Tootfinder

"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.

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.

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.

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

"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.

A late friend of mine was UU and would have appreciated this, I think. #AI
https://www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-religious-exemption-using-ai-at-work-2026-…

She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.
Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.

This is a wild read regardless of your views about #AI. And unlike every other AI company out there, Anthropic seems to be the least hype-making and most legitimate one out there, which leads me to believe what they’re saying is true. I’ve been using Claude the past several week for work and personal use, and I’ve never experienced anything like it, especially with their Code tool.

When AI builds itself
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

Important development in AI, "Small Models are Closing the Gap to Frontier AI"
https://paulkedrosky.com/chart-of-the-day-small-models-are-closing-the-gap-to-frontier-ai/

Chart of the Day: Small Models are Closing the Gap to Frontier AI
A quiet story in AI isn't that large models keep getting better, it's that small ones are catching up quickly. In 2022, reaching 60% on MMLU, a test of academic reasoning, required a 540-billion-parameter model. By 2024, a 3.8-billion-parameter model hit the same threshold — a 142-fold parameter reduction in

Via Mylee Joseph
‪@mylee.bsky.social€
5 Questions to Ask Your Vendors about #AI products #libraries

5 Questions to Ask Your Vendors about AI | American Libraries Magazine
We must measure emerging AI platforms against our library’s tried-and-true resources to gauge which ones truly add value.

Another AI sentiment poll!
What does the use of #AI generated illustrations signal?
When you encounter a (not-for-entertainment) communication from a business, publisher, educator or other source of information that uses a #GenAI /

I just discovered that AI can generate code for OpenSCAD, so you can generate files for 3D printing with just geometric descriptions.
Part of my company's work is training in 3D design. It had better start pivoting toward other fields.
#AI #3Ddesign

"Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries"
#Energy #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

UN calculates nation-sized environmental footprints for AI and data centers
The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world's largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and energy use and pollution will double in just four years as use of artificial intelligence grows.

Someone told me there's some "#AI" drama, so I feel like it's time to add my €0.02

“Generative #AI is extremely good in making bad decisions. If we could only teach it not to apologize but to insist on them they would be an excellent replacement for upper management.”

oh ballz. high-follower-count accounts are sniping about #ai hate and #fediverse #gatekeeping again.
<battens hatches>
At least on this platform, while _that's_ going on, I don't get ads and algorithm…

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.

Vibe coding is gambling:
#AI #LLM

I think the next time I post a #job, I'll add a note saying - "all applications that arrive in the next 48 hours will be immediately deleted."
That should get rid of most of the #AI #AIslop.

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

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

I just stopped my personal @… due to the AI bot (with random IPs) just going crazy on each commit.
I'm still looking for a forge generating static content and aggressively caching pages.
#git

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…

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/

OH: You can start calling software organic if it's been made by humans only
#AI #OH #slop

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

Is there some secret book out there that says if you’re an #AI company, you’re obligated to provide the most dogshit, absolutely unbearable customer support on Earth? 🤔
I swear there has to be a hidden handbook somewhere 📖💀 and rule number one in it is probably:
“Make support as painfully useless as humanly possible.” 🚮
There’s honestly no other explanation for it 🤷 🙄
oh,…

I propose a new unit for contrarian independent thinking, particularly in an #AI context: KTTB (Karpathy-Tweet-To-Backlog), measured in seconds

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?

AI Promo Rap Style Video - AI-generated PR video clips, rap and 60s TV flavour. #AI #carbon #sustainability -

AI Promo Rap Style Video
AI-generated PR video clips, rap and 60s TV flavour. #AI #carbon #sustainability

"The biggest problem is AI wiping out human existence."
"What about AI-controlled lasers for killing insects in every house?"
#ai #agi #aiethics

Hatred of AI
<#AI

Well, I like my visualizations and over the years there was always one dataset in the back of my mind, that I wanted to make a particularly complex one from. Multiple times I started to look into #D3 to do that, but the goal was always way out of reach.
Today I did it (in just two hours!) and the result is so much better than I imagined – yes, thx to

This should be a warning to any company wanting to put #AI into their customer service.
We’ve had social engineering where humans have been duped, but a human can at least think critically.

"How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know"
#Australia #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know
Don’t panic about AI data centres and water – it’s energy we should worry about

I am on the fence if using #LLM or other #AI services is a good thing or not. What does fedi think?

Why do we let the greedy capitalists do this to our industry?
#LLM

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

#Hiring for a #journalism assistant and got way too many applications. Too many cover letters have the same exact format, with bullet points summaries in the middle.
Is this how #AI writes cover letters?

Plugin 'GitHub Copilot - Your AI Pair Programmer' might be slowing things down
Really? Some people say otherwise. #AI

RE: #google #chrome #ai

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.

I posted an interesting opinion during the weekend about the #AI and how the push now reminds me of the push for adoption the Christianity. WDYT?
https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4528/

There was a time when creating massive amounts of code would have been valuable. There was a time when lowering the bar for creating software would have been beneficial. But today we are inundated with garbage apps, written too quickly and never maintained, half-working libraries, projects someone took up once and abandoned (I have several), and grift startups just waiting to be acquired and "fixed."
#LLM code generation is a pestilence. We don't need more code owned by people who know less, we need less code managed by people who know more. It's literally the opposite of everything we want. Oh, but it will be easier for infosec to find bugs so it's fine, right? I've found critical bugs that never get fixed (I think one of mine is like 7 years old now).
There are a lot of bugs that just can't be fixed because there are no systems to fix them. Go on Shodan and look for ATGs. There are thousands of them. I'm betting that most of those are not honeypots. It may be possible to blow up a bunch of gas stations with a for loop, but, yeah, we need #AI to find some more bugs.
https://www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/fuel-tank-monitoring-systems-vulnerable-disruption

"Canadian MPs and senators have joined a campaign that started in the U.K. to prevent the development of superintelligent AI, warning that it poses an extinction risk on a par with nuclear war.
The ControlAI campaign group is warning that superintelligent AI systems that can operate autonomously could compromise national security, escape human oversight and potentially pose an existential threat to humanity."

Flower framework to deal with ai engineering work transition
Juliette is a game dev who was excited by ai then , oh, its disruptive and can software dev be ending?
So she made a model for thinking about the impact on teams and engineers.
It activities:
What is the work that might be affected? She has a list of things too long to read.
Define how each is done, standard best practice etc. How outputs of each are inputs to others.
Claude builds skills based on that.
Ai capabilities:
Can si do those things? Can it ever?
Probably not for many.
So what is the impact going to be?
If its all done by ai the job is thinking about the product not coding. That plus working out the odds its done it right. More importantly, philosophy! The job is to define what good software is and have the robot implement.
So sounds like she thinks were heading to the job being thinking about systems then wrangling robots.
But only if its reliable and cheap and not regulated away.
Which might not be the case.
Buy her book for the full list and analysis.
#devWorld #ai

Video recommendation!
Two of the best science communicators I know of, Doctor Mike and Dr. Steven Novella, having an in-depth conversation about #Skepticism, #AI, #Vaccines,

Why use one code when lots and lots and lots and lots of code do trick? #agenticai #ai

Fascinerend en grootschalig onderzoek, over AI als expert in contractrecht, roept veel vragen op over hoe we AI gaan integreren in het onderwijs. #AI #onderwijs #juridisch

Turning off the computer without giving my agents a few prompts so they work the whole night.... Feels so bad...... 😅🙈 #ai #coding
Or should I be worried about, having that feeling in the first place, Damn, both doesn't feel healthy 😂🤔

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

Agentic #AI #Patterns Reinforce #Engineering Discipline

Is AI Profitable Yet?
Tracking the spend and revenue of frontier AI companies (May 2026).
📉 #aislop

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

The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code
#ai

The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code
The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.

I didn't ask for it but work just gave me a premium M365 Copilot license. Not sure how to take advantage of it besides helping me find stuff in various engineering codes and standards documents. Any fun suggestions that probably won't get me in trouble? #AI #Copilot

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

"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

Anyone looking for big numbers? Here you will find plenty of them!
#AI #AISpending
https://isaiprofitable.com/

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

It's been a while since I used #Ubuntu. Glad I'm not anymore, otherwise I'd have to search for a new distro now... #aislop
https://

Remember, do not blindly trust AI. Yeah, it can get you most of the way there but it can flat out tell you the wrong thing. Its not the authoritative answer to everything - remember that. #AI

US Law Enforcement Warns of #AntiTechExtremism as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing #AI and #dataCenters in their back yards, the feds are raising the…

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

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

What’s the difference between an API and an agent?
An API is consistent, deterministic, and scoped.
An agent is probabilistic, non-deterministic, and occasionally chaotic.
An agent adds some spice to your life.
Will you choose the boring, predictable life or the cool, chaotic one?
#ai #ia

Remember how people gave techbros the term "#AI" to use for their #LLM crap, and then started using "AGI" for the old AI?
Apparently techbros are now selling LLM crap as "AGI": #spam mail anyway.
#NoAI #NoLLM

Måske er der stadigvæk håb. #AI #KI #DKTech

Det slidsomt underkendte relationelle arbejde er fremtidens jobboom. For begge køn. Nu skal æres, hvad æres bør. Det er økonomi, slet og ret. Når AI driver prisen på viden mod nul, stiger den… | Timme Bisgaard Munk | 50 comments
Det slidsomt underkendte relationelle arbejde er fremtidens jobboom. For begge køn. Nu skal æres, hvad æres bør. Det er økonomi, slet og ret. Når AI driver prisen på viden mod nul, stiger den relative værdi af ægte menneskelig kontakt og menneskelig tid. Det næste arbejdsmarked bliver derfor ikke et marked med færre jobs. Det bliver et marked med flere, bedre betalte jobs med relationelt, emotionelt indhold. Det er en teknologisk revolution med et kvindeligt ansigt og bias. I årtier…

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

The Web I grew up with and that grew up with me was already slowly fading. The Web of many people and organizations having their own small website. Capitalism and convenience lead to a concentration onto a small number of platforms and apps, but mostly these platforms let the rest be. People and small organizations and groups could still have their little website.
#web

An actually positive use of AI!
#AI #LLM

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

Interesting blog from Anthropic about RSI, AI & coding, ofcourse from their perspective but worth reading,
#ai

When AI builds itself
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

Before working for 2 years on the Apache APISIX API gateway, I was mainly oblivious to API gateways. It’s only by working with them that I understood their value. Decoupling the client and the server unlocks a lot of options: moving authentication to the API Gateway, securing APIs, deduplicating API requests, etc.
In this post, I want to describe how the same pattern applies to #AI.

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

RE: #AI

Every religion has a messiah. AI has a church, a priesthood, an Inquisition, and billions in donations. The Christ slot is still empty.
#AI

Interesting blog about AI and GDP.
#AI

AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output
Why AI's increasing output is going to be one of the hardest economic measurement problems in history. AI "Dark Output" could end up being the majority of economic activity, but a challenge to measure

ohno.jpg #AI
https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/nvidia-executive-cost-of-ai-is-greater-than-cost-of-employees/

‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capex this year, but AI has yet to show evidence of widespread increased productivity.

and i thought claude's random spinning words were crazy.....
#ai #coding #codex

Just realized that the fact that newer large language models keep getting bigger in terms of parameters is kind of a tell about how they work, even as it's also kind of a requirement from the investment standpoint.
Very roughly, models develop complex functional internal state about some sub-domains, and merely memorize many examples in others. In reality it's more complicated than this and even in this simplified metaphor it's a mix between memorization and "real" "understanding" in each domain. But the point is that if companies were really working towards AGI, they'd be feeding more data into models with *fewer* parameters (that's how you force a model not to memorize) instead of building bigger and bigger models (expands the illusion of competence through increased capacity to memorize).
But being the only ones with the hardware to train an even-bigger model is one of their few competitive advantages, and signing new deals for even more hardware is one of the only ways they can signal to investors that they'll retain their advantage and thus not be destroyed by a food of competitors. That's also how they can convince the hardware dealers like NVidia to continue with circular investments. So they have to run in that direction, regardless of the scientific merits.
This is why someone like LeCun would leave that side of things.
#LLMs #AI

#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

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.

I continue to experiment with #AI in the context of #softwareengineering. I’m fortunate that my team supports me in exploring different ways to improve our daily work. This week, I designed a team of #autonomousagents

#MistralAI has fucking beautiful docs 😍
#ai #mistral

Ah, people are finally doing the financial math on the #AI boom. About bloody time.
https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116648209688298468

Um... 14,000 feet... Yeah. Right. (Later amended to 1,400 feet. Still wrong. That's the length of the bridge. Later still, they gave up because "Basic research, fact-checking and common sense are hard." and changed it to "from the top.")
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

RE: https://toot.cafe/@alastc/116686148429429285
So it turns out that making a site more accessible for humans with disabilities is ALSO good for AI agents! 👍 Perhaps the hype around agentic

Classic Internet:
#AI #LLM

GitHub - dtnewman/burn-baby-burn: Be the most productive engineer on your team 🚀🚀🚀
Be the most productive engineer on your team 🚀🚀🚀. Contribute to dtnewman/burn-baby-burn development by creating an account on GitHub.

Let's talk about #AI #slop
https://archestra.ai/blog/only-responsible-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.

Can #AI do #neuroscience without understanding? https://www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lea

Can AI do neuroscience without understanding?
Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles. Artificial intelligence is now offering neuroscience the same deal.

Reminder: your #ai #coding agent needs a lot of guardrails; otherwise, it generates a lot of crap, even opus... 😞
Fixing these errors at the end of the day takes forever.
It's better to run your linters and tests after every change...

“ 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.

the solution might be cancelling my #AI subscription
https://thoughts.hmmz.org/2026-05-31.html

How I Switched #AI Models Without Changing a Single Line of Code
#AIGateway

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