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#Google and #Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for "any lawful" use of #AI

This will distract consciousness researchers from working on human suffering? Denying qualia are real isn't helpful either https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sophisticated-ai-suffering The more sophisticated

That's why you don't trust #AI.

Very accessible and valuable critique of the #AI subspecies known as #LLM.
Will human minds still be special in an age of AI?

Very accessible and valuable critique of the #AI subspecies known as #LLM.
Will human minds still be special in an age of AI?

Automating erasure.
#AI

Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces ‘Palestine’ in designs
Canva’s new Magic Layers AI feature has been caught replacing the word “Palestine” in designs

Is AI Profitable Yet?
Tracking the spend and revenue of frontier AI companies (May 2026).
📉 #aislop

"The biggest problem is AI wiping out human existence."
"What about AI-controlled lasers for killing insects in every house?"
#ai #agi #aiethics

AI Promo Rap Style Video - AI-generated PR video clips, rap and 60s TV flavour. #AI #carbon #sustainability -

AI Promo Rap Style Video
AI-generated PR video clips, rap and 60s TV flavour. #AI #carbon #sustainability

Zoveel vragen en verzuchtingen bij dit bericht...
#AI

Van Mistral naar Microsoft: Copilot blijft voorlopig pilot bij UWV
Het gaat om een tijdelijke en beperkte pilot, benadrukt minister Vijlbrief in antwoord op vragen van D66. ‘Die past binnen de rijksbrede kaders voor verantwoord gebruik van generatieve AI met de kanttekening dat er geen open of Europees AI-model voorhanden is.’

This should be a warning to any company wanting to put #AI into their customer service.
We’ve had social engineering where humans have been duped, but a human can at least think critically.

Måske er der stadigvæk håb. #AI #KI #DKTech

Det slidsomt underkendte relationelle arbejde er fremtidens jobboom. For begge køn. Nu skal æres, hvad æres bør. Det er økonomi, slet og ret. Når AI driver prisen på viden mod nul, stiger den… | Timme Bisgaard Munk | 50 comments
Det slidsomt underkendte relationelle arbejde er fremtidens jobboom. For begge køn. Nu skal æres, hvad æres bør. Det er økonomi, slet og ret. Når AI driver prisen på viden mod nul, stiger den relative værdi af ægte menneskelig kontakt og menneskelig tid. Det næste arbejdsmarked bliver derfor ikke et marked med færre jobs. Det bliver et marked med flere, bedre betalte jobs med relationelt, emotionelt indhold. Det er en teknologisk revolution med et kvindeligt ansigt og bias. I årtier…

It's been a while since I used #Ubuntu. Glad I'm not anymore, otherwise I'd have to search for a new distro now... #aislop
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[OT] WSJ: The world's top economists are sounding the alarm on #AI https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-worlds-top-economists-are-sounding-the-alarm-on-ai-d99055b6

Seems like a pretty good update from Tidal. AI music is getting out of hand on that platform. We'll see if they have it in them to get this done.
#music #tidal #ai

Bernie Sanders is introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America and create an AI Sovereign Wealth Fund.
This is the way. This is the first real solution I have heard to the theft of the entire worlds IP among other things.
Its amazing to hear something so rational and radical from a politician.
#AISovereignWealthFund
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN4b4UCWMKI

Every religion has a messiah. AI has a church, a priesthood, an Inquisition, and billions in donations. The Christ slot is still empty.
#AI

RE: https://toot.cafe/@alastc/116686148429429285
So it turns out that making a site more accessible for humans with disabilities is ALSO good for AI agents! 👍 Perhaps the hype around agentic

Even becoming a terrorist has gotten easier with #AI 🙄😡
Feds Begin Targeting ‘Anti-Technology Extremists’ Which Is Going To Make Everything So Much Worse https://www.

Not a cat lover, but an #AI "viral" channel posted this video, Try curing cancer first a-holes 😔
"Easiest tell is the weird low hanging voids for doorways and extremely low res (no number plate details, some of the cars look squished in the background) and the building in the background makes no sense. General rule of thumb: if it's a 7 second video with low resoluti…

[OT] WSJ: The World's top economists are sounding the alarm on #AI https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-worlds-top-economists-are-sounding-the-alarm-on-ai-d99055b6

#infosec #ai #sre

I continue to experiment with #AI in the context of #softwareengineering. I’m fortunate that my team supports me in exploring different ways to improve our daily work. This week, I designed a team of #autonomousagents

I am not a mathematician (not even close) but I found this to be a fascinating article.
#ai

The fall of the theorem economy
How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it

"The AI boom has a dirty energy problem"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

The AI boom has a dirty energy problem
Soaring electricity demand from data centers may lead U.S. utilities to invest more in coal and gas plants.

A few years ago, I was out partying… now this is my life 🤯
What the hell happened? 🙈
#ai #coding

You can't make this stuff up (or can you?):
#LLMs #AI #GenAI

So... y'think moving to an AI token consumption-based billing system will be *smarter* than an unlimited, flat-rate subscription because "we can totally cap our usage," hmm?
#ai #tokenomics

US Law Enforcement Warns of #AntiTechExtremism as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing #AI and #dataCenters in their back yards, the feds are raising the…

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

Not that I share all of @… 's rosy post bubble projections, but his #AI book sure is a breath of fresh sense, and a good antidote to the LLM mania echo chamber.

Anyone looking for big numbers? Here you will find plenty of them!
#AI #AISpending
https://isaiprofitable.com/

The first one is always free.
The #enshittification of #ai.
https://youtu.be/c1cBGW_zoyQ

Ich arbeite zukünftig nicht mit #AI, sondern wie AI: ich bin scheißfreundlich und antworte auf alle Anfragen einfach aus dem Bauch raus, wenn ich was nicht weiß, erfind ich's, und ob die Antwort zur Frage paßt oder hilfreich ist, ist mir auch egal. Vor allem aber, und das ist das wichtigste: Egal, was ich als Ergebnis produziere: ich kann nicht dafür zur Verantwortung gezogen werden.

“[…] human beings become … ‘the sex organs of the machine world’ as McLuhan wrote in … Understanding Media.” Our essential role is to produce ever more sophisticated tools—to “fecundate” machines as bees fecundate plants—until technology has developed the capacity to reproduce itself on its own. At that point, we become dispensable.
The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr, 2010 #AI

ohno.jpg #AI
https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/nvidia-executive-cost-of-ai-is-greater-than-cost-of-employees/

‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capex this year, but AI has yet to show evidence of widespread increased productivity.

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code

#AI
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/

Interesting blog about AI and GDP.
#AI

AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output
Why AI's increasing output is going to be one of the hardest economic measurement problems in history. AI "Dark Output" could end up being the majority of economic activity, but a challenge to measure

"I suspect the only way to fight the risks of AI is to use more AI to try and monitor what is going on."
- Gillian Tett; Provost, King's College, Cambridge University.
You mean, "throw Good AI after Bad AI"? 🙄
#stupid #opinion #RealTime #BillMaher #AI

Before working for 2 years on the Apache APISIX API gateway, I was mainly oblivious to API gateways. It’s only by working with them that I understood their value. Decoupling the client and the server unlocks a lot of options: moving authentication to the API Gateway, securing APIs, deduplicating API requests, etc.
In this post, I want to describe how the same pattern applies to #AI.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Ai Yamamoto & Ai Yamamoto:
🎵 Autumn
#AiYamamoto
https://open.spotify.com/track/3j6ioswiTQoDnw0kaSnR2d

How to make every bot happy!
#AI #SEO #Google

"Announcing #AI for #Libraries – a weekly #newsletter"

AI stocks vs dot-com bubble: CAPE at 38, concentration above 2000 levels, but companies are actually profitable
🤖 https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-stocks-dot-com-bubble-comparison-market-outlook

AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn’t Even Imagine. Freed from intelligibility and aesthetics, AI designs faster.
#AI

AI Learns the “Dark Art” of RFIC Design
Freed from intelligibility and aesthetics, AI designs faster

Ah, people are finally doing the financial math on the #AI boom. About bloody time.
https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116648209688298468

Schrödinger's answer.
(By the way, I'm curious about the correct answer.)
#grammar #ai #aifail

The art of leading a team includes to let people do the work and provide them with the tools they need to do so. This includes trust: you let them make decisions and some of them will be less than optimal, and others will be bad. Encourage them to learn from those instead of blaming them. Support them. They'll get better.
You can never do this with an #AI.¹ One shall not trust an AI to mak…

Thinking #AI through its future ruins: We just published Anne Pasek’s lovely ride of a keynote from the Before Ruins #STS conference, which took place at Ruhr University in #Bochum.
With hot beats by Mac…

I got an email from my bank with the subject line:
"Protect your business from AI-driven fraud."
So yeah, another win for AI, really improving the lives of... scammers?
#AI #NoAI #FuckAI

All these talks of "#AI achieved in a day what used to take a month" make me recall how a certain Polish person (known for the usual post-WW2 abstract hatred for Germans) noted how many great highways were built by the Nazi Germany. I think this needs no further comment.
#LLM #NoAI #NoLLM

the solution might be cancelling my #AI subscription
https://thoughts.hmmz.org/2026-05-31.html

You're perfectly fine to call Big Corp AI techno-fascism as long as I can continue to create Sloppelgänger versions of myself from 1865. 🫠
#photography #AI #vintage

Just wrote yet another piece on LLMs that has been kicking around in my head for a while: "What kinds of conversations can you have with a parrot?"
#AI #LLMs

Doing editorial work: Submission from unknown authors comes in. They are from non-english speaking country, small university (I had never heard of before). Paper is in flawless English, slightly out of scope of the journal but otherwise it seems to do something. References exist, but having worked with coding agents I clearly see how this is made.
What to do? Desk reject on "AI smell" ?
Send to referee and thereby spam the referee?
1/3 #ai #publishing

I sure do enjoy #EdZitron's podcast #BetterOffline. #AI's going to be a huge crash, but at least there's other people who can see the reality that the hype is desperately trying to pape…

Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com)
Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I run you through how Uber’s COO said the quiet part out loud - that AI’s outputs and efficacy do not match up with its ruinous costs - and how despite its bluster, the AI industry’s grift is failing. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=1000769758292 Linktr.ee/betteroffline

🔒 #NVIDIA OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous #AI agents, providing sandboxed execution environments that protect data, credentials & infrastructure, governed by declarative #YAML …

If an article, or blog post, suggests use of a non-existent software package:
― should we assume that the entire document was AI-generated?
#AI #documentation #software

OpenAI-Chef Sam Altman erklärte diese Woche, KI werde keine globale „Jobs-Apokalypse" auslösen — die befürchtete Verdrängung von Büroberufen sei bisher geringer ausgefallen als erwartet. Gleichzeitig warnte ein OpenAI-eigenes Policy-Paper vom April, dass Produktivitätsgewinne durch KI nicht zwingend bei den Beschäftigten ankämen. #AI

One website I use to receive payments recently shifted to a terrible #AI tool for customer service.
I asked it to process a payout. It failed, so I asked customer service to do it. After a few days, they did, and I withdrew the amount.
4 days later, the AI processed my payout...20 times. So now I have 20X the original amount, which I've already been paid for, in my "wallet."

“Majority of datacenters are vulnerable to climate threats like floods and fires, study finds.
Study warns #AI #datacenters are vulnerable to the climate hazards that their global greenhouse gas emissions bolster.”
The words “self-immolation” come to mind.
If LLMs were to give ri…

Majority of datacenters are vulnerable to climate threats like floods and fires, study finds
Study warns AI datacenters are vulnerable to the climate hazards that their global greenhouse gas emissions bolster

My current LLM toolchain
#llm #ai

LLM Toolchain - June 2026 | Chris K Wensel
Notes on the current LLM development toolchain I am using in June.

As usual, John Oliver hits another home run in his rant against #AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykvf3MunGf8

Goed om op intranet te lezen dat Chatbot vlam-chat live is als dienst per 1 juli binnen de Rijksoverheid.
Vlam-chat is een lokaal gehoste AI-chatassistent ontwikkeld door SSC-ICT voor de Rijksoverheid. Vlam-chat maakt gebruik van het taalmodel Mistral Medium 3 en is gebouwd met opensource-software.
#AI #Rijksoverheid

How to win — or lose — Decoder | Decoder
#ai

Who would expect anything else?
#Enshittification #Google #AI

JFC. Y'know, this may blow your mind but did you know that we can tell when your lazy ass relies on AI to try to solve customer problems?
Hell, most of the time, we can tell what AI model you're using, what subscription you've got & what time of day you used it. 😡
#humor #ai…

"AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas"
#Amazon #Gold #AI #Techology

AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas
In July 2025, the Indigenous Shuar people celebrated the end of a decade-long struggle when they received official titles for three communities — the Shuar Tunants, Kampan and Tsuntsuim –- within the Kutukú Shaimi Protected Forest, in the south of the Ecuadorean Amazon. But in one of those communities, satellite imagery shows that between August […]

Using #AI is like hitting Ctrl R 500 times in a desperate hope of finding the exact command in your shell history instead of typing it again

Catching up on news of the past week... I saw the posts go by about show company AllBirds pivoting to be an #AI company... er... "a fully integrated GPU-as-a-Service and AI-native cloud solutions provider"... but I hadn't read the story... and now I'm just sitting here smiling and laughing! We live in strange times! 😃

Allbirds Is an AI Company Now… Seriously
The $2.2 billion wool sneaker darling that became a $39 million cautionary tale would now like to talk to you about its GPU infrastructure vision

Zendesk Says #AI Makes #Code Abundant, Shifting the Bottleneck to "Absorption Capacity"
https://www.infoq.com/news/…

AI Coding Works. That’s the Problem by SimonDev
#ai #youtube

Can #AI do #neuroscience without understanding? https://www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lea

Can AI do neuroscience without understanding?
Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles. Artificial intelligence is now offering neuroscience the same deal.

RE: #math #ai

@…
I used the #AI tag at the outset partly so that people who don't want to read about #AI might know that there's an

FUCK THIS.
#AI #FuckAI

Schematik Raises $4.6M Pre-Seed to Help Anyone Build Hardware With AI
We raised $4.6M in a pre-seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Puzzle Ventures and founders across robotics, AI, and electronics joining — making hardware as easy to build as software.

Let's talk about #AI #slop
https://archestra.ai/blog/only-responsible-ai

"AI could help win ‘race against extinction’ of vital plants, say botanists"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Plants

The AI Question that No AI Person Asks by vlogbrothers
#ai

Still more reasons the AI boosters are full of as much shit as the AI itself.
#Sexism

Jen Horsburgh (@jenatlionra) on Threads
I just wanted to update my resume. Instead, I accidentally proved how a multi-billion-dollar AI tool hallucinates a glass ceiling for women. I changed a single variable: My name. Here is what happened when "Jennifer" became "Jeff." I fed Gemini, Google's AI tool, my old resume, my current info, case studies, and the kinds of roles I wanted, and asked it to write me a new resume. Simple. Except it wasn’t. The first thing I noticed was the softening.

Evaluating the robustness and readiness of large frontier models in health #AI applications: not ready for prime time https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04501-8 "considerable gaps between…

Evaluating the robustness and readiness of large frontier models in health AI applications - Nature Medicine
Adversarial evaluation of leading AI models uncovers gaps between benchmark success and robustness, highlighting limitations in current health AI benchmarks and their ability to capture clinically relevant performance.

Dear generative AI enthusiasts,
Look, I know the tokens you're burning right now don't actually use *that*much energy (even though it's somewhat substantial already and disastrous when we take into account the quality of the crap it's being used for) but what's more important is the appearance (or not) of that token spend on the quarterly earnings report of OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. lays the foundation necessary for those companies to go ahead with their plans for datacenters on a truly ridiculous scale, and those datacenters, if built, ate indeed a climate nightmare which *my kids* will have to live through even if they never benefit from any of it at all. That's (one of many reasons) why I personally need you to stop using generative AI right now.
The fact that the output is crap, the way it erodes your intelligence, and the ways in which it plagiarizes and actively undermines good citation practices are among many other practical reasons not to use it, but what's personal to me is the way that your frivolous sloperation is making the future worse for the baby I'm feeding blueberries to as I type this, and half the time I interact with people like you the conversation begins with some form of "putting aside the ethical issues..."
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

🖥️ #Cua is open-source infrastructure for Computer-Use Agents — build, benchmark & deploy #AI agents that see screens, click buttons & complete tasks autonomously across full desktops #opensource

@… please, what's the AI context?
Seeing #ai above what appears to be photograph, my first guess was that the image is AI-generated.

#AI's #Affordability Crisis
https://blog.dshr.org/2026/06/ais-affordability-crisis.ht…

[OT] Net benefit of #AI and the trillions of dollars being invested in it? Woke?
ECB's Lagarde says AI could trigger financial crises and calls for Cold War-style non-proliferation governance https://thene…

Dit scenario over AI en Europa in 2031 krijgt nog te weinig aandacht, het lezen of luisteren waard,
#ai #eu

Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us
A five-year scenario about AI and Europe's impending slide into irrelevance, with a 2034 epilogue that describes how the collapse of the European model could have been prevented.

The new Luddite movement.
#AI

Funny
#ai #OpenAI

Ofcourse AI is a big financial bubble, everybody knows it, question is how will it pop or less dramatic, what will the consolidation look like... On a sidenote, it will not make AI go away, it will just change.
#ai #bubble

[OT] There's yet another study about how bad #AI is for our brains https://www.engadget.com/ai/theres-yet-another-study-about-how-bad-ai-is-for-our-brains-…

There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains
Researchers have conducted another study about AI and its effects on the human brain. The results were grim.

Nice report and overview.
#AI #Stanford

The 2026 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI

China is starting to pull ahead of US in #AI race https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/china-ai-race-stanford while the US is mostly burning ridiculous amounts of money on the…

China Is Starting to Pull Ahead of US in AI Race
A major report by Stanford University found that China is rapidly taking the lead in the so-called AI race against the United States.

AI is improving all the time but don't be too worried about AGI, take for example this clockwatching benchmark.
Source: #AI

Retired neuroscientist dies after ignoring doc's orders, relying on #AI instead https://www.newser.com/story/387286/he-warns-consumers-about-ai-his-dad-died…

Man Dies After Ignoring Doc's Orders, Relying on AI Instead
NYT relays story of Joe Riley, who insisted that chatbot put him on better path than oncologist

Use of AI on the battlefield,
#AI #dronedefense

Ukraine Fields AI Turrets That Can Destroy UAVs With a Single Button Press
Ukraine's new turret uses AI to autonomously detect, track, and calculate of incoming drones.

Leuke vacature bij de Rijksoverheid.
#AI

De Rijksoverheid zoekt: AI Platform Engineer
AI Platform Engineer in Den Haag voor 36 uur bij SSC-ICT (Ministerie van BZK)

A well-crafted scenario, where scenarios don't have to be exactly accurate but make you think and this one certainly does.
#ai

Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us
A five-year scenario about AI and Europe's impending slide into irrelevance, with a 2034 epilogue that describes how the collapse of the European model could have been prevented.

So organisations/companies realize that the topmodels are way too expensive for 80-90% of the things they want to use AI for. So they will move to cheaper models/versions, opensource models, on premis etc. At the same time OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI need more revenue to cover their outrageous costs/investments. How will they solve this? Just with big defense/government contracts?
#AI