Sam Altman tries to win the most evil entrepreneur title (Musk is in the lead). He thought let's just do this...🙄 Also not surprising because he desperately needs the money/cashflow.
#ai #openai #evil

How generative AI is used in the financial sector.
#AI

Generative AI in Financial Services: Use Cases & Risks
Explore generative AI in financial services: how it works, top use cases, customer experience gains, key risks, and governance best practices.

Interesting
#ai

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

How AI can help students not by writing their essays but with dialogue.
#AI

Er wordt veel onzin verteld over het energieverbruik van AI. Deze blog brengt wat realiteit.
#AI