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

Wanna counterfeit currency notes? AI can help you with that. 💵
#AI #currency #counterfeit

This quip from Paul Ford summarises the AI hype perfectly to me:
"All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited."
from #LLM #AI

"A.I. Is Keeping Aging Coal Plants Online"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Energy

A.I. Is Keeping Aging Coal Plants Online

Unpopular opinion (maybe): Everyone is shitting on #Mozilla for stuffing #AI into #Firefox. And I largely agree. But I would actually like to see _more_ AI in

RE: #ai

Tom's Hardware has a headline this week summarizing a Financial Times interview with a Microsoft #AI exec that begins thusly:
"Microsoft’s AI boss says AI can replace every white-collar job in 18 months".
If you watch the interview, that is not what was said. The statement is a bit more nuanced claim that AI can fully automate tasks of some white collar work.
But I…

Je hoort het mensen nog wel eens zeggen, serieuze ontwikkelaars maken geen gebruik van AI tooling, echt niet waar, zoals ook uit dit negatieve voorbeeld blijkt... 😀
#AI #Amazon

RE: #AI

As I complete more and more projects with #Claude #Ollama and other #AI tools, I've been pondering a world of bespoke software. Like I'm writing a mobile game for my family to keep score playing Pu…

Kai nailed it again with a new #AI pitch video:
Interview with a 'sweating' AI CEO (2026)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnYaExb5JvM

I became a programmer because I found it much easier to program computers than to talk to people. Why would anyone in their sane mind claim that I'd be better off talking in human language to machines that pretend to be the kind of smug humans who have no clue about coding, but are going to fulfill all the assignments given by me by googling and copy-pasting whatever they can find?!
#NoAI #AI #LLM

Learn #ai (now) or find another job (now) ‼️
#developer

RE: #AI?
How easy will they get their ROI whe…

I don't get it. I am not a frequent #AI user but do not reject it completely for now. Just casually checking some AI comments in some AI project makes me shudder.
See this comment: https://github.com/opencla…

"Elon Musk’s xAI faces second lawsuit over toxic pollutants from datacenter"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Environment

#AI #Coding Killed My Flow State
https://itnext.io/ai-coding-killed-my-flow-state-54b60354be1d…

Chatbots Are the New Influencers Brands Must Woo
Companies are realizing they can no longer simply promote themselves to potential customers. They have to win over the robots, too.
By Erin Griffith Ney York Times #AI #Chatbots

Chatbots Are the New Influencers Brands Must Woo
Companies are realizing they can no longer simply promote themselves to potential customers. They have to win over the robots, too.

When the EIB grants a €20B loan for AI infrastructure while its yearly budget is €100B, that effectively means one-fifth of its annual budget goes to AI infrastructure.
Public transport? Green energy? Social infrastructure? No. Instead, data centres operated by private consortia to potentially sell private services. I hope it will be at least to produce open-source models and software.
#ai

“A week ago, someone sent me a link to an online article describing a flaming confrontation between me and the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank, Matt Comyn, on the set of 7.30.
“The story was 2,000 words long, very detailed, and had pictures of Comyn and me arguing in front of 7.30 host Sarah Ferguson, before Matt throws away his microphone and storms off.
“Not a word nor a photo of it was true. It was an #AI

AI got personal last week, and it's more complicated than we think
A fake news story about me, a series of AI breakthroughs, and a resignation in the tech world show that 2026 could be pivotal for AI. 

Claims that #AI can help fix climate dismissed as #greenwashing https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/17/tech-companies-traditional-ai-generative-climate-breakdown-report?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Wait. So an #AI bot manifested some #AIslop (it neither creates nor writes), tried to get it merged into a #code repo, got rejected for being

I don't know if I should be laughing or crying.
This is so absurd:
#AI

Drogenhändler hält Drogen für ungefährlich.

#Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says #AI Doomerism Has 'Done a Lot of Damage'

So what are the top murdertech companies at the moment? (The ones enabling mass murder of civilians through AI, surveillance,
etc.)
• Palantir
• Google
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Anthropic
• IBM
• …
… did I forget any? Feel free to reply and add to the list.
#murdertech

Un appello ai legislatori dell'UE: proteggere i diritti e respingere la richiesta di eliminare la garanzia della trasparenza nel #AIAct

«Noi, organizzazioni e individui sottoscritti, vi esortiamo con la massima fermezza a respingere l'eliminazione della garanzia di trasparenza di cui all'articolo 49(2) per i sistemi di IA ad alto rischio, proposta nell'AI Omnibus.»…

#ai #duckduckgo

The smart glasses race will be won by AI, not augmented reality https://www.verdict.co.uk/smart-glasses-race-won-by-ai-not-augmented-reality/ "Smart glasses will go mainstream by making everyday life easier with

The smart glasses race will be won by AI, not augmented reality
Smart glasses will go mainstream by making everyday life easier with AI and discreet designs, not through flashy AR features.

“It’s an agentic AI!” You mean it is an AI let off its leash that is unilaterally doing things without any human being aware and like a puppy left alone is about to ruin everything you were working on?
“You’re being old fashioned,” no machine is yet able to reliably exceed human judgement.
#AI

#AI #AISlop #PattonOswalt
https://pattonoswalt.com

"Does adding ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to your ChatGPT prompts really waste energy?"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Energy

Does adding ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to your ChatGPT prompts really waste energy?
The viral idea that polite prompts waste electricity is an exaggeration. But it reflects a growing awareness of AI’s enormous infrastructure costs.

Open Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
#AI

open-slopware
Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.

Things #fedi will probably hate me for (part 731):
Putting the Apollo 440 song "Stop the Rock" in your head... With the lyrics
"Stop the Slop. You can stop the Slop."
#slop #ai

I am not sure if this is going into the right direction.
#nvidia #dlss5 #ai

"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.

AI in a kids toy does what experts warned. Can we trust AI? Get Inside AI’s exclusive.
📺 #youtube

In the age of #AI, you're either the slopper or the slopee. Which one are you?

I am still adjusting my software related goal setting to the AI age. I had a list of things I wanted to do for 2026 for my trading management site. I thought it was an easy list, not a stretch by any imagination, but still beefy enough that I figured it will be nice to take care of over the course of this year. Well, all the items on the list are done.... #ai

For those of you in or adjacent to the software development world, this is a pretty interesting article on both the state of the art and the social issues its generating.
#AIandSociety #AI
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163

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

My second day of #IETF125 brings a dilemma for the first session- I want to be in 3 places!
- IRTFOPEN - internetworking challenges for #AI
- TIPTOP - extending #Internet to the Moon / deep spac…

Wait, Games Workshop did something good?
#AI

Games Workshop Rejects the Abominable Intelligence
The makers of 'Warhammer' declare heresy on generative AI, banning its use in the company's design process.

#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.

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.

I did it guys... i used chatgpt in a productive way.
I've been banging my head against the wall trying to get some perl XPath stuff to work... I asked it a specific question with the XML i had, and what it produced works. And it's reasonably succinct.
I stand ready to be flogged.
#AI #coding #Perl #LLM

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.

I was invited to the "AI-Freecast". We talked about #luddism #ai, data center and the human need for friction.
It was great fun.

Could we become co-owner of #AI models, that used training data, which I published under a viral license?
We have briefly discussed this question in the Austrian #CreativeCommons chapter and came to the conclusion, that copyright can by only claimed by human beings. So the model itself and wha…

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

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

"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…

🚀 #MiniMax 2.5 on #SambaCloud: 80.2% SWE-Bench, 300 tokens/sec, 37% faster than its predecessor — frontier-level coding & agentic AI at $0.30/M input. #AI

We found the cyber Amish :
#ai #cyberamish

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.

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/

#AI #AIBubble #OpenAI
In 2025 alone, OpenAI released a controversial text-to-video generator, dubbed Sora, and an abysma…

Panicked OpenAI Execs Cutting Projects as Walls Close In
OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, told employees that the company is "actively looking at which areas to deprioritize."

#AI model collapse: Experimental evidence of progressive ChatGPT models self-convergence https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12683v2

Experimental evidence of progressive ChatGPT models self-convergence
Large Language Models (LLMs) that undergo recursive training on synthetically generated data are susceptible to model collapse, a phenomenon marked by the generation of meaningless output. Existing research has examined this issue from either theoretical or empirical perspectives, often focusing on a single model trained recursively on its own outputs. While prior studies have cautioned against the potential degradation of LLM output quality under such conditions, no longitudinal investigation …

"AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Nature

AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects | Happy Eco News
AI for nature restoration tools are transforming environmental protection as companies deploy sensors, predictive models, and machine learning systems. Nearly 350 cities use AI to map tree coverage and combat heat, while organizations monitor wildlife and detect wildfires.

Fragments: March 16
#AI #codingassistants

Want to get rid of unwanted stuff in your webbrowser - like telemetry or #ai
There's a git project for FF, Chrome and Edge and a website:
https://github.com/corbindavenport/jus

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

This looks like an interesting take on the whole “AI" (IMHO its not AI and its not leading directly to AGI).
I've only watched this preview but it looks like it covers things from many points of view. The creator of the film
The AI Documentary: Or How I Becamean APOCALOPTIMIST.
#AIHype

Let's hope for a guilty verdict, not a pay-off, er, "settlement."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/merriam-webster-openai-encyclopedia-brittanica-lawsuit/

The dictionary sues OpenAI | TechCrunch
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster say that OpenAI violated the copyright of almost 100,000 articles by using them for LLM training.

Love the ambition of #CivicAI #Civics

Good article, makes you think 🤔
"How AI Destroys Institutions"
#ai

Cynicism, "AI"
I've been pointed out the "Reflections on 2025" post by Samuel Albanie [1]. The author's writing style makes it quite a fun, I admit.
The first part, "The Compute Theory of Everything" is an optimistic piece on "#AI". Long story short, poor "AI researchers" have been struggling for years because of predominant misconception that "machines should have been powerful enough". Fortunately, now they can finally get their hands on the kind of power that used to be only available to supervillains, and all they have to do is forget about morals, agree that their research will be used to murder millions of people, and a few more millions will die as a side effect of the climate crisis. But I'm digressing.
The author is referring to an essay by Hans Moravec, "The Role of Raw Power in Intelligence" [2]. It's also quite an interesting read, starting with a chapter on how intelligence evolved independently at least four times. The key point inferred from that seems to be, that all we need is more computing power, and we'll eventually "brute-force" all AI-related problems (or die trying, I guess).
As a disclaimer, I have to say I'm not a biologist. Rather just a random guy who read a fair number of pieces on evolution. And I feel like the analogies brought here are misleading at best.
Firstly, there seems to be an assumption that evolution inexorably leads to higher "intelligence", with a certain implicit assumption on what intelligence is. Per that assumption, any animal that gets "brainier" will eventually become intelligent. However, this seems to be missing the point that both evolution and learning doesn't operate in a void.
Yes, many animals did attain a certain level of intelligence, but they attained it in a long chain of development, while solving specific problems, in specific bodies, in specific environments. I don't think that you can just stuff more brains into a random animal, and expect it to attain human intelligence; and the same goes for a computer — you can't expect that given more power, algorithms will eventually converge on human-like intelligence.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, what evolution did succeed at first is achieving neural networks that are far more energy efficient than whatever computers are doing today. Even if indeed "computing power" paved the way for intelligence, what came first is extremely efficient "hardware". Nowadays, human seem to be skipping that part. Optimizing is hard, so why bother with it? We can afford bigger data centers, we can afford to waste more energy, we can afford to deprive people of drinking water, so let's just skip to the easy part!
And on top of that, we're trying to squash hundreds of millions of years of evolution into… a decade, perhaps? What could possibly go wrong?
[1] #NoAI #NoLLM #LLM

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.

"The environmental cost of datacentres is rising. Is it time to quit AI?"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Welcome to.... Not to the future.....it's already happening... Now 😏
#ai #coding

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/

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

Meta's Manus #AI about Neuralink Blindsight, ReVision Occular, PRIMA, and The vOICe https://visionrestor-jrwyzpdl.manus.space It boasts a "Comprehensive comparative analysis of invasive implants and n…

Vision Restoration Technologies: A Comparative Analysis
An interactive research report comparing Neuralink Blindsight, ReVision Implant, and other vision restoration technologies for the blind

"AI-generated wildlife photos make conservation more difficult"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Conservation

AI-generated wildlife photos make conservation more difficult
AI-generated wildlife photos and videos are changing public understanding of animals, creating risks for conservation, trust and coexistence.

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

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

Everybody who wants to understand Generative AI should read articles like this.
#AI

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?
They’re the mysterious numbers that make your favorite AI models tick. What are they and what do they do?

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

RE: #AI

🤖 testing G(get) S(hit) D(one) 💩 💪
it’s a token burner 🔥
But in the end, I have to agree: IT GETS SHIT DONE 😂 🚀
#ai

When #BernieSanders talks with #Claude about #AI and #politics, you probability should listen:

Is this the disturbed view of AI / BigTech optimists, or does he have a point?
"Something Big Is Happening"
#ai

Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

#AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient #malware launchpad, researchers show
https://www.the…

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

Kevin Terwilliger, #Dell head of product:
"We're very focused on delivering upon the #AI capabilities of a device—in fact everything that we're announcing has an #NPU in it—but what we've learned over the…

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

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

Do you remember the times when the most important part of your work was an editor? And how much time we wasted to find the perfect one 😁
#ai #coding

[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

"‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?"
#Climate #ClimateChange #AI

Always check AI results before using elsewhere, always....
#AI

UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake
A British police force is blaming Microsoft’s Copilot assistant for an intelligence report mistake. Copilot made up a football match that didn’t exist.

🚀 #Alibaba releases Qwen3.5 — a next-generation multimodal foundation #llm built for the agentic #AI era
⚡ Hybrid architecture combining Gated Delta Networks with sparse Mixture-of-Experts (397B t…

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…

Any #NeuroAI models out there that can make sensible predictions about mastering crossmodal perception (vision) using visual-to-auditory sensory substitution? I suspect not: out-of-distribution reasoning is really hard for AI. #LLM #AI

Playing around with MiniMax 2.5 a Chinese model, especially impressed with it’s ability to generate an office file with the contents you desire.
#ai

MiniMax M2.5: 更快更强更智能，为真实世界生产力而生

Essential AI is an interesting company, their Rnj-1 model illustrates another approach compared to the large AI companies.
#AI

Claude is absolutely "king" of AI at the moment, i think however Gemini 3 Flash is good enough for most people and a lot cheaper. I have the feeling ChatGPT will lose this race (just guessing).
#AI #Claude #Anthropic

Reading many posts about "oh, how awful is GenAI , it was wrong and hallucinated", that is the nature of this technology folks... You have to think about the context where you are using it and implement it in a way so you can mitigate this risk, accept it, or choose NOT to use it.
#ai #hallucinations

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

Chinese models, open weights, often almost as good as top foundation models but much cheaper.
#AI

MiniMax M2.5: 更快更强更智能，为真实世界生产力而生