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Mozilla's New CEO Bets #Firefox's Future on #AI - Slashdot

"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.

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

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.

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 ...?

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.

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

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

Am I wrong to be calling this LinkedIn post out for being kinda awful?
I’m warming to the use of AI in some circumstances but examples like this make me take a step backwards as they highlight all of the shitty things people are doing.
#ai #drupal

✨ Quick demo of the new Drupal n8n community node in action. | Stephen Mulvihill
✨ Quick demo of the new Drupal n8n community node in action.

Wrong.
#google #ai #slop

#AI mastery: I have taught #Gemini some #uwu.

The age of neurotic AI is here #LLM #AI

The age of neurotic AI is here
Or: how a LLM having a panic attack taught me to love myself

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

#Youtube has recently began using #AI to upscale #videos from low resolutions. Here is an example of how useless that is.

"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.

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

“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

Wouldn't it be cool if your #AI agent could use any #notebooklm notebook for asking questions? Yes, it's super cool 😏 🚀 🕵️ #MCP
🔗

Quick pod tip for #teachers #educators - The podcast click here has an episode called Introducing the homework machine that discuss #AI in

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.

#AI Lokal auf dem #Mac / #PC betreiben sehe ich als einzige Möglichkeit meine Daten egal ob im Business oder Privat zu schützen.

So #Disney is actually wanting people to make Sora #AI videos with their property? That is a recipe for disaster.
h…

"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…

That didn't go well, was probably a requirement from some manager to push for #AI in #Go now.
https://youtu.be/M2gduDM-MT0<…

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/

#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

#AI #digitaleoverheid
‘Ik begrijp niet’, bleef de man maar herhalen https://www.trouw.nl/opinie…

‘Ik begrijp niet’, bleef de man maar herhalen

another reason I love @KagiHQ :
Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven #AI slop detection in #Kagi Search
https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop

Drogenhändler hält Drogen für ungefährlich.

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

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

On AI and the golem
#ai #llm

On AI and the golem
Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing th…

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?

this resolution might be of interest to the tech crowd. "AI Guardrails"
We will see if the NDP Government takes the issue up in the coming legislative sessions. (there is not always a one-to-one relationship!)
#bcndp #bcpoli #ai #regulatoon

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…

Another failure of #ChatGPT. I asked if a diagram had ever appeared in anything I'd published. It confidently gave me three answers, all wrong, before admitting that it couldn't find it. It even gave totally wrong Figure numbers. When I pointed this out, I got the usual dose of mock humility.
#AI…

Every vibe-coding PM is baller until they are asked to take responsibility for maintaining that code.
#llm #ai #tech

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…

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

OH on slack: It's not prompt engineering. It's sloperating
#ai #fuck_ai #generativeAI

“And worse of all, my mental model of the code is completely gone, and with it my ownership.”
#AI #VibeCoding https://mastodon…

OpenAI and Perplexity, armed with significant AI capabilities, have targeted the shopping domain. And have run into many problems around data access and semantics.
This raises three thoughts:
First, companies which are bullish about AI “changing everything”, are stumbling in maybe the most traditional, mundane domain: shopping. This doesn’t inspire confidence in their technology.
1/5
#ai

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."

"How ‘everyday AI’ encourages overconsumption"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence
https://

How ‘everyday AI’ encourages overconsumption
If AI can be built to increase consumption, then the opposite is also possible.

#Maunderings of a doddering fool. Caveat emptor. #AI #LLMs #intelligence… (1/9)

Reasonable take on this whole tailwind layoffs and #AI takeover topic that has been going on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbGPcgwKu8I
This might trigger some people as it's not "omg AI…

"Large language mistake"
I love that headline but too bad the article is paywalled. Anyone has a "gift link"? 🤔🤞
#TheVerge #LLM #AI #paywall #question

People thinking AI Photos are real
#AI #Fake

As a response to the ever-increasing enshittification of Firefox through AI, I just became a recurring sponsor for the @… project. We desperately need a viable alternative built for the future.
#firefox #servo #FOSS #AI

I gave a lightning talk about the use of generative #AI at our engineering offsite this week. My general conclusion is that it is useful in some places but where you are a domain expert the gains might not be there. Just before the talk I came across this study:

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
#AI #Enshittification
https…

🇦🇹 Austria: In Vienna, the police is trialing an automated software to predict crime. Every day, the system outputs hotspots to patrol [Kurier, 3 Dec 🔒, in German]. via Algorithm Watch
#ai #privacy

This is a genuinely good idea, and I'd urge you to sign it. Make #AI generated works immediately identifiable. It would be interesting also to require a similar 'watermark' in generated texts -- perhaps a particular sequence of whitespace characters.
#generativeAI
H/t

Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent
As AI generated content becomes increasingly realistic, we think laws should be put in place to prevent misuse. All such media should carry a permanent watermark or disclosure, alongside a blanket ban on using anyone’s likeness in AI-generated content without consent.

Isn't that something? This graph shows traffic to pages on @… that don't exist (404 #error).
It seems like #AI really is sending much more traffic to page…

Why #AI always lies, and why this can't be fixed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zLBRrF1Jgo
Good video! The implication?
The

#ChatGPT is killing me a little bit with the way it loads Projects. It doesn't seem to cache them on the client so every time you try to view your projects it loads them bit by bit...and it's painful.
Is anyone aware of a ChatGPT client that downloads projects and perhaps has other functionality I'd be interested in? 🙂
#question #ai #openai

The easiest role to replace with AI is that of a Billionaire CEO.
#ProveMeWrong #AI

Ethan Mollick makes a good point on BlueSky:
I understand the fear and anger. But also:
1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out
2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help
#AI

Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social)
I understand the fear and anger. But also: 1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out 2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help [contains quote post or other embedded content]

So... should the data be structured or unstructured? 🤔
#AI

#MustRead: Der #Google #AIMode "analysiert nicht nur, was gesucht wird, sondern auch, warum."
❗ "Suchanfragen werden zu Persönlichkeitsprofilen"
❗ intransparente Daten-Zusammenf…

Not surprised that the said #AI sweatshop workers are from the #Philippines ​🇵🇭
https://futurism.com/arti…

AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents
The powerful surveillance startup Flock was caught using workers in the Philippines to collate data on US residents.

Why would we think that past performance was any guarantee of future performance, when there's such a thing as efficiency and innovation? Like this 100X (!) improvement? (What might a 100X more efficient data center look like?) #ai #tech #fyp

Welcome to the world of the field, engineering.
For a long time, we've hired very few into sales, mktg, support or consulting that don't already gobs of experience elsewhere.
✅ How #Microsoft’s developers are using #AI - The Verge

How Microsoft’s developers are using AI
Microsoft is pushing its software developers to use AI internally. It’s part of an effort to get more AI agents doing the boring developer tasks.

This is an AI 2026 nissan leaf review on youtube that says nothing but nonsense and only shows images from the wrong Leaf car.
#cars #ai #youtube

"It was only supposed to do that for union organizers" Sam Altman said when asked why #ChatGPT encourages people to kill themselves
#AI #satire

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.

The #AI future is now all about the #edge https://www.eetimes.com/the-ai-future-is-now-all-about-the-edge/

The AI Future is Now All About the Edge
Edge AI is set to overtake data centers as the real driver of AI value. It is not just a buzzword anymore—it will be the next battleground in silicon

job done. context left: 0 😏
That was spot on 😊
#ai #coding

RE: #ai

If you ever wanted to know how these #AI datacenters can be financed, here is the explanation:
A creditworthy tech company (Meta, in this example) creates a "special purpose vehicle" #SPV, a box, where they put all the risk and all the debts coming with it.
Then they create a financia…

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.

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

#AI / #LLM propaganda is so insidiously effective even for laypeople.
I’ve had multiple conversations with family members who: don’t speak English, don’t own computers (only mobile phones), and barely spend time online.
I told them that I am no longer working with most tech company clients because I don’t like AI and don’t want to support it (“AI” here = gen AI, LLMs).
And yet these people all reacted the same way: concern, shock, and comments like “but this is inevitable”, “this is the future”, “you’ll have to accept it eventually”, “won’t refusing it ruin your career prospects?”
These are people who know nothing about technology. They usually wouldn’t even know what “AI” meant. And yet here they are, utterly convinced of AI company talking points.

My boss keeps getting angry at ChatGPT, but I don’t blame him. It’s not on our side; it’s just another boss without a face.
#Ai #WorkingClass #Work

Sold my last #AI related stock as long as it worth something.
May the AI #bubble burst soon. 😜
#stockmarket #aibubble

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

Sure, you can use tons of #MCP to create a "council of experts" or you can use #ai

AI shouldn't be making business decisions.
#aipocalypse #ai

“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.

Reading Tim O'Reilly's essay on the economic future of #AI, one sentence stands out:
"By product-market fit we don’t just mean that users love the product or that one company has dominant market share but that a company has found a viable economic model, where what people are willing to pay for AI-based services is greater than the cost of delivering them"
/Continued

What If? AI in 2026 and Beyond
The market is betting that AI is an unprecedented technology breakthrough, valuing Sam Altman and Jensen Huang like demigods already astride the world. The

This morning, Discord released a survey about #AI. Only a few hours later, the survey suddenly closed. Judging by the responses shared publicly by users — the feedback was uniformly negative.
The question is: will Discord respect the results, or will the surveys continue until morale improves?
#userresearch

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

"AI data centers projected to strain US energy and water resources by 2030"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #US #USA

AI data centers projected to strain US energy and water resources by 2030
As the everyday use of AI has exploded in recent years, so have the energy demands of the computing infrastructure that supports it. But the environmental toll of these large data centers, which suck up gigawatts of power and require vast amounts of water for cooling, has been too diffuse and difficult to quantify.

This illustrates what i always thought, there is no copyright issue with regard to AI. It is just a matter of making financial deals...
#ai

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora
Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.

[OT] So now even when you try to avoid using #AI, #AI hits your wallet nonetheless https://www.<…

Concern That Skyrocketing RAM Prices Driven by AI Needs Will Cause Problems for High-End Gaming for 'Several Years' - IGN
There is increasing concern that skyrocketing RAM prices will impact high-end gaming not just in the short term, but the long term.

An online service I’m subscribed to emailed me to say that I would be placed on the “Pro Legacy” plan at the same price of $29 annually in December.
But if upgrade to their $60/year Pro plan, I get access to AI/ML “innovations”. Uh, no, thank you!
#AI #ML

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

Socrates has the right idea...
#llm #ai

AI Socrates
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Too many people thinking about "AI threats" as "threats from #AI agency" (which is science fiction) and not "threats from human agency used to productize an #LLM in evil ways" which is in the news every day.

[OT] Companies are blaming #AI for layoffs. The real reason... https://medium.com/@mattlar.jari/companies-are-blaming-ai-for-layoffs-the-real-rea…

Companies Are Blaming AI for Layoffs. The Real Reason Will Piss You Off.
180,000 tech workers lost their jobs in 2025. Companies say it’s because of AI. Oxford researchers call BS.

Deeplearning.ai is a resource i can really recommend for free (!) courses on various AI subjects, serious, no hype. For example the Agentic AI course by Andrew Ng does a good breakdown of the hype around "AI Agents" / "Agentic AI".
#AI #Deeplearning

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

This is a brilliant take on education and on AI.
#llm #ai

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

no idea if you notice the mistake, but the people who always complain about vibecoder (meaning those who can’t handle #ai) would probably say this is what happens when you code with ai. i’d say if it had been done with ai, that clueless excuse of a developer wouldn’t have forgotten to link the second copy button 🙄 🤦
the screenshot is from a german banking app.....

Ik lees in het Nationaal AI Deltaplan (goed dat het er is!) over een staatssecretaris van AI bij EZ. Zelf heb ik de voorkeur voor een Minister van Digitale Zaken die naast AI ook een onderwerp als cloud onder zijn/haar hoede kan nemen. Maar zeker niet allebei, dan spreiden we de thematiek over 2 departementen , EZ en BZK.
#AI

AI Plan NL – Een plan voor AI dat werkt voor Nederland
AI Plan Nederland is een onafhankelijk initiatief met concrete voorstellen om Nederland klaar te maken voor de impact van de AI-transitie.

Kimi K2 Thinking is impressive, it is as at least as good as other top foundation models, fully openweights, 1 trillion parameters but only using 32B in a MoE setting. Also you can download and reuse it for free.
https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2

GitHub - MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2: Kimi K2 is the large language model series developed by Moonshot AI team
Kimi K2 is the large language model series developed by Moonshot AI team - MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2

If you want to spend time on AI you can best spend it on lectures like this. No hype, just science, but in this case also very practical.
#AI

Stanford CS230 | Autumn 2025 | Lecture 7: Agents, Prompts, and RAG.
For more information about Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence professional and graduate programs, visit: https://stanford.io/aiNovember 11, 2025This lecture ...

The current AI models let you easily experiment with application ideas like never before. For experimentation, quickly trying out ideas, they are great. That is something completely different from serious/professional use I am fully aware. Still your creativity is now the limit, not your knowledge of python, jscript etc and that is fascinating .
#AI

About how AI tools can be useful.
#ai #coding

Claude Code Can Debug Low-level Cryptography
Surprisingly (to me) Claude Code debugged my new ML-DSA implementation faster than I would have, finding the non-obvious low-level issue that was making Verify fail.

With models like Kimi K2 freely available doesn't the OpenAI businesscase with GPT-5 becomes extremely bad? 🤔
#AI #KimiK2 #chatgpt