Tootfinder

"In Empire of #AI, journalist Karen Hao writes about the rise of #OpenAI and the impacts of AI around the world. Below is an extract from the book on the effects on Chile's mineral reserves and water resources."

Well put, the “averaging effect of #AI.”
What’s the equivalent for writing? That’s what’s on my mind recently. Sure, keep your style. But do we need smth else? Add more styles, punctuation hacks, whatnot?
h…

Graphic artists in China push back on AI and its averaging effect
Copycats, unrealistic expectations, and budget cuts are AI’s gifts to graphic artists.

"I think it is a huge mistake for people to assume that they can trust AI when they do not trust each other. The safest way to develop superintelligence is to first strengthen trust between humans, and then cooperate with each other to develop superintelligence in a safe manner. But what we are doing now is exactly the opposite. Instead, all efforts are being directed toward developing a superintelligence."
#AGI #AI
https://www.wired.com/story/questions-answered-by-yuval-noah-harari-for-wired-ai-artificial-intelligence-singularity/

Deezer rolls out AI tagging system to fight streaming fraud; says up to 70% of streams from fully AI-generated tracks are fraudulent
#AI #MusicTech #NotTrustworthy

Deezer rolls out AI tagging system to fight streaming fraud; says up to 70% of streams from fully AI-
Platform has introduced what it claims to be the world’s first AI tagging system for music streaming…

New 3 year #phdPosition in our department on building Trustworthy AI
#AI

PhD Thesis "Scalable Process Patterns and Decision Frameworks for Trustworthy AI Engineering"

I stand strong against AI, and it made me this queer, bi, and fiercely pro-LGBTQIA, dressing how I want with pride and power.
It’s wild how AI can shape me into something this cute, yet I can’t help but question if I should even like it. ChatGPT made me this!
#AI #Bisexual

(this might piss off both sides but hey)
One of the weirder parts of the AI debate for me is the "destroying the environment" bit.
Love it or hate it - my $500 graphics card with open source downloaded models is absolutely keeping up with the big boys for anything remotely useful and my electric bill is the same
#AI

GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP.
#ai

GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
We showcase a critical vulnerability with the official GitHub MCP server, allowing attackers to access private repository data. The vulnerability is among the first discovered by Invariant's security analyzer for detecting toxic agent flows.

"AI is consuming more power than the grid can handle. Nuclear might be the answer"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Energy

AI is consuming more power than the grid can handle. Nuclear might be the answer
New partnerships are forming between tech companies and power operators—ones that could reshape decades of misconceptions about nuclear energy.

Interesting effect of #Google’s #AI answer box; Sites used to get visitors by folk clicking on search result answers, but now the sites creating the content see nothing because their site is ingested and the content, or a derivative, is shown by Google directly to users as part of an AI response.
This mas…

Why AI can't possibly make you more productive; long
#AI and "productivity", some thoughts:
Productivity is a concept that isn't entirely meaningless outside the context of capitalism, but it's a concept that is heavily inflected in a capitalist context. In many uses today it effectively means "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations." This is not really what it should mean: even in an anarchist utopia, people would care about things like how many shirts they can produce in a week, although in an "I'd like to voluntarily help more people" way rather than an "I need to meet this quota to earn my survival" way. But let's roll with this definition for a second, because it's almost certainly what your boss means when they say "productivity", and understanding that word in a different (even if truer) sense is therefore inherently dangerous.
Accepting "productivity" to mean "satisfying your boss' expectations," I will now claim: the use of generative AI cannot increase your productivity.
Before I dive in, it's imperative to note that the big generative models which most people think of as constituting "AI" today are evil. They are 1: pouring fuel on our burning planet, 2: psychologically strip-mining a class of data laborers who are exploited for their precarity, 3: enclosing, exploiting, and polluting the digital commons, and 4: stealing labor from broad classes of people many of whom are otherwise glad to give that labor away for free provided they get a simple acknowledgement in return. Any of these four "ethical issues" should be enough *alone* to cause everyone to simply not use the technology. These ethical issues are the reason that I do not use generative AI right now, except for in extremely extenuating circumstances. These issues are also convincing for a wide range of people I talk to, from experts to those with no computer science background. So before I launch into a critique of the effectiveness of generative AI, I want to emphasize that such a critique should be entirely unnecessary.
But back to my thesis: generative AI cannot increase your productivity, where "productivity" has been defined as "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations."
Why? In fact, what the fuck? Every AI booster I've met has claimed the opposite. They've given me personal examples of time saved by using generative AI. Some of them even truly believe this. Sometimes I even believe they saved time without horribly compromising on quality (and often, your boss doesn't care about quality anyways if the lack of quality is hard to measure of doesn't seem likely to impact short-term sales/feedback/revenue). So if generative AI genuinely lets you write more emails in a shorter period of time, or close more tickets, or something else along these lines, how can I say it isn't increasing your ability to meet your boss' expectations?
The problem is simple: your boss' expectations are not a fixed target. Never have been. In virtue of being someone who oversees and pays wages to others under capitalism, your boss' game has always been: pay you less than the worth of your labor, so that they can accumulate profit and this more capital to remain in charge instead of being forced into working for a wage themselves. Sure, there are layers of manservant caught in between who aren't fully in this mode, but they are irrelevant to this analysis. It matters not how much you please your manager if your CEO thinks your work is not worth the wages you are being paid. And using AI actively lowers the value of your work relative to your wages.
Why do I say that? It's actually true in several ways. The most obvious: using generative AI lowers the quality of your work, because the work it produces is shot through with errors, and when your job is reduced to proofreading slop, you are bound to tire a bit, relax your diligence, and let some mistakes through. More than you would have if you are actually doing and taking pride in the work. Examples are innumerable and frequent, from journalists to lawyers to programmers, and we laugh at them "haha how stupid to not check whether the books the AI reviewed for you actually existed!" but on a deeper level if we're honest we know we'd eventually make the same mistake ourselves (bonus game: spot the swipe-typing typos I missed in this post; I'm sure there will be some).
But using generative AI also lowers the value of your work in another much more frightening way: in this era of hype, it demonstrates to your boss that you could be replaced by AI. The more you use it, and no matter how much you can see that your human skills are really necessary to correct its mistakes, the more it appears to your boss that they should hire the AI instead of you. Or perhaps retain 10% of the people in roles like yours to manage the AI doing the other 90% of the work. Paradoxically, the *more* you get done in terms of raw output using generative AI, the more it looks to your boss as if there's an opportunity to get enough work done with even fewer expensive humans. Of course, the decision to fire you and lean more heavily into AI isn't really a good one for long-term profits and success, but the modern boss did not get where they are by considering long-term profits. By using AI, you are merely demonstrating your redundancy, and the more you get done with it, the more redundant you seem.
In fact, there's even a third dimension to this: by using generative AI, you're also providing its purveyors with invaluable training data that allows them to make it better at replacing you. It's generally quite shitty right now, but the more use it gets by competent & clever people, the better it can become at the tasks those specific people use it for. Using the currently-popular algorithm family, there are limits to this; I'm not saying it will eventually transcend the mediocrity it's entwined with. But it can absolutely go from underwhelmingly mediocre to almost-reasonably mediocre with the right training data, and data from prompting sessions is both rarer and more useful than the base datasets it's built on.
For all of these reasons, using generative AI in your job is a mistake that will likely lead to your future unemployment. To reiterate, you should already not be using it because it is evil and causes specific and inexcusable harms, but in case like so many you just don't care about those harms, I've just explained to you why for entirely selfish reasons you should not use it.
If you're in a position where your boss is forcing you to use it, my condolences. I suggest leaning into its failures instead of trying to get the most out of it, and as much as possible, showing your boss very clearly how it wastes your time and makes things slower. Also, point out the dangers of legal liability for its mistakes, and make sure your boss is aware of the degree to which any of your AI-eager coworkers are producing low-quality work that harms organizational goals.
Also, if you've read this far and aren't yet of an anarchist mindset, I encourage you to think about the implications of firing 75% of (at least the white-collar) workforce in order to make more profit while fueling the climate crisis and in most cases also propping up dictatorial figureheads in government. When *either* the AI bubble bursts *or* if the techbros get to live out the beginnings of their worker-replacement fantasies, there are going to be an unimaginable number of economically desperate people living in increasingly expensive times. I'm the kind of optimist who thinks that the resulting social crucible, though perhaps through terrible violence, will lead to deep social changes that effectively unseat from power the ultra-rich that continue to drag us all down this destructive path, and I think its worth some thinking now about what you might want the succeeding stable social configuration to look like so you can advocate towards that during points of malleability.
As others have said more eloquently, generative AI *should* be a technology that makes human lives on average easier, and it would be were it developed & controlled by humanists. The only reason that it's not, is that it's developed and controlled by terrible greedy people who use their unfairly hoarded wealth to immiserate the rest of us in order to maintain their dominance. In the long run, for our very survival, we need to depose them, and I look forward to what the term "generative AI" will mean after that finally happens.

#ai

#ai #prompt_injection @… #StarTrek @…

I’d rate myself an #AI skeptic to agnostic. I hadn’t used the tools at all, because I had problems w/ creation of the models: resource usage, & IP theft, were top of mind. Hallucinations a big issue too.
But I tried it, and even though I can’t set aside my concerns I’ll say I was impressed.
I used Claude to produce a Zsh prompt to replace one I’ve used for years using Oh My Zsh.
What …

Zsh prompt from Claude
Zsh prompt from Claude. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

The most insightful commentary about #AI I've seen yet.
Explains why the executive class is trying to out-fellate each other with it. https://mastodon.social/@bruces/11457812470045602…

Bruce Sterling @bruces (@bruces@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image *Being and acting "futuristic" is not just classy, but actually fun -- unless your increasingly dystopian society is on a visible downward spiral and everybody knows it https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/keeping_up_appearances

Kradzież pierdyliarda książek, żeby trenować sztuczną "inteligencję": dobro najwyższe.
Biblioteka, który wypożycza książki, by ludzie mogli rozwijać swoją inteligencję: zło, zniszczyć, spalić!
#AntyKapitalizm #AI #LLM

I tend to post about the downsides of AI.
Here are two articles by people I highly respect which show a very positive point of view related to #AI:
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/4/changes/…

Creative Commons jumps the shark.
*smdh*
#AI #CreativeCommons https://mastodon.social/@creativeco…

The narrative that #AI will do all routine and we can just focus on important/strategic/big picture things works because it tell us that we are oh so smart and special. WE DO THE BIG STUFF.
Newsflash: If your big picture decisions are not grounded in real experience they are gonna end up bullshit.

Dorothea Baur reflecting on #AI tech bros going all in on even your most personal data. Claiming to help you solve a problem which they helped create in the beginning:
"A breach of trust enabled by AI now becomes the justification for surveillance-based trust systems. And the very people who helped break the system are offering to fix it – in exchange for your iris. That’s not a safety fe…

Here folks, we have the AI Ouroboros, nourished only on the Dead Internet Theory. A true Simulacra Net in the wild, pure Ghost Web creation, never intended for human eyes.
Yet here, you may behold the horror yourself.
Article literally had zero alternatives and spoke eloquently(?) on them. 😳😆
#DeadInternet

I usually don't bother with writing about #AI, but after seeing an interesting post about "The Era of the AI Idiot", it made me think of the "Expert systems" #AI boom in the 1980's.

De SER over AI, signaleert zoals velen dat er echt actie nodig is.
"Opkomst AI vereist mensgerichte implementatie en alert beleid"
#AI

AI en werk
Samen naar een werkende toekomst met AI

This! 100% THIS! #AI
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@jamesthomson/…

Every company is undergoing an invisible reorg. You report to your boss but your boss reports to an #AI, offloading the job of management entirely onto a bot and then merely communicating its wishes back to the team.
This is the Nothing Manager, surrounded by #LLM tools to avoid having to interact with…

AI is not an assistant – it's your new boss (The Everything App part 2)
As managers continue to outsource data-gathering and decision-making to LLMs, the person above you on the org chart is transforming into a chatbot's clerk – and leaving product teams with the consequences.

New pre-print! #ai
**Universal pre-training by iterated random computation.**
⌨️🐒 A monkey behind a typewriter will produce the collected works of Shakespeare eventually.
💻🐒 But what if we put a monkey behind a computer?
⌨️🐒 needs to be lucky enough to type all characters of all of Shakespeare correctly. 💻🐒 only needs to be lucky enough to type a program for Shakespeare.

Universal pre-training by iterated random computation
We investigate the use of randomly generated data for the sake of pre-training a model. We justify this approach theoretically from the perspective of algorithmic complexity, building on recent research that shows that sequence models can be trained to approximate Solomonoff induction. We derive similar, but complementary theoretical results. We show empirically that synthetically generated data can be used to pre-train a model before the data is seen. We replicate earlier results that models t…

Buy this Patreon Exclusive video for just $3.00!
In this video, I look at some of the #AI slop on Redbubble.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/reacting-to-ai-132305260

Delirium often goes underreported, making it hard for #AI to predict accurately. Our review of 120 studies found common data issues that hurt model reliability. We created a step-by-step guide to help build fairer, more accurate models—so we eventually can detect #delirium earlier and im…

The #AI Future Belongs to Those Who Zoom Out https://aboard.com/the-ai-future-belongs-to-those-who-zoom-out/

I tried to convince #Claude Code #ai to write a #docker sandbox to run it in. Here are the results.

GitHub - cwensel/claude-sandbox: A docker sandbox for running Claude Code
A docker sandbox for running Claude Code. Contribute to cwensel/claude-sandbox development by creating an account on GitHub.

Robotics & AI, a lot of progress is being made.
#AI

Google’s new robotics AI can run without the cloud and still tie your shoes
Google’s Carolina Parada says Gemini has enabled huge robotics breakthroughs, like the new on-device AI.

🕸️ #AI #webdev #vibecoding Google’s AI Is Burying the Web Alive (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html?utm_source=tldrwebdev).

Ich nutze #AI täglich, im wesentlichen für meine Arbeit. AI dafür manchmal gut genug und manchmal nicht. Und es bleibt eine Black Box.
Was mich stört, ist unter anderem, daß die besten Modelle nicht offen sind und sich in den Händen weniger Player befinden. Daher spielt die AI Gesetzesinitiative der Republikaner in den #USA

Feels like time to get onboard with the new game in town…
#drupal #ai

#claude4 #ai #coding

May 2025 recap | The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, hosted by PCSS, brought together developers and experts from across Europe to explore generative #AI tools, risks, secure coding practices.
Highlights:
🔹#GenAI Buzz-Free Programming with LLMs – training by Maciej Łabędzki…

Responsible AI in Practice: Shaping a Safer Future for AI-Powered Software Development | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Poznań, 20–22 May 2025 — The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, held at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), brought together top-tier developers and experts from across Europe for a deep-dive into generative AI tools, risks, and secure coding practices. At the core of the event was the acclaimed training

How long until the internet, which allowed a generation to benefit from a vast wealth of human knowledge, becomes a swamp filled with generated #AI pollution? It may already be too late. https://www.theregist…

The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests
Feature: Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel

We've added our reviewing criteria to our Frequently Asked Questions on the #AI4LAM #FF2025 Fantastic Futures 2025 conference page https:/…

ai4lam - Fantastic Futures 2025
Call for Proposals AI Everywhere, All at Once AI4LAM’s annual conference, December 3 – 5, 2025, British Library, London The British Library and the Programme Committee for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference are delighted to invite proposals for presentations and workshops. Submissions are

"Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find
No matter which questions we ask an AI, the model will come up with an answer. To produce this information—regardless of whether the answer is correct or not—the model uses tokens. Tokens are words or parts of words that are converted into a string of numbers that can be processed by the LLM.

Letztes Jahr hatte ich es noch nicht geschafft für die Geburtstagseinladung der Kinder Texte fehlerfrei darauf rendern zu lassen. Dieses Jahr ist das kein Problem mehr. Es geht schon gut voran :)
#AI

Ai ai ai ai… It’s all about AI! They are forcing you to use it, even if you don’t want to.
I always say, “If it’s too much in your face, they can leave me alone and keep it.”
#ai
#tech
#privacy

The lethal trifecta for #AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/

My teachers 30 years ago, to kids writing essays:
“CITE YOUR REFERENCES”
Me today, to adults “searching” with AI:
“CITE YOUR REFERENCES”
The reaction both times:
😩
#AI

All tools create a path of least resistance. When it comes to AI chatbots, that path is to trust the AI's outputs.
Unfortunately, all LLMs hallucinate. And as users get used to relying on the machine, their ability and willingness to spot these errors deteriorates.
Blaming the user for this is irresponsible. The problem is caused by the way these tools are designed - so it's up to us, as designers, to fix it.

"Asked about Zuckerberg’s claim that the AI was “the most intelligent”, Gray said: “That has definitely been thrown into doubt in this instance.”"
But possibly (probably?) it is the most intelligent #AI - after all, "most" and "best" are relative terms. It doesn't mean it is good, or reliable, or dependable, or reproducible. Just not as bad as others.
And f…

"Asked about Zuckerberg’s claim that the AI was “the most intelligent”, Gray said: “That has definitely been thrown into doubt in this instance.”"
But possibly (probably?) it is the most intelligent #AI - after all, "most" and "best" are relative terms. It doesn't mean it is good, or reliable, or dependable, or reproducible. Just not as bad as others.
And f…

"AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline"
#AI is ruining our digital world
(Original title: AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums)

AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

What thought-terminating clichés are used to prevent critiquing #AI and #LLM ?
I can think about one or two, but I'd love to hear if there are more in circulation...

Ah, the joy of being #abused for shity #AI training

#AI is the ultimate tool for those who don't understand something but wish to appear that they do. As well as being useful for fraudsters, conmen and criminals.

Meanwhile, the #BBC World Service says it will launch a Polish service 😮
Or rather relaunch, as it was closed in Dec 2005.
And yet even that relaunch is really going to be made-up, as there'll be no radio (nor TV) programmes, just a website... an #AI translation of English news 😒
Now can&…

I mean, nothing yet beats the Brazilian Institute of Oriental Studies bit the trend is there and it fits
https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

What would be a good role for an #AI assistant within a team consisting of multiple people?
Imagine a group of researchers working on a project, or teachers implementing a new approach, students working on an assignment together, or a small startup company launching a product.
What would be some tasks best delegated to an AI assistant (current tech) in these kinds of teams?
Maybe …

Let's say you find a really cool forum online that has lots of good advice on it. It's even got a very active community that's happy to answer questions very quickly, and the community seems to have a wealth of knowledge about all sorts of subjects.
You end up visiting this community often, and trusting the advice you get to answer all sorts of everyday questions you might have, which before you might have found answers to using a web search (of course web search is now full of SEI spam and other crap so it's become nearly useless).
Then one day, you ask an innocuous question about medicine, and from this community you get the full homeopathy treatment as your answer. Like, somewhat believable on the face of it, includes lots of citations to reasonable-seeming articles, except that if you know even a tiny bit about chemistry and biology (which thankfully you do), you know that the homoeopathy answers are completely bogus and horribly dangerous (since they offer non-treatments for real diseases). Your opinion of this entire forum suddenly changes. "Oh my God, if they've been homeopathy believers all this time, what other myths have they fed me as facts?"
You stop using the forum for anything, and go back to slogging through SEI crap to answer your everyday questions, because one you realize that this forum is a community that's fundamentally untrustworthy, you realize that the value of getting advice from it on any subject is negative: you knew enough to spot the dangerous homeopathy answer, but you know there might be other such myths that you don't know enough to avoid, and any community willing to go all-in on one myth has shown itself to be capable of going all in on any number of other myths.
...
This has been a parable about large language models.
#AI #LLM

With the rapid evolution of #AI, there are more and more articles and posts claiming that people are becoming less intelligent as they rely on AI.
But if you think about it, back in the day, the so-called "nerds" were the go-to gurus for any kind of tech knowledge.
Then Google came along, and suddenly, it wasn’t about knowing everything anymore; it was about knowing how to …

Det er nok nogenlunde det samme i Danmark. #KI #AI #LLM #DKMedier

The rise of student reliance on #AI to write for them reminds me of this quote, and how we're seeing it play out in real time:
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” - George Orwell

"#AI #Literacy and Evidence Based Practice in #Libraries"

„While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, #LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.“ #AI

Wenn die Welt untergeht und die Influencer einfach weiter ihr Ding machen #endofworld #influencer #ki #ai

I just saw an all-caps instruction file that someone uses to 'instruct' an LLM to help with coding, and it's just "don't hallucinate", "check your work", "don't say you did something when you didn't" with multiple exclamation marks.
So, basically the whole 'vibe coding,' or having "AI" "help" with coding just devolves into shouting at your computer.
Which reminded me of something, and then it hit me!
#ai #llm #vibecoding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8SWMAQYQf0

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#AIinside [PODCAST] Emily Bender & Alex Hanna: “The AI Con”
https://pca.st/episode/e5a693d7-d0be-4f4b-a2de-34f2a5d9061d
via

The death of the student essay - and the future of cognition https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-of-the-student-essayand "Next year, my courses will be assessed with in-person exams";

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

My teachers 30 years ago, to kids writing essays:
“CITE YOUR REFERENCES”
Me today, to adults “searching” with AI:
“CITE YOUR REFERENCES”
The reaction both times:
😩
#AI

Wer¹ „KI-Lösungen“ als Antwort auf irgendwas propagiert, will sich einfach weigern, das Problem ernst zu nehmen und anzugehen.
Das ist magisches Denken, aber als Derailing-Strategie.
__
¹außerhalb sehr klar abgegrenzter und gut verstandener spezifischer Fragestellungen
#KI #AI

Interesting interview re #AI:
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/technology/how-openai-earl…

How OpenAI’s development changed AI’s course
New book: Early decisions had big consequences.

Interesting interview re #AI:
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/technology/how-openai-earl…

How OpenAI’s development changed AI’s course
New book: Early decisions had big consequences.

So there's a thing in AI called MCP
As far as I can tell, it's literally absolutely no different from an API, except this way it can have the same initials as the main villain in Tron.
#ai #technology

"AI is gobbling up water it cannot replace – I’m working on a solution"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI is gobbling up water it cannot replace – I’m working on a solution
AI is turning up the heat on datacentres, causing their water use to soar.

This comic is very much about #AI
(Original title: Metaphorical Satire)
https://designthinkingcomic.substack.com/p/metaphorical-satire

Metaphorical Satire
DT! for today

The Turing Test’s no match for corporate #AI cargo cultists. https://chaos.social/@frederic/114617752350873062

AI is just a tool, like a pencil. A pencil that can only write and draw what some faceless corporation somewhere allows you to write and draw.
#AI #theMastersTools

"Judge Michael Wilner imposed $31,000 in sanctions against the law firms involved, saying 'no reasonably competent attorney should out-source research and writing' to AI" #aiethics
https://www.

"Capital has been here before with chintz—by which I mean real chintz, an artisanal craft from India. “Chintz” is originally a Hindi word, and if you’re like most people, you’ve probably got the term all wrong."
Informative, sweet, a great read. Re #aislop #ai

Good to see, opensource, european AI models like Magistral from Mistral.
#AI #magistral

Magistral | Mistral AI
Stands to reason.

As Virgil wrote, beware of geeks bearing grifts. #AI

To Microsoft Copilot: How does a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant compare to visual-to-auditory sensory substitution? #AI

How does a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant compare to visual-to-auditory sensory substitution?
Shared via Copilot

I think someone has a lot of spare time, money, and energy.
#AI #LLM
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7fNYj0EXxM

#ai

Getting #AI to write good #SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained
https://cloud.google.com/blo…

Mache gerade mit einem Kollegen ein Fernduell wer den besseren #AI Prompt für eine Marktanalyse macht. Das ist lernen auf Steroids

Federal judge concludes that using copyrighted works to train generative A.I. is transformative and ultimately a fair use.
#AI

Bartz

Google has been downgrading the search results of smaller web sites offering human-written quality information, claims Nate Hake of Travel Lemming in a long explanation, citing many sources and developments.
Many of these changes appear to happen when #Google embraced #AI and removed the "hum…

This option on Copilot for "Think Deeper" makes a night and day difference in results. #AI

Meta AI is a disaster.
#meta

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.

"xAI is facing a lawsuit for operating over 400 MW of gas turbines without permits"
#xAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

xAI is facing a lawsuit for operating over 400 MW of gas turbines without permits | TechCrunch
The Colossus data center was allegedly operating as many as 35 gas turbines without pollution controls in a region that already had poor air quality.

There is a lot of conflict between developers who say #LLM tools are making them more productive, and developers who want to quit and move to a cabin in the woods.
Recently I discovered a possible reason why. #AI is just a bad fit for conventional, reality-based models of value creation like

The future of AI-driven development isn’t Agile. It’s XGH.
A lot of ink has been spilled over Large Language Models and their associated products being inserted into just about everything, often against the will of the product’s users. One of the areas where…

What Would “Good” AI Look Like?
#ai #aiethics
https://anildash.com/2025/05/01/what-w

Research by Anthropic how GenAI models blackmail in laboratory situations. Underlines the importance of checks and human oversight.
#AI

Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats
New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs

In 300BC, Zeno proved that it's impossible to code an app using #LLM tools.
Imagine a vibe coder who generates an app. The LLM can only provide working code for half of the features requested.
So he has to ask the #AI to generate the other half. Once again, the AI can only fulfill half of the…

"A Weaponized AI Chatbot Is Flooding Canadian City Councils with Climate Misinformation"
#Canada #Climate #ClimateChange

A Weaponized AI Chatbot Is Flooding Canadian City Councils with Climate Misinformation
Thousands of councillors in more than 500 municipalities have received AI emails from a group called KICLEI, a name that mimics the international network ICLEI.

For years, execs and managers were able to get away with pretending to do some kind of job - and #AI has greatly accelerated their ability to pretend.
Unfortunately, that led to garbage strategy and garbage execution. The quality of #UX suffered. The stability, performance, and security of code degraded…

The AI Hangover Era (The Everything App Part 3)
Some leaders are starting to realize the extent to which AI has broken their ability to prioritize and ship value. Others are still doubling down.

Stack overflow is almost dead #ai
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/

In a certain cultural segment of IT it is custom to call everything related to AI "garbage", "bullshit", just as stupid as calling AI truly intelligent and reasoning. More people need to be in the middle ground instead of in those extremes.
#AI #GenAI

"AI tool trial could save equivalent of 1.5m meals in food waste"
#FoodWaste #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Slides by Mary Meeker about AI, as always way too much 😆 , but interesting to browse through.
#AI

2021: There is no #AI, I'm doing my own laundry.
2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry.
2025: There is AI. I'm still doing my own laundry.
2027?: I'm doing the AI's laundry.

Good discussion of Apple's AI paper ((without denying that GenAI can' t think or reason and produce bullshit)
#AI

This is really great and will only increase the success of this AI tool. I can recommend NotebookLM, try it.
https://www.theverge.com/news/678915/google-notebooklm-share-public-link

Google’s NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly
Google’s AI-powered note-taking app, NotebookLM, will now let others view your notebooks with public links.