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1/2 Two new blog pieces. In which I have opinions about GenAI and open-source: #GenAI

Open Source and GenAI?

Semantic Conventions for #GenAI agent and framework #spans
https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/se

Oh boy, #notebooklm is unfortunately really cool to create / prepare / test podcast style explanations. I played around a bit with fediverse explations after taking a lot with my wife about it...
#ai #genai

I'm thinking of installing #Tunderbird on my different Linux computers, but I'm worried that it will go the same way as #Firefox with their forcing of #GenAI on users...
Does anyone have any i…

Qobuz’s policy on AI-generated music.
#music #genAI

"#GenAI is a cult built on debt and theft." —#EdZitron
https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline…

Got the latest ollama running with image generation models now.
Used models are x/flux2-klein:latest and x/z-image-turbo
took about 1min 20s to generate these images on a M2 Max CPU with 64GB RAM
#ollama #GenAI

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

Me, in my fedi-hole: It seems like the tide is finally shifting and academics are rejecting GenAI.
Academics in my work email: Join the revolution! Produce more papers faster with AI! This is Science!
#genai #science #academia

Hmm, writing a thing and, without thinking about it, used the verb “enslopify”. I can’t be the first. I think it’ll catch on.
#GenAI

To ChatGPT: By analogy to generative artificial intelligence for images (#GenAI), is there something like generative human intelligence for images (#GenHI)? https://

ChatGPT - GenHI Analogy to GenAI
Shared via ChatGPT

Hivemind: I'm investigating a possible case of academic misconduct. Has anyone come across an instance of GenAI supplying a comment to a bibliographical reference that goes something like this: 'This is often cited as the standard publication; adjust page numbers if you use a different version'?
#GenAI #ChatGPT

#genAI

I think I now know where to draw the line between "good" and "bad" #GenAI, and possibly (or rather obviously) the same for #machineLearning. It's simply whether the input data has been constructed rigorously. Put this way it's the most obvious statement ever, but somehow

Finally, a valid use may have been found for generative AI.
This site will take an architect's beautiful, utopian image of what their wonderful new building/park/plaza will look like, and the AI will try to imagine what it will actually look like on a cold, damp, miserable winter's day.
#AI #GenAI #architecture
https://antirender.com

Latest junk mail: "Your research is invisible to AI"
... as if it was a problem to be fixed?! 🙌👏🥳
#genAI #noGenAI

Here's where you go to tell GitHub that it can’t train CoPilot on your code & interactions: #GenAI

Build software better, together
GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

"Shambaugh gives his time to the open source ecosystem that underpins vast amounts of commercial software. He now has defamatory material indexed under his name. He will spend time managing the fallout. He bears the cost of someone else’s product working exactly as designed.
The agent’s owner bears none of it. OpenClaw bears none of it. The companies whose AI models power OpenClaw bear none of it."

The Machine That Cannot Be Wrong
On AI agents, open source maintainers, and the infrastructure nobody is watching

Got maximal hair-on-fire financial doomerism about the #GenAI bubble if ya want it: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/
Genuinely scary.
[But: To…

The AI Industry Is Lying To You
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This group "The Library of Babel" is confronting the invasion of #genAI into everything we do, seems interesting:
"a nascent, international coalition of educators confronting and resisting the incursion of surveillance, automation and datafication into spaces of teaching, learning, research, and creative expression. "

Donald Knuth is quite enthusiastic about his recent experiences with generative AI: #Knuth

Unusual GenAI application: Snarky answers to shitty emails.
#genAI

I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do

This is some deeply weird and troubling shit. #GenAI
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?

Wow, I had been running out of patience with Yegge’s uncritical #GenAI boosterism, but this is epic: “The AI Vampire.”
As usual with Yegge, it could have been edited down to half its size, but go read it anyhow. I’m going to adopt that “AI Vampire” phrase and start using it, a lot.

The AI Vampire
This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.

Headline in my French journal: "Five tricks to use AI without giving up on your neurons"
Let me tell you what should be the content of that:
(1). Do not use AI
(2). Do not use AI
...

(5). Do not use AI

(And you'll help save the planet and fight big brother all at the same time!)
#GenAI

Smart, sharp-edged writing about the scenario where your customers’ and shareholders’ interests are in direct conflict. #genai
https://petapixel.com/2026/03/14/adobe

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen's Legacy Differs Dramatically With Who You Ask
An unending search for more money.

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@ngaylinn/116176596337509618
Interesting thread on Image Generation.
My conclusion: it's not machines becoming more intelligent but humans being gullible.

Seems painfully obvious that, whatever you think about #genai code, anyone using it is heading for a code-review logjam. Assuming that the org requires code review; if yours doesn’t, nothing I can say will help you. Anyhow, Rishi Baldawa writes smart stuff about the problem and possible ways forward, in ˚The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck”:

The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck
AI tools are flooding PR queues and the instinct everywhere is to call review the bottleneck. I think that’s the wrong question. The reviewer is the last sync point before production changes. The goal shouldn’t be how to remove the gate, but how to make it cheaper to operate.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@evan/115580076628853324
This was posted 4 months ago, i.e. forever in LLM time. I would really like to see a fully-worked through analysis of the actual GHG cost of