@wvmierlo@zirk.usHivemind: 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
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialHeadline 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
@veit@mastodon.socialDonald Knuth is quite enthusiastic about his recent experiences with generative AI: #Knuth
@timbray@cosocial.ca1/2 Two new blog pieces. In which I have opinions about GenAI and open-source: #GenAI
@frankel@mastodon.topSemantic Conventions for #GenAI agent and framework #spans
https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/se
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialOh 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
@wvmierlo@zirk.usRE: https://tech.lgbt/@ngaylinn/116176596337509618
Interesting thread on Image Generation.
My conclusion: it's not machines becoming more intelligent but humans being gullible.
@timbray@cosocial.ca @elduvelle@neuromatch.socialI'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…
@peter_mcmahan@mas.to
@flberger@nerdculture.de"#GenAI is a cult built on debt and theft." —#EdZitron
https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline…
@sjn@chaos.social @timbray@cosocial.caHmm, 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
@mapto@qoto.orgI 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
@timbray@cosocial.ca
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"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."
@timbray@cosocial.caHere's where you go to tell GitHub that it can’t train CoPilot on your code & interactions: #GenAI
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterFinally, 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
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social @timbray@cosocial.caGot 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…
@timbray@cosocial.caUnusual GenAI application: Snarky answers to shitty emails.
#genAI
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialThis 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. "
@timbray@cosocial.caThis 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/
@timbray@cosocial.caWow, 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.
@timbray@cosocial.caSmart, sharp-edged writing about the scenario where your customers’ and shareholders’ interests are in direct conflict. #genai
https://petapixel.com/2026/03/14/adobe
@timbray@cosocial.caSeems 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”:
@timbray@cosocial.caRE: 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
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