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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

With friends like Mozilla…
#AI

Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web | The Mozilla Blog
AI isn’t just another tech trend — it’s at the heart of  most apps, tools and technology we use today. It enables remarkable things: new way

"The 1st open conference where AI serves as both primary authors and reviewers of research papers."
#AI

In the #China Pavilion at the Osaka #Expo, robots dance and #AI sings. But on closer look, these companies on display are the same ones sanctioned by the US for trade, human rights, and geopolitical reasons.

why agents DO NOT write most of our code - a reality check
#AI

AI didn’t make us nihilists
it just reminded us that nothing’s real,
and no one’s really there.
#Nihilism #AI #AntiAI

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

20/11 in Nieuwsuur: Zorgen om AI-bubbel? • Plan voor Oekraïne • Kinderopvang in het buitenland
#AI

I've been sharing the word about #AI4LAM at the first 'AI Indaba and Library Technology Expo' in South Africa. Some great speakers on the livestream if you're curious about the South African library perspective on AI, innovation and sustainability

Even #Nature now uses #AI to generate content: Sensory substitution devices and perception https://www.

I haven't tested AI tools as extensively as this guy has but in my experience he is totally right.
And some of the comments are gold as well :D
#AI

📊 Multiple #MCP servers can be connected in single request, enabling #AI coordination across different systems for complex business workflows and automation
🌐

If you're a #Zoom user, your account owner may be getting messages about it's #AI Companion feature like this:
Starting 10/22/2025, we will remove one of those steps by auto-enabling AI Companion on your behalf, making this a one-step process, where, as a meeting host, you will still need to…

So, here's the real terror of AI. I can add my headshot -- or another photo -- and I "become myself" in my own AI video as a "fully realized human being!"
AI fills in the all of me, and a new reality is created!
#ai #video

Listening to #InOurTime on the Time Machine, I am asking myself whether #AI #LLM users are choosing to become Eloi, are choosing to let their intellects atrophy, by delegating their creative and critical faculties t…

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Time Machine (Archive Episode)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.

This could just as easily be the US government...
#LLM #AI #Copyright

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.

#Socrates on #AI:
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/629

RE: #formatie #ai 😅😅

“Take a breath, take a step back. Critical thinking is now the key when using technology,” says Dr Maria Bada, behavioural scientist and presenter at our upcoming #GEANTCybersecurity webinar.
#AI is changing how we work, and how we’re deceived. Scammers know trust is the real target.
Joi…

The study ‘Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver?’ corresponds quite well with our experiences: ‘The age of AI coding has arrived – our challenge now is to harness it wisely.’
#AI

oh hell nahhh
#ai

"AI adoption in US adds ~900,000 tons of CO₂ annually, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI adoption in US adds ~900,000 tons of CO₂ annually, study finds
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters finds that continued growth in artificial intelligence (AI) use across the United States could add approximately 900,000 tons of CO₂ annually. This is not a small amount but equates to a relatively minor increase when viewed in the context of nationwide emissions.

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.
So far it’s been working!
Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.
Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.
And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.
They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

There's a type of guy whose only contribution at work is sheer volume of outputs, whether or not they serve any purpose. #AI tools ask us, "what if everyone could be that guy?"
It turns out that the result is bad for everyone. Systems lose their ability to evaluate whether outputs are fit for purpose. Shared intent disappears.
Scaling up trash only makes more trash. Work tha…

All your problems are people problems (Don't Just Do Things, Part 2)
If you want to do strategy, you must be willing to do process transformation first.

🦾 Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions
#ai #seduction

Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions
AI-companion apps such as Replika, Chai, and Character.ai promise relational benefits-yet many boast session lengths that rival gaming platforms while suffering high long-run churn. What conversational design features increase consumer engagement, and what trade-offs do they pose for marketers? We combine a large-scale behavioral audit with four preregistered experiments to identify and test a conversational dark pattern we call emotional manipulation: affect-laden messages that surface precise…

Good Morning #Canada
My youngest daughter is visiting this weekend, and while cooking our family breakfast, we had a long conversation about #AI and #LLM applications. She works for a nonprofit - Rainbow Railroad - and is in charge of all their data applications and funding processes. Her manager is suggesting that they need to start exploring AI/LLM, perhaps to automate email responses to donors. Her response, backed by the fundraising team, is "no effing way will a machine talk to any donor." Losing the personal touch can kill an organization that relies on the emotional empathy and kindness of the public.
That led to a new discussion - are there examples of #AI being used for good. #AskEllyn, the nonprofit chatbot that supports breast cancer patients, was the only one we could name, unfortunately, because both my daughters have relied on it over the past few months.
Tell me about other positive examples of AI - bonus points if they're Canadian.
#CanadaIsAwesome #
https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/kitchener-ont-ai-chatbot-for-breast-cancer-patients-becomes-focus-of-national-clinical-research-study/

One of the great things about #mastodon is that my feed isn’t spammed with #AI generated shite. AI generated content gives me the rage.

ohno.jpg
#AI #LLM

I posted a friendly question to folks on an AI coding subreddit along with my own answer, and jesus christ #AI coders can *looks suspiciously in mirror* be some real dipshits

@…
A recommendation from my side:
A full stack #AI launchkit (docker based) for selfhosting with many apps including supabase, ollama, n8n, flowise, etc.

seemingly all excecs: We like ai because its cheap!
seemingly everybody else: We hate ai because its cheap.
excecs:??????
#ai #cod7 #llm

"consuming #AI art is like eating styrofoam", says @…: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

You wanted to live in the future. Here's a clip of Whoopi Goldberg drawing the line between those filthy robots and real humans.
#AI #TillyNorwood

Is #AI really just dumb statistics? "Olympiad-level physics problem-solving presents a significant challenge for both humans and artificial intelligence (AI), as it requires a sophisticated integration of precise calculation, abstract reasoning, and a fundamental grasp of physical principles," says the (abstract of the) paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10515: "The Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO), renowned for its complexity and depth, serves as an ideal and rigorous testbed for these advanced capabilities. In this paper, we introduce LOCA-R (LOgical Chain Augmentation for Reasoning), an improved version of the LOCA framework adapted for complex reasoning, and apply it to the CPhO 2025 theory examination. LOCA-R achieves a near-perfect score of 313 out of 320 points, solidly surpassing the highest-scoring human competitor and significantly outperforming all baseline methods." Oops ...?

How much did you spend on AI this month?
#ai #poll

Seems the #AI #slop #hype #theater is about to crumble...

The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.

"In the budget speech this year, commission president Ursula von der Leyen made a bold statement that AI is expected to approach human reasoning by next year."
How the #EU commission is basing its #AI policy (and funding) on the wishful thinking of tech bros. Those, which currently use circu…

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 🫣

Wer wissen will, wie man beim Temperieren von Schokolade die Küche in Brand setzt, kann sich von Google AI helfen lassen
#aioverviewfail

How I use #AI to code - Nate McMaster
"Only ask AI to do things I already know how to do"
https://natemcmaster.com/blog/2025/11/06/tenets-of-ai-coding/

People should seriously think about a possible coming marketcrash. The popping of the financial AI bubble will hurt the "normal" economy. Financial markets could take a very big hit. But how do you protect yourself against this coming disaster, as an owner of limited stocks, savings etc.? Going for gold, government bonds, other things? 🤔
#AI

Intressant. #AI https://www.dagensarena.se/opinion/kapitalism-utan-manniskor/

Kapitalism utan människor | Dagens Arena
Vad händer när det också är AI som konsumerar innehållet?

In her keynote at #ISWC2025, Yuko Harayama, Secretary General of Global Partnership on AI Tokyo Expert Support Center, is discussing the challenges of #AI on Human Society, suggesting a shift from originally tech-driven to human-centered paradigm, addressing key questions related to

Will Coding AI Tools Ever Reach Full Autonomy?
🧑‍💻 #ai #code

Will Coding AI Tools Ever Reach Full Autonomy?
Can AI truly collaborate with human coders? Researchers highlight the hurdles and potential solutions in AI-driven software engineering.

Wenn Ihr an einer deutschen Hochschule seid:
**Nutzt Ihr die Angebote auf academiccloud.de der GWDG, insbesondere chat-ai.academiccloud.de?**
#boost #ai #ki

Cash-flows in the #AIBubble, in one neat diagram. Carole Cadwalladr has one question, "when will it pop". No answer yet, but the question is delicious. https://open.substack.com/pub/broligar

#AIForensics' study (07/2025) reveals how AI-generated content floods #TikTok & #Instagram, with platforms failing to adequately label synthetic material.
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AI Generated Algorithmic Virality
This investigation systematically analyzes AI-generated content across TikTok and Instagram in three European countries. We found that 25% of TikTok's top search results contain synthetic AI imagery, with over 80% produced by "Agentic AI Accounts." Despite platforms' DSA commitments, only half of AI content receives proper labeling, creating significant risks for users.

I love it when a flan comes together. #AI #JobHunting2025
https://www.fastcompa…

Sweet revenge! How a job candidate used a flan recipe to expose an AI recruiter
It's only one example of people trying to trick AI, which is being used more and more in hiring.

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…

Research is a leadership skill; don't cede it to AI
The role of UX is not only to change the behaviors of users, but also to influence the behaviors of stakeholders. Adding AI tools to this process only undermines alignment.

people get creative when it comes to saving tokens.... 👀
#ai

"Al: Five charts that put data- centre energy use - and emissions - into context"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI: Five charts that put data-centre energy use – and emissions – into context - Carbon Brief
Many have warned that the rapid expansion of data centres could slow down or even reverse the global shift towards net-zero.

Introducing Agent #Gateway: #AI-Native Connectivity & Security
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SomP92JWPmE…

You know what's the difference between a human programmer and an "#AI coding assistant"?
Sure, human programmers make mistakes. And rookies often make "worse" mistakes than an #LLM can come up with. However, the difference is that humans can actually learn. Teaching them comes with a payoff; not always and not necessarily for your project, but there's a good chance that they'll become better programmers and contribute back to the community.
Sure, human programmers sometimes plagiarize. And of course they need to look at some code while they learn. However, they actually can think on their own and come up with something original. And they can learn that plagiarism is wrong.
And most importantly, usually they don't lie if they don't have to, and there are limits to their smugness. You can build a healthy community with them.
You can't build a community with unethical bullshit-spitting machines.
#programming #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

The recent release of Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs), is super interesting.
The technical report provides plenty of details about the entire process.
#ai #opensource #llm

Eight #police cars were deployed to subdue a #Baltimore high school student carrying a bag of #Doritos—which #AI misidentified as a …

🦿 Are people’s bosses really making them use AI tools?
#ai

Are people’s bosses really making them use AI tools?
Andy Bell had heard companies were forcing employees to use AI tools so spoke to developers to determine if that was the case and learned some horrors in the process.

"#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" -- @…

Beware the Oligarch's AI Bubble
They’re likely to burst.

New preprint article based on an open letter (which I've signed onto) against the uncritical adoption of AI:
#AI #LLMs #GenAI

Can you transcribe from audio files? #AI #mistralai

This is the logo for Anthropic's AI model "Claude".
Twenty seconds in MS Paint could draw the thing and it looks like, well, lets call it a "#ai #claude

Yet another judgement on #AIart, but this time it comes from the Oatmeal
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.

Real-life Her, but make it Black Mirror.
#AI #LLMs

#Expedia never was the pinnacle of customer #service. But as of recent, they have dug themselves into a hellhole of #AI that doesn't work. At the same time, their website

I just read a fascinating and understandable article that gave me a better understanding of LLMs and how they operate.
LLMs Are Randomized Algorithms
A surprising connection between the newest AI models and a 50-year old academic field
by Udayan Kanade
Nov 13, 2025
18 min read
#LLM #AI #algorithms

A cartoonist's review of #AI #art - The #Oatmeal
https://

Interessant voor iedereen geinteresseerd in AI, wetgeving, van wet naar digitale werking. De proof-of-concept Regelrecht.
#AI

GitHub - MinBZK/poc-machine-law: Proof of Concept RegelRecht
Proof of Concept RegelRecht . Contribute to MinBZK/poc-machine-law development by creating an account on GitHub.

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

Desperate Companies Now Hiring Humans to Fix What AI Botched
After getting rid of their human workers to invest in AI, companies are now hiring freelancers to fix the sloppy content those AIs put out.

Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications" | Windows Central
#Windows11 #AI

Why is Greenpeace East Asia releasing an #AI report that doesn't include a single company based in East Asia?
It also does not include an single social factor, only ranking on energy, which seems to go against @… own core on centering communities when campaig…

🔄 Available in Fast and Auto modes with continuous upgrades based on user feedback
🎯 Sets new record on Pareto Intelligence frontier according to Artificial Analysis
🛠️ Native tool use capabilities with real-time search integration
📊 Democratizing advanced #AI technology for broader accessibility and innovation
🌐

"The flood of money into #AI has made America’s #billionaire #oligarchs far richer.
By Forbes’ count, 20 of the most notable

Beware the Oligarch's AI Bubble
They’re likely to burst.

Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark #AI settlement ... “believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US copyright litigation.”
https://www.

"Navigating Generative #AI in Academic #Publishing: An Interview with Benjamin Luke Moorhouse"

Look at the capabilities versus costs of Kimi K2 and GPT-5. Kimi K2 is 3 times as cheap with similar performance.
#AI

#AI is inevitable, which means it cannot fail - it can only be failed. But it's not *your* fault if wreckers are deliberately sabotaging your innovative digital transformation. It's those pesky millennials, who hate productivity.
As always, the instinct of management is to control and punish.
#llm

You should always have a backup fiddle because you'll never know when your main fiddle goes wonky.
#AI #LLM #Copilot #Microsoft #technology

"Crypto is my second bubble concern. It’s a classic Ponzi scheme. It’s growing because investors believe other investors will keep buying it. And like #AI, crypto’s meteoric growth has also been powered largely by the ultra-wealthy. (Trump and his family are said to have made $5 billion off it so far.)" -- @…

Beware the Oligarch's AI Bubble
They’re likely to burst.

ME: Look at the first 50 lines, important: never read the whole file!
CLAUDE: Read(file.json)
Error: File content (20MB) exceeds maximum allowed size (256KB)
#ai #coding

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."

"AI-powered oil spill prediction system can improve emergency response accuracy by up to 25%"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI-powered oil spill prediction system can improve emergency response accuracy by up to 25%
Oil spills can be among the most devastating environmental disasters, with the potential to severely damage marine ecosystems, disrupt coastal communities, and impose lasting economic damage. Traditional numerical models, such as MEDSLIK-II, simulate the movement and transformation of oil particles in seawater, but their accuracy has been limited by dependence on expert judgment for tuning critical physical parameters. This manual calibration process, while informed by experience, is not always…

[OT] The Guardian: How thousands of "overworked, underpaid" humans train Google's AI to seem smart #AI #raters

The contrast between Google AI search results, which are terrible and totally unreliable, and NotebookLM is amazing.
I think it is irresponsible from Google to integrate AI search results in Google Search...
#ai #googlesearch

In 2024-09, @… held a brilliant speech about #LLM #AI and all the dangers if we do not regulate them as soon as possible:

sometimes it's fun making a little #ai #llm battle 😏 💪
i have no idea what these fancy benchmarks are testing, as a #php developer, i'm (most of the time) interested in the basics - so even a …

Amazon laid off 14K people, and commentators rush to blame #AI. But not even Jassy claims that Amazon has replaced jobs with #LLM tools (because it is impossible).
Big tech believed that AI would lead to higher velocity, somehow. Jassy has given up on it, and instead thinks that *culture* will lead to …

Amazon's layoffs are driven by something even stupider than AI
Andy Jassy wants you to think that velocity can make up for lack of strategy. But "build, measure, learn" only works if you're willing to learn.

Always fun/challenging to read new AI (pre)papers like this. "Base models know how to reason, thinking models learn when".
#AI #Google #reasoning

#AI is still not the only reason to get negative grades 😁
#FoxTrotComics
https://foxtrot.com/2025/09/14/nothing

The PR machine powering big tech’s AI energy story #AI boom depends …

The PR Machine Powering Big Tech’s AI Energy Story
Google doesn't want you to think AI uses up much energy

“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.

🚀 #Google #Gemini AI now built directly into #Chrome browser bringing intelligent assistance right where you browse without switching tabs

The financial AI bubble. It will pop at some time but don't make the mistake thinking that the technology will dissappear or the impact it will have on society (besides the destruction of the bubble bursting).
#AI #bubble

How do you know you are using #ai too often?
In your email client, you are constantly pressing Ctrl/Shift Enter to get a newline 😂 🙈 😭

Nice article about the AI Bubble (financial).
#AI #bubble #financial #investing

The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.

hm... that's really tricky.... 🤔 💭 😂
#ai #grok

Powertip for anyone using LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude etcetera, use a personalised system prompt (you can find it in the settings under various names), it really improves the outputs. There are plenty of tips online (Google) about what to put in them.
#ai #llm

🚀 #Groq launches remote #MCP support in beta on #GroqCloud - connecting #AI models to external tools …

🚀 #Chrome #DevTools launches #MCP server in public preview - revolutionizing #AI coding assistants by…

i love reading that, in exact that order 😀
#ai #php #coding

Don’t let anything stop you. While you’re out there building the world and driving innovation, we in Europe prefer to spend our time thinking up great new laws to forbid the use of things we can’t create ourselves 💪
#europe #ai
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-invests-50-billion-in-american-ai-infrastructure