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

Trying out https://www.huxe.com/ , a tool for AI generated personal podcasts about anything you want, not perfect, but works great for certain categories, like a podcast about the great hackernews post of today or main AI industry headline, very convenient when commuting.

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.

“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…

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.

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.

Reminder: your ai art still looks shit
#ai

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.

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

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

Is there a free, privacy friendly AI like duck.ai from #duckduckgo that can create images? No registration, just using it?
#ai #imagecreation

I've had it with the aggressive #AI #crawlers now. Some bot has been hitting #MacPorts with a legitimate enough user agent that I can't block it without also blocking users.
Yesterday, it sent 377k r…

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

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 🫣

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

🦾 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…

"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.

“The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.”
#AI #Education
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-end-of-the-english-paper

@… And that slop is what #AI is trained on.

AI is transforming the cybersecurity landscape, but human insight remains critical.
As part of our ongoing #GEANTCybersecurity campaign webinars, Dr. Maria Bada will explore how #AI is being used on both sides of the conflict: to automate attacks as well as to detect threats faster.
She’…

is AI real life
is it just fantasy
caught up in the hype
no escape from reality
#ai #llm #vibecoding

Google has both the worst implementation of AI (AI summary in Google Search) and one of the best, NotebookLM. For me that illustrates that we should focus more on implementation and actual applications that use AI models, instead the models themselves.
#AI #Google

Thinking out loud v.03 – fredsnotes #AI,

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

#MathsMonday #Mathematics
This has been in my feed a couple of times, but with only 1 hashtag, total(!), so I'm mostly just boosting visibility (by adding more hashtags), but I will take the chance to say, yet again, no,

Talking to Dragons
#teaching #ai I was talking with Jennifer Fletcher about the perils of AI for education and one of the points she made was that we should be careful not to anthropomorphize AI. I think that is true, but difficult. Humans anthropomorphize EVERYTHING, from pets, to cars, to …

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

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?

"The beatings will continue until usage improves"
I can not wait for this bubble to burst.
#AI

Tech talent biz Andela trains up devs in GitHub Copilot
: The beatings will continue until usage improves

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

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

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.

"Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FossilFuels

Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead
DeSmog reveals that Big Oil says they’re using AI to produce more fossil fuels, while utilities are exploring how “AI agents” could take over key power grid functions.

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🎯 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
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What can go wrong?
Google's healthcare AI model, dubbed Med-Gemini, invents a body part — "basilar ganglia" — that simply doesn't exist in the human body.
#AI
https://

I made some edits to my /ai page to bring it's focus purely to GenerativeAI.
#AI #NoThanks

Should we teach vibe coding? Here's why not.
2/2
To address the bigger question I started with ("should we teach AI-"assisted" coding?"), my answer is: "No, except enough to show students directly what its pitfalls are." We have little enough time as it is to cover the core knowledge that they'll need, which has become more urgent now that they're going to be expected to clean up AI bugs and they'll have less time to develop an understanding of the problems they're supposed to be solving. The skill of prompt engineering & other skills of working with AI are relatively easy to pick up on your own, given a decent not-even-mathematical understanding of how a neutral network works, which is something we should be giving to all students, not just our majors.
Reasonable learning objectives for CS majors might include explaining what types of bugs an AI "assistant" is most likely to introduce, explaining the difference between software engineering and writing code, explaining why using an AI "assistant" is likely to violate open-source licenses, listing at lest three independent ethical objections to contemporary LLMs and explaining the evidence for/reasoning behind them, explaining why we should expect AI "assistants" to be better at generating code from scratch than at fixing bugs in existing code (and why they'll confidently "claim" to have fixed problems they haven't), and even fixing bugs in AI generated code (without AI "assistance").
If we lived in a world where the underlying environmental, labor, and data commons issues with AI weren't as bad, or if we could find and use systems that effectively mitigate these issues (there's lots of piecemeal progress on several of these) then we should probably start teaching an elective on coding with an assistant to students who have mastered programming basics, but such a class should probably spend a good chunk of time on non-assisted debugging.
#AI #LLMs #VibeCoding

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.

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.

#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.

Very interesting take/thread about aspects (i.e. lack) of #AI infosec, enforced usage and data exfiltration in domains not often talked about: nuclear engineering, violation of export control laws, liabilities pushed on employees...
https://

It should surprise no one that AI watermarking is not going to work.
#ai

AI Watermark Remover Defeats Top Techniques
UnMarker targets AI image watermarks with precision. Find out how it scrambles security and what it means for the future of AI images.

Can you transcribe from audio files? #AI #mistralai

"#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.

I think I overestimate what #AI can do. I asked MS #Copilot to upscale a specific #image, thinking it might do a better job than #GIMP

🦿 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.

2005: What would change if Google disappeared tomorrow?
2025: What would change if ChatGPT disappeared tomorrow?
#FutureOfWork #AI

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.

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

I Asked #AI to Build an App. It Made a Database Roasting Bot. We're All Doomed.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-asked-ai-build-app-m…

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

You tweet about gatekeeping and #AI, and the next thing you know, you're obsolete. Maybe AI took his job? https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/goodbye-github/

Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub ♥️
I am stepping down as GitHub CEO to build my next adventure. GitHub is thriving and has a bright future ahead.

The mini model is only 80 MB. Even the full-weight model can be run on your laptop.
#ai

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

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.

I saw an advert for an AI influencer generator. So, I checked it out. Here's the current list of actors/influencers they can create. If you see an ad from these faces, it's AI bullshittery. #ai

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.

Drew a napkin #doodle while talking about how some workers these days mostly just copy-paste from #AI tools....
Why need a full keyboard when the “efficient, AI-empowered worker" (whatever that nonsense means) only needs like 4 buttons?

"Working with AI is kinda painful, like working with a 200 IQ dementia patient"
- Vince P.
#programming #ai #claudecode

#Python Friday #300: Learning Python in the Age of #AI?
https://pythonfriday.dev/2025/10/300-l

#300: Learning Python in the Age of AI? - Python Friday
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"Worldwide #search #traffic has fallen by 15 percent in the past year [...] The culprit: AI search. Now that #AI-generated summaries are being integrated into search results, anyone looking for informati…

One thing about AI that is not hype but almost a "solved" problem is generating images with text prompts. It's already spectacular and keeps getting better.
#AI #imagegenerating #images

#AI is mostly crap. But its good at some very specific things.
I'm going to train an AI model on all the episodes of #thewestwing and all its going to do is detect every "Walk - and - Talk" scene and plot it out on a floorplan of the West Wing set in the style of one of Billy's dotted-line adv…

An excellent, though long, essay on what's really happening with spending on building out Data Centers for AI and how there is no hope to every pay it back
#AIHype
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

"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.

The biggest impact of #LLM has not been due to the technology's capabilities, but rather its flaws. Because the #AI revolution must succeed at any cost, but the actual tech is flawed, orgs demanding more AI outputs MUST lower their bar for quality.
This creates space for

Aura UX
Shortcuts to establishing the legitimacy of design sabotage your ability to achieve anything meaningful.

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

Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

The lameassedness of A.I. marketing; it's not just the people on Hacker News who only know the waitlist as a marketing tactic -- it's Microsoft too
#microsoft #marketing #ai

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

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

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

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"OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Energy

"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.

"What works in #India will scale better everywhere else. Naturally, the country is a battleground for #AI search."
This is fishing for data and the next #enshittification to roll ou…

This is the right way to use artificial intelligence resources. #Holocaust #AI
https://www.

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.

FT: Is #AI hitting a wall? #BCI

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

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

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

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

"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…

#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

Measuring #EnergyConsumption in #ProgrammingLanguages for #AI Applications

A very in depth analysis of oncoming train of destruction that will be left by Generative AI
#AI
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

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

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

Using generative AI in most capacities is wrong for the exact same reason using steroids in sports or at work is wrong (also for additional bonus reasons, too, of course).
We may one day invent safer tools, but that's not meaningfully an objective of any of the biggest players right now.
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

🚀 #Laravel Boost accelerates #AI-assisted development with specialized #MCP tools
🔧 15 specialized tools designed for streamlined

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

Users hate #AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't personally use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.
And it steals your data to do it.
Your tools are constructing you as a subject of surveillance — the #UX is …

The AI age is the "age of no consent"
"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

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

AI can be useful but doesn't "understand" a thing..., this funny AI general picture illustrates that perfectly, it looks nice at first glance 😆
#AI

This robot is still quite bad at folding towels but think about the amount of computation, the vision, models, algorithms that are necessary to do this, it is very impressive.
#helix #laundry #ai

Gary Marcus has a point with asking for giving neurosymbolic AI a chance. At the same time something like Genie 3 shows that we have not hit a wall yet, at least with world models.
#AI #GaryMarcus #Genie3

I wrote this in 2017 about AI 😀 , the current debate is far from new.
#ai