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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

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

Less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said 30% of Microsoft's code is AI-written, company appoints an 'Engineering Quality Head;' and here's why that matters
#AI #AISlop #Microsoft

Less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said 30% of Microsoft's code is AI-written, company appoints an 'Engineering Quality Head;' and here's why that matters | - The Times of India
Tech News News: Microsoft has appointed Charlie Bell, its former security chief, as the company's new engineering quality head — less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said AI writes 30% of its code. The move comes amid rising Windows 11 bugs, underwhelming Copilot adoption, and growing evidence that AI-generated code introduces more errors than it eliminates.

AI in operatiekamers leidt tot stortvloed aan medische missers - Joop - BNNVARA
#FDA #AI #Zorg

AI;DR
#ai

"AI wordt in Nederland massaal gebruikt – maar dat dreigt ongelijkheid in de samenleving te vergroten"
#AI #NRC

#OpenAI is looking for money. Subscription fees and selling ads is not enough.
Now they try to get a cut from the money you make thanks to #AI.
This also implies that any promises ever made not to look into your prompts and answers may be moot.

"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.

DuckDuckGo bietet Duck.AI an und achtet auf deine Daten & Privatsphäre #AI #Free

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.

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

Wow. This is crazy, old school, cheating.
Also... how do we discipline AI for assisting students to cheat? (and with stolen material).
#Education #AI
https://albernivalleynews.com/2026/02/10/b-c-teacher-disciplined-after-helping-student-cheat/

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.

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

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

«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.

"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…

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 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.

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.

Can I turn off all those garbage "summary" dropdowns under YouTube videos on iOS? They're a waste of screen space.
#enshittification #ai #youtube

meine #Ai kennt mich einfach zu gut 😂 #german

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

Just had what I'm 99.99% sure was an #AI cold call. But the fact that that 0.1% of doubt, hard to just cut them off without some human guilt.
I might need a new callousness security patch.

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.

Experimenting with #AI #subagents.
I delegated 4 GitHub issues to parallel subagents. The biggest win wasn't the speed — it was context isolation. Here's how I did it.

Capitalists gonna capitalist.
#ai #llm

Malafide AI-zwermen, een reële bedreiging, zelf vermoed ik dat ze al actief zijn. Goed paper en visuele samenvatting door NotebookLM.
#ai

[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

I followed a link to a PDF file that was stored in Google Drive and got assaulted with options to let Gemini create an outline, list the main points, create an audio summary, or answer questions.
I just want to download a PDF file. That's it.
#noAI #ai

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

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Fast forward naar januari vorig jaar:
Government digital document app launching in summer
#VK #YesMinister #AI

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

I know, I know, I know 😭
#ai #coding
https://www.youtube.com/live/_zdroS0Hc74?i

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

#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.

We need one of those cloud-to-butt browser extensions that replaces every occurrence of “AI” with “artificial insemination”
#cloud #butt #ai

Whenever people are commenting on another half-assed, crappy #LLM feat, claiming that there are "some" use cases for this "#AI", substitute "AI" with "genocide".
Because, you know, there are "use cases" for genocide too, and apparently a lot of people don't mind, as long as they can benefit from it and look the other way.
#NoAI

No see #AI is good actually. #TrumpEpstein
Video generated by Ari Kuschnir and Schuyler Brown

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.

Interesting read, it illustrates the challenge we have with regard to learning in a world with AI. We have to take measures for that because use of AI in coding is not going away and will only increase.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

How AI Impacts Skill Formation
AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise AI remains unclear. Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition in the process. We conduct randomized experiments to study how developers gained mastery of a new asynchronous programming library with and without the assistanc…

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

How my small saas is getting impacted by regular people being able to use #AI to write software:
I built and have been running a service for over a year, called LoftyAssist. It's for people that trade/invest in real estate via lofty.ai. I have a great hardcore user set that pay premium subscription and use this service a lot.
Even Lofty.AI people use it, especially the business people th…

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.

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/

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

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.

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?

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

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…

I‘m SHOCKED. Why don‘t the #AI Bros put an #AIAgent in front of their skills/App Store to have it detect malware automatically? Isn‘t this the awesome new way of doing things?
OpenClaw Integrates VirusTotal Scanning to Detect Malicious ClawHub Skills

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

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

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

Prettige podcast over AI.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4SnbJYFvGBFj7WpirnbW1h?si=2V-yggsrRFGX9X2KfzDADA&t=1684&pi=ybhdM-K4ToGvT

Moltbook is de social media voor agents + knetterende ruzie Altman vs Anthropic + Rutger Bregman opent vuur op OpenAI
AI Report · Episode

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

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

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

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

For some insane reason, #Utah decided to implement a “medical #AI” system.
Among other things, it can “diagnose” your illness, and send a report to a physician that includes recommended #prescription

Utah’s new medical chatbot can be easily hacked to give dangerous medical a - Mindgard
A medical chatbot can be hacked to give dangerous medical advice.

How my small saas is getting impacted by regular people being able to use #AI to write software:
I built and have been running a service for over a year, called LoftyAssist. It's for people that trade/invest in real estate via lofty.ai. I have a great hardcore user set that pay premium subscription and use this service a lot.
Even Lofty.AI people use it, especially the business people th…

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…

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

"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.

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

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

Whenever a #FreeSoftware project is suffering from onslaught of low quality LLM-generated pull requests, there will be a bunch of #LLM lovers complaining that people shouldn't be talking of "LLM-generated" being part of the problem, because "using AI isn't bad" in itself. Of course, they entirely ignore all the ethical and environmental concerns, and probably write crappy code themselves.
#AI #NoAI

#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?

"A new #opensource edge #AI system called π #RuView is turning ordinary #WiFi infrastructure into a

🪨 #Caveman: the #ClaudeCode skill that makes #Claude talk like a caveman — cutting ~75% of tokens while keeping 100% technical accuracy

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

Vibe coding is gambling:
#AI #LLM

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code #ai

Exclusive: Anthropic's new model is a pro at finding security flaws
The AI company sees the model's advancements as a major win for cyber defenders in the race against adversarial AI.

"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

Agentic #AI #Patterns Reinforce #Engineering Discipline

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

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.

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

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

Using well-chosen public sources, i let NotebookLM and Kimi K2.5 generate a presentation on a subject, amazing quality and very few errors. Good inspiration for the real presentation i will make myself. AI is not only creating "slop", we have to really start more research about how we incorporate AI in our work-processes in a responsible way, how we don't become "dumber", maintain skills, learning and human creativity 🤔

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 😂🤔

#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?

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.

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

RE: #ai #security

#Unbrowse — agent-native browser skill for #AI agents. Auto-discovers APIs from browser traffic & generates reusable skills on the fly #opensource

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

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

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

“#AI is the single-greatest coordinated attack on open source in history, and the #opensource world would do well to realise that."
The great #license-washing has begun

Besieged
#analysis #AI

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

RE: #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.

“ 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.

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