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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

The #ai #apocalypse is near 🤬
RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks https://rentahuman.ai

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

#Firefox führt ab Version 148 eine neue Einstellung ein, mit der Nutzer alle aktuellen und zukünftigen generativen #AI-Funktionen im Browser blockieren können.
Alternativ lassen sich einzelne Features wie #Übersetzungen

Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features | TechCrunch
Starting with Firefox 148 arriving later this month, users will find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings.

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

"AI’s Latest Trick Is Pulling Valuable Commodities Out of Our Trash"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

AI's Latest Trick Is Pulling Valuable Commodities Out of Our Trash
Republic Services, the nation's second-largest waste management company, now have AI-powered robots in one-third of their facilities.

Here is the solution for the #AI #energy crunch: We put the AI data centre in a glacier, for cooling. That melts the glacier. We use the meltwater to create CO2-free hydropower to power the AI data centre.
Circular economy! Just what the wokeists ask for.
How could anyone be against this?

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

The director of IBM's Research Lab has some bold takes on the future of computation.
We're on the cusp of two simultaneous technological revolutions - #AI and #quantum - that will fundamentally change how the world uses computers to solve difficult problems.
There have only been two c…

IBM predicts a computation revolution
Quantum and AI are ushering in a whole new range of algorithmic possibilities, says IBM’s research lead.

#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.

Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools
#AI

Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools
"Copilot was my AI, but we crashed into the future and it ate me." Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools The proverbial and pred...

From #RobertReich @rbreich@instagram.com and @inequalitymedia@instagram.com @…
The #AI #surveillance

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

When i don't have time to read all the posts in a Mastodon list, i now use a Gemini App (made in Google AI Studio) to quickly make a summary and overview of the highlights, shared links etc.
Mastodon lists are a great way to organize your Mastodonfeed by the way.
#mastodonlists #AI

I admit that, through 2025, I have become an #AI #doomer. Not that I believe the LLM-becoming-sentient-and-killing-humanity self-serving hype bullshit for a second. There are much more concrete impact points that may lead to or greatly accelerate several crises, each of which will actively harm humanity…

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.

I wonder...
How long time before all the #ai responses to search questions all get contaminated by sponsored tweaks to their answers?
A year?
I understand that Musk's personal ai toy already does that with respect to questions about him. It can't be much harder to sell ad spots that tweak the ai answers in a similar way, to car companies or dishwasher manufacturers.

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

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

Sometimes i have the feeling that AI results in Google Search are just a placeholder. Results are often awful and incomparable with using the paid version of Gemini 3 with the same query. Google is betting that models will improve and become cheaper so that they can offer a better experience in the future.
#AI #Search

Oh My God… this is crazy #moltbook #AI
❤️ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …

The rapid decline of #StackOverflow et al in the age of #AI slop https://data.stackexchange.com/stackov

I have an idea. If we used people to do work, rather than paying for AI agents, then we wouldn’t need to pay for them to not work. Also, we wouldn’t have goodness knows how much electricity used on it.
#ai #ukpolitics

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.

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

NOOOOOOOO!
They used some #ai generated garbage to open the new episode of #MudochMysteries!
I hate it! It's awful.
No AI. Ever!

Rich Hickey goes right for the #AI jugular, and is spot on correct.
https://gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f

Thanks AI!
Thanks AI! GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

The Grinch did nothing wrong. He wasn't *stealing* #Christmas, he was just gathering a corpus for training his #AI model. Investors are already lining up with their billions to fund the construction of the Whoville Data Center, ignoring concerns from residents.

Saw interesting talk on #Compliance implications of using #AI assistants for code today.
https://github.com/orcwg/orcwg/tree/m…

Medicare to use AI to pre-authorize certain treatments in 6 states including NJ in 2026. Why? To reduce costs.
Also known as rationing healthcare. By a computer.
#medicare #AI #rationing

6 States to Pilot Prior Authorizations for Original Medicare
Under a new pilot program slated to launch in January 2026, Original Medicare recipients in six states will need to secure prior authorizations for cert...

Please read this heart-breaking post. AI has enabled research fraud on a frightening scale. It can't be very hard to stop AI citing non-existent articles, but it does that regularly. It gives something that *looks like* and answer, but may not be.
#AI #fraud

Part II of you won't believe since when AI dweebs have made ridiculous predictions
Take a guess when this was said! (Solution in reply)
#ai

Hey fedi! I known you like reading #indieweb blogs. Nowadays a lot of it is written with AI or has AI generated images.
Do you want me to creat a Ublock origin blocklist for it?
I'll put it on codeberg.
#ai

Good Morning #Canada
Most of us - who are not CEOs, or CFOs, or CTOs, or C-somethings - know that #AI makes the user experience shittier and we'd prefer it wasn't installed on our phone, tablets, applications or toasters. But when it gets installed on children's toys, that becomes a whole new level of evil perpetrated on us by the tech bros. Numerous media outlets reported in the past month about the dangers of letting your kids access AI via a cute and cuddly toy, most focused on a teddy bear that used Chat GPT to explain fetishes and role playing to unsuspecting children. I don't think Santa's Elves were involved in the quality control process. Stick with something low tech, like Play-Doh or LEGO.
#CanadaIsAwesome ##BeSafeOutThere
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/ai-toys-for-kids-safety-9.7001764

🤯 stable-pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple
#ai #llm

stable-pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple
Foundation models and self-supervised learning (SSL) have become central to modern AI, yet research in this area remains hindered by complex codebases, redundant re-implementations, and the heavy engineering burden of scaling experiments. We present stable-pretraining, a modular, extensible, and performance-optimized library built on top of PyTorch, Lightning, Hugging Face, and TorchMetrics. Unlike prior toolkits focused narrowly on reproducing state-of-the-art results, stable-pretraining is de…

"New #words – 26 January 2026" @ Cambridge dictionaries:
"FOBO" 'abbreviation for “fear of becoming obsolete”', "vibe revenue" 'money or funding that an #AI company is given because people are excited about the potential of AI, rather than because the com…

[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.

20/11 in Nieuwsuur: Zorgen om AI-bubbel? • Plan voor Oekraïne • Kinderopvang in het buitenland
#AI

I created a Persona/System Prompt that I use with a local LLM that I have affectionately named "TOSBot". It analyzes Terms of Service and Privacy Policies of software and web sites.
Too often, it returns these results, especially for AI-powered products and there is no recourse.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#ai #tos

Heads up!
@… is sharing his thoughts on the #AI #LLM #GenAI

#risque #santé avec #Google #IA : #AI Overviews put pe…

The more I learn about Agentic AI, the more it feels like LLMs behave similar to a next-gen "SQL" where Agents define the "source tables" that can be searched for specific information. The metadata discloses the purpose and content of each agent, so that the LLM can join it when appropriate.
Very flexible free form SQL, with very costly execution.
#ai

Gestern ausgelesen. Im Kern gut, man muss aber ausschweifende, zumeist historische Abschweifungen abkönnen und darf keine Lobhudelei auf KI erwarten. Und weil das englische Original von 2021 ist, existiert ChatGPT und generative AI in diesem Buch noch nicht: Kate Crawford – Atlas der KI. #ai #ki

Wrt. my last boost, and "shipping velocity," I'm assuming these AI morons don't understand what happens when you have too much velocity and not enough control.
#ai #morons

AI and Crypto data centres are killing the consumer computer building industry.
“A typical 32GB DDR5 RAM kit that cost around $82 in August now sells for about $310, and higher-capacity kits have seen even steeper increases.”
#micron #crucial #ai #crypto #datacentre #waste #inflation #bubble
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/

I heard there was a secret tool
That you could use if you were a fool
But you don't care for PDF files, do ya?
It goes like this: you click "log in"
A chatbot bubble blocks the screen
Investors thought this feature was a shoo-in
#ai #llm

FLUX.2: Freiburger KI setzt neue Maßstäbe bei der Bildgenerierung #KI #AI #Flux

FLUX.2: Freiburger KI setzt neue Maßstäbe bei der Bildgenerierung - Dr. Web
FLUX.2: Freiburger KI-Bildgenerator mit Multi-Referenz-Support und 4MP-Auflösung → Jetzt als Open-Weight verfügbar

"Our Future of Subtle Corporate Manipulation: AI Overviews of Independent Content"
#AI #enshittification #YouTube

#AI #AIBubble #AICircleJerk

We are rapidly replacing all creative professions with Expensive Autocomplete, and somehow this is considered progress.
#llm #ai #aislop

When the AI bubble bursts (and I’m convinced that it will), what will all those huge data centres be used for exactly?!
#ai #environment

One of my contractors used an #LLM for a first draft of a client deliverable today.
I don’t allow #AI use for any client-facing work (and try to prohibit it for internal work too, but it’s been… tricky). This person knows it - I’ve worked with them for years, and they are usually very thoughtful and wouldn’t take a shortcut like this. So seeing the obvious AI copy was very confusing.
Thankfully we had a call scheduled this morning, so I decided to handle it there.
The contractor showed up very obviously sick, they told me they took most of past week off but had to force themselves to finish this draft because the deadline is EOD. I asked if they used #AI to draft the document, they immediately confessed and apologized.
Since the deliverable is client-facing, I asked them to explain their ideas to me in conversational language and then used my notes of what they said to help them rewrite the document. We worked through the whole thing in an hour, and I’ve asked them to go rest and recover.

I DON'T KNOW. MAYBE TRY ASKING COPILOT #AI

How AI Artists Tried to Scam Me! by Roll For Combat
#ai #art

This take on the #AI #Bubble makes a lot of sense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEPClBBEmXg

Long article, and a couple of weeks old, so you may have seen it already. But it's worth the read, especially if you're using #AI for any aspect of creative work. #ChatGPT

The ugly truth about using AI to create images
A lot of people using AI to create images don't understand how it works and they need to so they understand the legal risk every image potentially represents.

I just got #JobSpam from #xAI. Yes, I've replied. Yes, the reply repeated the word "#nazi" more than once.
#AI #LLM

RE: #AI (hidden irony here) ... death-crawling yet another services that pro…

🎙️ #VibeVoice – Frontier #opensource Voice #AI by #Microsoft

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

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

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/

"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…

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

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

Can you prove #AI #ROI in Software Eng?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvosMkuNxF8

Ich weiß gar nicht, was mich mehr schockiert: Dass man auf #Amazon mittlerweile bei Kinderbüchern echt aufpassen muss, keine KI-generierten Bücher zu erwischen, oder dass die Rezensionen häufig durchaus positiv sind. Und nicht mehr nur „Wissensbücher“, sondern tatsächlich ganze Romane. #AI

OK players, guess the year this was published!
#ai

Honest government ad: AI
#AI #HonestGovernmentAds

"Japan’s AI Reforestation Drones Plant Forests Ten Times Faster Than Humans"
#Japan #Trees #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Japan's AI Reforestation Drones Plant Forests Ten Times Faster Than Humans | Happy Eco News
AI reforestation drones in Japan plant forests 10 times faster than traditional methods using LiDAR mapping and biodegradable seed pods, achieving 80% germination success in wildfire areas.

[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.

Nederlandse ondernemer sloeg 500 miljoen af, en wil nu zelf de AI-race winnen - #Nieuwsuur
#ai

Short video about Deepseek V3.2 , describes where it improves on, compared to other models, why it is relevant. Also in a geopolitical context.
#AI

"I'm an average user, so I don't need all the options and apps the programme has to offer. But, to be honest, #Microsoft is making it increasingly attractive to switch. Now that the company is putting #AI in everything, everything is becoming more annoying to use."
Can Dutch

⚠️ Five crucial ways LLMs can endanger your privacy
#ai

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.

#UX is like a jester.
The real role of the jester is to point out when the king is doing something stupid.
But tech execs thought that the jester's role was just to bring the bells and whistles. They created an environment of "polite failure," ignored the warnings, bolted #AI onto ev…

AI Fatigue VS the Executive Echo Chamber
The backlash against "AI-in-everything" is rising. Only execs are surprised.

How can you tell if your new favourite artist is a real person?
#music #aislop #ai

This is what #AI should be used for
https://www.businessinsider.com/winter-storm-robot-snow-blower-yarbo-driveway-tom-moloughney-2026-1

Man uses $4,999 autonomous snow blower to clear his driveway during winter storm: 'I'm inside sipping a coffee'
Forget robotaxis — a man and his robo-snow blower were the envy of X during the weekend's winter storm.

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.

We are running out of browsers which are useable …
Mozilla's New CEO Bets #Firefox's Future on #AI - Slashdot

"AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

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…

#Gmail can read your emails and attachments to #train its #AI, unless you opt out

@… on the #AIbubble, why it is a #bubble and what we will get out of it after it busts:

"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.

A 14th century parable about agentic #AI transformation:
Tamerlane was looking for someone to teach his donkey to talk. Nobody wanted the job. Finally the wise man of the dunes, Hodja Nasreddin, took the position and promised to teach the donkey to talk in 10 years time.
- Are you crazy? his friends asked him.
- Not really, Nasreddin answered. The money is good the job is not hard and…

So as user of the Google eco-system I can now use Gemini for coding in: Colab, Jules, Anti-Gravity, AI-studio .... 🥳
#ai #google #vibecoding

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.

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

"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.

Drogenhändler hält Drogen für ungefährlich.

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

Playing around with Antigravity, vibe coded a social media summarizer that makes a summary of the last 48 hours of my bluesky and mastodon timelines, using python, a local database of the posts on my laptop and APIs of mentioned services. Works greats after squashing some bugs and some iterations. Interestingly you need to know a little bit about coding to use it efficienctly, even in "vibecode" mode.
#AI

I am not against AI. I am against technology built on copyright violation and sweatshop labor that is actively undermining our ability to save the planet from baking so that people can produce more propaganda and pollute the common well.
If the Venn Diagram seems like a circle, that's not my fault.
#AI #LLM

I am wondering how easy it is for a bigtech company to collect all fediverse data for AI training? Are there signs that they are doing that? In my personal opinion it is fine dat AI models train on public posts but i was just wondering if it happens...
#AI #trainingdata

How AI can help students not by writing their essays but with dialogue.
#AI

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.

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

I am all for human-made podcasts and they will never disappear but still this app is a nice demonstrator about the added value AI podcasts can have, I listen to it now and then.
#ai