2025-08-29 16:30:14
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."
I saw an advert for an AI influencer generator. So, I checked it out. Here's the current list of actors/influencers they can create. If you see an ad from these faces, it's AI bullshittery. #ai
Like just about everyone else I know, I seem to spend a lot of time thinking, reading, and talking about #AI. And, given that I work in fine arts education, it's inevitable I think about how AI affects the arts, and how the arts affect AI.
As part of my work in #ArtsPedagogy, I'm visi…
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…
"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" -- @…
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?
Nowadays, with #AI realism increasing almost daily, every visual prosthesis announcement or report could be fake or over-the-top, except for The vOICe vision BCI, because you can try it yourself in your own home environment https://www.see…
Have you had an "AI error in your favor" yet?
I just got done slogging through Amazon customer support chat, where while talking to the bot it promised an item was returnable within 90 days, even though it actually was only eligible for the normal 30 days policy. When I finally got through to a human, they were able to let me know why the return actually wasn't eligible, but when I quoted them what the bot had promised, they made an exception and let me do the return. I didn't even really try to push the bot to make any promises, though that should be easy.
#AI
"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…
#AI #programming assist has been helpful for me. But I'm not losing my job anytime soon. Here's a simple example of why.
I have a script with
`cmd1`
I prompt GPT-4.1 to "now invoke cmd2 and cmd3 at the end". Good:
`cmd1`
`cmd2`
`cmd3`
"Add a 15 second pau…
Here's my new Human Meme podcast episode about AI and AGI and the future of us!
#ai
Amazing #supercut of various pieces on #AI from #TheDailyShow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s20CbtHP6fs - hilarious and frightening at the same time ...
60% richtige Antworten ist im IHK-Notenschlüssel eine 3,9 und damit »ausreichend«. #justsayin #ai #ki
"As AI becomes part of everyday life, it brings a hidden climate cost"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Climate
“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.
The financial AI bubble will burst, companies will go broke, investments will be lost, there will be a large consolidation phase, as with every wave of innovation. But there is not any signal that the actual use and application of GenAI will decline. We struggle with finding added value, using them in the right way, mitigating the risks, that is the main challenge.
#AI
Been pondering today whether or not someone has already created an #AI version of ismy.blue
You'd have data points like:
* Skynet
* HAL
* Lt. Cmdr Data
* Generic chess playing program
* DeepBlue
* AlphaGo
* Inference engine
* Some machine learning example
* ChatGPT
* Voice recognition
* Siri
* Roomba
* Object recognition …
"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
How much energy does your AI prompt use? It depends.
“[…]grid operators are freaking out. Tech companies can’t just keep doing this. Things are going to start going south.”
www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-energy-carbon-emissions-chatgpt mobile_share=true
#ai #aienergyconsumption
Measuring #EnergyConsumption in #ProgrammingLanguages for #AI Applications
The PR machine powering big tech’s AI energy story #AI boom depends …
Security measures for Gen #AI seem to increase all around, which is overall good.
It's just sad to think about WHY statements like "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image does not currently support editing images of children" are necessary in the first place.
#nanobanana
"The 1st open conference where AI serves as both primary authors and reviewers of research papers."
#AI
Want to run AI models on your laptop/PC but don't have an NVIDIA card? No problem.
#AI
Anxiety after some people spread fake #AI images of African tigers and leopards roaming the streets of a South Indian city.
And we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of the real #danger AI poses. It will soon get very bad and out of control. 😨
#AI_images
I really can't emphasize strongly enough how much I detest AI-generated images. I get physical discomfort having it shoved into my face *everywhere*. Even people here in the #FediVerse post #AIslop or use AI generated profile pictures. And all the non-human voiceovers on
"I firmly believe the (economic) #AI apocalypse is coming. These companies are not profitable. They can't be profitable. They keep the lights on by soaking up hundreds of billions of dollars in other people's money and then lighting it on fire. Eventually those other people are going to want to see a return on their investment" -- @pluralistic
They won't get to see that retu…
Let's do a deep dive into this paper: "Why Language Models Hallucinate."
When this came out, many people's summary was "even OpenAI admits that hallucinations are a fundamental problem of transformers/autoregressive models/LLMs."
I've seen many people conclude that this means OpenAI is grifting, knows they're building on a wrong paradigm, knows they won't get to AGI etc.
🧾 Multi-Modal Vision vs. Text-Based Parsing: Benchmarking LLM Strategies for Invoice Processing
#software
#TIL we were supposed to shout at AI.
https://www.robert-glaser.de/prompts-as-programs-in-gpt-5/
うん、じわじわくるな……
※今日のDoodleはGoogle 創立 27 周年キャンペーンだそうです
#AI生成 #AIGenerated
Here's another business AI fail. Check out the subject line from today's newsletter:
"Claude to suggest subject line"
A very disappointing effort from Her Canberra.
#AI #Email #Newsletter
"AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial"
#AI #ArtficialIntelligence #Climate #ClimateChange
An eyecare foundation model for clinical assistance: a randomized controlled trial.
#ai
Honest Disclaimer about #AI in #Excel:
#Microsoft specifically warns not to use it for "any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility," like numerical calculations. Microsof…
@…
A recommendation from my side:
A full stack #AI launchkit (docker based) for selfhosting with many apps including supabase, ollama, n8n, flowise, etc.
Very interesting origin story of Scipy/Numpy which is the foundation of so much #ML stuff and why Python became the dominant language for ML / #AI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xhai2iu_QY
"consuming #AI art is like eating styrofoam", says @…: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
AI is transforming the cybersecurity landscape, but human insight remains critical.
As part of our ongoing #GEANTCybersecurity campaign webinars, Dr. Maria Bada will explore how #AI is being used on both sides of the conflict: to automate attacks as well as to detect threats faster.
She’…
Is there a free, privacy friendly AI like duck.ai from #duckduckgo that can create images? No registration, just using it?
#ai #imagecreation
This could just as easily be the US government...
#LLM #AI #Copyright
From #AI to #AGI? If humans had general intelligence, blind people would be learning to see with sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVugtxWmW4E
The new =COPILOT() function in #Microsoft #Excel enables users to easily leverage AI directly within their spreadsheets to quickly populate cells with data or analyze columns with #AI. For a 5min tutorial, v…
🤖 #CodexSubagentsMCP creates file-based sub-agents for #CodexCLI via a minimal #MCP server with just one tool and maximum auditability
#SMBC on the risk that #AI is going to ruin #socialmedia: https://www.
🦾 Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions
#ai #seduction
No one has ever convinced anyone with "data" and "facts." A stakeholder will always have more confidence in their existing assumptions than in your findings.
The only way to change minds is through gradual influence that nurtures a sense of ownership.
#AI tools promise to accelerate the pace of research, but they do so only by skipping this process of sense-making. Res…
I Asked #AI to Build an App. It Made a Database Roasting Bot. We're All Doomed.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-asked-ai-build-app-m…
Have you ever clicked a suspicious link and prayed afterwards? 👀 Or scrolled past T&Cs without a thought?
At #TNC25 we asked our community some tough (and funny) questions about #cybersecurity, #AI
> “fact-checked” by xAI’s Grok.
🤣
#Grokipedia #Wikipedia #AI #LLM #Musk #Grok
"Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FossilFuels
🎨 Perfect for #AI agents needing grounded web context and research tools demanding trust and freshness
🚀 Enables custom products where developers want complete control over how search data is used
📊 Structured response format eliminates need for complex data parsing and preprocessing steps
🌐
I like to play around as an anonymous commenter in online newspaper columns. If you point out the biases of #AI systems, the comment gets deleted because it is considered too polemical.
The comment was addressing an article about AI in public service and the use in refugee applications 🫣
is AI real life
is it just fantasy
caught up in the hype
no escape from reality
#ai #llm #vibecoding
Upgraded image editing in Gemini is jaw dropping ,
#ai
Should we teach vibe coding? Here's why not.
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To address the bigger question I started with ("should we teach AI-"assisted" coding?"), my answer is: "No, except enough to show students directly what its pitfalls are." We have little enough time as it is to cover the core knowledge that they'll need, which has become more urgent now that they're going to be expected to clean up AI bugs and they'll have less time to develop an understanding of the problems they're supposed to be solving. The skill of prompt engineering & other skills of working with AI are relatively easy to pick up on your own, given a decent not-even-mathematical understanding of how a neutral network works, which is something we should be giving to all students, not just our majors.
Reasonable learning objectives for CS majors might include explaining what types of bugs an AI "assistant" is most likely to introduce, explaining the difference between software engineering and writing code, explaining why using an AI "assistant" is likely to violate open-source licenses, listing at lest three independent ethical objections to contemporary LLMs and explaining the evidence for/reasoning behind them, explaining why we should expect AI "assistants" to be better at generating code from scratch than at fixing bugs in existing code (and why they'll confidently "claim" to have fixed problems they haven't), and even fixing bugs in AI generated code (without AI "assistance").
If we lived in a world where the underlying environmental, labor, and data commons issues with AI weren't as bad, or if we could find and use systems that effectively mitigate these issues (there's lots of piecemeal progress on several of these) then we should probably start teaching an elective on coding with an assistant to students who have mastered programming basics, but such a class should probably spend a good chunk of time on non-assisted debugging.
#AI #LLMs #VibeCoding
please give this issue a 👍 - PLEASE ‼️
#ai #coding
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-c
It should surprise no one that AI watermarking is not going to work.
#ai
"Al: Five charts that put data- centre energy use - and emissions - into context"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology
Paris Marx visits Mél’s podcast.🍿
When asked how he would advise a government on/vs #AI, Paris expects fundamental confusion, as a state wants to use the current capital flows. Reminds me of how AI creeps into #university.
Desperate companies now hiring humans to fix what #AI botched https://futurism.com/companies-hiring-humans-fix-ai I similarly wouldn't be surprised about an upcoming
"Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks"
Run-on sentences also do the trick, apparently.
#AI #LLM #jailbreak #grammar
"#AI is worrisome enough as is — its insatiable thirst for energy and water, its capacities to override the wishes of human beings, its potential to destroy the planet.
My immediate concern is that AI is becoming a financial bubble whose bursting will harm lots of innocent people" -- @…
Good article, regardless your opinion about GenAI , it will change society.
#ai
🔍 #Perplexity launches Search #API - direct access to real-time web index powering their answers without generative layer #AI